Peace concert in Coventry with the English Symphony Orchestra

Por Arthur Keegan-Bole, 21 noviembre 2011

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Crítica hecha desde Coventry Cathedral, Coventry el 12 noviembre 2011

Pärt, Da pacem Domine

Mozart, Sinfonía núm. 41 en do mayor "Júpiter", K551

Mozart, Misa núm. 18 en do menor "Grande", K427 (K417a)

Saint Michael's Singers

English Symphony Orchestra

Helen-Jane Howells, Soprano

Zoë Bonner, Soprano

Joseph Cornwell, Tenor

Roger Barlow, Bajo

Paul Leddington Wright, Dirección

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.

****1

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.

****1

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.

*****

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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Excelente Vivaldi con Janine Jansen y la Camerata Salzburg en Madrid

Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 26th April

Janine Jansen ofreció un concierto acompañada por la Camerata Salzburg, demostrando ser una de las violinistas más interesantes del panorama actual.

****1

Il Giustino de Vivaldi revive en el Teatro Real con René Jacobs

Aaron Vincent, 25th April

Un Vivaldi de sorprendente vigor teatral cierra en el Teatro Real la gira europea de la Freiburger Barockorchester bajo la batuta de René Jacobs.

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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.