The Northern Chamber Orchestra goes on tour with Mozart and much more besides in the new season in Macclesfield
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: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 28 June 2024 The Northern Chamber Orchestra goes on tour with Mozart and much more besides in the new season in Macclesfield Labels : preview Northern Chamber Orchestra Photo : Sara Porter , 2022 The theme of Mozart on Tour threads its way through the Northern Chamber Orchestra's 2024 25 season of concerts in Macclesfield largely but not exclusively at The King's School But it isn't just Mozart , with a season featuring works by Anna Thorvaldsdottir , John Adams , George Walker , Schnittke , and Judith Weir The season opens with Mozart in Paris with Ellie Slorach conducting Symphony No.13 Paris and the Requiem with Manchester Chamber choir . Then in
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 28 June 2024 Something of a minor revelation : choral music by Giovanni Bononcini who was brought to England as Handel's operatic rival Labels : cd review How are the mighty fallen : Choral music by Giovanni Bononcini Rowan Pierce , Esther Lay , Helen Charlston , Guy Cutting , Giles Underwood , Choir of Queen's College , Oxford , Academy of Ancient Music , Owen Rees Signum Classics 25 June 2024 Known as a rival to Handel , Bononcini wrote far more than Italian opera and this disc of his choral music written in England is something of a minor revelation Giovanni Bononcini is best known in the UK today as Handel's rival who finally retired the scene after
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 27 June 2024 1-2-3 Mendelssohn : the Engegård Quartet and friends celebrate the music of Felix and Fanny at their festival in Oslo Labels : Norway preview If you fancy an Autumn weekend in Norway , then the Engegård Quartet is offering a deep dive into the chamber music and songs of Felix and Fanny . Mendelssohn The Engegård Quartet whom we heard recently at Conway Hall , see my review has a tradition of holding single-composer mini-festivals in its home town of Oslo in Norway and this year , the festival is devoted to the Mendelssohns , Felix and Fanny . 1-2-3 Mendelssohn takes place at Nynorskens hus in Oslo from 8 to 10 November . The Engegård.png)
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 26 June 2024 Help support Brixton Chamber Orchestra in offering communities living in Lambeth’s housing estates the opportunity to come together to enjoy an uplifting musical experience Labels : Brixton music news Brixton Chamber Orchestra's Summer Estates Tour 2023 One of Brixton Chamber Orchestra's central tenets is a belief that that orchestral music should be at the centre of society , reaching people in their own community , and that everyone , regardless of circumstance , should have access . nbsp To this end , since December 2018, the orchestra has given regular Estates Tours around Lambeth , bringing a 30-piece orchestra to perform varied
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 26 June 2024 The five BBC orchestras join up with Young Sounds UK for a national mentoring programme for 15-17 year-olds Labels : BBC music education music news BBC and Young Sounds UK Exchange programme in 2022 Photo : BBC The five BBC orchestras the BBC Symphony Orchestra , BBC Concert Orchestra , BBC Philharmonic , BBC National Orchestra of Wales and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are joining up with Young Sounds UK formerly Awards for Young Musicians for a national mentoring programme for 15-17 year-olds across the UK . nbsp Beginning in September this year , the project will connect with the young people at pivotal points in their lives ,
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 25 June 2024 Youthfully engaging : a visually stylish new Rake's Progress at the Grange Festival made us really care for about these characters Labels : Grange Festival opera review Stravinsky : The Rake's Progress Adam Temple-Smith , Michael Mofidian The Grange Festival Photo : Craig Fuller Stravinsky : The Rake's Progress Adam Temple-Smith , Alexandra Oomens , Michael Mofidian , Rosie Aldridge , director : Antony McDonald , Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , Tom Primrose The Grange Festival 23 June 2024 A combination of moral directness and engagingly youthful character gave this performance of Stravinsky's opera a particular charm After English Touring
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 24 June 2024 It’s important to acknowledge that Die Fledermaus is a fundamentally sexy’ opera : Jonny Danciger on his new production for St Paul's Opera Labels : preview Strauss's Die Fledermaus in rehearsal with Olivia Singleton Adele Ashley Mercer Frank Meliza Metzger Ida St Paul's Opera On 4 July 2024, my local opera company St Paul's Opera debuts their 2024 main production , Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus at St Paul's Church , Clapham . The opera is directed by Johnny Danciger with George Ireland conducting an instrumental ensemble with Dominic Westwood as Alfred , Olivia Singleton as Adele , Rusne Tuslaite as Rosalinde , Thomas Litchev as Eisenstein
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 24 June 2024 Sei gegrüßet , Jesu gütig : my chorale prelude at St Paul's Cathedral Labels : music news I recently wrote an organ chorale prelude for William Whitehead's Orgelbüchlein Project which is completing Bach's Orgelbüchlein , a set of chorale preludes for the church's year which Bach planned out and started but never finished . You can read more about the project in my recent interview with William . nbsp My small contribution , the chorale prelude Sei gegrüßet , Jesu gütig is being premiered by organist Alexander Knight at St Paul's Cathedral on Sunday 30 June 2024, before the 3pm evensong . Alexander will be playing a sequence of organ pieces
: : . Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 22 June 2024 Much more than a piece of history : Roderick Cox conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No . 10 at the Royal Academy of Music Academy Symphony Orchestra in the Duke's Hall , Royal Academy of Music just before performing Shostakovich's Symphony No . 10 Shostakovich : Symphony No . 10 Academy Symphony Orchestra , Roderick Cox Duke's Hall , Royal Academy of Music Reviewed 21 June 2024 A performance of Shostakovich's first post-Stalin symphony , full of energy , vitality , power and surprising warmth , and also very loud Stalin died in 1953 and by the end of the year Dmitri Shostakovich was releasing new works including his Symphony No . 10 A long
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 22 June 2024 The Sea and Ships : the London Song Festival celebrates the first Shipping Forecast to be broadcast on British radio Labels : concert review The Sea and Ships a celebration of the first Shipping Forecast to be broadcast on British radio Jess Dandy , Gareth Brynmor John , Nigel Foster , Simon Butteriss London Song Festival at Hinde Street Methodist Church Reviewed 21 June 2024 A delightfully diverse celebration both of the sea and of English and Irish composers' fascination with it with everything from Elgar to Noel Coward and Frederick Delius to contemporary composers Julian Philips and Martin . Bussey Having celebrated bicentenary of the
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 21 June 2024 Congratulations to baritone , Julien Van Mellaerts who was presented with The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Laureate by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at Opera Holland Park Labels : music news Opera Holland Park Julien Van Mellaerts and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at Opera Holland Park Photo : Chris Christodoulou Congratulations to baritone Julien Van Mellaerts who was presented with The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Laureate by the Foundation’s Founder and Chair , Dame Kiri Te Kanawa , at a gala concert to celebrate Dame Kiri’s 80th birthday at Opera Holland Park . nbsp The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation was created by Dame Kiri in 2003 and is committed to assisting
: , , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 20 June 2024 New music , traditional Scottish fiddle music , puppets and more : Scottish Ensemble's 2024 25 season Labels : preview Scotland The Scottish Ensemble Collaboration is at the heart of the Scottish Ensemble's recently announced 2024 25 season . A season that includes new work by Hannah Kendall a new collaboration with fiddle player and violinist Donald Grant concerts with Héloïse Werner as both composer and singers , a programme with puppeteer Mark Down and further performances of their collaboration with Mish-Mash Productions The season begins with Resound September 2024 Arran , Kirkcudbright , Perth , Mull , Seil , Glasgow five
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 20 June 2024 Music like no other : Icelandic composer Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson's Stífluhringurinn Labels : cd review Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson : Stífluhringurinn Caput Ensemble Carrier Records Reviewed 18 June 2024 Music like no other . The Icelandic composer returns with a long , single work for large ensemble that mines his fondness for contemplating timbres and rhythms , and for music that avoids conventional straight lines and grids , yet creates pure magic The Icelandic composer Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson is one of those artists whose work retains an entrancing unpredictability to it . Having review one disc , you can never be quite sure
: : , , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 19 June 2024 New colours in old sound worlds : the Portuguese duo , Bruno Monteiro João Paulo Santos in Elgar , Debussy , Ravel more Labels : cd review Music for violin and piano Elgar , Debussy , Luíz Barbosa , Ivan Moody , Ravel Bruno Monteiro , João Paulo Santos Etcetera Reviewed 17 June 2024 Four early 20th-century works for violin and piano alongside a more recent one in a wonderfully wide-ranging recital from the Portuguese duo who find all sorts of new colours in Elgar and give a certain style to Ravel The latest disc from Portuguese violinist Bruno Monteiro and pianist João Paulo Santos on Etcetera brings together four works for violin
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 19 June 2024 Celebrating 20 years at The Glasshouse , Royal Northern Sinfonia launches a new season that also celebrates principal conductor Dinis Sousa's second three-year term Labels : North East preview Maria Włoszczowska Dinis Sousa Royal Northern Sinfonia Photo : Thomas Jackson Tynesight Photograph This Autumn marks 20 years since the Royal Northern Sinfonia moved into its present home , nbsp at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music formerly Sage Gateshead and Autumn also marks the second three-year term of principal conductor Dinis Sousa , and a new position of artistic partner for violinist Maria Włoszczowska , and they will be joined
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 18 June 2024 Lost and Found : Samling Institute for Young Artists' Summer concert at the Glasshouse , Gateshead Labels : North East preview The Samling Institute's Lost and Found at the Glasshouse , Gateshead on 12 July 2024, will provide an opportunity to hear the current crop of Samling Academy Singers in action , performing music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Roger Quilter , Gabriel Fauré , Leonard Bernstein and Flanders and Swann in a semi-staged evening of song , opera and poetry . We are promised exciting discoveries of new love , nostalgia for the places we can never return to and the everyday drama of misplaced .
: : , , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 18 June 2024 Dunedin Consort 2024 25 : Three premieres , Handel's Susanna , chamber-scale tours of Scotland , side-by-side with Royal Academy of Music Royal Scottish National Orchestra Labels : preview Scotland The Dunedin Consort has announced its 2024 25 season with concerts across Scotland , a continuation of its residency at Wigmore Hall as well as other London appearances . Contemporary music continues play an interesting role in the group's seasons . 2024 25 features the Scottish premiere of David Fennessy s Bog Cantata in Edinburgh as part of a programme featuring music by Zelenka , Telemann and Bach with Fennessy using similar.jpg)
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 18 June 2024 18 premieres , three new commissions and a new disc : Odaline de la Martinez celebrates her 75th birthday this Autumn Labels : preview Odaline de la Martinez Composer conductor Odaline de la Martinez celebrates her 75th birthday this Autumn , and is doing so in a typically dynamic fashion with a return of her London Festival of American Music that will feature 18 premieres , alongside three of her own works being premiered this Autumn and a new disc of piano concertos by 20th century women . composers The London Festival of American Music runs from 11 15 November at The Warehouse in Waterloo . This 9th edition of the festival will include
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 17 June 2024 Medea Gosperia : a retelling of Euripides' Greek tragedy set in the Caribbean and featuring a fusion of musical styles Labels : preview Euripedes' classic tragedy Medea has inspired writers and artists across the centuries as well as playwrights directly reinterpreting Euripedes' original hands up those who have heard a performance of the original Ancient Greek Now Thee Black Swan , a new company that aims to bring classical and contemporary theatre and opera productions to a wide and diverse audience , providing a platform for classically trained actors and singers of diverse heritage , is creating Medea Gosperia a retelling of Euripides'
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 17 June 2024 Discover the Harp : Welsh company , Cambrian Harps take their discovery days on the road Labels : music news One of Cambrian Harps' Discover the Harp sessions Cambrian Harps , a company from the heart of Wales specialising in making harps and encouraging harp playing , is on a mission to show the country and the world that the harp is not an elitist instrument , played only by the wealthy , that it is an accessible , and affordable , instrument for all . Cambrian Harps has created its Discover the Harp days to dispel the myths that surround this beautiful instrument , and they are now taking these introductory half day sessions around the 
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 17 June 2024 Time remembered : the 75th edition of the Aldeburgh Festival lovingly recreates the opening night of 1948 Festival Labels : Aldeburgh by Tony Cooper concert review Snape Maltings Robin Haigh : LUCK Matilda Lloyd , Britten Sinfonia , Jessica Cottis Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings , 2024 Photo : Angus Cooke Purcell : Chaconny in G minor Handel : Organ Concerto in D minor Op.7 , No.4 , Robin Haigh : LUCK Britten : Saint Nicolas Nick Pritchard , Matilda Lloyd , Katherine Dienes-Williams Britten Sinfonia , Choristers of St Edmundsbury Cathedral , Britten Pears Chorus , cond . Jessica Cottis Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings Reviewed by
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 14 June 2024 A disc that makes you think , but also satisfies as a recital in its own right : Songs for Peter Pears from Robin Tritschler friends Labels : cd review Songs for Peter Pears : Berkeley , Britten , Arthur Oldham , Richard Rodney Bennett , Geoffrey Bush Robin Tritschler , Malcolm Martineau , Sean Shibe , Philip Higham Signum Classics Reviewed 11 June 2024 Exploring the wide variety of music written for and commissioned by Peter Pears in wonderfully sensitive yet vividly evocative performances by Robin Tritschler and . friends On the terrific disc from Signum Classics tenor Robin Tritschler pianist Malcolm Martineau guitarist Sean Shibe and.jpg)
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 13 June 2024 Second view : Anna Patalong makes her role debut as Puccini's Tosca at Opera Holland Park Labels : opera review Puccini : Tosca Opera Holland Park , 2024 Photo : Ali Wright Puccini : Tosca Anna Patalong , José de Eça , Morgan Pearse , director : Stephen Barlow , conductor : Matthew Kofi Waldren , City of London Sinfonia Opera Holland Park Reviewed 12 June 2024 A return to Opera Holland Park's 1968-set Tosca for the poised and engaging role debut of Anna Patalong Puccini : Tosca Anna Patalong Opera Holland Park 2024 Photo : James Clutton Opera Holland Park We returned to Opera Holland Park's production of Puccini's Tosca that opened its