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LPO/Elder – review
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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First performed in October 1900, The Dream of Gerontius just squeezes into the 20th century and hence into the Southbank Centre's The Rest Is Noise festival . It is sometimes seen as the apotheosis of the 19th-century English oratorio, but it was the
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Elgar: The Apostles – review
London :: United Kingdom | 9 months ago
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Mark Elder and the Halle have already made magnificent recordings of Elgar's two other great oratorios, The Dream of Gerontius and The Kingdom, and like those, this new version of The Apostles is based upon a performance given at the Bridgewater Hall,
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The Apostles – review
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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Of the two parts of his projected oratorio trilogy Elgar completed, it's the second, The Kingdom, that is generally the more highly rated; the first, The Apostles, is performed much less often. Mark Elder 's Elgar cycle with the Halle has already
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This week's new live music
Bristol :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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C Flanigan Lil B, London Much has been made about how Lil B has used social networking to establish himself, but this somehow contrives to concentrate unduly on the frame, all the while ignoring the amazing picture within it. What makes B interesting
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The legendary, and tragic, voice of a generation at war
London :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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Could any British singer ever have been better loved than Kathleen Ferrier?...The great contralto's centenary falls this year; and 2013 will be the 60th anniversary of her death from breast cancer at the age of only 41...A near-mythic aura surrounds
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Elgar museum buys lover's archive
Worcester :: United Kingdom | over 1 year ago
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An annotated music sketch for Elgar's unfinished Third Symphony. Photograph: Bonhams A pile of old papers once kept in carrier bags in a loft has been acquired for the nation as an archive of historical significance mementoes of a passionate love
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FACTBOX - Janet Baker wins Gramophone award
New York City :: NY :: USA | over 1 year ago
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British singer Janet Baker won Gramophone magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award this week. Baker was an acclaimed master of both opera and lieder for more than 30 years. -- Her Covent Garden debut came in 1966 when she sang Hermia in Benjamin Britten'
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Caractacus – review
Leeds :: United Kingdom | almost 2 years ago
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Elgar devoted much of the 1890s to composing large-scale choral works. Mostly secular pieces on mythical subjects, they are rarely heard nowadays, though the best known of them is the last: the scenic cantata Caractacus, first performed at the Leeds
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The Dream of Gerontius – review
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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The Dream of Gerontius review Royal Festival Hall, London It is hard to explain why The Dream of Gerontius manages to have such a powerful effect on someone who rejects every particle of the religious impulses that nourish it. Equally, it's
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Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra presents Verdi's Requiem March 19
Sacramento :: KY :: USA | 2 years ago
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For that performance, which takes place Saturday evening at the Mondavi Center's Jackson Hall, Kendrick will conduct from memory. Doing so establishes one of two things: Either a conductor knows the work inside out, or he has a taste for risk. Or
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