Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski launch the 2024/25 season at St Martin in the Fields with Alec Roth's song cycle, A Road Less Travelled
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: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 30 July 2024 Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski launch the 2024 25 season at St Martin in the Fields with Alec Roth's song cycle , A Road Less Travelled Labels : music news preview Andrew Earis and St Martin's Voices at church of St Martin in the Fields The 2024 25 season at St Martin in the Fields opens with a more intimate recital in the crypt when tenor Mark Padmore is joined for by guitarist Morgan Szymanski for a programme that includes songs by John Dowland and Schubert , plus folksong arrangements and the London premiere of Alec Roth's song cycle A Road Less Travelled which takes its name from the poem by Robert Frost , The Road Not Taken Frost
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: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 30 July 2024 From Baroque ensemble string quartet to composer collaborative pianists : The City Music Foundation introduces its 2024 CMF Artists Labels : CMF music news The City Music Foundation's 2024 CMF Artists Photo : Benjamin Ealovega The City Music Foundation CMF has announced its latest cohort of artists , its 11th intake . The 2024 CMF Artists are Aleksandra Myslek collaborative piano Duo Melus flute piano Edward Picton-Turbervill collaborative piano composer Ensemble Augelletti Baroque ensemble Florian Störtz bass- baritone Geirþrúður Anna Guðmundsdóttir cello George Robarts baritone Gus Eleanor guitar voice double bass Joanna Harries
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 29 July 2024 Confidence , style and engagement : Victoria Newlyn's new production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville at West Green House Opera is a complete delight Labels : opera review West Green House Rossini : The Barber of Seville Dominic Sedgwick West Green House Opera Rossini : The Barber of Seville Dominic Sedgwick , Nico Darmanin , Katie Bray , Grant Doyle , Trevor Eliot Bowes , director : Victoria Newlyn , conductor : Matthew Kofi Waldren West Green House Opera Reviewed 28 July 2024 Performing the piece with real engagement yet never losing sight of the importance of Rossini's music , the cast gelled as an ensemble , with confidence and style
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Sunday 28 July 2024 An eclectic mix : Brixton Chamber Orchestra at Clapham Park Cube Labels : concert review Matthew O'Keeffe and Brixton Chamber Orchestra in action at Love Clapham Park Fun Day Brixton Chamber Orchestra musical director Matthew O'Keeffe is coming to the end of its 2024 Summer Estates tour , appearing in community venues around the borough . On Saturday 27 July 2024 they popped up in the afternoon at the Love Clapham Park Fun Day at Clapham Park Cube , where people took a break from browsing the stalls , sampling the amazing food and watching the carnival to listen to an eclectic set from O'Keeffe and the 30-piece orchestra which managed to get.jpg)
: : , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 27 July 2024 Prom 10 : Ryan Wigglesworth , Laura van der Heijden BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in Britten , Cheryl Frances Hoad Elgar Labels : BBC BBCSSO concert review Proms Cheryl Frances Hoad : Cello Concerto Earth , Sea , Air' Laura van der Heijden , BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , Ryan Wigglesworth Prom 10 Photo : BBC Andy Paradise Britten : Gloriana symphonic , suite Cheryl Frances Hoad : Cello Concerto Earth , Sea , Air' , Elgar : Symphony No . 2 Laura van der Heijden , BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra , Ryan Wigglesworth BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Reviewed 26 July 2024 The vivid colours and drama of Cheryl Frances Hoad's new
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 27 July 2024 She played and sang : Gillian Dooley's new book is the fruit of 15 years research on the music collections of Jane Austen and her family Labels : interview One of Jane Austen's manuscripts Gillian Dooley s book , She played and sang : Jane Austen and music was published by Manchester University Press in March 2024. The book looks at the central role that music played in Austen's life , and how she made brilliant use of it in her books , exploring a recently recovered treasure trove of evidence , including her music books alongside letters and family records , bringing out a previously unregarded aspect of Austen’s . world Gillian Dooley
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 26 July 2024 Pianist Stephen Osborne launches JW3's 2024 25 classical season Labels : preview Steven Osborne Photo : Ben Ealovega JW3, the Jewish Community Centre London , is celebrating ten years and its classical season is returning for 2024 25 with six concerts beginning with pianist Steven Osborne in evocations of childhood from Debussy and Schumann plus Schubert's Piano Sonata in A major , D.959 Tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen join forces for Schubert's Schwanengesang , nbsp divided into two groups , with the poems by Rellstab and Heine , interleaved with songs by Fauré . Momen returns with Anthony Marwood violin Garfield Jackson
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 24 July 2024 Taking elements of Western culture and seeing it through the lens of other classical traditions : four new music theatre works at the Barbican this Autumn Labels : Barbican preview Kangmin Justin Kim Song Liling and Mark Stone René Gallimard in rehearsal for the premiere of Huang Ruo's M . Butterfly at the Santa Fe Opera in 2022 Photo : Curtis Brown for the Santa Fe Opera Four music theatre works at the Barbican this Autumn show an intriguing interest in the cross-fertilisation between cultures , each taking elements of Western culture and seeing it through the lens of other classical traditions , variously combining Sufi , Ghanaian ,
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 24 July 2024 A world away from the Bibilical oratorio : Stanford's Walt Whitman setting is the focus for this disc from Wales of two of his large-scale choral works Labels : cd review Charles Villiers Stanford : Te Deum , Elegiac Ode Rhian Lois , Samantha Price , Alessandro Fisher , Morgan Pearse , BBC National Orchestra Chorus of Wales , Adrian Partington LYRITA Reviewed 23 July 2024 Written 35 years before his pupil Holst's Ode to Death Stanford's Whitman setting of the same text shows a young composer willing and eager to explore different avenues The list of British composers who set the verse of Walt Whitman is fairly well known , Delius , Holst 
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 23 July 2024 Seeking professional Global Majority musicians and composers based in the North of England and the Midlands : Opera North's Resonance residency programme 2024 25 Labels : Leeds music news Opera North Jasdeep Singh Degun performing Arya : concerto for sitar and orchestra with Orchestra of Opera North Photo Justin Slee Opera North's Resonance residency programme was launched in 2017 to offer funding , space , time and technical support to professional Global Majority musicians and composers based in the North of England and the Midlands . Now the company is seeking applications from music creators from the Global Majority working in any genre
: , , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 22 July 2024 New work , young artists , established favourites : University of Birmingham's Barber Concerts Labels : Birmingham preview The University of Birmingham's Elgar Concert Hall The University of Birmingham has announced its programme of lunchtime and evening concerts for 2024 24, the Barber Concerts taking place in the Elgar Concert Hall in the university's in the Bramall Music Building , and the Dome studio . space The evening concert series includes the BBC Singers joining forces with Britten Sinfonia , conductor Bob Chilcott , for the premiere of Michael Zev Gordon’s A Kind of Haunting There are concerts from the brass ensemble , Septura 
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 22 July 2024 Forty Years of Inspiring Musicians : Carol Main MBE FRC will step back from her role as Director of Live Music Now Scotland a post she has held since the founding of this organisation in 1984 Twogether Duo and Carol Main Live Music Now was the brainchild of Lord Menuhin , and has provided talented musicians at the outset of their careers with professional performance and training opportunities , making live music accessible to all members of society , regardless of their circumstances . nbsp In March 2025, Carol Main MBE FRC will step back from her role as Director of Live Music Now Scotland LMNS a post she has held since the founding of
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 20 July 2024 Returning to Northern Ireland Opera for his third role , British-Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk talks about his continuing exploration of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Labels : interview Northern Ireland Yuriy Yurchuk Baritone Yuriy Yurchuk sings the title role in Northern Ireland Opera s new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin which opens on 14 September 2024 at the Grand Opera House Belfast , directed by Cameron Menzies and conducted by Dominic Limburg with a cast including Mary McCabe Carolyn Dobbin , Sarah Richmond Jenny Bourke and Norman Reinhardt Yuri performed in the company’s productions of La Boheme in 2021 and La Traviata%20Ali%20Wright.jpg)
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 20 July 2024 Relentlessly entertaining : Louise Bakker's new production of Handel's Acis and Galatea at Opera Holland Park rather over-eggs things but features finely engaging soloists Labels : Opera Holland Park opera review Handel : Acis and Galatea chorus Opera Holland Park Photo : Ali Wright Handel : Acis and Galatea Elizabeth Karani , Anthony Gregory , Chuma Sijeqa , Ruari Bowen , director : Louise Bakker , City of London Sinfonia , conductor : Michael Papadopoulos Opera Holland Park Reviewed 19 July 2024 For the company's first Handel work , a group of stylishly appealing soloists feature in a production which does not quite understand that less%20Ali%20Wright.jpg)
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 18 July 2024 Contemporary contrasts : Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci make highly satisfying double bill at Opera Holland Park Labels : Opera Holland Park opera review Wolf-Ferrari : Il segreto di Susanna John Savournin Opera Holland Park Photo : Ali Wright Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari : Il segreto di Susanna Clare Presland , Richard Burkhard , John Savournin , director : John Wilkie , conductor : John Andrews Ruggiero Leoncavallo : Pagliacci David Butt Philip , Alison Langer , Robert Hayward , Zwakele Tshabalala , Harry Thatcher , director : Martin Lloyd-Evans , conductor : Francesco Cilluffo Opera Holland Park , reviewed 17
: , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 17 July 2024 Belgian ensemble , Ayres Extemporae , winners of the 2024 York International Young Artists Competition at the National Centre for Early Music Labels : music news York Ayres Extemporae , winners of the 2024 York International Young Artists Competition The 2024 York International Young Artists Competition took place on Saturday 13 July 2024 at the National Centre for Early Music in York , as the climax to this year's York Early Music Festival . Eight ensembles took place in the final , nbsp during the two days before the final each ensemble gave an informal recital at the National Centre for Early Music in York with the aim of giving the
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 17 July 2024 A sound world that is at once distinctive , appealing and engaging : Maria Faust's Mass of Mary on Estonian Record Productions Labels : record review Maria Faust : Mass of Mary Collegium Musicale , Helina Kuljus , Lili Kirikal , Oliver Povel , Maria Faust , Kirstjan Kungla , Indrek Vau , Andres Kontus , conductor : Endrik Üksvärav Estonian Record Productions Reviewed 16 July 2024 Jazz , chant and polyphony side-by-side in a remarkable Estonian mass dedicated to all victims of domestic violence Maria Faust is an Estonian jazz artist and composer , and her work as a jazz saxophonist alongside that of conducting ensembles such as the
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 17 July 2024 An intergenerational community : Garsington Opera brings its Youth and Adult community companies together for Andrew Norman's A Trip to the Moon Labels : Garsington music education preview Andrew Norman : A Trip to the Moon Youth Company rehearsal , Garsington Opera 2024 Photo : Julian Guidera American composer Andrew Norman is perhaps best known for his orchestral works from Sacred Geometry 2003 to Play 2013 to Sustain 2018 which have won various awards including the 2017 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition and finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music , whilst the Los Angeles Philharmonic won the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 16 July 2024 A rich sophistication of thought running through this programme that seems worlds away from the typical debut recital : Awakenings from Laurence Kilsby Ella O'Neill Labels : cd review Awakenings Brahms , Saint-Saens , Wolf , Schoenberg , Stenhamer , Rebecca Clarke , Prokofiev , Hugh Wood , Jake Heggie , Weill , Britten : Laurence Kilsby , Ella O'Neill AVI Music Reviewed 15 July 2024 An intriguing eclectic programme full of disturbing elements complemented by performances of remarkable maturity enlightened with the dark , burnished tones of Kilsby's voice On this disc from tenor Laurence Kilsby and pianist Ella O'Neill on AVI Music in
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 16 July 2024 Appealing to an opera audience with song repertoire : Opera in Song returns to Opera Holland Park Labels : Opera Holland Park preview Schubert : Die schöne Müllerin James Baillieu , Julien Van Mellaerts , Christopher Purves Opera in Song at Opera Holland Park , 2022 Opera in Song curated by baritone Julien Van Mellaerts and pianist Dylan Perez , has returned to Opera Holland Park for the fourth season . Last month there was a masterclass for Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and a gala concert to celebrate her 80th birthday . This week there are three recitals on 18, 20 and 21 July . An exciting programme features a mix of new faces and returning figures