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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Thursday, 30 November 2023

A distinctive voice & a richly rewarding sound-world: songs by Franco Alfano from Anna Pirozzi & Emma Abbate

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Franco Alfano: Songs ; Anna Pirozzi, Emma Abbate, Bozidar Vukotic; Resonus Classics Reviewed 28 November 2023 Alfano's rather dim reputa...
Monday, 15 May 2023

Then I play'd upon the Harpsichord: Ensemble Hesperi's engaging look at the musical life of Queen Charlotte

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The musical life of King George III and Queen Charlotte does not seem promising for an evening's entertainment at first, but the two wer...
Wednesday, 12 October 2022

A question of transcendence: conductor Simone Menezes' Metanoia project

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Metanoia - Ensemble K & Simone Menezes at Milan Cathedral (Photo Maxime Patrick Hans Chatillon) In Christian theology, metanoia is comm...
Monday, 10 October 2022

Named after a Spanish Baroque play, award-winning ensemble El Gran Teatro del Mundo to make its first UK tour

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The Spanish ensemble El Gran Teatro del Mundo specializes in the performance of music from the 17th and 18th century. Named after the Baro...
Saturday, 27 August 2022

Two moments in time: String Orchestra of Brooklyn with a work written for 2020's Lockdown, and another evoking the opening of Honolulu's contemporary art museum in 1980

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Scott Wollschleger:  Outside Only Sound;  Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti :  with eyes the color of time; String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Eli Spindel...
Monday, 8 August 2022

Francesco Pirrone's The Hero

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Francesco Pirrone is an award-winning composer of fantasy music and was recently awarded the Premio Troisi 2022 for his activity as an up...
Tuesday, 7 June 2022

i bērzs, i smilgas... (and a birch and grasses...) - Latvian song across the generations from Emils Melngailis & Kristaps Pētersons

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i bērzs, i smilgas... (and a birch and grasses...) - songs by Emils Melngailis, Kristaps Pētersons; Ieva Parša, Andrejs Osokins; SKANI Revi...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

A little video to celebrate the completion of Dario Salvi and my new operetta, Ademdai - or The Necessary and the Superfluous

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Dario Salvi and I have finished the first draft of our new operetta, Ademdai - or the Necessary and the Superfluous , and to celebrate Dari...
Thursday, 28 April 2022

Approaching 1000 performances, Constella OperaBallet's Connecting Stars provides live performances for residents in care homes

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Constella OperaBallet's Connecting Stars During the first weeks of the pandemic, in 2020, Leo Geyer (artistic director of Constella Oper...
Wednesday, 16 March 2022

Two strongly contrasting yet major figures from 20th century Hungary, György Ligeti and Zoltán Kodály

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Lux Aeterna - choral music by György Ligeti and Zoltán Kodály; Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Marcus Creed; Our Recordings Reviewed...
Saturday, 26 February 2022

The Last Castrato: Max Hoehn and Torsten Rasch on their new collaboration as part of Opera21's platform for new opera

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Alessandro Moreschi (1858-1922)  The British-Swiss director Max Hoehn created Opera21 last year. A response to the pandemic, the new compa...
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

SATARSA: Kamerorkest van het Noorden releases EP of music by Maxim Shalygin

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On 22 February,  Kamerorkest van het Noorden (the string orchestra based in Groningen, The Netherlands) is releasing SATARSA an EP that fe...
Wednesday, 9 February 2022

Ryan Summers: Deeply Divided

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Ryan Summers is a musician based in Marshfield, Wisconsin. His album, Deeply Divided , is his latest instrumental release, and it blends hi...
Friday, 17 December 2021

Poetic imagination: Andri Björn Róbertsson and Ástríður Alda Sigurðardóttir in songs by Árni Thorsteinson & Robert Schumann

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Robert Schumann Liederkreis Op. 24 & Op. 39 , Árni Thorsteinson songs; Andri Björn Róbertsson, Ástríður Alda Sigurðardóttir; Fuga Lib...
Monday, 15 November 2021

No time to die featuring romantic repertoire ranging from popular covers to musicals and opera hits

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The pianist AyseDeniz Gokcin is continuing her mission to bring the worlds of classical music and rock together and has joined forces with ...
Tuesday, 2 November 2021

The Lost Codex of Avalon: a mix of old and new texts along with David Yardley's music in the style of Medieval and Renaissance to bring alive a mythic age

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David Yardley The Lost Codex of Avalon ; David Yardley, The Song Company, Sydney Chamber Choir, Sam Allchurch, Jess Ciampa, Pastance, Cr...
Thursday, 28 October 2021

Where artistic creativity can meet open-minded, curious audiences: Opera Lab Berlin launches Who's Afraid of Pop Culture?

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Opera Lab Berlin is an independent free-form ensemble " dedicated to creating  interdisciplinary music theatre  that is tightly bound...
Friday, 15 October 2021

Interpreter and creator: Uriel Pascucci performs Beethoven, Mussorgsky and his own composition on his latest disc

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The idea of the composer / creator is an old one and whilst the concept has a great deal of resonance today with many young contemporary com...
Saturday, 10 July 2021

Rhythm pitch and tension: composer Graham Fitkin chats about his 1990 album of multi-piano music 'Flak' which has just been digitally remastered

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Composer Graham Fitkin pictured on the original album cover his 1990 album, Flak Graham Fitkin 's album Flak was originally released in...
Saturday, 26 June 2021

It should be essential repertoire: former BBC New Generation Artist trumpeter Simon Höfele chats about the 20th-century works for trumpet and piano on his new disc on Berlin Classics

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Simon Höfele (Photo credit Joy Dana) The young German trumpeter, Simon Höfele , has a new disc out on the Berlin Classics label. Titled New...