Texas Skies
Updated: 2021-11-20 17:47:29
: Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Sunday , 21 November 2021 Texas Skies Labels : spotlight Texas Skies is a work for two pianos by Mexican-American composer Nathan Felix The work is inspired by Felix’s childhood memories of driving through Texas on family vacations and subsequent adventures to Marfa , Balmorhea , Alpine , Longview , Amarillo , Laredo and more . The work is in four movements : I . West Texas II . East Texas III . The Panhandle IV . The . Wall During lockdown , Felix approached pianist Timo Andres who recorded and filmed both piano parts , with the results then being mixed by Danny Reisch of Good Danny's . Download from Bandcamp or Spotify Posted by Planet Hugill at Sunday , November 21, 2021
: Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Friday , 19 November 2021 Double bass player Leon Bosch celebrates Bottesini's bi-centenary in style Labels : preview Giovanni Bottesini with his Testore double bass in 1865 Giovanni Bottesini's bicentenary falls next month 22 December 2021 and thankfully the composer's music is having something of a little revival . He was evidently quite a character , combining the careers of double bass virtuoso , conductor and composer , and he was selected by Verdi to conduct the first performance of Aida in Cairo . His skill as a virtuoso on the double bass helped revolutionise the playing technique of his instrument and it is double bass players who often have a lot to be thankful .
: : Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Friday , 19 November 2021 From a puppet Liederspiel' to men behaving badly : Thomas Guthrie and Barokksolistene at Temple Music Labels : concert review Temple Music The Alehouse Session Thomas Guthrie , Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene in Oslo Photo Knut Utler Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin The Alehouse Sessions Thomas Guthrie , Bjarte Eike , Barokksolistene Temple Music at Middle Temple Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 November 2021 Star rating : 3.0 A very free interpretation of Schubert's song cycle which returned the work to its roots , and an evocation of a 17th century alehouse in an evening which by turns dazzled the imagination and . frustrated Last night's
: Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Wednesday , 17 November 2021 Palazzetto Bru Zane's new edition of Offenbach's La Vie parisienne enables us to discover the composer's original intentions for the first time Labels : preview Offenbach : La Vie parisienne Photo Vincent Pontet When Offenbach's La Vie parisienne premiered in 1866 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris , librettist Ludovic Halévy would write The rehearsals of La Vie parisienne are driving me almost insane This extremely fraught rehearsal period led to significant changes to the planned opera with much material being jettisoned . Now Offenbach's rehearsal periods were always extremely dynamic , he tended two write too much material and then shape
: Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Thursday , 18 November 2021 All 272 members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music's community airlifted out of Kabul and en route for a new home in Portugal Labels : music news Members of ANIM community leave Kabul for Doha , Qatar , on 11 November photo : courtesy of ANIM Music education and performance is vital in rebuilding a war-torn country and contributing to the establishment of a just and civil . society Dr Ahman Sarmast Dr . Ahmad Sarmast son of the late well-known Afghan composer , conductor , and musician Ustad Sarmast , founded the Afghanistan National Institute of Music ANIM in Kabul , Afghanistan in 2010 as a direct counter to the war-torn country's
: , Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Wednesday , 17 November 2021 BSO's Voices from the East returns with a focus on Turkmen Russian composer Chary Nurïmov , and Azerbaijani composers Franghiz Ali-Zadeh and Kara Karayev Labels : BSO preview Kirill Karabits and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms 2019 Photo Chris Christoulou Like many orchestras , the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has recently announced the remainder of its 2021 22 season with concerts from January to May 2022 at in Poole , Truro , Basingstoke , Portsmouth and Exeter . Chief conductor Kirill Karabits will be conducting eight performances , and there is the return of the orchestra's recently appointed principal guest conductor Mark
: Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Tuesday , 16 November 2021 Counter-tenor Hugh Cutting wins the 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards Labels : music news 2021 Kathleen Ferrier Awards winners : Helen Charlston , nbsp Hugh Cutting , Laura Perešivana Photo Emma Brown Photography At a ceremony on Sunday night 14 November the counter-tenor Hugh Cutting was announced as winner of the 66th Kathleen Ferrier Awards , the first counter-tenor to do so . The semi-finals and finals of this year's awards took place at Henry Wood Hall in front of a jury that included baritone Sir Thomas Allen , mezzo-soprano Alice Coote , soprano Valerie Masterson , tenor Ian Partridge and pianist James . Baillieu Hugh Cutting is a member of the
: : Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Tuesday , 16 November 2021 Northern Voices : Manchester Collective's commissioning scheme to provide a platform for bold and underrepresented voices Labels : Manchester preview Northern Voices artists CourtsWrites , CURRENTMOODGIRL , and Chris Alton with collaborator Emily Simpson . Photography : Brandina Chisambo Manchester Collective's Northern Voices is a commissioning scheme launched in Spring 2021 to provide a platform for bold and underrepresented' voices in Manchester Collective’s home region , with the intention of making new work that explored the connection between music and other art forms . The first fruits of the programme are now . available Musician and
: : Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Tuesday , 16 November 2021 A disc to make us re-consider : Peter Warlock Songbook from Luci Briginshaw and Eleanor Meynell Labels : cd review Peter Warlock Songbook Luci Briginshaw , Eleanor Meynell Convivium Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 November 2021 Star rating : 4.0 28 songs by Warlock which are , largely , unfamiliar in a beautifully curated programme which encourages us to think again about Warlock as song composer and wonder why we didn't know these gems before The composer Peter Warlock left a relatively small body of work , yet besides the well-known choral pieces and the handful of instrumental works including The Capriol Suite he wrote around 150 songs
: Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Monday , 15 November 2021 CMF Artists 2021 Labels : music news City Music Foundations artists 2021 Photo Benjamin Ealovega The City Music Foundation CMF has recently announced the eleven successful artists and ensembles that form the 9th consecutive intake joining CMF's two year CMF Artist Programme . The 2021 CMF Artists are Connaught Brass , Ensemble Hesperi baroque Harriet Burns soprano Helena Kay saxophone James Larter percussion Joy Lisney cello Laura Perešivana soprano Olivia Boen soprano Sirius Chau flute Victor Lim piano and Yume Fujise violin They were chosen from a record-breaking number of applicants by judges including Sholto Kynoch , Howard Williams , Seb
: : , Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Monday , 15 November 2021 From The Poppy' to Hit Her on the Bum' : Ensemble Hesperi's debut disc , Full of the Highland Humours Full of the Highland Humours Ensemble Hesperi EM Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 November 2021 Star rating : 4.0 Ensemble Hesperi turns its attention to London , to celebrate the Scottish music popular in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London Ensemble Hesperi is a young quartet of performers Mary-Jannet Leith recorders , Magdalena Loth-Hill Baroque violin , Florence Petit Baroque cello , Thomas Allery harpsichord who are shedding new light on Scottish Baroque music and their innovative performances have included collaborations
: : , , Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Friday , 12 November 2021 Intimate and intense : Mahler with just voice and piano , Alice Coote , Stuart Jackson and Julius Drake at Temple Song Labels : concert review Temple Music Gustav Mahler etching by Emil Orlik , 1902 Songs of Life and Death Mahler : Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Rückert-Lieder extracts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Das Lied von der . Erde Alice Coote , Stuart Jackson , Julius Drake Temple Song at Middle Temple Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 11 November 2021 Star : rating 5.0 And evening of Mahler on the piano without the rich orchestration , these prove performances of remarkable intensity , intimacy and directness For a concert on
: Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Thursday , 11 November 2021 What the silence taught me' concert in support of the UN Refugee Agency Labels : preview The flautist Nicola Woodward who has recently been making a name for herself by recording all 96 of Charles Koechlin's Les chants de nectaire for solo flute on Hoxa Sound is giving a concert in support of the UN Refugee Agency at Holy Trinity Church , Sloane Square on Friday 25 November 2021, What the silence taught me' The candle light concert will feature music from Koechlin's Les chants de nectaire plus Bach's Partita in A Minor and music by Croatian composer Božidar Kunc 1903-1964 German composer Tilman Dehnhard and Dutch American composer Herman Beeftink
: : Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Wednesday , 10 November 2021 Handel opera for moths : artist Redell Olsen's collaboration with scientists and singers on 2020-21 DARE Prize commission Labels : Leeds music news Opera North Poet , writer and visual artist Redell Olsen was announced as the winner of the 2020-21 DARE Art Prize in June last year . nbsp Awarded by the University of Leeds and Opera North , in association with the National Science and Media Museum and The Tetley , Leeds , the prize is a 15,000 award for artists and scientists to collaborate on new approaches to the creative process . For the past year Olsen has worked with scientists at the University and singers and music staff at Opera North ,
: , , : Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Wednesday , 10 November 2021 Recycle , re-use , re-think : Dai Fujikura's latest disc Glorious Clouds Labels : cd review Dai Fujikura Glorious Clouds Minabel Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 November 2021 Star rating : 4.0 From microorganisms to the philosophy of Kierkegaard , from a concerto for a traditional Japanese instrument to a contrabass clarinet solo , the inspirations of Japanese-born , UK-based composer Dai Fujikura are fascinating and dazzling Dai Fujikura s latest album , Glorious Clouds might almost have the subtitle , recycle , re-use , re-think' , as many of the works on the disc seem to evolve from Fujikura's other pieces . The disc also represents the
: : : , . Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Tuesday , 9 November 2021 Ich habe genug : Canadian company Sound The Alarm : Music Theatre's latest project uses a Bach cantata to explore issues of mental health , identity and more . Labels : Canada preview Our relationship to the great works of the past is complex , and the current challenge is to explore further than musical works by dead white men , but companies are also re-examining ways of presenting existing classical works . One such is the Canadian company , Sound The Alarm : Music Theatre STA STA's most recent project uses a Bach cantata to not only explore issues of mental health , but to do so in the context of recent Canadian colonial history , to
: : Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Tuesday , 9 November 2021 Dr Haydn's London Academy : Sir Roger Norrington bid farewell to the podium with a final concert with the Royal Northern Sinfonia Labels : preview Sage Gateshead Sir Roger Norrington Photo Manfred Esser In the early 1980s I went to a performance in the Queen's Hall , Edinburgh where Roger Norrington conducted the London Classical Players in Heinrich Schütz's Musikalische . Exequien It was one of the defining performances of my early concert-going , and helped consolidate my love of historically informed performance . In London in the 1980s , Norrington's weekend experiences at the Queen Elizabeth Hall would be ways of exploring repertoire deeper ,
: Pages Home About Us Contact Us Record Reviews Interviews Twitter : RobertHugill Opera and Concert Reviews Facebook Tuesday , 9 November 2021 The Big Lockdown Music Survey Labels : music news NMC Recordings is launching The Big Lockdown Music Survey From 8 November 2021, music creators will be able to submit music and take part in a survey on NMC's website in order to create a snapshot in recorded music of a once-in-a-generation experience shared by the nation . The result will tell the story of the first national lockdown introduced in England on 23 March 2020 from the perspective of music creators , through recorded music and sound , data and testimony an account of exceptional personal circumstances , of emotions engendered by enforced isolation or enforced community but also of