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2024-04-17 06:39:00
Southbank Centre's new season: Schoenberg's 150th, the OAE in Bruckner, Joyce Didonato in Berlioz, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim
[…] burning the candle at both ends, presenting all of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and performing Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 (not in the same programme!).The London Sinfonietta is celebrating Schoenberg's 150th anniversary, with Jonathan Berman conducting the Ode to Napoleon (no, I've never heard that live either) and Chamber Symphony. They will be joined by the Royal Academy of Music's Manson Ensemble for a performance of Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett. The Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today will feature conductor Chloe Rooke and soprano Ella Taylor in Saariaho’s Semafor and Hans Abrahmsen’s Two Inger Christensen Songs. The London Philharmonic Orchestra's season will include Evan Williams’ Dead White Man Music (Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Ensemble), and Sarod player Amjad Ali Khan performs his own concerto Samaagam alongside a new overture by Reena Esmail and selections from film soundtracks by AR Rahman.The full season is available via the Southbank Centre website.
2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
[…] - 07 Symphony No. 6 (1977) ^ [33'12]London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis *; London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesLyrita SRCD389 [BBC Broadcasts May 1973* and April 1980^; this issue 2021][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Royal Festival Hall, London (world premieres)Recording engineers and Producers: not statedGustav Holst:The Perfect Fool. Opera in One Act, op.39 H.150 [62'24]Richard Golding & David Read- basses, Pamela Bowden- contralto, Alison Hargan, Barbara Platt, Lesley Rooke & Margaret Neville- sopranos, John Mitchinson- tenor, Walter Plinge and Ronald Harvi- speakers, George Hagan- narrator; BBC Northern Singers, BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesLyrita REAM1143 [BBC broadcast May 1967; this issue 2021][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: BBC Studios, Manchester, UKRecording engineer: not stated; Producer: Lionel Salter.Sir Charles' Precious Music Box II:01 Richard Eilenberg: Die Mühle im Schwarzwalk, op.5202 Franz Schubert: Marche Militaire in D major, D733 no.103 […]
2023-11-11 09:06:00
A shadow land where ideas of what music could be are changed: Nwando Ebizie on her new work for London Sinfonietta's Writing the Future
Nwando Ebizie (Photo: Dimitri Djuric)London Sinfonietta's Writing the Future scheme offers early-career music creators opportunities to nurture their talents and to develop a new piece. The final instalment of its fourth series of Writing the Future sees multidisciplinary artist Nwando Ebizie turn the traditional concert experience on its head. Nwando's Fall and then Rise on a Soft Winter's Morning premieres on 15 November 2023 at Colour Factory, Hackney Wick when London Sinfonietta is joined by Chisato Minamimura dancer, Nat Sharp art director and Chloe Rooke conductor. By creating a multisensory and accessible experience, the concert aims to give d/Deaf audiences a fulfilling experience equal to that of hearing audiences, including performed theatrical British Sign Language (BSL), alongside physical elements such as haptic amplifiers, large balloons which the audience will be encouraged to touch in order to feel the vibrations of the music, and a recreation of sound through movement.Nwando intends the event to […]
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2022-02-17 14:44:11
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