Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet Sinfonia announce new Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow
Updated: 2023-08-31 06:43:00
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Thursday , 31 August 2023 Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet Sinfonia announce new Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow Labels : Birmingham music news Yi Wei Yi Wei , a Chinese conductor based in Manchester , has joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet BRB and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia as the Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow for the 2023 24 and 2024 25 . seasons Named after the Founding Music Director of The Royal Ballet Birmingham Royal Ballet , The Constant Lambert Fellowship provides a tailor-made two-year programme for ballet conducting working across The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet with a blend of performance , study and cover . conducting Yi Wei’s
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Thursday , 31 August 2023 Exploring Rachmaninoff's songs alongside those of his contemporaries : Iain Burnside and friends at Wigmore Hall Labels : preview Wigmore Hall Sergey Rachmaninoff Rachmaninoff wrote songs from his years at the Moscow Conservatory right through to 1916. There are over 80 songs románsy in Russian setting Russian romantic writers and poets . Intimately connected to the literature of the Russia that he left behind in 1917, the song genre was one to which Rachmaninoff never returned during his . exile Running from September 2023 until June next year is a Rachmaninoff Song Series at Wigmore Hall , four concerts curated by pianist Iain Burnside in
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Wednesday , 30 August 2023 Back to Wonderland : Will Todd's Alice opera returns in an engaging new production at IF Opera Labels : opera review Will Todd : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Dominick Felix IF Opera Photo : LAIMA Will Todd : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lara Marie Muller , Dominick Felix , Rebecca Afonwy-Jones , Bethany Horak-Hallett , Joanna Harries , Dan D'Souza , Lorena Paz Nieto , Monica McGee , Keel Watson , Alexey Gusev,Emyr Wyn Jones , Katy Thomson , director : Lysanne van Overbeek , conductor Mark Austin IF Opera at Belcombe Court Celebrating its 10th anniversary , Will Todd's opera still engages old and young in a brand new production from
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Tuesday , 29 August 2023 Follies of youthful passion : Umberto Giordano's Fedora at IF Opera Labels : opera review Giordano : Fedora Charne Rochford , Sky Ingram IF Opera Photo : LAIMA Giordano : Fedora Sky Ingram , Charne Rochford , Lorena Paz Nieto , Alexey Gusev , director : John Wilkie , Bristol Ensemble , conductor : Oliver Gooch IF Opera at Belcombe Court A young cast and an admirably lucid production bring out the passion and melodic charms of Giordano's thriller Umberto Giordani's 1898 opera Fedora doesn't get out often enough . You can find plenty off reason why it shouldn't work , but those sort of criteria apply equally to operas firmly in the canon , and.jpg)
: : , , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Friday , 25 August 2023 Prom 50 : large-scale drama from Allan Clayton , Philharmonia Chorus , Academy of Ancient Music , Laurence Cummings in Handel's Samson Labels : AAM BBC concert review Handel Proms Handel : Samson Philharmonia Chorus , Academy of Ancient Music , Laurence Cummings BBC Proms Photo : BBC Sisi Burn George Frideric Handel : Samson Allan Clayton , Jacquelyn Stucker , Joélle Harvey , Jess Dandy , Brindley Sherratt , Jonathan Lemalu , Philharmonic Chorus , Academy of Ancient Music , Laurence Cummings BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Allan Clayton is towering in the title role , in a large-scale performance from soloists , chorus and orchestra
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Tuesday , 22 August 2023 Vache Baroque's Rossi 400 project Labels : music news Salamone Rossi c1570-1630 was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer who worked in Mantua as a colleague of Monteverdi . Rossi was a violinist at the Mantuan court from 1587 to 1628. He probably died when the duchy was invaded by the Austrians when the ruling Gonzaga family was defeated , and the Jewish ghetto in Mantua was destroyed . Rossi was highly regarded by the Mantuan court , so much so that he was excused wearing the yellow badge required of Jews in Mantua . nbsp Title page of the first edition of Hashirim asher leSholomo Venice : Pietro e Lorenzo Bragadino , 1623 Rossi published
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Tuesday , 22 August 2023 Unbound and Unleashed : Hubert Parry's cantata Prometheus Unbound gets the glorious first recording that it deserves Labels : record review Hubert Parry : Prometheus Unbound Blest Pair of Sirens Sarah Fox , Sarah Connolly , David Butt Philip , Neal Davies , Crouch End Festival Chorus , London Mozart Players Chandos Drawing a remarkable line between Wagner and Elgar , Parry's glorious early cantata takes Shelley as its inspiration and in a fine performance makes a strong impression despite the complex philosophising of the text The young Hubert Parry had ambitions to study with Brahms , but he needed to earn a living and study with Brahms
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Monday , 21 August 2023 Jerry Herman Harvey Fierstein's La Cage aux Folles at Regents Park Open Air Theatre Labels : music theatre review Jerry Herman Harvey Fierstein : La Cage aux Folles Carl Mullaney Regents Park Open Air Theatre Photo Johan Persson Jerry Herman Harvey Fierstein : La Cage aux Folles Carl Mullaney , Billy Carter , Ben Culleton , director : Timothy Sheader Regents Park Open Air Theatre A production that brings out the personal element amidst the glamour with terrific solo performances and a strong chorus Having followed up his hits Hello , Dolly 1964 and Mame 1966 with a sequence of interesting but cult musicals Dear World Mack Mabel The Grand Tour in
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Sunday , 20 August 2023 A remarkable premiere : Granville Bantock's The Sphinx at the London Song Festival Labels : concert review The title-page of the first edition of Oscar Wilde's The Sphinx with decorations by Charles Ricketts Granville Bantock : The Sphinx Arthur Bruce , Edward Jowle , Simon Butteriss , Nigel Foster London Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist Church Bantock's remarkable large-scale symphonic song cycle on Oscar Wilde's early poem receives a belated premiere in terrific performances from two young baritones In 1941, composer Granville Bantock 1868-1946 began work on a song-cycle for contralto or baritone and orchestra setting Oscar Wilde's
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Friday , 18 August 2023 Joel Lundberg's Odysseys and Apostrophes with pianist Kalle Stenbäcken Labels : cd review Joel Lundberg : Odysseys and Apostrophes Kalle Stenbäcken Swedish composer Joel Lundberg returns with a stream-of-consciousness-like musical journey that take us from impressionism and improvisation to late-night . jazz Swedish composer Joel Lundberg has a diverse background as a guitarist he toured with artists such as Debbie Harry and Mumford Sons , he has a master's degree in composition and improvisation from the University of Gothenberg and as composer and arranger his work includes ambient music for the app Sleep Cycle . Lundberg released a disc of
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Friday , 18 August 2023 Towards a production of Jane Eyre : in advance of their 2024 stage premiere of John Joubert's opera , Green Opera present a musical exploration of the work Labels : preview Composer John Joubert 1927-2019 wrote his song-cycle Six Poems Of Emily Brontë in 1969, and perhaps inevitably was drawn to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre His opera Jane Eyre was written without commission to a libretto by Kenneth Birkin , a post-graduate student of Joubert’s at Birmingham University whose Ph.D . focused on the libretti of Strauss’s post-Hofmannsthal operas . Joubert worked on Jane Eyre from 1987 to 1997. The work never had a proper professional performance
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Thursday , 17 August 2023 Works by 36 living composers in this year's Vale of Glamorgan Festival Labels : preview Wales This year's Vale of Glamorgan Festival runs from 22 to 28 September 2023 and features works by at least 36 living composers . Featured artists are Canadian violinist Mark Fewer and Cello Octet Amsterdam whilst featured composers are David John Roche and Huw Watkins At the festival's opening concert , Mark Fewer will be performing Bramwell Tovey s immense Nine Daies Wonder with Tredegar Town Band . A musical depiction of Will Kempe's 100 mile Morris Dancing journey from London to Norwich in 1600, the piece was premiered by Mark Fewer in Toronto in 2007,
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Wednesday , 16 August 2023 City Music Foundations concerts in historic Livery Halls Labels : CMF preview CMF Artists Photo : Benjamin Ealovega Thanks to the City Music Foundation's CMF partnership with Barts Heritage , the CMF's lunchtime concert series runs regularly in the historic Great Hall of Barts Hospital . nbsp The Great Hall closed in July for much-needed renovations and the current CMF Concert Series takes place in a series of historic Livery Halls in the City of London . The series launched in July , with the Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo accordion and saxophone in the Pewterers' Hall built in 1961 to replace one destroyed during the War On 13 September 2023, baritone
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Wednesday , 16 August 2023 Shot through with sheer delight joie de vivre : the sounds of 1840s Copenhagen from Concerto Copenhagen as the perform music by The Strauss of the North' Labels : record review Champagne The Sound of Lumbye and His Idols Concerto Copenhagen , Lars Ulrik Mortensen Da Capo Records An academic project shot through with sheer delight and joie de vivre as the Danish period instrument ensemble recreates the sounds of H . C . Lumbye's orchestra from the 1840s Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen Like many who work in the classical music industry , during lockdown Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Nikolaj de Fine Licht , respectively artistic director and managing