14 premieres, music in iconic spaces, the Cries of London: Spitalfields Music Festival 2024
Updated: 2024-04-30 08:50:00
: , , : 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
: : , , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 23 April 2024 Attention must be paid : the Engegård Quartet at Conway Hall in Mozart , Bartok , Maja Ratkje , and Fanny Mendelssohn Labels : concert review Conway Hall Norway Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn in 1842 Mozart , Bartok , Maja Ratkje , Fanny Mendelssohn Engegård Quartet Conway Hall Reviewed 21 April 2024 Playing of extraordinary vividness and presence by the Norwegian ensemble in a programme moving from Mozart and Fanny Mendelssohn to Bartok and contemporary Norwegian compose Maja Ratkje The Engegård Quartet Arvid Engegård , Laura Custodio Sabas , Juliet Jopling , Jan Clemens Carlsen was at Conway Hall on Sunday 21 April 2024 as part of a UK%20CREDIT%20Tyler%20Whiting.jpg)
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 22 April 2024 Holst 150, complete Shostakovich quartets , Gilbert Sullivan's The Sorcerer : Lichfield Festival 2024 Labels : Lichfield preview The Hub at St Mary's Brodsky Quartet at Lichfield Festival , July 2023 Photo : Tyler Whiting The Lichfield Festival returns for ten days of classical , folk , world , jazz , cabaret and popular music , theatre , dance and the written word from 4 to 14 July 2024. The 2024 festival opens with Rachel Podger violin and her ensemble Brecon Baroque in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons A 150th anniversary celebration of Gustav Holst includes Egdon Heath from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Ryan Bancroft along with
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 22 April 2024 Opera as it ought to be : Mozart's Don Giovanni from Hurn Court Opera Labels : guest review opera review Mozart : Don Giovanni Hurn Court Opera Photo : Patrick Frost , BlackStar Pictures Mozart : Don Giovanni Sam Young , Samuel Lom , Lizzie Rydeer , Daniel Gray Bell , Hanna O'Brien , Harrison Chéné-Gration , Tilly Goodwin , William Stevens , dir : Joy Robinson , cond : Lynton Atkinson Hurn Court Opera at Theatre Royal , Winchester Reviewed by James McConnachie , 11 April 2024 A dedicated group of vastly talented singers young singers riding on the delight of an audience that was evidently as full of newbies as buffs Even lifelong
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 20 April 2024 A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance : Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024 Labels : concert review Leeds Leeds Lieder Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024 at Howard Assembly Room Composers Poets Forum Showcase : A Leeds Songbook Leeds Lieder Festival at Leeds Minster Reviewed 17 April 2024 Young Artists Showcase : Leeds Lieder Festival at Howard Assembly Room Reviewed 19 April 2024 First a programme of specially written new song and then a chance to shine in their chosen repertoire , and for us to experience some fine young voices and performers really stretching . themselves Leeds Lieder Festival certainly keeps its Young Artists busy .
: : , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 20 April 2024 A day at Leeds Lieder Festival : Fauré , Boulanger , Mahler and more Labels : concert review Leeds Leeds Lieder Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent , 1889 Lecture recital Gabriel Fauré and his mélodies Graham Johnson , Sarah Fox , Florian Störtz Leeds Lieder Festival at The Venue , Leeds Conservatoire Gabriel Fauré , Lili Boulanger , Mahler , Roger Quilter , Muriel Herbert James Gilchrist , Anna Tilbrook Leeds Lieder Festival at The Venue , Leeds Conservatoire Reviewed 18 April 2024 A day of French song with a focus on Fauré , with Graham Johnson making us love the composer's late period , and James Gilchrist in fine form , from
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 18 April 2024 Engaging the audience : James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café bar Labels : concert review Leeds Leeds Lieder Leeds Lieder 2024 Joseph Middleton , James Newby Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club Matyas Seiber , John Jacob Niles , Thomas Traill , Joseph Suder , Percy Grainger , Vaughan Williams , Britten , Ravel : Cinq Mélodies populaires , grecques Mahler : nbsp Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen James Newby , Joseph Middleton Leeds Lieder Through the Noise at Hyde Park Book Club 17 April 2024 A new collaboration sees Leeds Lieder at a cool café bar with an engaging and beautifully sung
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 17 April 2024 A City Full of Stories : Anna Phillips on her work with Academy of St Martin in the Fields' SoundWalk Labels : first person Guest Posting Illustrations of SoundWalk by Ruby Wright Anna Phillips is a harpist who is currently studying for a Master’s degree at the Royal Academy of Music . She had the opportunity to take part in the Academy of St . Martin in the Fields' SoundWalk project as part of an elective with the Open Academy Department at the Royal Academy of . Music The Connection at St . Martin’s is a day centre that supports homeless people to help rebuild their lives , through helping them on their way out of homelessness and
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 16 April 2024 Das Jahr : OAE commissions four women composers to respond to Fanny Hensel's piano cycle Labels : music news April' from the manuscript of Fanny Hensel's Das Jahr illustration by Wilhelm Hensel Though we might wish it otherwise , works by historical women composers often cleave to certain genres , often related to the fact that women were not encouraged to publish music and wrote for more domestic performance . There is also the issue of confidence in approach to larger-scale forms . This weekend 21 April 2024 for instance , the Engegård Quartet will be playing Fanny Hensel's Quartet in E flat at Conway Hall see website for details ,
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 16 April 2024 A Spring and Summer of new opera : Tête à Tête's plans for 2024 Labels : preview Tête à Tête is not just planning its Summer opera festival in London but is creating a whole Spring and Summer of opera . In May , the company is heading to Newcastle , joining forces with members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia for two days of workshops for opera makers , aimed at encouraging the development of new opera in the North East further information June sees the company in London working with student composers from the Royal College of Music RCM to present Revolutions an evening of six short operas by RCM composers performed by RCM students . nbsp
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 16 April 2024 The sound of an image : recent chamber music by New York City-based , Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns Labels : cd review : Mural chamber music by Gabriel Vicéns Stradivarius Reviewed 15 April 2024 At times fierce and concentrated , Gabriel Vicéns music can evoke Webern and Feldman , but it also brings in his own visual element New York City-based , Puerto Rican-born composer , guitarist , and visual artist Gabriel Vicéns fourth studio album Mural released on the Stradivarius label , features seven of Vicéns chamber pieces for various ensembles including piano trio , Pierrot ensemble , and woodwind quintet . nbsp Gabriel Vicéns