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2024-01-12 07:27:00
Byrd Compared: Phantasm & Anna Prohaska celebrate the consort song
Byrd Compared: Byrd and English Song; Anna Prohaska, Phantasm; Wigmore HallReviewed 10 January 2024A programme celebrating the sheer diversity of William Byrd's consort songs, rendered with commitment and absolute identification by Anna Prohaska.The consort song was a peculiarly English form from the late 16th and early 17th centuries for a solo voice accompanied by viols and the form continued alongside the Italian madrigal and the lute song. Viol consorts were a sociable, private thing, groups of friends would gather for such, which meant that the consort song was a similar sort of event, definitely more for the parlour than anything more public.For their concert at Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 10 January 2023, Byrd Compared: Byrd and English Song, the viol consort Phantasm (Laurence Dreyfus, Jonathan Manson, Emilia Benjamin, Markku Luolajan-Mikkola) had clearly decided to mix things up somewhat and presented a programme of consort songs, not with a familiar specialist singer, […]
2023-11-10 00:00:00
Farquhar, Farr, Finzi, Imogen Holst, Lilburn, McCabe, Psathas, Rubbra & The King's Alchemist: British and New Zealand Chamber Music
[…] Michael Parsons; Producer: Wayne LairdEdmund Rubbra: Chamber Music:01 Piano Trio in one movement, op.68 [19'31]02 Meditazioni Sopra 'Cœurs Désolés' for oboe and piano, op.67 [5'21]03 Phantasy for two violins and piano, op.16 [11'27]04 - 06 Sonata in C for oboe and piano, op.100 [12'30]07 - 11 (arr. A Cruft): Suite 'The Buddha', op.64 [9'05]12 - 13 Piano Trio No. 2, op.138 [13'15]14 Duo for cor anglais and piano, op.156 [5'41]Endymion Ensemble (Krysia Osostowicz- violin, Catherine Manson- violin & viola, Jane Salmon- cello, Michael Dussek- piano, Melinda Maxwell- oboe, Helen Keen- flute)Dutton Epoch CDLX7106 [recorded April 2000; CD issued 2000][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: All Saints Church, East Finchley, LondonRecording engineer: Tony Faulkner; Producer: Mike PurtonJohn Psathas - Fragments01 Fragment (percussion version - 2001) [2'58]02 Happy Tachyons for piano and percussion (1996) [7'39]03 - 05 Piano Quintet (2000) [18'32]06 Jettatura for piano (1999) [4'33]07 Matre's Dance for […]
2022-07-01 06:30:11
[…] giving the UK premiere of Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre's Cantates bibliques in a staging produced in partnership with Mahogany Opera and HERA. John Butt will be directing performances of Mozart's Mass in C minor in a new completion by Clemens Kemme.Guests include soprano Nardus Williams in an all-Handel programme conducted by Benjamin Bayl, Peter Whelan directing the ensemble for the first time in a Haydn symphonies and a CPE Bach Cello Concerto with principal cellist Jonathan Manson as soloist, and Nicholas Mulroy directing Hail, O Queen a programme of a cappella Marian music across the centuries with singers from the ensemble's professional development programme, Bridging the Gap.The ensemble is creating a new international mentoring scheme, Intrada, in partnership with Concerto Copenhagen and B'Rock Orchestra. Intrada will be for early career instrumentalists in historical performance. The ensemble's Learning and Participation continues with instrumental and voice-clinics for non-professional musicians, choral workshops for all ages […]
2022-05-23 09:42:00
Review of Northern Chamber Orchestra with leader Nicholas Ward and soloist Craig Ogden
[…] for a cathedral acoustic, the varied textures and sense of the past brought to new life were equally entrancing in the bright, reflective Stoller Hall, and this was no routine performance but full of passion. Percy Grainger’s setting of the Londonderry Air (Irish Tune from County Derry, as he called it), with a horn added to the texture, was equally beguiling. Then we heard a special piece for the occasion: the NCO’s own composer-player James Manson’s Bânjöeš Yètí, based on a Moldovan folk tune but completely in the English pastoral tradition in nature, with lovely roles for solo clarinet, horn and flute – and, of course, a violin solo. And so to the guitar pieces. The Arnold concerto should be heard much more often: it’s got sweet and wistful tunes in each of its three movements, of the sort he crafted so well, and the central one of the three […]
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