Peace concert in Coventry with the English Symphony Orchestra

Von Arthur Keegan-Bole, 21 November 2011

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, am 12 November 2011

Pärt, Da Pacem Domine

Mozart, Symphonie Nr. 41 in C-Dur, "Jupiter", KV551

Mozart, Messe Nr. 18 c-Moll "Große Messe", KV427 (KV417a)

Saint Michael's Singers

English Symphony Orchestra

Helen-Jane Howells, Sopran

Zoë Bonner, Sopran

Joseph Cornwell, Tenor

Roger Barlow, Bass

Paul Leddington Wright, Musikalische Leitung

English Symphony Orchestra brings transparency to Strauss and Mahler

Simon Cummings, 2nd December

Kenneth Woods directs a compelling, revelatory concert featuring chamber versions of Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Mahler’s Ninth Symphony.

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Philip Sawyers' powerful new symphony at SJSS

Gavin Dixon, 28th February

Philip Sawyers’ Third Symphony imposing but tightly argued, and given a compelling first performance by Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra.

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World première of Joubert's Jane Eyre

Pamela Nash, 25th October

John Joubert's opera setting of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece received its long-awaited world premiere by the English Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kenneth Woods, with a luminous central performance by soprano April Fredrick.

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No fairies but lots of magic

Jane Shuttleworth, 12th February

A career woman, a femme fatale, a shop girl, an actor, a teacher, an idler, a biker, a priest, a bank clerk and five circus acrobats. These are not the figures that come to mind when we think of Purcell’s Fairy Queen.

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Auferweckt: Gardiners Oster-Bach beim Heidelberger Frühling

Jens Klier, 10th April

Die Jahrzehnte dauernde Rückkehr des Dirigenten nach Heidelberg avanciert zu einem ergreifenden, begeisternden Fest von Botschaft und Musik, mit dem er interpretatorisch weiter in fast eigener Liga spielt.

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Bachs Matthäus-Passion mit Herreweghe in Zürich

Thomas Schacher, 4th April

Chor und Orchester des Collegium Vocale Gent und ihr charismatischer Leiter Philippe Herreweghe, längst Legenden der historischen Aufführungspraxis, beweisen, dass die Doppelchörigkeit der Matthäus-Passion nicht nur ein Stereo-Phänomen ist.

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Arthur Keegan-Bole

Arthur is a composer currently focusing on opera. His desire to promote contemporary music led him to set up and co-edit The Octogenarian, a light-hearted classical music review pamphlet distributed in Bristol and to curate the annual CMV series of concerts.