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Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-02-16 18:28:30
[…] the small of the back. Unexpected pools of movement form in the sonar ping and warble of Nils Frahm’s electronic score, which gives way to surging piano and a fraught duet for Liam Boswell and Francisco Serrano. What will Junker do next? It should be special.Boundless was the evening’s stirring opener. Gemma Bond, in one of the filmed introductions to each piece, says it was prompted by watching her uninhibited young child at play. Joey Roukens’ live score comes out snarling and there’s a rambunctious energy to the ensemble, in smoky costumes by Charlotte MacMillan, who spin and whizz through ceaseless eddies and transitions. Whirling and elusive at the ballet’s centre, Yasmine Naghdi evokes ballet’s swan heritage – self-involved and determined, heedless of her partner, wonderfully unsupported.Mthuthuzeli November has made a splash with his work for Ballet Black. Ballet diversity being what it is, a predominantly white cast delivers For […]
2022-05-17 12:15:50
Roman Baths, BathWorks by Takemitsu, Daniel Temkin, Joey Roukens and Grace Williams featured in a disappointing maritime-themed programme The Bath Festival Orchestra was established by Yehudi Menuhin in 1959, when he began his 10-festival tenure as director. It has now been relaunched under the baton of Peter Manning, and aims to invoke the status and reputation of the original group while offering a platform for emerging talents. However, it would seem from this showing at this year’s Bath festival, even factoring in pandemic issues and delays, that the orchestra has some way to go before it can match some of the extravagant claims made for it. There was already something faintly surreal about an evening of music for strings inspired by the sea taking place in the city’s ancient Roman Baths, even if the screeching of gulls, wheeling and turning overhead, contributed to the conceit. And, although all […]
2022-05-04 10:24:24
Classical music at this year's Bath Festival
[…] novel of that name, trying to recapture what it was like to encounter the work for the very first time. And pianist Jeremy Denk will be combining music from Bach's Well Tempered Clavier with readings from his autobiographical book, Every Good Boy Does Fine.Peter Manning and the Bath Festival Orchestra are exploring the sea, with an imaginative programme of music by Takemitsu (from Japan), Daniel Temkin (from the USA), Grace Williams (from Wales), and Joey Roukens (from the Netherlands). Trumpeter Aaron Akugbo joins organist John Kitchin at Bath Abbey for a programme which moves between Bach and Telemann to Messiaen, McDowall and more. Horn player Ben Goldscheider and trumpeter Matilda Lloyd join Jason Thornton and the Bath Philharmonia for a programme that includes concertos by Mozart and Haydn, plus Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man and Janacek's Sinfonietta. These latter two will feature the combined forces of the Bath Philharmonia […]
2021-07-05 11:14:31
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, reports on the North Norfolk Music Festival
[…] are the Maxwell String Quartet (1st Prizewinner and Audience Prizewinner at the 9th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition in 2017) playing quartets by Beethoven and Dvořák. The Maxwell Quartet The Maxwell Quartet will display their extraordinary versatility and technique in the programme for their second concert on Wednesday 18th August (11.30am) featuring Haydn’s ‘Rider’ quartet heard in stark contrast to the stirring, melodic and riveting quartet written by the much-talked-about Dutch composer, Joey Roukens, entitled Visions at Sea. A composer widely known, his works have been performed by such major orchestras as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and, closer to home, the Britten Sinfonia.In most of his compositions, Roukens seeks to organically integrate elements from highly-diverse influences and aesthetics including the rhythmic energy of early Stravinsky, the late-romanticism of Mahler and Sibelius and the ethereal qualities found in the works of Debussy and Ravel.In […]
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