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2022-11-29 15:13:52
Our Christmas cover star is the soprano Diana Damrau. The German chanteuse tells Rebecca Franks how she is celebrating the festive season: with a new recording that recalls the Christmas music of her Bavarian childhood. Elsewhere in the magazine, we give some thought to that all-important question: what is the perfect music to get yourself in the Christmas mood? Ten of our writers including Stephen Johnson, Richard Morrison, Tom Service and Natasha Loges reveal the music that gets them feeling festive. We’re off to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland this issue. Jessica Duchen explores how Romantic composers were inspired by the peaks and waterfalls of the Swiss Alps to wrote some of the era’s most rousing and atmospheric music. And we also take a journey back in time, as Nicholas Kenyon looks at the history of early music broadcasting over the BBC’s 100 years on air. Among our regular features, Paul […]
2022-08-04 06:48:00
Looking back at the 2022 Three Choirs Festival in Hereford, from Dyson's Quo Vadis to Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
Geraint Bowen conducts Dvořák’s Requiem in Hereford Cathedral at Three Choirs Festival with Anita Watson, Catherine Carby, Ruairi Bowen, Stephan Loges (Photo: Dale Hodgetts & James O’Driscol)This year’s Three Choirs Festival has drawn to a close in Hereford, after eight days of choral concerts, chamber music, family events, theatre and more. Around 800 performers took part across the week, with almost 150 composers represented, over a third of whom are still alive today.The festival brought a series of firsts including the festival’s first ever mention on Woman’s Hour thanks to Luke Styles and Jessica Walker’s festival commission Voices of Power, a first UK performance for Finnish conductor Emilia Hoving, and premieres of fourteen different pieces across the festival programme.2022 saw revivals of Dyson’s cantata Quo Vadis and Dvořák’s Requiem, both rarely-performed works which were well received by festival audiences. Dyson's cantata was planned for the 1939 Three Choirs Festival, but was cancelled […]
2022-07-20 13:23:00
21st Birthday: Oxford Lieder Festival comes of age with a celebration of Friendship in Song
[…] Edge, and there will also be a new song cycle by Ian Venables commissioned by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. There is a lecture recitals on RVW's friend, George Butterworth, and on RVW and women.There will be a recreation of a typical Schubertiade, a quintessential example of music amongst friends, and the middle weekend of the festival is devoted to Schubert, with a lecture by Graham Johnson on Schubert and his friends in 1822, Natasha Loges on Schubert's social music and recitals from Mark Padmore and Till Fellner, Birgid Steinberger and Julius Drake, and Werner Güra and Christoph Berner in Schubert's Ballads. And the weekend ends with the return of Birgid Steinberger, accompanying herself on guitar in a programme of folksongs.A focus in intimate music making brings a series of recitals devoted to lute songs, both ancient and modern, with performances from Helen Charlston and Toby Carr, Benjamin Appl and Thomas […]
2021-11-29 11:14:25
Anthony Bolton's The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko
Anthony Bolton's The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko debuted at Grange Park Opera in July 2021. Delayed by a year, thanks to the pandemic, the new piece is an operatic treatment of the real-life story of the killing of the Russian exile living in London. With a libretto by Kit Hesketh Harvey, the opera is a musical treatment of a highly dramatic re-life episode, and a welcome mark of confidence from Grange Park Opera in the idea of new, large-scale opera. The production, directed by Stephen Medcalf and conducted by Stephen Barlow, featured Adrian Dwyer, Rebecca Bottone, Stephan Loges, and James Laing. For those that missed the live performances, a film of the production is now available on the Grange Park Opera website.
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