Göttingen 1853: Johannes Brahms & Joseph Joachim, a meeting of musical minds evoked
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: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 16 May 2024 Göttingen 1853 : Johannes Brahms Joseph Joachim , a meeting of musical minds evoked Labels : concert review Germany Handel Aula of Georg-August Universität , Göttingen Photo : Stefan Flöper Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 4.0 Bach , Joachim , Mozart , Handel , Beethoven Shunske Sato , Shuann Chai , Wolfgang Sandberger Internationale Händel Festspiele Göttingen at Aula of Georg-August Universität Reviewed 13 May 2024 Brahms and Joseph Joachim spent a musical Summer together in 1853 in Göttingen and this event imaginatively evoked the music those two young men played together In 1853, 20-year-old Johannes Brahms was hired as a pianist by
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 15 May 2024 Quite a Summer : Tom Fetherstonhaugh and Fantasia Orchestra have three festival debuts including the BBC Proms Labels : interview preview Jess Gillam , Tom Fetherstonhaugh Fantasia Orchestra in rehearsal Photo : Fantasia Orchestra Tom Fetherstonhaugh and Fantasia Orchestra are having quite a Summer with debuts at the BBC Proms Northern Aldborough Festival and Ryedale Festival along with other appearances which will be keeping the orchestra busy . The orchestra describes itself as a community of friends and colleagues , many of whom trained together in their teens , who are now at the start of their professional careers . Tom founded the
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 13 May 2024 The results were indeed glorious : Klaus Mäkelä and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Bruckner in Dresden Labels : concert review Dresden Dresden Music Festival Bruckner : Symphony No . 5 Klaus Mäkelä , Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Dresdner Musikfestspiele at the Kulturpalast Photo : Stephan Floss Bruckner : Symphony No . 5 Klaus Mäkelä , Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Dresdner Musikfestspiele at the Kulturpalast , Dresden Reviewed 10 May 2024 The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and its chief conductor designate bring remarkably unanimity of intent and youthful vigour to Bruckner Anton Bruckner wrote his Symphony No . 5 in 1875-76, around
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 13 May 2024 Finding her voice : Elisabetta Brusa on her compositional style and creating her foundation Labels : Guest Posting Elisabetta Brusa Elisabetta Brusa taught composition at the Milan Conservatoire for 39 years . Her latest choral album Requiem and Stabat Mater is now available on Naxos She has established the Brusa Foundation Award to give opportunities to composers who recreate new , free and personal symphonic thought with a tonal basis . The deadline for entries from composers ages 18 to 30 is 31st May 2024 Here she explains the influences on her own composition style and how she found her voice . My 5th Naxos CD , which has just come out ,
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 11 May 2024 The journey continues : Dresden's historically informed Ring returns with a revelatory Die Walküre Labels : Dresden Dresden Music Festival opera review Wagner : Die Walküre Åsa Jäger , Simon Bailey Dresdner Musikfestspiele Photo : Oliver Killig Wagner : Die Walküre Maximilian Schmitt , Sarah Wegener , Tobias Kehr , Simon Bailey , Åsa Jäger , Claude Eichenberger , Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln , Kent Nagano Dresdner Musikfestspiele at the Kulturpalast , Dresden Reviewed 9 May 2024 One of those evenings about which you can say I was there' . Revelations and riveting drama as the Dresden Music Festival unfolded the next
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 8 May 2024 Evolving with the Orchestra : composer Robin Haigh on his recent orchestral works Labels : Guest Posting preview The Irish British composer Robin Haigh is having a busy year with performances of all four of his major orchestral works . Jessica Cottis conducts Luck his trumpet concerto for Matilda Lloyd and Britten Sinfonia on the opening night of this year's Aldeburgh Festival on 15 June 2024 full details and Matthew Halls conducts the UK premiere of Robin Haigh's Concerto for Orchestra with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on 3 November full details In a guest article for Planet Hugill , Robin describes his continuing evolution
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 4 May 2024 A willingness to explore : Stéphane Fuguet on recording Monteverdi and Lully at Versailles with his ensemble , Les Épopées Labels : interview Stéphane Fuguet Les Épopées Photo : Pascal Le Mée In June 2024, harpsichordist , conductor and director , Stéphane Fuguet and his ensemble , Les Épopées are releasing their recording of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo on the Château de Versailles Spectacles label with tenor Julian Prégardien in the title role . This is the second of the ensemble's survey of Monteverdi's operas on disc , they released Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria in June 2022, and L'Incoronazione di Poppea will follow in April 2025. In March
: , , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 3 May 2024 Bruckner’s Skull , Nordic Music Days , New Dimensions and Re:Connect : Scottish Chamber Orchestra's new season Labels : preview SCO Scotland Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Maxim Emelyanychev in Aberdeen Photo : Christopher Bowen The 2024 25 season sees Maxim Emelyanychev returning for his sixth season as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra SCO with nine concerts , both as conductor and as soloist . Andrew Manze takes up a new role as SCO's principal guest conductor , directing three concerts during the season from Scandinavian contemporary music to Mozart to Faure's Requiem The SCO will be giving seven premieres during
: : , , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 3 May 2024 Mozart in 1774 : Samantha Clarke , Jane Gower , The Mozartists , and Ian Page on stylish form at Wigmore Hall Labels : concert review Wigmore Hall Samantha Clarke Photo : Benjamin Ealovega Mozart in 1774 Mozart : Symphonies Nos . 28 30 Bassoon Concerto music from La finta giardiniera , nbsp music from Paisiello's Andromeda Samantha Clarke , Jane Gower , The Mozartists , Ian Page Wigmore Hall Reviewed 2 May 2024 Ian Page and his ensemble explore the symphonic music Mozart wrote in 1774, along with a superb contribution from bassoonist Jane Gower and soprano Samantha Clarke in outstanding form In 1773, Mozart returned from his long journey.jpg)
: , , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 2 May 2024 Father Willis , European Union Chamber Orchestra , Goldberg Variations : King's Lynn Festival's Early Music Day Labels : preview European Union Chamber Orchestra King's Lynn Festival's annual celebration of all things Early Music , its Early Music Day will be returning to St Nicholas' Chapel on Saturday 20 July featuring a lunchtime organ recital with Harvey Stansfield , a concert with the European Union Chamber Orchestra and a late-night recital with harpsichordist Masumi . Yamamoto The day begins with a recital by the organ scholar at Peterborough Cathedral , Harvey Stansfield . He will play the Henry Willis organ at St Nicholas'
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 1 May 2024 Vigour , energy and joy : A Choral Celebration of Queen Mary II from the choirs of the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Old Royal Naval College Labels : concert review Willem Wissing 1656-87 Mary II 1662-94 when Princess of Orange c.1686-87 Photo : Royal Collection Trust RCIN 405643 A Choral Celebration of Queen Mary II : Clarke , Blow , Purcell , Handel chapel choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea , the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir , Brandenburg Baroque Soloists , Ralph Allwood , William Vann Chapel of St Peter and St Paul , Old Royal Naval College Reviewed 30 April 2024 A celebration of Queen Mary II's birthday brings
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 1 May 2024 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's 2024 25 season Labels : BBCSSO preview BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's 2024 25 season is its third with chief conductor Ryan Wigglesworth . Wigglesworth will be directing Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius and a new work by Helen Grime , along with playing the solo part in Mozart's Piano Concerto No . 17 There will be a further premiere from Ricardo Ferro , plus works by Donghoon Shin , Errollyn Wallen , Gabriela Montero and the orchestra’s Composer-in-Association Hans . Abrahamsen Ilan Volkov conducts percussion concertos with Scottish virtuoso Colin Currie , including a UK premiere by Olga Neuwirth and a
: , , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 30 April 2024 14 premieres , music in iconic spaces , the Cries of London : Spitalfields Music Festival 2024 Labels : preview Spitalfields Spitalfields Music Festival returns with events in iconic spaces across East London from 27 June to 10 July 2024. The festival opens with soprano Nardus Williams and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny in In the Shadow of the Tower exploring East London's cosmopolitan history in a recital at St Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London . The concert features a new work by Roderick Williams , one of 14 premieres being presented at this year's festival . And we return to St Peter ad Vincula for Sing Joyfully : Tudor and
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 30 April 2024 A neglected gem revived : New Sussex Opera in Lampe's The Dragon of Wantley combining historic style and 1980s politics Labels : opera review Lampe : The Dragon of Wantley Charlotte Badham New Sussex Opera Photo : Robert Knights Lampe Carey : The Dragon of Wantley Ana Beard Fernandez , Charlotte Badham , Magnus Walker , Robert Gildon , director : Paul Higgins , conductor : Toby Purser , Bellot Ensemble New Sussex Opera at the Theatre Royal , Winchester Reviewed 28 April 2024 Updated to the 1980s miners' strike , New Sussex Opera's production mixes political satire and period style along with a sense of enjoyment in the work's send-up of
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 29 April 2024 Lobesgesang : Mendelssohn's rarely performed symphony-cantata is a fine climax to Sir Andras Schiff and the OAE's exploration of the composer's symphonic music Labels : concert review OAE South Bank Centre Portrait of Mendelssohn by Wilhelm Hensel , 1847 Mendelssohn : Violin Concerto Symphony No . 2 Lobesgesang' Lucy Crowe , Hilary Cronin , Nick Pritchard , Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment , Choir of the Enlightenment , Sir Andras Schiff Queen Elizabeth Hall Reviewed 26 April 2024 A near ideal performance of the violin concerto followed by an account of Mendelssohn's great symphony-cantata that never compromised the work's idiosyncrasy
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 27 April 2024 Fear no more : Brindley Sherratt on releasing his first recital disc Labels : interview Brindley Sherratt Photo : Gerard Collett I first chatted with bass Brindley Sherratt in early 2020 about a fundraising gala he was organising . Much happened afterwards , and the interview did not appear on the blog until 2022 see my interview When we chatted then , Brindley was moving into singing larger , more dramatic roles including Wagner . But when we met again recently it was to talk about a project on an entirely different scale , Brindley's first recital disc , with pianist Julius Drake Fear No More on the Delphian label . A disc that features.jpg)
: , . Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 26 April 2024 David Pickard says farewell to the BBC Proms with 90 concerts across the UK including Bizet's Carmen , Julius Eastman's Symphony No . 2, Suk's Asrael Symphony and much more Labels : BBC preview Proms So , the BBC Proms are on us again . The 2024 festival runs from 19 July to 14 September 2024 with 73 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and 17 around the UK , with short seasons at Bristol Beacon and The Glasshouse , Gateshead , plus concerts in Nottingham , Newport , Aberdeen and Belfast . This season represents David Pickard's last as director and Hannah Donat has taken over as Director of Artistic Planning for the BBC Proms . She is former
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 25 April 2024 A German in Venice Schütz alongside music he could have heard in Venice , a wonderfully life-affirming disc Labels : cd review Schütz : A German in Venice Schütz , Monteverdi , Rossi , Grandi , Cavalli , Sances David de Winter , The Brook Street Band , FHR Reviewed 24 April 2024 A wonderfully engaging and life-affirming disc which mixed Schütz's music with pieces he might have heard whilst he was in Venice in the 1620s Heinrich Schütz had a huge life , born in 1585, the year that Thomas Tallis died and with Palestrina , Victoria and Guerrero still at the peak of their powers , he died in 1672 not long before the births of Telemann , Bach
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 24 April 2024 Schoenberg : Exploring New Worlds Lewes Chamber Music Festival 2024 Labels : preview The 13th Lewes Chamber Music Festival takes place from 6 to 8 June 2024 with artistic director Beatrice Philips bringing together 18 of today's most exciting chamber-musicians and soloists to explore the musical ties between Europe and America through celebrating the 150th birthdays of Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives , including Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony No . 1 and Ode to Napoleon with actor Samuel West , and rare chamber versions of larger scale works by Richard Strauss and . Mahler The weekend opens with early piano quartets by Mahler and
: , , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 24 April 2024 Enriching , uplifting , entertaining inclusive : Paradox Orchestra to perform at Sheffield Cathedral in support of the Archer Project Labels : preview sheffield The Paradox Orchestra Photo : Elizabeth Brown The Yorkshire-based Paradox Orchestra , whose founder Michael Sluman I chatted to recently see my interview No boundaries or rules is presenting a series of concerts for charitable causes across Yorkshire , including two upcoming concerts in aid of the homeless in Sheffield in the magnificent setting of Sheffield Cathedral . nbsp The orchestra will perform its 50 Years of Pink Floyd programme at the cathedral on 16 May and their
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 23 April 2024 Disruptors : BBC Young Musician Keyboard Category Final winner Ethan Loch joins Manchester Camerata for music by Beethoven and local composer Carmel Smickersgill Labels : Manchester preview Ethan Loch at the BBC Young Musician 2022 Final Photo : BBC For their next performance in Manchester , the Manchester Camerata is changing their base of operations and giving a concert in the Albert Hall on Thursday 2 May 2024. Performing in the round , the orchestra will be conducted by young Irish conductor , Karen Ní Bhroin in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No . 1 and Symphony No . 8, plus a new work by Manchester-based composer Carmel Smickersgill