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2021-11-24 17:19:52
The celebrated Polish composer Paweł Szymański has issued the following statement. The piece that was heard in place of Szymański's was Arvo Pärt's Fratres. It would be interesting to know what Pärt thinks of this substitution. I want to inform...
2021-06-29 08:58:32
Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival
After a year's silence the Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival is back with five days of concerts (13-17 July 2021) across Lincolnshire, curated by pianist and composer Alissa Firsova and with tenor Mark Padmore as artist in residence. The festival opens at Doddington Hall and then travels to Grimsby Minster, All Saints Church, Gainsborough, Centenary Methodist Church, Boston, and the County Assembly Rooms, Lincoln. Firsova's theme for the festival is Love and Loss with Mark Padmore and guitarist Morgan Szymanski performing music from the 17th to the 21st centuries, the Navarra String Quartet in Puccini, Kurtág, Janáček and Schubert, Alissa Firsova and Mark Padmore in Schumann, Brahms and Britten, the Britten Sinfonia in Mozart, Beethoven and Jon Paul Mayse, Alissa Firsova and cellist Yoanna Prodanova in music by Stravinsky, Rachmaninov and Firsova's father, the late Dmitri Smirnov. The festival was founded in 2005 under artistic director Graham Oppenheimer, and Lincolnshire-born […]
2020-08-17 07:29:16
A Life On-Line: Jam today, and full of beans
I Fagiolini This week has been one of on-line festivals, with Voces8's Live from London continuing on Saturdays, and the on-line JAM on the Marsh coming from Romney Marsh in Kent. We caught up with I Fagiolini's recital for Live from London, which was broadcast live on Saturday 8 August 2020. Monteverdi: the ache of love featured Robert Hollingworth and the ensemble (Rebecca Lea, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Long, Greg Skidmore, Charles Gibbs, Linda Sayce) in madrigals and sacred music by Monteverdi, what Robert Hollingworth described as 'comfort food'. Moving between six-voiced unaccompanied madrigals in Monteverdi's earlier style to single voice pieces with theorbo (Linda Sayce) and organ (Robert Hollingworth), the short recital presented us with the full imaginative range of Monteverdi's music from two works from the 1603 Fourth book of madrigals, to Lamento della ninfa from 1638, and along the way there was the lovely Duo […]
2019-12-03 11:54:00
Serenata Mexicana: engaging new music from Mexico
Serenata Mexicana - Alejandro Basulto, Arturo Marquez; Morgan Szymanski, Jamie MacDougall, Gabriella Dall'Olio, Shakespeare Sinfonia, David Curtis; Toccata Next Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 3 December 2019 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) An engaging selection of contemporary Mexican works, celebrating recent commissions by the Anglo Mexican FoundationThis disc, first on the Toccata Next label, was released earlier this year to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Anglo-Mexican Foundation. The disc features three recent commissions by Mexican composers, Alejandro Basulto and Arturo Marquez, performed by the Shakespeare Sinfonia, conductor David Curtis, Morgan Szymanski (guitar), Jamie MacDougall (tenor), and Gabriella Dall'Olio (harp). The programme on the disc is closely linked to Anglo Arts, the cultural programme of The Anglo Mexican Foundation, which commissioned Dibujos sobre un Puerto from Arturo Marquez for tenor Jamie MacDougall, and in 2015 commissioned the young composer Alejandro Basulto, and the resulting piece, Jig variation, was performed […]
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