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A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024 at Howard Assembly RoomComposers & Poets Forum Showcase: A Leeds Songbook; Leeds Lieder Festival at Leeds MinsterReviewed 17 April 2024Young Artists Showcase: Leeds Lieder Festival at Howard Assembly RoomReviewed 19 April 2024First a programme of specially written new song and then a chance to shine in their chosen repertoire, and for us to experience some fine young voices and performers really stretching themselves.Leeds Lieder Festival certainly keeps its Young Artists busy. They arrived in Leeds on Sunday not only have they been taking part in masterclasses and a final showcase performance at Opera North's Howard Assembly Room on 19 April 2024 when each duo performed their own selection of songs, but on 17 April 2024 at Leeds Minster they presented this year's instalment of A Leeds Songbook.The Composers & Poets Forum Showcase at Leeds Minster on 17 April featured ten new songs by student composers collaborating with […]
2024-04-15 08:08:00
Energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev, Julius Eastman and more
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Jessica CottisCatalyst: Coleridge-Taylor, Julius Eastman, Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev; National Youth Brass Band and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Tess Jackson, Jessica Cottis; Royal Festival HallReviewed 14 April 2024From Julius Eastman's creative provocation in the Clore Ballroom to the stupendous combined brass band and orchestra in Higgins new piece, an astonishing day of music making full of energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making Under the catch-all title of Catalyst, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain arrived at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 14 April 2024 and filled the building with music. During the afternoon, there was a side-by-side performance with local school children of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Ballade in the Clore Ballroom, as part of the orchestra's outreach programmes. Then before the main concert members of the main concert, members of the orchestra gathered in the Clore Ballroom for a […]
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] June 2017; issued 2018][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK and Tsuen Wan Town Hall, Hong Kong*Recording engineers: Paul Arden Taylor and Mike Hatch*; Producers: Sive Oke and Stephen Johns*Gerald Finzi:01 - 03 Cello Concerto in A minor, op.40 * [37'08]04 Eclogue for piano and strings, op.10 [10'51]05 Grand Fantasia and Toccata for piano and orchestra, op.38 [13'44]Tim Hugh- cello*; Peter Donohoe- piano, Northern Sinfonia conducted by Howard GriffithsNaxos 8.555766 [recorded January 2001; issued 2001][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Jubilee Theatre, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UKRecording engineer and Producer: Tim HandleyWilliam Alwyn:01 - 04 Piano Concerto No.1 (1930) * [14'38]05 Derby Day Overture (1960) [6'08]06 - 08 Piano Concerto No.2 (1960) * [28'40]09 - 11 Sonata alla toccata (1947) ^ [10'09]Peter Donohoe- piano*^; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by James JuddNaxos 8.557590 [recorded May 2004; issued 2005][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and […]
2024-04-08 14:38:00
Catalyst: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, National Youth Brass Band & Jessica Cottis in Gavin Higgin's Concerto Grosso for Brass Band & Orchestra & much more
National Youth Brass BandGavin Higgin's Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2022 by The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Ryan Bancroft. The work was co-commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and the orchestra is joining forces with the National Youth Brass Band under conductor Jessica Cottis to give two performances of Higgins' work in Liverpool (12 April 2024) and London (14 April 2024). The programme will be completed by Prokofiev's wartime Symphony No. 5 but there is a lot more to events than that.On Thursday 11 April, musicians from NYOGB under Agata Zając will perform music by Simon Steen-Anderson and Carlos Simon, plus a movement of Dani Howard's Trombone Concerto and Julius Eastmn's Stay On It. Then Jessica Cottis conducts the NYOGB and National Youth Brass Band in Higgins and Prokofiev at the Philharmonic Hall on the evening of Friday 12 April and […]
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