Sharon Sweet News
American singer
- soprano
- United States of America
- opera singer
Last update
2024-04-24
Refresh
2024-04-06 08:42:00
Spell Book, Witch & Stone Fruit: composer Freya Waley-Cohen on the power of ritual and spells
Freya Waley-Cohen: Spell Book - Héloïse Werner, Manchester Collective - Barbican (Photo: César Vásquez Altamirano)On 1 February 2024, Manchester Collective, Héloïse Werner (soprano), Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano) and Céline Saout (harp) presented the world premiere of Freya Waley-Cohen's complete Spell Book at the Barbican in advance of the song cycle's release on NMC Recordings in October 2024. Setting feminist spell-poems from Rebecca Tamás' 2019 collection WITCH, the cycle mines a vein that Freya Waley-Cohen also explored in her 2020 opera WITCH. In a totally different vein, February 2024 also saw the premiere of Freya's Stone Fruit at Wigmore Hall performed by the Colin Currie Quartet.Freya Waley-Cohen (Photo: Patrick Allen)When Freya first read Rebecca Tamás' poetry, it caught her imagination and expanded her way of looking at the world. Freya loved the idea of witches and spells, the poetry was fantastical, playful and powerful. She also felt that the […]
2024-04-03 06:35:00
A wondrous snapshot of British singing: Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music and the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music - exploring the sixteen singers chosen for the first performance; Isobel Baillie, Elise Suddaby, Eva Turner, Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Mary Jarrod, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterson, Heddle Nash, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, Norman Allin, Keith Falkner; Albion RecordsReviewed 2 April 2024A remastering of the iconic 1938 recording along with a solo track from each of the sixteen soloists (plus one extra) providing a wondrous snapshot of British singing in the 1930sRalph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music has become rightly become iconic and on this disc from Albion Records the original 1938 recording is explored from a different angle. We hear that original recording with Isobel Baillie, Elise Suddaby, Eva Turner, Stiles-Allen, Muriel Brunskill, Astra Desmond, Margaret Balfour, Mary Jarrod, Walter Widdop, Parry Jones, Frank Titterson, Heddle Nash, Roy Henderson, Robert Easton, Harold Williams, and Norman Allin conducted by […]
2024-04-01 08:07:00
Moving intimacy and sense of communication: Bach's St Matthew Passion from the Academy of Ancient Music, music director Laurence Cummings and just eight singers
Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion - Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings at Barbican Hall (Photo: Academy of Ancient Music)Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion; Anna Dennis, Tim Mead, Nicholas Mulroy, George Humphreys, Mhairi Lawson, Magid El-Bushra, Paul Hopwood, Rodney Earl Clarke, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; Barbican HallReviewed 29 March 2024 (Good Friday)Just eight soloists and 28 instrumentalists create a sense of intimacy yet profound communication, filling the hall in a way that made the whole a moving experience.Some of Johann Sebastian Bach's masterworks from the 1730s and 1740s, such as the Mass in B minor and the Art of Fugue, not only have no apparent performance tradition from Bach's time but also leave us uncertain as to the exact performance forces that Bach envisaged. But an earlier masterwork, the St Matthew Passion, has a clear performance tradition from Bach's time, premiered in 1727, Bach performed it […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-31 23:12:52
Though last night’s intimate Vaughan Williams vocal recital began with a duet of “a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino” (Shakespeare), the lovers and the lasses of Sweet spring love soon made way for ponderers on religious and the metaphysical stuffs during Boston Art Song Society’s visit to Somerville Music Spaces. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
or
- timeline: Lyrical singers (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): S...