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2024-03-29 14:39:52
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonAlongside Mark-Anthony Turnage’s New England Études (receiving its UK premiere), works by Julia Wolfe, Steve Reich and Rolf Wallin were played with immaculate precisionPercussionist
2024-02-22 08:09:00
Cinderella in the gas works: Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's site-specific production of Massenet's opera
[…] stage experience, including principal roles where suitable, and in Cendrillon there are some 17 undergraduates in principal roles (the opera is double-cast).There are usually three productions per year, staged scenes in November, a site-specific production in March and a concert performance in June. Previous productions have included Jonathan Dove's The Enchanted Pig (2023), Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen (2023), Charpentier's Les Arts Florissants and Offenbach's Mesdames de la Halles (2022), Stephen McNeff's Banished (2022), Mark-Anthony Turnage's Coraline (2021) and Jeremy Sams' Baroque pasticcio, The Enchanted Island (2020).The conservatoire does not have it's own theatre, hence offering the students the added experience of working on a site specific production (Birmingham has a rich inheritance of this thanks to Graham Vick's work with Birmingham Opera Company) previous venues have included an old button factory, and a rave bingo venue in Digbeth – the Secret Space, whilst the Moseley Swimming Baths – an […]
2024-02-07 09:47:00
Sophisticated timbres & detailed textures: UK premiere of Helen Grime's String Quartet No. 2 & Ravel's String Quartet from Heath Quartet at Wigmore Hall
[…] of structure in the piece. This is music that repays repeated listening; if every a piece was meant to be listened to on repeat on your music system at home, then it was this one. The good news is that you can, NMC Recordings issued the Heath Quartet's recording of Grime's String Quartet No. 2 as part of Bracing Change 2, a compilation of new work for string quartet which also includes music by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Paul Newland. Further details from the NMC website.There is curious tradition in French music of composers only writing a single string quartet. Franck, Chausson and Debussy all wrote a single example. Ravel wrote his quartet in 1904 and the influence of Debussy's quartet can be felt (too much so, according to some of Ravel's contemporaries). Ravel's teacher, Faure, would only write his quartet 20 years later in 1924.Ravel's sophisticated control of timbre and […]
2023-11-15 16:05:26
Versatile opera singer who could move effortlessly between Wagner and Alice’s Adventures in WonderlandA commanding presence on the operatic scene, the bass-baritone Keel Watson, who has died suddenly aged 59, could modulate effortlessly between an imperious Wotan, the ruler of the gods in Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung (Regents Opera), and an amusingly indolent Caterpillar, dressed in shimmering green robes, in Will Todd’s family opera Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Opera Holland Park). In both, his excellent diction, sonorous tone and exceptionally engaging stage presence served him in good stead.The genial Hans Sachs was another Wagner role that suited him well, but he was also as convincing as a terrifyingly irascible King Philip in Verdi’s Don Carlo as he was a likable Papageno in The Magic Flute. He came to prominence in a series of appearances in the late 1990s, most notably in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s chamber opera The Country of the Blind, […]
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