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...These are not all short, overture-like pieces, but often substantial works, like those by James MacMillan and Daniel Kidane which debuted in concerts over the weekend....
...There is a piping Concerto for Flute by Giuseppe Sammartini, a viola da gamba sonata by Pietro Castrucci, and a selection of still familiar Scottish tunes arranged by James Oswald....
...There were two premieres, James B Wilson’s noisy 1922 and Laura Karpman’s Higher. Further. Faster. Together, which draws on her score for the forthcoming superhero film The Marvels....
...Countertenor James Laing’s haunting singing captures the free spirit of the hippy surfer with a feel for radioactive stones....
...Tenor James Way is infectious in his laughing number and soprano Rachel Redmond is joined by a veritable aviary of woodwind twittering through “Sweet Bird”....
...Each composer is represented by a short group, the first three by Damien Sneed, who establishes the tone with a defiantly upbeat setting of James Weldon Johnson’s “The Gift to Sing”....
...Most welcome are the two giants, James Creswell as Fafner and, especially, Simon Bailey, who brings noble singing and depth of feeling to Fasolt....
...Various other contenders have come along as the big choral work for Christmas, but few are as ambitious in scale or as packed with colour and incident as James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio....
...A bonus comes in the form of two new pieces, commissioned from James MacMillan and Roderick Williams, tributes in the Tudor manner to Tom and Will. ★★★★☆ ‘Tom and Will’ is released by Signum Classics...
...Taking a Middle Eastern theme, its latest concert presented a rare performance of Delius’s complete incidental music to Hassan, a verse play by James Elroy Flecker....
...The 1946 film starring James Stewart is a Christmas favourite and ENO will be having similar hopes for this canny choice of opera....
...Director James Conway’s no-nonsense production focuses on the emotional conflicts of the central characters without any distractions....
...Nathan James Dearden’s Love Songs for the Broken was more emotionally ambitious and imagines half a dozen poems as songs without words, a “queer love story” that embraces extremes of affection and pain in...
...James Platt doubled as the stentorian Priest and Angel of the Agony....
...s footsteps and the Last Night of the Proms this summer will kick off with 1922 by James B Wilson, a composer previously commissioned three times by Nwanoku. None of this means that Chineke!...
...Catherine Wyn-Rogers and Rosie Aldridge are well contrasted as Auntie the pub owner and busybody Mrs Sedley, and there are vivid cameos from James Gilchrist’s Rector and Jacques Imbrailo, playing Ned Keene...
...One of the highest-profile new works of the past 18 months is James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio....
...Both singers, Gianluca Margheri’s muscular baritone Bajazet and James Laing’s highly wrought countertenor Tamerlano, enter into the spirit with macho singing, though that does get wearing after a while....
...The trebles make a splendid impact in Jonathan Harvey’s The Tree, a piece glinting with light, and the journey takes in Elgar’s grand The Spirit of the Lord, James Long’s contemporary sicut aquilae and a...
...A fine quartet of singers — Ruby Hughes, Jess Dandy, James Gilchrist and Hank Neven — played the four individuals caught in the mystery’s web....
...ETO offers a simple but stylish show, directed by James Conway, which makes a plausible stab at some magic....
...Sermon, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Dalia Stasevska, pairs texts by writers including James Baldwin and Langston Hughes with musical extracts from John Adams and Anthony Davis....
...That was matched here by When Soft Voices Die, a new companion piece by James MacMillan....
...James Taylor was the singer at President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2013, and Jennifer Lopez for President Joe Biden this year....
...Concert halls across Europe may be closed, but the NTR ZaterdagMatinee series has just succeeded in bringing together a full-sized chorus and orchestra for the premiere of James MacMillan's Christmas Oratorio...
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