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2022-01-22 09:29:54
Joseph Phibbs: Juliana - Samuel Pantcheff, Cheryl Enever at the premiere in 2018 (Photo Laurie Slade) Joseph Phibbs' opera Juliana, with a libretto by Laurie Slade, was a joint commission from Nova Music Opera, the Cheltenham Festival and the Presteigne Festival in 2018 and was premiered by George Vass and Nova Music Opera Ensemble at the Cheltenham Festival. Vass and Nova Music Opera Ensemble have now recorded the opera for Resonus Classics with soloists Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Felix Kemp, and Zoe Drummond. The opera, a modern interpretation of August Strindberg's play, Miss Julie, is Joseph Phibbs' first opera. I recently met up with him to chat about Strindberg, Miss Julie, and creating opera. Joseph Phibbs (Photo Malcolm Crowther) One of the reasons for choosing Strindberg's Miss Julie as the source for the opera was that many aspects of the play chimed in with the commission - three […]
2019-12-12 07:43:24
Christmas CD Round up
[…] [64:17] O Holy Night: If it is carols that you want, then I cannot recommend this new disc enough. There is a leavening of traditional carols in both the David Willcocks arrangements and new ones, all lustily sung by the young professionals of the London Choral Sinfonia, which means that the lovely descants are all thrillingly in place. But there are also new and not so new novelties by Carol Canning, Peter Maxwell Davies, Richard Pantcheff, Robert Saxton, Humphrey Clucas, Thomas Wilson and Gabriel Jackson, alongside modern classics by William Matthias, Peter Warlock, John Ireland and more.London Choral SinfoniaAndrew Carter, William Mathias, Carol Canning, John West, HJ Gauntlett, David Willcocks, Peter Warlock, Peter Maxwell Davies, Richard Pantcheff, JF Wade, Thomas Wilson, Robert Saxton, Jonathan Rathbone, Humphrey Clucas, Martin Neary, Paul Edwards, Mendelssohn, John Ireland, Adolphe Adam, Max Pappenheim, Gabriel Jackson, Thomas OliversSam Lewis, Adam Stockbridge (trumpet)Matthew Fletcher (piano)Max Pappenheim (organ)Michael […]
2018-06-20 08:33:29
‘A well-regulated church music’ - John Eliot Gardiner at the Bach Weekend at the Barbican
[…] Hansford Saturday 16 June 7.30pmJohann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’, BWV12Johann Sebastian Bach ‘Ihr werdet weinen und heulen’, BWV103Giovanni Gabrieli (c1555–1612) Timor et tremorJohann Sebastian Bach ‘O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe’, BWV34Paul Sartorius (1569-1609) Veni, creator Spiritus, ‘Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist’Johann Sebastian Bach ‘O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort’, BWV20Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor Hana Blažíková sopranoSarah Denbee, Reginald Mobley altosHugo Hymas, Gareth Treseder tenorsAlex Ashworth, Peter Harvey, Samuel Pantcheff bassesElsewhere on this blog: Humanity & warmth - Solomon's Knot at the Bach Weekend at the Barbican (★★★★½) - concert review Handel Sonatas for violin and basso continuo (★★★★★) - CD review Engaging rarity: Verdi's Un giorno di regno from Heidenheim (★★★★) - CD review Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at The Grange Festival (★★★★) - Opera review Seriously unusual: Stephen Barlow introduces Buxton Festival's production of Verdi's Alzira - interview […]
2015-11-22 20:36:37
St George’s Anglican Church in Parktown played host to the regular Rand Club Chamber Music concert while Rand Club is being renovated. Thus it was that I was invited to this concert on 20 November 2015. The Umoya Wind Ensemble comprises Malane Hofmeyr-Burger on flute, Lesley Stansell (incorrectly spelled on the programme) on oboe, Chrisna Smith on clarinet, Penelope Ives on bassoon and Shannon Armer on French horn. They played a charming programme of gentle music starting with an arrangement by A Sutherland of Bach’s Prelude and Fugue No 6, a seven movement piece entitled La Cheminee du Roi Rene by Darius Milhaud, an interesting and modern work by Richard Pantcheff entitled Nocturnus III (he has now composed five of these “night” pieces. The one we heard focused on the sounds of the African bush. Richard Pantcheff is a British born composer now living and working in South Africa. He […]
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