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English composer
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- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- organist, composer
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2024-04-20
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2024-04-16 07:21:00
A Spring and Summer of new opera: Tête à Tête's plans for 2024
Tête à Tête is not just planning its Summer opera festival in London but is creating a whole Spring and Summer of opera. In May, the company is heading to Newcastle, joining forces with members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia for two days of workshops for opera makers, aimed at encouraging the development of new opera in the North East [further information]June sees the company in London working with student composers from the Royal College of Music (RCM) to present Revolutions, an evening of six short operas by RCM composers performed by RCM students. The programme being presented on 24, 26 and 27 June 2024 includes The Anthem by Jasper Eaglesfield, who is also featured in the RCM Philharmonic’s Orchestral Masterworks concert on 18 April, and Fanny and Stella’s Last Day Out by Jasper Dommett, whose music was praised in The Scotsman for its ‘crystalline gestures’ and ‘languid lyricism’, plus works by […]
All the conducting master class
2024-04-14 16:40:32
WHERE: ZLIN, Czech Republic – 170 miles (270km) East of Prague; 125 miles (200km) north of Vienna WHEN: Arrive July 19, depart July 28 (Concert on 27th) FACULTY: ENSEMBLE: Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Zlin, CZ) Established in 1945 as the Symphony Orchestra of Bata National Enterprise, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra has worked with […]
2024-04-12 08:35:00
Full of good things: Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort in John Dowland, a new Cassandra Miller concerto and much else besides
[…] music that was never intended to be used in concert, it was social and functional music and you felt that perhaps something could have been done to relax the atmosphere. But Shibe simply played, and did so wonderfully yet in a remarkably dead-pan manner. The sound of the lute required you to concentrate but his playing drew you in. The Rowallen Manuscript was compiled in the early 1600s and is named for Rowallen Castle in East Ayrshire where it was found. The Straloch Manuscript is named for Robert Gordon of Straloch (1580-1661). First we heard Swit Sant Nickola, a very redolent tune that really made you want to get up and dance, then came Canaries which was written as a dance tune, the name referring to a popular dance. Finally A Scotts Tune which was slow, sad and almost cried out for a voice.Five string players from the Dunedin Consort […]
2024-04-12 04:00:00
Peter Donohoe from 1978 to 2017
[…] and Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, UK^.Recording engineers: Mike Sheady & John Kurlander*; Producers: Andrew Keener & David Murray*Edward Elgar:01 - 03 String Quartet in E minor, op.83 [26'25]04 - 06 Piano Quintet in A minor, op.84 ^ [36'03]Peter Donahoe- piano^, Maggini String Quartet [Laurence Jackson & David Angel- violins, Martin Outram- viola, Michal Kaznowski- cello]Naxos 8.553737 [recorded December 1995; issued 1997][CD-rip; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Martins Church, East Woodhay, Hampshire, UKRecording engineer: Andrew Groves; Producer: Andrew WaltonIgor Stravinsky:1.01 - 1.03 Three movements from'Petrushka' [16'50]1.04 - 1.07 Four Etudes, Op. 7 [8'19]1.08 - 1.11 Sonata in F-sharp minor [29'15]1.13 - 1.14 Sonata (1924) [10'18]2.01 - 2.04 Serenade in A [11'43]2.05 Piano-Rag Music [3'34]2.06 Tango [3'13]2.07 - 2.09 Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments * [19:18]2.10 - 2-16 Movements for Piano and Orchestra * [9:30]2.15 - 2.17 Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra * [16:35]Peter […]
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