Sydney Granville News
British opera singer and actor
- baritone
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- opera singer
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2023-12-30 09:32:00
2023 in concert reviews: Gavin Higgins x2, Allan Clayton's Samson, Reginald Mobley in Bayreuth, the Pink Singers & Brixton Chamber Orchestra both party and Bitches Brew is back
[…] of Buxtehude's remarkable Membra Jesu Nostri. At the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, countertenor Reginald Mobley gave us Purcell, rare Handel cantatas and Ignatius Sancho.Jérémie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie combined the music of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn with the texts that inspired them. Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake enchanted in songs by Robert & Clara Schumann, Schubert, Henze and Mahler all setting texts by Rückert. Nigel Foster's London Song Festival presented the world premiere of Granville Bantock's remarkable Oscar Wilde setting, The Sphinx.Colin Currie and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrated The Beano including the premiere of a new concerto by Gavin Higgins, and we caught up with Higgins' The Faerie Bride at the Three Choirs Festival.Our correspondent, Florence, helped the Kronos Quartet celebrate its 50th anniversary, and enjoyed a modern recreation of Miles Davies' iconic Bitches Brew.Handel: Samson - Allan Clayton - Philharmonia Chorus, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings - […]
2023-10-26 06:37:00
Stories in music in Oxford: visual inspirations from the Mendelssohn siblings, William Blake in song & image, vivid story-telling from Wolf & Mörike
[…] bringing out the pastoral elements in these. With Nurse's Song, Tritschler really highlighted the story aspect, whilst Blossom was nicely touching. The Wild Flower Song by Roger Quilter (1877-1953) managed to bring in a lot more than just English folksiness, but his Jocund Dance was swaggeringly folk-like. Daybreak was wonderfully rhapsodic with rich harmonies.Britten's A Poison Tree took the mood in a different direction entirely with its violence in the piano and edgy declamatory voice, the two performers making it mesmerising. Granville Bantock (1868-1946) was a welcome inclusion with Love's Secret, unashamedly romantic yet transparently written and creating something striking. Walton's Holy Thursday (from A Song for the Lord Mayor's Table) was not as edgy as the Britten, but it was still a welcome change of harmony and texture. RVW's London, is from his Blake songs for voice and oboe, this one just for voice giving a striking change of mood and texture.Back to America for Virgil […]
2023-09-04 07:10:00
[…] Clayton, Philharmonia Chorus, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings in Handel's Samson - concert reviewThrust into a new age, the digital age: Augmented Reality in a ground-breaking new production of Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival - opera reviewRevenge is the name of the Dutchman’s game: Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival - opera reviewUnbound and Unleashed: Hubert Parry's cantata Prometheus Unbound gets the glorious first recording that it deserves - record reviewJerry Herman & Harvey Fierstein's La Cage aux Folles at Regents Park Open Air Theatre - music theatre reviewA remarkable premiere: Granville Bantock's The Sphinx at the London Song Festival - concert reviewHome
2023-09-02 08:47:00
Wagner: Tannhäuser - Le Gateau Chocolat - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Welcome to our newsletter August on Planet Hugill, a month which saw the start of the BBC Proms, and the end of the Opera Holland Park season. Our correspondent Tony was in Bayreuth whilst we caught up with IF Opera in Bradford on Avon, and the London Song Festival included a remarkable Granville Bantok premiere. Interviews include Catherine Larsen-Maguire the new music director of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, Cameron Menzies, the artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera and John Wilkie who directed Giordano's Fedora for IF Opera.Read more in our newsletter, August on Planet Hugill, via Mad Mimi. If you don't already subscribe then sign up, http://madmimi.com/signups/21101/join
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