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2022-08-05 07:54:00
Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra launches 2022/23 season under music director Joanna MacGregor
2022/23 sees the Joanna MacGregor's second full season as music director of the Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra, and the orchestra leading up to its centenary in 2025. The season opens on 2 October with an all-American programme conducted by Sian Edwards including Gershwin with soloist Joanna MacGregor, Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Joan Tower's Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. The season ends on 26 March 2023 with MacGregor joined by new leader Ruth Rogers and principal cello Peter Adams in Beethoven's Triple Concerto plus the Emperor Concerto, and Barber's Adagio.Other concerts in the season include conductor laureate Barry Wordsworth directing Mahler's Symphony No. 4, with soprano Carolyn Sampson, and Robert Howarth directing Bach's St Matthew Passion. In January the orchestra strike out in a new direction, playing on Saturday evening rather than Sunday afternoon, and celebrating the natural world in a collaboration with visual artist Kathy Hinde. The music will […]
2022-06-18 07:11:59
[…] has written choral music, instrumental music and songs, including the cycle Swansongs – Songs of Remembrance which was recorded by soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and pianist Daniel Grimwood for Signum Classics.His influences include the music of English composers such as Finzi and Bax, perhaps Elgar is rather less of an influence but there is also some Stanford in there. He also names the Californian composer Lou Harrison (1917-2003), particularly a disc recorded by pianist Joanna MacGregor, and adds that he is also a fan of John Adams' music too. He enjoys exploring different tunings, but this is very much for himself as special tunings can be a noose for your own neck when it comes to performance, and he tends to use special tunings as a leaping-off point for conventional tuning.Looking ahead, he is thinking about writing further sacred music, though there is the usual problem of getting things performed, […]
2022-03-07 09:47:10
Canaletto, Ceremony of the Easter Mass in San Marco, showing the choir in the pulpitum magnum cantorum The 38th London Festival of Baroque Music is back at St John's Smith Square from 13 to 21 May 2022. Under the title Between the Land and the Sea the festival this year celebrates the musical currents sweeping across Venice.The festival opens in grand style as Paul McCreesh and Gabrieli, in their 40th anniversary season, return to A Venetian Coronationwith music by both Gabrielis and many more in grand style. And still with celebration on a large scale, the Choir of Westminster Abbey, conductor James O'Donnell and St James's Baroque perform Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. On a more intimate scale, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and lutenist Toby Carr perform songs by the Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi plus Owain Parke's Battle Cry which Charlston and Carr premiered in 2021. A programme devised by Croatian-born Bojan […]
2022-02-21 09:17:29
[…] about climate change, with a community cast featuring choirs drawn from local schools, and orchestral musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music, led by mentors from the Northern Chamber Orchestra. The Brodsky Quartet and the Manchester Camerata both celebrate their 50th anniversaries this year and the two ensembles will be giving a celebratory concerts including a joint one with saxophonist Jess Gillam. Other performers include the English Concert with soprano Anna Dennis and Joanna MacGregor, Chetham’s School of Music, this year’s Royal Overseas League competition winner, violinist Eleanor Corr, Gould Piano Trio, the Solem Quartet, the Chroma Harp Duo, the Delphine Trio and the Solus Trumpet Ensemble. Iestyn Davies and Christopher Maltman both give song recitals and Fretwork makes its festival debut, There is also a new jazz programme, books, walks, talks and other events. Full details from the festival website,
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