Peace concert in Coventry with the English Symphony Orchestra

Par Arthur Keegan-Bole, 21 novembre 2011

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Critique faite à Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, le 12 novembre 2011

Pärt, Da pacem Domine

Mozart, Symphonie no. 41 en ut majeur «Jupiter», K551

Mozart, Messe no. 18 en ut mineur « La Grande », K427 (K417a)

Saint Michael's Singers

English Symphony Orchestra

Helen-Jane Howells, Soprano

Zoë Bonner, Soprano

Joseph Cornwell, Ténor

Roger Barlow, Basse

Paul Leddington Wright, Direction

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.

****1

Thomas Adès et le Philhar' en dialogue avec les éléments

Chloë Rouge, 10th April

Le compositeur et chef d'orchestre britannique enfilait ses deux casquettes dans un programme qui plaçait ses œuvres – dont la création française d'In Seven Days avec Bertrand Chamayou – en dialogue avec des partitions de Sibelius.

***11

La fantastique intégrale Schumann de l'ONCT avec Frank Beermann

Thibault d'Hauthuille, 10th April

En deux soirs, l'orchestre toulousain et le chef allemand ont proposé quatre symphonies de très belle facture, entre clarté des intentions, autorité de la pensée et engagement poétique.

*****

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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.