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2023-12-10 18:31:40
Every corner of the historic cityscape of Edinburgh—the cobbled streets, the tall medieval architecture and the green hills—has learned to breathe art and music. It is a small city, but the cultural wealth it nurtures is enormous. The Scottish Parliament Building that sits within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh, too, is no less than a work of art. Not too far stands the iconic edifice of the Usher Hall in the West End of Edinburgh, facing the […] The post appeared first on Serenade.
2023-11-26 19:41:51
A few weeks ago I decided to make an effort to get out more. So today I was at the Usher Hall in Edi
2023-11-22 11:31:00
The other Tchaikowsky violin concerto: as Polish composer André Tchaikowsky's concerto gets its UK premiere we look at the work's intriguing history.
[…] music has never gained the traction it really deserves, perhaps partly through the confusion of name. There is more information at the website devoted to the composer.You can catch the Berlin recording of the Violin Concerto with Andrey Boreyko conducting the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and soloist Ilya Gringolts on YouTube.Andrey Boreyko conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with violinist Ilya Gringolts in Victoria Poleva' s Nova, André Tchaikowsky's Violin Concerto "Classico" and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker at Usher Hall, Edinburgh (8/12/2023) and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall (9/12/2023), further information from the RSNO website.
2023-09-26 07:06:00
A Lady and her Reputation: with modern recordings of Smyth's major works in the catalogue, we now need to put her work into a proper context
The 1922 founding of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) in Salzburg, showing Smyth and Arthur Bliss alongside such luminaries as Hindemith, Egon Wellesz and Webern. A work by Smyth would be included in the performance days the accompanied the event (see the ISCM website for more details)Ethel Smyth wrote six operas, Fantasio (premiered at the Hoftheater, Weimar in 1898), Der Wald (premiered at the Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin in 1902), The Wreckers (premiered at the Neues Theater, Leipzig in 1906), The Boatswain's Mate (premiered in London in 1916), Fête galante (premiered in Birmingham in 1923) and Entente Cordiale (premiered in Bristol in 1925), along with two major choral works, the Mass (premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in 1893) and The Prison (premiered at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh in 1931).All these received major performances during her lifetime, mainly thanks to the composer's own indefatigable energies. After writing a new work, she would set to and stomp around Europe encouraging people to perform the […]
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