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2024-04-15 08:08:00
Energy, discipline, control and sheer love of music-making: National Youth Orchestra and National Youth Brass Band in Gavin Higgins, Dani Howard, Prokofiev, Julius Eastman and more
[…] Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra, conducted by Tess Jackson, and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, conducted by Jessica Cottis. The second half opened with a short fanfare by Dani Howard involving all the brass performers from both ensembles.National Youth Orchestra & National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (Photo: Chris Chris Christodoulou)Gavin Higgin's Concerto Grosso was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2022 by the Tredegar Band and BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Ryan Bancroft [see my review] and it was both inspiring and heart-warming to encounter the work again, this time played by around 120 teenagers, all of whom seemed to take on the work's technical demands with remarkable ease. Higgins' piece is explicitly political, effectively a hymn to the brass band as an institution and to the very working-class tradition of brass banding. But that does not mean that it is easy or simplistic, Higgins' writing is […]
2024-04-08 14:38:00
Catalyst: National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, National Youth Brass Band & Jessica Cottis in Gavin Higgin's Concerto Grosso for Brass Band & Orchestra & much more
National Youth Brass BandGavin Higgin's Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2022 by The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and Ryan Bancroft. The work was co-commissioned by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and the orchestra is joining forces with the National Youth Brass Band under conductor Jessica Cottis to give two performances of Higgins' work in Liverpool (12 April 2024) and London (14 April 2024). The programme will be completed by Prokofiev's wartime Symphony No. 5 but there is a lot more to events than that.On Thursday 11 April, musicians from NYOGB under Agata Zając will perform music by Simon Steen-Anderson and Carlos Simon, plus a movement of Dani Howard's Trombone Concerto and Julius Eastmn's Stay On It. Then Jessica Cottis conducts the NYOGB and National Youth Brass Band in Higgins and Prokofiev at the Philharmonic Hall on the evening of Friday 12 April and […]
2024-03-25 18:25:45
SCRUTINY | TSO Under Conductor Ryan Bancroft Sounds Superb In Program Of Shostakovich, Prokofiev & Clyne
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Ryan Bancroft and soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason, deliver superb Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Clyne.
2024-01-24 22:43:00
[…] Not to mention that it's all by white guys sorta like the orchestra, all of them dead.Vienna Philharmonic Zellerbach HallYannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor Bancroft Way at Dana StreetYefim Bronfman, piano Berkeley, CA Program: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 7:30pm Mozart/Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, JupiterMahler/Symphony No. 1 in D majorThursday, March 6, 2025 7:30pmSchubert/Symphony No. 4 in C minor, D 417, TragicDvořák/Symphony No. […]
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