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Scottish opera singer
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Isobel Baillie)
- soprano
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer, music teacher
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2024-04-25
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2024-04-10 09:31:00
Dramatic Britten, athletic Watkins and high-energy Mozart: Britten Sinfonia, Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court
Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings - Ben Goldscheider, Nicky Spence, Britten Sinfonia - Milton Court (Photo: Shoel Stadlen)Judith Weir: Heroic Strokes of the Bow, Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Huw Watkins: Horn Concerto, Mozart: Symphony No. 35 'Haffner'; Nicky Spence, Ben Goldscheider, Britten Sinfonia, Max Baillie, Michael PapadopoulosAn imaginative and appealing programme centred on Ben Goldscheider's peerless horn-playing with Nicky Spence in fine, story-telling formUndeterred by funding issues thanks to Arts Council England's shortsightedness, Britten Sinfonia returned to the Barbican's Milton Court concert hall on Tuesday 9 April 2024 for two concerts. At 6pm, the ensemble launched its 2024 Magnum Opus development scheme with a concert featuring music by three composers joining the scheme for 2024, Alex Groves, Anibal Vidal and Eden Lonsdale, plus music by Salvatore Sciarrino and Caroline Shaw.Then at 7.30pm there was an imaginative programme that featured horn player Ben Goldscheider in the world premiere […]
2024-04-03 06:35:00
A wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music - exploring the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance; Isobel Baillie, Elise Suddaby, Eva Turner, Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Mary Jarrod, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterson, Heddle Nash, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, Norman Allin, Keith Falkner; Albion RecordsReviewed 2 April 2024A remastering of the iconic 1938 recording along with a solo track from each of the sixteen soloists (plus one extra) providing a wondrous snapshot of British singing in the 1930sRalph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music has become rightly become iconic and on this disc from Albion Records the original 1938 recording is explored from a different angle. We hear that original recording with Isobel Baillie, Elise Suddaby, Eva Turner, Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Mary Jarrod, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterson, Heddle Nash, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, and Norman Allin conducted by Sir […]
2023-10-18 06:59:00
Tips for musicians setting up a music festival: Shiry Rashkovsky, founder of Up Close and Musical, reflects on festival creation
Shiry Rashkovsky & violinist Fenella Humphreys at Up Close and Musical in 2022Viola-player Shiry Rashkovsky's Up Close and Musical festival returned to the Fidelio Café this month, opening with mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer, pianist Ben Dawson and Trio Klein in a storm-themed programme of music by living, and mainly women, composers [see my review] and ends tonight, 18 October 2023, with soprano & composer Héloïse Werner, multi-instrumentalist Shri Sriram and cellist Max Baillie in Best of October House Records with music by Love Ssega, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Jonathan Cole, and Max Baillie [further details]. Shiry founded Up Close and Musical in 2020 to help demystify the world of classical music, combining intimate performances, artist-curated programmes, and artist interviews, along with food and drink [read my 2021 interview with Shiry].In this article, Shiry reflects on the whole process of festival creation.I founded Up Close and Musical at Fidelio Café because I wanted to give audiences a chance not only to […]
2022-05-06 13:46:22
An ensemble like no other: Peter Wiegold and The Third Orchestra at Grand Junction
[…] were a thing to behold. Different individuals would come to the fore at different times, and each of the six pieces seemed to move between creative flow and sections where everyone came together in a particular groove, moving between control and freedom. The pieces were inspired by the haiku of Ursula Rucker (written for the orchestra's 2019 debut) and passages from T.S. Eliot's Little Gidding. Technically we heard Time quantum leaps (Bernhard Schimpesberger, Sri Sriram, Max Baillie, Rouhangeze, Peter Wiegold), I will write my blues into submission (Soren Birke, Rouhangeze, Peter Wiegold), Oh to be a hawk (Cheng Yu, Peter Wiegold), Between two waves of the sea (Rouhangeze, Peter Wiegold), To God's ear (Rihab Azar, Peter Wiegold), and Time quantum leaps, but often the music seemed to flow continuously. The result was an evening like no other, a transformative and transporting evening which managed to transcend the limitations of playing in a church (stunning though it […]
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