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2024-02-08 07:49:00
Diagrams & sonatas: discs of solo piano music Arvo Pärt and Ivor Gurney, neither composer well-known for writing in the genre
[…] Shostakovich seem to be the work's twin orbs. All three were dedicated to the noted Estonian pedagogue Bruno Lukk, who played them in his recitals.But alongside these, in the 1950s and 1960s, Pärt also composed songs and piano pieces for children, music for plays and animated films. Four Easy Dances is a suite of four short movements, each in a strongly characterised style, still rather neo-classical but each named - Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Butterflies, Dance of the Ducklings. With the short, but intense Diagramme (Diagrams) from 1964, the style has become much more modernist; striking, yet we would hesitate to identify the composer. Mommy's Kiss (1968) reverts to a more tender, lyrical style, almost sentimental, whilst Ukaru Waltz seems to have fun with a closed form, the way Shostakovich did.With Für Alina from 1976, we reach the watershed and move into the tinntinabuli style. Here we have Pärt mining […]
2024-01-22 09:15:00
UK-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, offers a preview of Northern Opera Group’s 8th Annual Leeds Opera Festival which includes a brand-new opera on Sherlock Holmes.
[…] music inspired by Latin America. Other recent productions include Charles Villiers Stanford’s Much Ado About Nothing (2019) and Handel’s Silla (2022). And reaching out to communities in Leeds and Bradford, Northern Opera Group is committed in enabling people of all ages and abilities to take part in opera with an annual community opera engaging participants and family audiences in both these important and culturally fired-up northern towns. Recent productions have included César Cui’s Little Red Riding Hood (2022) and David Parry’s Pied Piper of Hamelin (2024). Piazzolla: Maria de Buenos Aires - Leeds Opera Festival 2023 (Photo: Rhian Hughes)And a major new commission this year sees the world’s first-ever opera adaptation surrounding the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. Entitled Sherlock Holmes and The Sign of Four, the opera’s directed by David Ward, written by award-winning composer Lliam Paterson (also responsible for the libretto) and conducted by Ellie Slorach with stage design by Caitlin […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2023-12-16 12:30:57
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal Bath; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonA formidable cast excels in an ingenious, small-scale production of Britten’s ghostly chamber opera; Red Riding Hood clashes with a warbling witch. Plus, a night in with the other MendelssohnWho are the ghosts who haunt two orphaned children and their governess in a country house? Our response to Benjamin Britten’s
2023-09-26 20:48:31
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