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2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
[…] Ben Goldscheider and Nicky Spence at Milton Court - concert reviewA lovely evocation of stillness and calm: Alastair Penman's Quietude on his Meadowbank Music label - record reviewBizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances - opera reviewSpell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells - interviewWest Green House Opera: new artistic director Tom Elwin introduces the 2024 season - interviewA wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance - record reviewHome
2024-04-19 08:46:44
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius album review – Spence soars in otherwise passion-light period instrument recording
McCreesh/Stéphany/Spence/Foster-Williams(Signum, two CDs)Paul McCreesh’s historically informed performance of the composer’s greatest choral work has many gains but ultimately never really catches fire
2024-04-18 09:15:00
Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar
Leeds Lieder 2024 - Joseph Middleton, James Newby - Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book ClubMatyas Seiber, John Jacob Niles, Thomas Traill, Joseph Suder, Percy Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Ravel: Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques, Mahler: Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen; James Newby, Joseph Middleton; Leeds Lieder & Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club17 April 2024A new collaboration sees Leeds Lieder at a cool café/bar with an engaging and beautifully sung programme of songs inspired by folk-musicA former fuel storage tank is not the usual venue for a song recital, but Hyde Park Book Club is no usual venue and last night's recital there (17 April 2024) by baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton was a collaboration between Leeds Lieder (of which Middleton is the artistic director) and Through the Noise, the organisation that promotes its concerts, noisenights, via a distinctive crowdfunding model. The recital was all of folk-inspired music, from Matyas […]
2024-04-17 06:39:00
Southbank Centre's new season: Schoenberg's 150th, the OAE in Bruckner, Joyce Didonato in Berlioz, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim
[…] is celebrating Schoenberg's 150th anniversary, with Jonathan Berman conducting the Ode to Napoleon (no, I've never heard that live either) and Chamber Symphony. They will be joined by the Royal Academy of Music's Manson Ensemble for a performance of Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett. The Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today will feature conductor Chloe Rooke and soprano Ella Taylor in Saariaho’s Semafor and Hans Abrahmsen’s Two Inger Christensen Songs. The London Philharmonic Orchestra's season will include Evan Williams’ Dead White Man Music (Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble), and Sarod player Amjad Ali Khan performs his own concerto Samaagam alongside a new overture by Reena Esmail and selections from film soundtracks by AR Rahman.The full season is available via the Southbank Centre website.
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