Dec 12, 2024 · Cecil Sharp, who died 100 years ago this year, was equally active, sometimes finding alternative tunes to similar text. He found another melody for The Truth Sent from Above, sung to him by Seth Vandrell and Samuel Bradley of Donnington Wood, Shropshire, and published in his 1911 English Folk Carols, a collection of 21 melodies and texts found in Worcestershire, Shropshire, Gloucestershire ...

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Dec 15, 2024 · Like many, I was growing tired of the version that had been presented since 2010 and particularly its unseasonably spartan second act set and have looked forward to the advent of this eleventh ENB Nutcracker – and the first to be choreographed by artistic director, Aaron S. Watkin (in collaboration with Arielle Smith).The good news is that it is a distinct improvement on its predecessor ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Liszt had long-standing operatic ambitions, and considered both The Corsair and Manfred as operatic subjects and began, but did not finish, an opera based on another Byron drama, Sardanapalus (of which eleven operas are known).The impressive Act One of Liszt’s projected three-act Sardanapalo was edited in 2017 by musicologist David Trippett, and a recording issued of this marvellous torso.

Sep 11, 2023 · Unsurprisingly, Central European orchestras fared strongly: the Berlin Philharmonic was one of three German orchestras in our top ten, joined by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (3rd) and Leipzig Gewandhaus (9th); the Budapest Festival Orchestra punched well above its weight at 8th; and the Vienna Philharmonic were the …

Jan 26, 2025 · Armstrong, Bendix-Balgley, Grosz, Choi, Ortega Quero, Manz, Viotti, Minetti Quartet, Quatuor Hermès, Schumann Quartet

Jan 13, 2025 · Over the years I remember only a handful of concerts where I felt a genuine sense of occasion and of heightened creativity. A good number of these involved Sir Simon Rattle.I recall one concert by a local authority school’s orchestra which involved a heroic slog through Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and then Ratlle guest conducted (his children were at school locally) the overture to ...

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Jan 17, 2025 · This was a Resurrection which achieved that rare feat of mastering the architecture of this sprawling symphony while wringing out all the highs and lows or the journey.The climaxes were suitably cataclysmic, but also adequately paced to leave something in the tank for the last pages. Nor was there any shortage of beauty and stillness elsewhere, with ultra-expressive solo playing allowed to ...

Jan 31, 2025 · Cellos and double basses, dyspeptic and impatient, rebuked and rejected every timid suggestion from the rest of the orchestra until quietly but firmly offering the Ode to Joy melody. The orchestra blustered in response but Andrè Schuen rose to forcefully chastise them, then took up the melody himself. With the chorus singing from memory and giving its sonorous all and a quartet which not only ...