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2021-07-07 08:16:03
A gloriously offline moment: I chat to artistic director Christopher Glynn about the 40th anniversary Ryedale Festival
How do you plan a festival in a time when the rules about what might and might not be possible are constantly changing and where simply getting artists to travel can be a challenge, never mind finding venues where you can have a socially distanced audience. When I asked Christopher Glynn, artistic director of the Ryedale Festival, this question he laughed and said hard work and a determination to do it. This year's Ryedale Festival is running from 17 July to 31 July 2021 with a series of events with live audiences. I chatted to Christopher recently by Zoom to find out more about how they made it happen. Christopher Glynn (photo Joanna Bergin) This year is the festival's 40th anniversary so they were determined to make something happen and the decision was taken early on to have a late-announced, one-off festival with 40 events (for 40 years) as […]
2021-05-20 07:02:21
Irish cellist Ailbhe McDonagh and pianist John O'Conor celebrated Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year with a double album of his complete sonatas for cello and piano recorded at St. Peter’s Church, Drogheda, Ireland. The set has been released is on the Steinway & Sons music label. Beethoven's five cello sonatas are remarkable because they span his whole career. The two sonatas of Op. 5 come from his early Viennese years, though they were written for a visit to the Prussian court in Berln and still give prominence to the piano. The great A Major Sonata (Op. 69) is the single representative of his incredible middle period, and shows Beethoven re-inventing the form and giving both instruments equal prominence, whilst the two Op. 102 sonatas epitomize his late works. Ailbhe McDonagh and John O'Conor have made a short documentary about the project, which is one of those which might not have happened […]
2021-04-28 06:25:34
From Beverley to Budleigh Salterton: festivals coming back to life
Beverly and the Minster (photo courtesy of Beverley Minster website) It is heartening to see smaller festivals coming back to life and announcing (careful) plans, selecting larger venues, doing outdoor gigs, shortening concerts and such. Two that popped into my inbox this week are the Budleigh Music Festival which takes place in the East Devon town of Budleigh Salterton from 9 to 17 July 2021, and the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival (organised by the National Centre for Early Music in York) which takes place in and around Beverley in Yorkshire from 28 to 30 May 2021 (and online from 5 to 6 June 2021). The Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival is featuring live concerts in May, but there will be only a limited number of tickets on public sale because of limitations in numbers (due to social distancing) and the festival honouring the bookings […]
2021-03-24 09:42:45
A castrato in Ireland: Tara Erraught, Peter Whelan & the Irish Baroque Orchestra recapture some of the magic of superstar castrato Tenducci
The Trials of Tenducci - van Maldere, Arne, Giordani, Fischer, JC Bach, Mozart; Tara Erraught, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Peter Whelan; Linn Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 March 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A delightful journey through the eventful musical life of soprano castrato Tenducci whose performing career encompassed London, Dublin and EdinburghThe Italian soprano castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci (c. 1735–90) seems to have had a remarkably eventful life, including a period in a debtors' prison in Southwark, a short period on the run, becoming secretly married to a 16-year-old which involved, flight, trial and imprisonment (and evenutually the marriage was annulled). He was also reputed, by Casanova, to have father two children but these are thought to be his wife's offspring by her second husband. But Tenducci also found time to sing and much of his career was in Britain and Ireland. On this new disc, […]