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2024-04-20 22:11:00
Concertgebouw Orchestra. Emmanuelle Haim, conductor; Lenneke Ruiten, soprano. April 14, 2024.
Main Hall, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Orchestra (Seat 13-32, 97.25 Euros).At the conclusion of the concert.ProgramConcerto grosso in G major, op. 6, No. 1 by Handel.Suite nr. 3 in G (from Water Music, HWV 348-350) by Handel.Suite (from 'Dardanus') by Rameau.Cantate 'Il delirio amoroso,' HWV 99 '(Da quel giorno fatale)' by Handel.A program - available in Dutch only - costs 3 Euros.We are going on a river cruise in France, and decided to tag on "pre-" and "post-cruise" visits to Amsterdam and Hamburg, partly/mostly for the opportunity to visit concert halls in the two cities.Concertgebouw shows up in many lists as one of the top concert halls in the world, and the current NY Phil music director Jaap van Zweden started his music career as the concertmaster of the (Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra (at age 19, the youngest ever). For our Amsterdam stay I would attend two concerts. Anne also came to […]
2024-04-16 08:29:00
Das Jahr: OAE commissions four women composers to respond to Fanny Hensel's piano cycle
'April' from the manuscript of Fanny Hensel's Das Jahr (illustration by Wilhelm Hensel)Though we might wish it otherwise, works by historical women composers often cleave to certain genres, often related to the fact that women were not encouraged to publish music and wrote for more domestic performance. There is also the issue of confidence in approach to larger-scale forms. This weekend (21 April 2024), for instance, the Engegård Quartet will be playing Fanny Hensel's Quartet in E flat at Conway Hall [see website for details, including my pre-concert talk]. She only wrote one mature quartet, it had one private performance after which her brother Felix took exception to her rather free approach to form and she never wrote another one. This means that ensembles that rely on historical composers must draw on a relatively small pool of works in a particular genre or attempt to widen the pool by adding works by unknown […]
2024-04-11 12:26:00
Metamorfosi: York Early Music Festival 2024
The York Early Music Festival was established in 1977 to celebrate music from the medieval to the baroque within an array of historic venues across the city of York. The festival is administered by the National Centre for Early Music (NCEM). This year's York Early Music Festival, which runs from 6 to 13 July 2024, has the title Metamorfosi and it takes the idea of musical metamorphosis and composers' borrowing, from each other and themselves, as its main theme.The festival's theme is explored in a selection of concerts including The Sixteen in a programme of Lassus and Josquin highlighting the masters' borrowings, and Josquin and his influence is also the theme of The Gesualdo Six's concert. Steven Devine directs the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in music by Bach and Telemann inspired by those evenings at Zimmerman's Kaffeehaus, where of course Bach famously reused material from earlier in his career. […]
2024-04-09 12:45:00
A lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label
Quietude: Penman, Satie, Debussy, Humperdinck, Bruckner; Alastair PenmanReviewed 9 April 2024A rather lovely disc that mixes Penman's own pieces with arrangements, all evoking stillness and calm allied to lovely tone and fine musicianshipSaxophonist Alastair Penman's latest release, Quietude is his second release on his Meadowbank Music label. The album features seven original compositions by Penman alongside eight new arrangements of well-known works ranging from Trois Gymnopédies by Erik Satie arranged for soprano saxophone and piano to Locus Iste by Anton Bruckner arranged for a choir of saxophones and clarinets, with Penman playing all the instruments, saxophones, clarinets, and keyboards.We open with Penman's 2021 piece Rialto, featuring six alto saxophones creating some ravishing close harmony. Lyrical and completely gorgeous, the piece was originally written as a tuning challenge for a saxophone workshop Penman was giving. Be Still for soprano saxophone and tape has hints of an electronic re-mix of Satie, and […]
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