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2019-07-03 07:44:11
Contemplative beauty: Ian Venables new Requiem at Holy Trinity Church, Chelsea
[…] last night (2 July 2019) at Holy Trinity Church, Chelsea by the choir Evoke, conductor Victoria Ely, and organist James Gough, was not only the work's first London performance but the first complete performance (when the work was premiered during a service at Gloucester Cathedral in November last year it was lacking the two final movements, see the review in Seen and Heard). The mass was preceded by a selection of English works by Robert Pearsall, William Byrd, John Joubert, RVW, Frank Bridge, Cecilia McDowall and Herbert Howells. Venables takes a consoling view of the work, and this setting is very much in the tradition of Faure and Durufle rather than Verdi, and I also thought of Herbert Howells' Requiem (a work which is linked to his Hymuns Paradisi but being for unaccompanied choir has a very different tone quality to it). The individual movements are short enough to […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-05-20 23:27:38
Musica Sacra Eschews the Sacred
[…] washing machines; Saint Celsius, patron of thermostats; and so on. The texts are his own, and are as charming as the musical settings, which hint occasionally at Anglican chant and hymn. The one non-choral work on the program, nestled into the space after Banchieri’s animal counterpoint, is the “Duet for Two Cats,” ostensibly by Rossini, though, as Beekman’s helpful notes point out, it was probably assembled from Rossini tidbits by the early Victorian composer Robert Pearsall. In any case, it was given a lively performance by Katie Von Kohorn and Emily Sax Nydam, the one taking a prima donna’s position (and stance!) center stage, the other attempting to wheedle her way into that spot. Here, as elsewhere in the program, Terry Halco was the effective accompanist. This is only a partial indication of the delights of the program. Other composers represented included Ivor Davies (with a feline prayer requesting, among […]
2015-02-04 04:24:46
Yesterday, as I was listening to the Canadian ensemble musica intima’s disc Clear on Spotify (for whom yesterday’s arrangement of “Loch Lomond” was written), I heard a lovely early English Romantic madrigal I hadn’t heard in quite sometime. My first experience was this work was also the first time I read 8-part open score, so it was a work I became particularly familiar with. This short work possesses a bittersweet beauty about it. Here is the text: Lay a garland on her hearse of dismal yew. Maidens, willow branches wear, say she died true. Her love was false, but she was firm Upon her buried body lie lightly, thou gentle earth. I fondly remember singing this one. Here is a recording by the exquisite Cambridge Singers, directed by John Rutter. This disc also led me to a disc of theirs of choral […]
2014-11-12 07:00:20
Classical music: As the semester ends, choral music concerts -– most of them FREE -– stack up at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Here is a summary for this week and next.
[…] its present cantata format for performance as a non-staged work. THIS SUNDAY On Sunday night, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Mills Hall, the UW Concert Choir (below bottom) will present a FREE concert, under director Beverly Taylor (below top), called the “Style Show.” It features works of different periods from the Renaissance to the present and showing where they overlap and imitate each other. The composers include Orlando Gibbons, Robert Pearsall, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Gyorgy Orban and John Harbison (represented by his jazz arrangements). Featured are serious and happy motets, several extended works, folk songs and close harmony. NEXT WEEK On Friday, Nov. 21, at 8 p.m. in Mills Hall the University Chorus and the UW Women’s Chorus will give a FREE concert. Anna Volodarskaya and Sarah Guttenberg will conduct. Here is the program: Three Madrigals […]
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