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2023-12-19 09:07:00
75th Aldeburgh Festival: Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, Britten's Curlew River, Sumidagawa & more
[…] Weir and Ryan Wigglesworth, plus three UK premieres of music by Unsuk Chin and Thomas Larcher. Made in Snape is a strand of new music created on residencies at Snape Maltings by a wide range of contemporary musicians including Xhosa Cole, Mark Sanders and Jason Singh; Emily Levy and Mella Faye; Holy Other; Tom Rogerson, Liam Byrne and Clare O’Connell.Soprano Gweneth Ann Rand will performing the three major Messiaen song cycles over three concerts with pianists Simon Lepper and Alison Devenis. The festival's other featured musicians are composer Unsuk Chin, violinist Daniel Pioro and cellist Alban Gerhardt. Alban Gerhardt recreates, with pianist Steven Osborne, the recital given by Rostropovich and Britten in 1961 which included the first performance of Britten’s Cello Sonata and Gerhardt also performs both Elgar and Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concertos, the latter written for him. The first ever Aldeburgh Festival concert from 5 June 1948 is also recreated in a performance by Britten […]
2022-07-22 06:51:00
Glenarm Festival of Voice
Northern Ireland Opera returns to the village of Glenarm on the North coast of Northern Ireland for the first time since 2019 for the 12th Glenarm Festival of Voice which runs from 26 to 28 August 2022. Five opera singers have been selected as finalists from applications received from across the island of Ireland. They will compete for the Deborah Voigt Opera Prize, the Audience Prize and the Song Prize by performing arias, ensemble pieces and Irish art songs in front of an audience and a judging panel.This year's finalists are Hannah O’Brien (soprano), Heather Sammon (mezzo-soprano), Michael Bell (tenor), Owen Lucas (tenor), David Kennedy (baritone) and the Peter Rankin Piano Intern for 2022 is Doireann O’Carroll.The team who will coach the finalists includes Kathryn Harries, Dr Ingrid Surgenor and pianist Simon Lepper. They will work with the finalists on their competition repertoire across the weekend in the build-up to the finale on […]
2022-03-15 09:59:10
[…] Tegid Jones of Rugby-based Random Opera Company - interview A joyful celebration of playing together: MiSST's 9th Annual Concert - article Urban dystopia: Guildhall School's double bill of Judith Weir's Miss Fortune and Menotti's The Telephone - opera review Elan and style: Grands Motets by Michel-Richard De Lalande from Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances - record review Iceland: The Eternal Music - Graham Ross and the choir of Clare College explore the contemporary music of Iceland - record review A superbly engrossing performance: James Newby and Simon Lepper in Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin at Wigmore Hall - concert review Home
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