From a 1000 year old Celtic lament to Judith Weir and a Jasdeep Singh Degun premiere with the Scottish Ensemble: Kings Place's 2024 Scotland Unwrapped
Updated: 2023-09-29 08:28:00
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Friday , 29 September 2023 From a 1000 year old Celtic lament to Judith Weir and a Jasdeep Singh Degun premiere with the Scottish Ensemble : Kings Place's 2024 Scotland Unwrapped Labels : Kings Place preview Kings Place has announced the next instalment of its Unwrapped series . 2024 is to be devoted to Scotland Unwrapped a celebration of music and spoken-word from Scotland encompassing traditional and regional arts as well as the vibrant contemporary scene , with a wide range of musical genres from contemporary composers , folk musicians and Scottish classical . ensembles Things kick of on 13 January 2024 when sitarist and composer Jasdeep Singh Degun joins the
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Friday , 29 September 2023 The chance to deep dive into Dvořák's quartets : Michael Trainor of the Piatti Quartet introduces their new residency at Kings Place Labels : Guest Posting Kings Place preview The Piatti Quartet Miguel Sobrinho , Jessie Ann Richardson , Emily Holland , Michael Trainor The Piatti Quartet Michael Trainor , Emily Holland , Miguel Sobrinho , Jessie Ann Richardson starts as Resident Quartet at Kings Place in October with a season of concerts exploring Dvořák's late string quartets alongside more contemporary repertoire . Here Michael Trainor , the quartet's first violin , introduces the new . season The sun is just coming over the horizon and
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Friday , 29 September 2023 Three more gems : British Piano Concertos from Simon Callaghan BBC National Orchestra of Wales Labels : cd review British Piano Concertos Gordon Jacob , John Addison , Edmund Rubbra Simon Callaghan , BBC National Orchestra of Wales , Stephen Bell and George Vass LYRITA Reviewed 27 September 2023 Returning to the treasure-trove of mid-Century British piano concertos , Simon Callaghan comes up with three gems , all receiving first recordings Pianist Simon Callaghan has followed up his disc of British piano concertos from the 1950s see my review by returning to the the era for British Piano Concertos on the Lyrita label with a trio of
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Thursday , 28 September 2023 Dramatick Opera : Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company in Purcell and Dryden's King Arthur at Temple Labels : opera review Temple Music Dorset Garden Theatre , London in 1673 Later the Queen's Theatre where Purcell's King Arthur premiered in 1691 Purcell , Dryden , Thomas Guthrie : King Arthur Lindsay Duncan , Rowan Pierce , Mhairi Lawson , Samuel Boden , James Way , Edward Grint , Early Opera Company , Christian Curnyn Temple Music at Temple Church Reviewed 27 September 2023 Stylish musical performances allied to an imaginative dramatic context create a very satisfying evocation of Purcell and Dryden's dramatick opera 17th century
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Wednesday , 27 September 2023 Drinking the stars : Mary Dullea plays the piano music of John McLachlan John McLachlan : nbsp Drinking the stars Mary Dullea Farpoint Recordings Uncompromising perhaps , occasionally stark but always vivid and arresting , a survey of the Irish composer John McLachlan's piano music from the last 30 years in stunning performances from Mary Dullea The Irish composer John McLachlan was born in Dublin and studied music at the Royal Irish Academy of Music , and Trinity College Dublin , and studied composition with William York , Robert Hanson and Kevin Volans . It is perhaps relevant to his own compositional style that for his PhD in
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Tuesday , 26 September 2023 77th Stroud Arts Festival Labels : preview The Stroud Arts Festival returns to the Gloucestershire market town for the 77th festival from 22 to 29 October 2023 under the directorship of Dave Ayre . An enterprisingly varied programme includes two relaxed performances of a new evening of operatic music created the festival's own ensemble including three , Dave Ayre , Abigail Sudbury and Alistair Sutherland , who met on Opera Holland Park's Inspire outreach . programme The Bristol Ensemble celebrates the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon with a specially commissioned arrangement of the music alongside Debussy and Einaudi .
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Tuesday , 26 September 2023 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 Labels : feature article 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
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Monday , 25 September 2023 Joy Devotion , the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's festival of Polish Sacred Music returns to St Martin in the Fields Labels : preview Joy Devotion the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's festival of Polish Sacred Music under the artistic directorship of composer Paweł Łukaszewski , returns to St Martin in the Fields from 7 to 11 November 2023 with Polish music from 16th century through to the present . day Things kick off with the Brabant Ensemble , conductor Stephen Rice , in music by Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki 1665-1734 and Mikołaj Zieleński 1560-1620 alongside music by contemporary Polish composers . Then the Carice Singers , conductor George Parris
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Monday , 25 September 2023 A half hour full of switchback changes , genuine surprise delight : Rania Chrysostomou Sarah Parkin's On Being Vocal at Tête à Tête Labels : guest review opera review Tete a Tete Rania Chrysostomou Sarah Parkin : On Being Vocal Sarah Parkin Tête à Tête at the Cockpit Photo : Claire Shovelton Rania Chrysostomou Sarah Parkin : nbsp On Being Vocal Sarah Parkin , nbsp director : Sarah Parkin Rania Chrysostomou , filmmaker : Catherine Valve Tête à Tête at the Cockpit Reviewed by Florence Anna Maunders , 10 September 2023 Intriguing and intense operatic exploration of women's hidden stories A truly collaborative creation between the British
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Saturday , 23 September 2023 The juxtaposition of extreme eras of music makes people think about what is fascinating in the music : Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko on his London Piano Festival programme Labels : interview Kings Place Northern Ireland Vadym Kholodenko at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival in 2022 The Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko gives a recital at the London Piano Festival at Kings Place on Friday 6 October 2023 playing a programme that moves from Handel's Suite in Bb HWV 440 and Haydn's Sonata in C sharp minor , Hob XVI No . 36 to Beethoven's Sonata No . 27, Op . 90 to Silvestrov's Bagatelles Op . 1 and Adès' Traced Overhead ending with Liszt's
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Friday , 22 September 2023 A terrific sense of relish : Charles Court Opera's new version of The Mikado delights at the Arcola Theatre Labels : opera review Gilbert Sullivan : The Mikado Charles Court Opera Photo : Bill Knight Gilbert Sullivan : The Mikado Matthew Palmer , Robin Bailey , Matthew Kellett , Matthew Siveter , Alys Roberts , Meriel Cunningham , Jennifer Clark , Amy J Payne , director : John Savournin , musical director : David Eaton Charles Court Opera at the Arcola Theatre Reviewed 20 September 2023 Gilbert Sullivan's classic delivered with consummate skill and artistry , great pacing and a terrific sense of relish , in a new setting bringing out the
: , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Wednesday , 20 September 2023 Why the wait Ethel Smyth's first major success , Der Wald , finally receives its premiere recording in a terrific account from John Andrews and BBC Symphony Orchestra Labels : cd review Ethel Smyth : Der Wald Natalya Romaniw , Claire Barnett-Jones , Robert Murray , Andrew Shaw , Morgan Pearse , BBC Singers , BBC Symphony Orchestra , conductor John Andrews Resonus Classics Ethel Smyth's first major success receives its premiere recording , revealing a striking piece of late-Romanticism in a terrific and wonderfully empathetic performance When the guns began to roar and the armies march at the beginning of World War I , it marked a
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Tuesday , 19 September 2023 Bringing life to Glasgow's oldest building : the seventh Glasgow Cathedral Festival Labels : preview Scotland De Profundis the finale to the 2022 Glasgow Cathedral Festival with light , poetry and music from three brass bands Glasgow Cathedral Festival returns for its seventh season with a weekend of events from 28 September to 1 October 2023 filling Glasgow's oldest building with a wide variety of music from chamber music and cutting-edge electronics to silent film and . Minimalism The headline event for this year is a performance of Canto Ostinato a 1974 work by Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt 1923-2012 An iconic work of Dutch Minimalism ,
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Tuesday , 19 September 2023 Vivid and strong-minded performances : Bach's Harpsichord Concertos from Steven Devine and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Labels : cd review Bach : Harpsichord Concertos , BWV 1052, 1055, 1054, 1059 Steven Devine , Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Resonus Classics Single instruments and intimate recording make for a vibrant and satisfying sound on this exciting new disc of Bach's keyboard concertos I have long been fascinated with Bach's harpsichord concertos , what were they supposed to sound like and what were they for . The concertos for single harpsichord and accompaniment survive in a neat manuscript in Bach's own hand 
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Monday , 18 September 2023 Irish National Opera in Éna Brennan's Breathwork and Gounod's Faust plus much more at the Dublin Theatre Festival Labels : Ireland preview The Dublin Theatre Festival 28 September to 1 October 2023 has as its mission to present a programme of exceptional theatrical experiences that will appeal to the diverse communities and visitors that make up the city . It is Europe’s first theatre festival and still one of the leading ones , presenting the best of international and Irish theatre also dance and opera Some of this year's highlights include two pieces from the Irish National Opera , the premiere of Éna Brennan s dystopian chamber-opera
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Monday , 18 September 2023 Music lives and grows here' a new name for Sage Gateshead , but creating music goes on in Gateshead and beyond Labels : music news North East The Glasshouse International Centre for Music Photo : Thomas Jackson Tynesight Photography The Sage Gateshead has changed its name . The search for the new name , The Glasshouse International Centre for Music , arose not because of some daft idea of re-branding but simply because it was announced that an arena and conference centre would be built next door and would be called The Sage The new name is inspired by the idea that Music lives and grows here' . nbsp The new identity was created with
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Monday , 18 September 2023 Ravishing sounds and superb musicality : Linos Piano Trio in Ravel Labels : cd review In Search of Lost Dance Ravel : Trio Pavane pour une infante défunte , Le Tombeau de Couperin Linos Piano Trio AVI Reviewed 18 September 2023 Creating a ravishing sound world from the opening notes , the Linos Piano Trio bring historically informed techniques Ravel's music and make sophisticated magic , transforming our view of this music The Linos Piano Trio s In Search of Lost Dance on Avi Music a co-production with SWR2 pairs Ravel's Trio for violin , cello and piano in A minor with the trio's own arrangements of Pavane pour une infante défunte and Le