Bohuslav Martinů's The Greek Passion launches Den Jyske Opera's 2024/25 season in Aarhus, Denmark
Updated: 2024-08-23 14:15:00
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 23 August 2024 Bohuslav Martinů's The Greek Passion launches Den Jyske Opera's 2024 25 season in Aarhus , Denmark Labels : Denmark preview Bohuslav Martinů : The Greek Passion Den Jyske Opera Bohuslav Martinů's opera , The Greek Passion is one of those complex works that continue to resonate , even though actual performances are still relatively rare . Whilst the work is technically about a village's preparations for Easter , central to the action is how the villagers deal with a group of refugees , subject that remains alarmingly . topical Jutland Opera Den Jske Opera Denmark's touring opera company based in the country's second city , Aarhus , opens a
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 23 August 2024 Into the unknown : soprano Aoife Miskelly makes her debut with Vache Baroque in Pergolesi's rarely performed opera , L'Olimpiade Labels : interview Vache Baroque in 2021 Vache Baroque s Summer opera production this year will be Pergolesi's L'Olimpiade his 1735 setting of a libretto by Metastasio that clocked up more than 50 different settings including one by Vivaldi from 1734 which was performed earlier this year by Irish National Opera see my review Vache Baroque's production takes place in the grounds of The Vache , a 17th-century house in Buckinghamshire . The production will be directed by Laura Attridge and conducted by Jonathan-24.jpg)
: : , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 21 August 2024 Responses to Thomas Hardy : composer Arthur Keegan's complex web of music new and old , atmospherically performed by Lotte Betts-Dean , James Girling Ligeti Quartet Labels : cd review The Past I : 100 years of Thomas Hardy Arthur Keegan : Elegies for Emma and String Quartet No . 1 Elegies for Tom' Derek Holman , Muriel Herbert , Britten , Imogen Holst , Gurney , Robin Milford , Finzi , Kerry Andrew Lotte Betts-Dean , James Girling , Ligeti Quartet Delphian Reviewed 21 August 2024 Inspired by a letter from Thomas Hardy to Holst which was preserved by Holst's daughter and gifted to Britten , Arthur Keegan combines two of his own
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 20 August 2024 Celebrating 30 years : Göteborg Opera presents the first performance of Verdi's Otello in Gothenburg for over 50 years , and a very Swedish Peter Grimes Labels : preview Sweden Göteborg Opera is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year . Founded in 1994, the company , which won the award for Sustainability at the International Opera Awards 2022, strives to be efficient in all its operations when working with finite and renewable resources . Its celebratory 2024 25 season includes new productions of Verdi's Otello and Britten's Peter Grimes along with performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly a double bill of Mozart’s Der
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 20 August 2024 Prom 40 : Transcending limitations , Bach's St John Passion from Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan at BBC Proms Labels : bach BBC concert review Proms Bach : St John Passion Benjamin Bruns , Christian Immler , Masaaki Suzuki , Bach Collegium Japan at BBC Proms Photo : BBC Mark Allen Bach : St John Passion Benjamin Bruns , Christian Immler , Carolyn Sampson , Alexander Chance , Shimon Yoshida , Bach Collegium Japan , Maasaki Suzuki BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Reviewed 19 August 2024 Ultimately this was Maasaki Suzuki's evening as he forcefully directed the music that he knows and loves , giving us a personal vision that more.jpg)
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Sunday 18 August 2024 Prom 37 : intense contrasts thundering cannonades to personal intimacy , Antonio Pappano conducts Britten's War Requiem at the BBC Proms Labels : BBC concert review LSO Proms Britten : War Requiem Allan Clayton , Natalya Romaniw , Antonio Pappano , Will Liverman , London Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms with chorus directors Mariana Rosas and Neil Ferris Photo : BBC Chris Christodoulou Britten : War Requiem Natalya Romaniw , Allan Clayton , Will Liverman , London Symphony Chorus , BBC Symphony Chorus , Tiffin Boys Choir , Antonio Pappano BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Reviewed 17 August 2024 Antonio Pappano draws an evening of
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 17 August 2024 Music is the best argument for its continued existence : I chat to John Largess of one of the USA's most celebrated quartets , the Miró Quartet Labels : interview The Miró Quartet at La Jolla Music Society in 2024 Photo : nbsp Ken Jacques The Miró Quartet s album , Home released in May 2024 is the quartet's second album on Pentatone following their recording of Beethoven’s Complete String Quartets 2019 With the new album , the quartet explores the many concepts of what the term home' can mean . The pieces on the disc , all composed by Americans past and present , include two new commissions by Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw as well as
: : , , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 16 August 2024 Cities of Song : People , Places , Music : the Oxford International Song Festival is back with 70 events in 16 days exploring the cities that have inspired and influenced composers Labels : Oxford Lieder Festival preview The Oxford International Song Festival formerly the Oxford Lieder Festival is back for its 23rd year with 70 events in 16 days , from 11 to 26 October 2024. Under the title of Cities of Song : People , Places , Music the festival explores the broad theme of cities that have inspired and influenced composers . With over 200 singers , instrumentalists and speakers in hundreds of works including the great song cycles of
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 15 August 2024 More Buffy the Vampire Slayer than German Romanticism : Gothic Opera's Der Vampyr at the Grimeborn Festival Labels : Grimeborn opera review Marschner : Der Vampyr Milena Knauß Gothic Opera Photo : Craig Fuller Marschner : Der Vampyr in a version by Julia Mintzer Kelly Lovelady Giuseppe Pellingra , Milena Knauß , Jack Roberts , Amber Reeves , Conall O'Neill , Madeleine Todd , Matthew Scott Clark , Gráinne Gillis , director : Julia Mintzer , conductor : Kelly Lovelady , Gothic Opera Grimeborn Festival at the Arcola Theatre 14 August 2024 A brave revival of the important German Romantic opera , reinvented as a Vampire romp , performed with
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 14 August 2024 Past , present and future : a diverse range of music and performers to look forward to in the Autumn Season of Conway Hall's Sunday Concerts series Labels : Conway Hall preview Simon Callaghan and the Piatti Quartet at Conway Hall in December 2022 The 2024 25 season Conway Hall's Sunday Concert series opens on 15 September 2024 when the Zoffany Ensemble returns to the hall with a programme that combines the original nonet version of Brahms' Serenade No . 1 with a chamber version of Richard Strauss' Til Eulenspiegel and the Septet by the 19th century French composer Adolphe . Blanc The season continues with pianist Patrick Hemmerlé in
: : : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 13 August 2024 White-hot dramatic impetus : a new recording of Meyerbeer : Le prophète on LSO Live might use a traditional version but captures the work's essential drama Labels : cd review Giacomo Meyerbeer : nbsp Le prophète John Osborn , Elizabeth DeShong , Mané Galoyan , Edwin Crossley-Mercer , London Symphony Orchestra , Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée , Lyons Opera Chorus , Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône , Mark Elder LSO Live with Palazzetto Bru Zane Reviewed 12 August 2024 Captures the essence of this remarkable opera , listening to this performance really conveys why the opera captivated so many in the 19th century The first critical
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Monday 12 August 2024 Songs from two golden ages : Nicholas Mulroy , Elizabeth Kenny Toby Carr in a recital of effortless beauty with song from 17th century England 20th century Latin America Labels : cd review De Pasión Mortal : Songs from two golden ages Henry Purcell , Claudio Monteverdi , Víctor Jara , Tomás Méndez , Silvio Rodríguez , Ariel Ramírez , Ñico Rojas , Rafael Hernández Marín Nicolas Mulroy , Elizabeth Kenny , Toby Carr , Music for a While LINN Records Reviewed 9 August 2024 Combining 17th century European song with that from 20th century Latin America , Nicholas Mulroy and friends create a recital which seduces and engages , by turns lyrical
: : , , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Saturday 10 August 2024 Everything is connected : Barbican Quartet on their debut album , Manifesto on Love , on Genuin label Labels : interview Barbican Quartet Photo : Andrej Grilc The Barbican Quartet Amarins Wierdsma , violin , Kate Maloney , violin , Christoph Slenczka , viola , Yoanna Prodanova , cello is so-named partly because the founding members , Amarins , Christoph and Yoanna met at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama during their studies , first playing chamber music together for pleasure and later becoming more serious . The present line-up was formed in 2022 when Kate joined them , and that year the quartet won the 71st ARD International
: , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 9 August 2024 German conductor Anja Bihlmaier has been appointed principal guest conductor of the BBC Philharmonic , Labels : BBC music news Beethoven : Violin Concerto Tobias Feldmann , Anja Bihlmaier , BBC Philharmonic Orchestra BBC Proms Photo : BBC Andy Paradise German conductor Anja Bihlmaier has been appointed principal guest conductor of the BBC Philharmonic , starting in September , working alongside the orchestra's chief conductor , nbsp John Storgårds . Bihlmaier conduct the BBC Philharmonic at the BBC Proms last night 8 August 2024 in a programme the consisted of Beethoven's Violin Concerto with soloist Tobias Feldmann , Brahms' Symphony No .
: : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Friday 9 August 2024 Reconsider the Familiar : Glasgow Cathedral Festival returns with its eighth season Labels : preview Scotland Glasgow Cathedral Festival in 2022 Glasgow Cathedral , the city's oldest building , is hosting the eighth Glasgow Cathedral Festival from 19 to 22 September 2024, featuring a diverse programme of live music , film , art , multi-media collaborations , talks and tours , all offering audiences the chance to reconsider , rediscover , reimagine to expand their imaginations , explore beneath the surface and refresh their . senses The first stone cathedral was dedicated in 1136, in the presence of King David I . Fragments of this building%20Ellie%20Kurttz%20(1).JPG)
: , : Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Thursday 8 August 2024 Vivacity , humour pathos : Opera Holland Park Charles Court Opera in Gilbert Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard Labels : Opera Holland Park opera review Gilbert Sullivan : The Yeomen of the Guard Stephen Gadd Opera Holland Park Photo : Ellie Kurtz Gilbert Sullivan : The Yeomen of the Guard William Morgan , Matthew Kellett , Llio Evans , Ellie Laugharne , Samantha Price , Stephen Gadd , Amy J PAyne , John Savournin , Jack Roberts , Darren Jeffrey , director : John Savournin , City of London Sinfonia , conductor : David Eaton Opera Holland Park in collaboration with Charles Court Opera Reviewed 7 August 2024 Gilbert Sullivan's more%20Copy.jpg)
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Wednesday 7 August 2024 Prom 24 : Vividness virtuosity in an astonishing danced staging of Purcell's The Fairy Queen with Les Arts Florissants Mourad Merzouki's Companie Käfig , Labels : BBC concert review Proms Purcell : The Fairy Queen Les Arts Florissants , singers from Le Jardin des Voix , dancers from Companie Käfig BBC Proms Photo : BBC Chris Christodoulou Purcell : The Fairy Queen Les Arts Florissants , singers from Le Jardin des Voix , dancers from Companie Käfig , director : Mourad Merzouki , conductor Paul Agnew BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Merzouki's staging showcased the astonishing virtuosity of his dancers and the engaging way singers and
: Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 6 August 2024 Concerto Copenhagen makes its Scottish debut as Ensemble in Residence at the Lammermuir Festival Labels : preview Scotland The Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin Concerto Copenhagen , led by Lars Ulrik Mortensen , will be making its Scottish debut on Monday 9 September 2024 when it gives the first of four concerts as Ensemble in Residence at the Lammermuir Festival , the first ensemble that the festival has invited from outside the . UK All four concerts are in St Mary's Church , Haddington . The first focuses on Dietrich Buxtehude and composers in his circle , with names Tunder , Erben , Kirchhoff , Schmelzer , Weckmann that are.jpg)
: : , Pages Robert's Link Tree About Us Contact Us Twitter : RobertHugill Live reviews archive CD reviews archive Interviews archive Tuesday 6 August 2024 Prom 23 : riveting symphonic theatre from Benjamin Grosvenor , Edward Gardner London Philharmonic Orchestra in Busoni's Piano Concerto Labels : BBC concert review LPO Proms Busoni : Piano Concerto Benjamin Grosvenor , London Philharmonic Orchestra , Edward Gardner BBC Proms Photo : BBC Andy Paradise Rachmaninoff : Symphonic Dances Busoni : Piano Concerto Benjamin Grosvenor , London Philharmonic Orchestra , Edward Gardner BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Reviewed 5 August 2024 Problem , what problem . Busoni's mammoth Piano Concerto turned into riveting symphonic theatre in what was only the work's second Prom performance after a gap of