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Total immersion: the Glasshouse's Big Bruckner Weekend features his final three symphonies, a mass, motets & more
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia (Photo: Mark Savage)Next year is the 200th anniversary of Bruckner's birth, so expect plenty of celebrations of the composer's music, though the sheer scale of his symphonies makes anything like completeness difficult. The Glasshouse in Gateshead is having a Big Bruckner Weekend from 1 to 3 March 2024 offering audiences the opportunity to immerse themselves in final three symphonies, his motets, one of his masses and even his String Quintet.Across the weekend, Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Bruckner’s Symphony No.7, Sir Mark Elder and The Hallé perform Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8 and Alpesh Chauhan conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Bruckner's unfinished Symphony No. 9. Thomas Zehetmair conducts the Royal Northern Sinfonia & chorus in Bruckner's Mass No. 3 with soloists Elizabeth Watts, Hannah Hipp, Thomas Atkins and Mark Stone, whilst throughout the weekend the chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia will be performing Bruckner's motets, […]
2022-10-28 08:48:00
Review of Hallé performance of Verdi's Requiem, conducted by Sir Mark Elder
[…] to the very end of the Libera me. If the Romantic notion that anyone can be saved through the love of a good woman was what Verdi had in mind there, her voice exemplified it. Alice Coote, too, so imperious in her depiction of the Last Judgment in the Sequence, was the perfect Secunda Donna when it came to the Agnus Dei, which was one of the most beautiful parts of the whole performance. Thomas Atkins shone as every Italian tenor at prayer should do, in Ingemisco, and James Platt caught something of the pleading tone of Germont father in his singing of Confutatis maledictis (though in ensemble his foundation of the harmony didn’t always seem quite precise enough). Whatever Verdi did or didn’t believe about the hereafter, he got something right with his setting of the Sanctus in this work: the dwelling place of God must be a scene […]
2022-09-18 10:25:00
Royal Opera HouseNarraboth – Thomas Atkins Page of Herodias – Annika Schlicht First Soldier – Simon Shibambu Second Soldier – Simon Wilding Jokanaan – Jordan Shanahan Cappadocian – John Cunningham Salome – Elena Stikhina Slave – Sarah Dufresne Herod – John Daszak Herodias – Katarina Dalayman First Jew – Paul Curievici Second Jew – Michael J. Scott Third Jew – Aled Hall Fourth Jew – Alasdair Elliott Fifth Jew – Jeremy White First Nazarene – James Platt Second Nazarene – Chuma Sijeqa Naaman – Duncan MeadowsDavid McVicar (director) Bárbara Lluch (revival director) Es Devlin (designs) Wolfgang Göbbel (lighting) Andrew George (choreography, movement) Emily Piercy (revival choreography) 59 Productions (video) Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseAlexander Soddy (conductor) This was a Salome best remembered for its singing, at least once beyond the absurdity of prefacing it with ‘God save the King’. (The production might have been adapted, I suppose, […]
2022-08-31 00:30:02
BY CUTCOMMON For the past three decades, Elektra String Quartet has placed Australian music front and centre. This year, the group releases new album Ebb The post first appeared on CutCommon.
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