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2024-03-18 07:47:00
600 young musicians aged 7-11 join the RLPO to celebrate 15 years of In Harmony Liverpool
Today (18 March 2024), the Liverpool Philharmonic together with 600 young musicians aged 7-11 from Anfield and Everton, will celebrate 15 years of In Harmony Liverpool with a birthday concert at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. The performers from Faith Primary, The Beacon CE Primary and All Saints Catholic Primary will present a concert with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra musicians to an audience of friends and family culminating in a joyous finale of massed choir and orchestra.Launched in 2009 and benefiting over 4,000 children and young people, In Harmony uses orchestral music making to improve the life chances of children by increasing confidence, wellbeing, skills and resilience, enhanced by opportunities to travel, learn, perform and collaborate with professional musicians, international artists and other young people.Children and young people make music every week free of charge, learn an instrument, compose, sing, rehearse and perform wide ranging music in orchestras and ensembles in schools, throughout […]
2024-03-11 08:58:00
Premiere of Eleanor Alberga's piano concerto, commissioned by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for Leeds Piano Competition winner Alim Beisembayev
Alim Beisembayev (Photo: Nabin Maharjan)Kazakhstan-born pianist Alim Beisembayev won First Prize at The Leeds International Piano Competition in September 2021, along with the medici.tv Audience Prize and a new prize, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Prize for contemporary performance. This led the orchestra to commission a new work especially for Beisembayev, from the eminent Jamaican-born British composer, Eleanor Alberga, who will also be a Jury member of the 2024 Competition later this year.Alberga's Piano Concerto will be premiered by Alim Beisembayev with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Domingo Hindoyan on 25 April 2024 at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool as part of a concert that includes a suite from Roussel's Bacchus and Ariadne and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5.Alberga's concerto, her first piano concerto, has grown from solo works for piano and thematically draws on her life story. I chatted to Eleanor Alberga back in 2022 about her music and her Jamaican heritage, […]
2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
Frank Bridge - The Sea:01 - 04 The Sea. Suite [20'41]05 Summer. Tone Poem [9'37]06 Cherry Ripe [3'23]07 Enter Spring. Rhapsody [21'22]08 Lament [4'27]Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesEMI CDM5658552 [recorded July 1975; CD issued 1989][CD-rip; flacs, cover and inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venue: Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, UKRecording engineer: John Kurlander; Producer: John WillanMany of the recordings in my occasional posts were ripped in the late nineties or early noughties but I then had no means of scanning the artwork. Now it seems increasingly possible to download good artwork from the internet making posting of the recordings a possibility. The above recording and the next are cases in point. I am indebted to friend Danse de Puck for allowing me to use her artwork scans that appeared in a post on a private blog for the next recording.Ralph Vaughan Williams:01 - 09 Job. A Masque for Dancing * […]
2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] well supported by Nora Steuerwald (contralto), Falk Hoffmann (tenor) and Steven Klose (bass) complemented by the ‘poetic whispering voices’ (Flüsterstimmen) of Eliana Pliskin Jacobs, Sasha Lurje, Daniel Kahn and Karsten Troyke. Dating from 2022 and commissioned by Yad Vashem (the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem) and the American Society for Yad Vashem, the work received its première on 5th November 2022 by the Kaunas State Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir under Constantine Orbelian in the Philharmonic Hall in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian academic and cultural life. Inspired by the heroism of Chiune Sugihara who saved thousands of Jewish lives through his decisions and actions during the Second World War, this five-sectioned work (with prologue and epilogue) was written by the extremely talented and well-respected Soviet-born, multi-dimensional Jewish artist, Lera Auerbach, one of today’s leading female composers, grabbed my attention right […]
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