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2024-02-03 12:00:17
Classical home listening: Sinfonia of London’s Ravel, Berkeley, Pounds: Lieder ohne Worte from Igor Levit
John Wilson and his peerless orchestra’s latest marries the familiar and the scarcely known. And Mendelssohn’s romantic miniatures speak volumes for the star pianist• The
2024-01-24 22:43:00
Cal Performances has done a pre-announcement of one item on the 2024-25 schedule: the Vienna Philharmonic will be back, this time conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, whom, as well all know, has't got enough to do as music director of both the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera. At least it's not Christian Thielemann, who led the worst concert I have ever heard from an orchestra and conductor of their respective statures.The programming for their concerts, though - WTF. The most recent work is Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, composed in 1898. Nothing from the 20th century, let alone the 21st century. Not to mention that it's all by white guys sorta like the orchestra, all of them dead.Vienna Philharmonic […]
2024-01-12 12:00:00
Geoff Pearce listens to orchestral music by Ravel, Lennox Berkeley and Adam Pounds. 'The Pounds work is a revelation and I would buy this disc just for this alone.'
2024-01-05 08:28:00
The Dartington International Summer School Foundation creates new Music Summer School & Festival at Gresham's School in Norfolk
The chapel at Gresham's SchoolWith the collapse of the Summer School at Dartington, the Dartington International Summer School Foundation, a charity which was supported the Summer School since 1976, has created a new incarnation in Norfolk.The Music Summer School and Festival will run at Gresham's School in Norfolk from 27 July to 10 August 2024 with a wide range of participatory courses along with a full programme of concerts, talks and events. Courses include choral singing and vocal music; orchestras and ensembles; individual instrumental and vocal classes and workshops; medieval, renaissance and baroque ensembles; jazz and improvisation; wind band and string ensemble; chamber music; and composition.Conductor Andrew Griffiths will be working on Bach's St John Passion, and conductor Jane Glover works in Mozart's Requiem. There will be courses directed by ensembles Stile Antico and the Brook Street Band, harpsichordists Steven Devine and Skip Sempé, composers Rolf Hind and Stephen Montague, tenor James Gilchrist, pianist Anna […]
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