National Children’s Choir of Great Britain’s Blue Choir & Soundabout in workshop (Photo: Milly March) A collaboration between the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain (NCCGB) and Soundabout is now in its fourth year. The collaboration […]
The Red House, Aldeburgh (Photo: Britten Pears Arts) Highlights of this very special weekend (Friday-Sunday, 4th-6th December) honouring the 50th anniversary of Britten’s death include performances of the composer’s Lachrymae, Saint Nicolas and the Oboe […]
Fromental Halévy (1799-1862) was one of the mainstays of French opera in the 19th century. A pupil of Cherubini, his opera La Juive (1835) would inaugurate the new Paris Opera at the Palais Garnier in […]
Concerto Copenhagen (Photo: Mathias loevgreen) One of the pleasures of programming the Lammermuir Festival is the opportunity to place different musical personalities alongside one another and invite audiences to listen for both connections and contrasts. […]
The Tempest (the masque in Part Two) – Vache Baroque (Photo: The Photography Shed) The Tempest – Shakespeare, Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell & others; Tim Delap, Leah Haile, Hannah Barrie, Tré Medley, Stephanie Hershaw, Isabelle Peters, […]
A drawing of Joyce (with eyepatch) by Djuna Barnes from 1922, the year in which Joyce began the 17-year task of writing Finnegans Wake Alastair White:Here Comes Everybody: an overture to Finnegans Wake; Ensemble Exposé, […]
We need to hear more music by Amglo-Irish composer Ernest John (Smeed) Moeran (1894-1950). Arnold Bax referred to Moeran as “the last true Romantic”. His life was a toubled one: he was wounded in the […]
.jpg?w=510&resize=510,510&ssl=1 "By turns illuminating & compelling: the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on terrific form in Britten & Vaughan Williams at the BBC Proms")
Britten: Violin Concerto – Simone Lamsma, Andrew Manze, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic – BBC Proms (Photo: BBC/ Chris Christodoulou) Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis, Britten: Violin Concerto, Carmel Smickersgill: A Brick Thrown […]
Elgar Variations on an Original Theme. Op. 36, ‘Enigma‘ (1888/9) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 (1877/8) Elgar and the Berliner Philarmoniker? Well, there is precedent of the orchestra in English music […]
With Meditations for Harpsichord, British-Polish harpsichordist Katarzyna Kowalik will gather together nine newly commissioned works by five British and four Polish composers. The project will receive its world premiere at Colet House in London on […]
