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2024-03-25 09:57:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: Blond Eckbert and Curlew River, plus Unsuk Chin, Judith Weir, Alban Gerhardt and Daniel Pioro as featured artists
[…] people to drop in to his practice session at the Red House. And Pioro is the soloist in Britten Violin Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ryan Wigglesworth.There will be a new staging of Britten’s church parable Curlew River, 60 years after its first performance, directed by Claire van Kampen with music director Audrey Hyland and tenor Ian Bostridge, baritone Peter Braithwaite, bass-baritone Sir Willard White and singers and alumni from the Britten Pears Young Artists programme. Alongside this will be a rare chance to experience Sumidagawa (“Sumida River”), one of the most renowned Noh plays, which inspired Britten’s church parable Curlew River. Other Britten at the festival includes suites from The Prince of the Pagodas and Death in Venice, St Nicholas (as part of a concert recreating the festival's opening concert from 1948).The full festival brochure is available here [PDF]. Full details from the festival website.
2024-03-25 08:15:00
Lush romanticism was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure
Our Mother - Rowan Pierce, Emma Kirkby, Alexandra Achillea Pouta - Figure at Stone Nest (Photo: Kristina Allen)Our Mother: Pergolesi: Stabat Mater with interludes by Alex Mills; Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce, Alexandra Achillea Pouta, Nadya Pickup, Figure, Frederick Waxman, Sophie Daneman; Stone NestReviewed 23 March 2024An abstract, immersive staging, concentrating on dramatising the emotional arc of Pergolesi's work interleaved with impressive new interludes from Young composer Alex MillsHistorical performance group, Figure, music director Frederick Waxman, has become known for its fascinatingly staged interpretation of classics and recent work has included Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Opera Holland Park and This is my Body, an immersive staging of Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri [see my review]. For their latest project, Our Mother at Stone Nest (seen 23 March 2024), Figure performed Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with new interludes by composer Alex Mills. The soloists were Dame Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce, Alexandra Achillea Pouta and Nadya […]
2024-03-23 00:30:00
The year was 1975, and in a small suburban home, a Young Michael Cavanaugh was tinkling away at his family's brand-new upright piano. Little did he know, those first notes were the opening lines of an incredible story that would one day lead him to the bright lights of Broadway and concert halls around the world...
2024-03-22 12:00:00
Organ Reborn! Norwich Cathedral Organ Festival: A new music festival for Norwich
[…] Norwich Cathedral Choir singing William Walton’s Chichester Service and the festival anthem, The Twelve (free admission) while in the evening of 7 July (8pm), Norwich Cathedral’s assistant organist, Robbie Carroll, will perform an organ solo transcription of Holst’s The Planets with the upper voices of Norwich Cathedral’s Chamber Choir offering their ethereal voices to the final movement ‘Neptune - the mystic’. Free admission. Retiring collection. Youth at the helm! WOOFYT! The Wooden One-Octave Organ for Young Technologists being held in the Weston Room (Monday, 8 July - all day) will be followed by a further couple of sessions (Wednesday, 10 July - morning) / (Thursday, 11 July - all day), is aimed at primary schoolchildren wanting fun while learning about music. During the workshops, they’ll build a section of a pipe organ, learn how science and music go together and get a chance to visit the organ loft to view […]
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