Édouard Nanny News
French double bass player
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2023-09-01 06:30:00
Enchanted Places: The Complete Fraser-Simpson settings of A.A. Milne; Grant Doyle, John Kember; EM Records Redolent of a certain age, the complete songs to A.A.Milne's poems by his contemporary and neighbour, Howard Fraser-Simpson, composer of The Maid in the Mountains People over a certain age will almost certainly remember the song, to words by A.A. Milne, They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace, though until I received a copy of baritone Grant Doyle and pianist John Kember's new disc, I was totally unaware of the composer. Enchanted Places on EM Records features the complete A.A. Milne settings by composer Howard Fraser-Simpson. There are 67 songs in all including The Complete Hums of Pooh (some 16 songs), just short of 150 minutes of music and you cannot help feeling that the recordng is something of a labour of love.Howard Fraser-Simpson (1872-1944) was a composer of light music, he began publishing songs in 1907, his […]
2022-06-01 17:55:26
Emotional atmospheres: a wonderfully lucid production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin opens Opera Holland Park's 2022 season
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Samuel Dale Johnson - Opera Holland Park, 2022 (Photo Ali Wright) Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin; Samuel Dale Johnson, Anush Hovhannisyan, Thomas Atkins, Emma Stannard, director: Julia Burbach, conductor: Lada Valešová, City of London Sinfonia; Opera Holland Park An engaging young cast in a wonderfully lucid account of Tchaikovky's lyric scenes that used the stage to its utmost and illuminated both characters' thoughts and actions The 2022 Opera Holland Park season opened with a production of Eugene Onegin originally scheduled for 2020. Then, the Young Artist performance was due to be conducted by Lada Valešová, but since that cancellation she showed her conducting chops at the 2021 Young Artist performance of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro [see my review] as well as conducting Eugene Onegin in West Green House Opera's 2021 season [see my interview with Lada]. Julia Burbach, who directed Eugene Onegin, was in charge of last year's production of […]
2022-05-19 06:34:59
Shining Shore: The Music of Early America
[…] British martial music. The songs include a ballad collected in 1934, Lady of York, by John Jacob Niles, a collector who was none to careful at distinguishing the original music from his own additions! Another of Niles' contributions is I wonder as I wander, a song which gained wider currency again in the 20th century. But there was still interest in fashionable British cultural exports during the Early Revolutionary Period and here we have Ah! Nanny, from a collection of songs sung at London’s Vauxhall Gardens in 1773 and reprinted in Boston around 1800. The American edition includes extra music for "Guitar or Clarinett" common in arrangements for domestic use. The disc's title track, Shining Shore, was written by David Nelson (1793-1844), originally for a different tune. The performers have assembled an engaging and varied programme which is delightfully and imaginatively presented. Their flexible line-up means that we have varied sounds […]
2022-03-07 09:00:09
[…] One yet he too gets seduced by the Queen in Act Two. Hawkins brought a wonderful physicality to the role, making the general a memorable character even when the vocal line was less than thrilling. Thomas Elwin and Jerome Knox were King Dodon's childish sons, both having idiotic ideas about how to counter the threat of war and both singers having great fun. Amy J Payne was Amelfa, King Dodon's rather fearsome, but not un-sexy Nanny, a role Payne played with delightful relish. Alys Mererid Roberts was the Cockerel, all jerky physical movements and a nice line in coloratura. The Astrologer is a tricky part, it is written for a high tenor and I remain unclear as to what Rimsky Korsakov wanted from the part, whether an aetherial otherworldliness or something more dramatic and violent. The role is too low for a countertenor and needs a tenor voice. Robert Lewis […]
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