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Czech composer (1854–1928)
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2024-04-15 14:53:42
Marriner 100
This Week in Classical Music: April 15, 2024. Marriner, Maderna. Sir Neville Marriner, a great English conductor, was born one hundred years ago today, on April 25th of 1924 in Lincoln, UK. He started as a violinist, played in different orchestras and chamber ensembles, and in 1958 founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the chamber orchestra that became world famous. Among Marriner’s friends and founding members were Iona Brown, who led the orchestra for six years from 1974 to 1980, and Christopher Hogwood, who later founded the Academy of Ancient Music. Marriner and St Marin in the Fields made more recordings than any other ensemble-conductor pair. Their repertoire was very broad, from the mainstay of the baroque and classical music of the 18th century to Mahler, Janáček, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and other composers of the 20th. In the words of Grove Music, Marriner’s performances were “distinguished by clarity, buoyant […]
2024-04-15 08:56:00
From the Homeland: Islington Festival of Music and Art
Islington Festival (Photo: Marc Gascoigne)Islington Festival of Music and Art is returning with fourteen events across nine venues in and around Islington from 5 to 20 July 2024. This year's festival takes as its theme, From the Homeland, and events take us through the landscapes of Czech Republic, Hungary and Denmark, as well as journeys from India to Scotland and Australia to America.The festival opens with a Czech theme as Joana Ly (violin), Miguel Ángel Villeda Cerón (cello) and Martin André (piano) perform music by Smetana, Martinu and Dvorak, and the festival finale returns to the theme with chamber music by Kapralova, Janacek and Dvorak.There is a Verdi recital from soprano Skye Ingram, tenor Brenton Spiteri and pianist Fran Hills. Soprano Daniela Sicari, bass Peter Rose and pianist Martin André present a selection of global songs and duets, in Towards the New World, from Australia to America.Baroque violinist Kati Debretzeni returns to complete […]
2024-04-04 23:00:00
The Great War Centenary
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)Leos Janacek (1854-1928)Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)Kenneth Hesketh (b. 1968)Violin SonatasMichael Foyle - violinMaksim Stsura - pianoRecorded April 2018
2024-04-03 06:35:00
A wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance
[…] Figure - music theatre reviewWriting Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys - interviewTwo hundred years of music for the horn: Ben Goldscheider in Beethoven, Bowen, Widmann and Watkins - concert reviewQuite an achievement: North London Chorus' ambition rewarded in a performance of Smyth's The Prison that intrigued & engaged - concert reviewFrom Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating - interviewAlmost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role - opera reviewHome
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