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2023-12-06 07:44:00
A lifetime's experience: John Nelson finally records Messiah in a finely engaged performance, with a fantastic quartet of soloists
Handel: Messiah; Lucy Crowe, Alex Potter, Michael Spyres, Matthew Brook, the English Concert & Choir, John Nelson; EratoReviewed 4 December 2023Superb musicality and a life-time's experience from John Nelson make this a finely engaged performance, with a fantastic quartet of soloists and an appendix with eight alternative readingsHandel wrote Messiah in 1741 for performances in Dublin in 1742. Unusually for Handel, the work was written without knowing quite who the soloists would be. The enthusiastic reception in Dublin was not repeated when Handel presented the work in London in 1743 and the work was only intermittently revived until Handel's charity performances for the Foundling Hospital began in 1750. From then on, Foundling Hospital performances of Messiah were a part of the London scene, and it is to these later performances that we owe the version of Messiah generally performed today.Handel constantly adjusted the work, revising and tweaking. For the 1749 revival the castrato Gaetano […]
2023-09-03 14:59:36
Royal Albert Hall, LondonA quirky and informative script lifted the Bonnet on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in the first half, and, in the second, the Aurora Orchestra – performing from memory – delivered a high-energy Rite that saw the music pulse across the concert hallIt is nearly a decade since the Aurora Orchestra and its conductor, Nicholas Collon, started performing works from memory – a calling-card that has led to memorably dynamic performances as well as to some living programme notes that have leaned more towards theatre in their own right. This year’s Proms programme, well run-in after a short European tour, was the wildest project yet: what would happen when they lifted the Bonnet on Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring?In the first half, two actors – Ghosts’
2022-02-04 07:51:28
Composer Ryan Latimer has written the music for a dance piece, SOAPWORT, performed by Jade Brider and filmed by Kristian Šantić with music performed by members of the Workers Union Ensemble (Anna Durance – Cor Anglais, Ellie Steemson– Saxophone, Caz Wolfson – Percussion, Joley Cragg – Percussion, Edward Pick – Piano, Mercedes Cartwright – Double Bass). The work is described thus: "Uprooted from the cracks of tarmac and fern flitches, the SOAPWORT slinks and glitches through liquid life, full-suds and fanciful. Dappled with dew and sewer stains, this windpuff-Bonnet of folly-froth reigns and self-seeds in a world of wet concrete and weeds." Ryan Latimer's Antiarke came out on NMC Recordings last Autumn, "Playful, complex, brightly characterful with a vivid sense of rhythm", see my review. See the video on YouTube.
2021-10-03 19:53:26
Anglais - An Eighteen Month Delay but Worth the Wait for Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Jenůfa, which premiered in Brno in 1904, is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by the composer. It is based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriela Preissová, and is one of the very first operas to be written in prose. Set in a Moravian village in the nineteenth century, the plot concerns a series of tangled relationships that derive from the fact that two fathers both married twice, and had a child by three of their four wives before dying. Števa and Laca were both born to the elder brother, and Jenůfa to the younger and his first wife. Three of the four wives also died, with the Kostelnička who survives being the younger brother’s second wife and hence Jenůfa’s stepmother. Custom dictates that Števa alone will inherit the family mill and that Laca and Jenůfa must consequently earn their livings. Jenůfa is in love […]
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