Rutter conducts Rutter: Colston Hall's Summer Gala Concert

Par Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 22 juin 2015

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Critique faite à Bristol Beacon: Beacon Hall, Bristol, le 20 juin 2015

Rutter, Mass of the Children

Dove, There was a Child

Haendel, Coronation Anthem no. 1: Zadok the priest, HWV 258

City of Bristol Choir

Exultate Singers

Bristol Schools Chamber Choir

Sir John Rutter, Direction

David Ogden, Direction

Toby Spence, Ténor

Erica Eloff, Soprano

Red Maids' School Choir

Bristol Youth Choir

Westbury-on-Trym Parish Choir

Dove and Middleton's Odyssey wins hearts in Bristol

David Karlin, 28th January

The refurbished Beacon stages a world premiere of a large choral work which imbues complete empathy for one migrant and his story.

*****

Exultate Singers celebrate the splendours of Venice

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 29th March

The Exultate choir played alongside His Majesties Sagbutts for an evening of music from St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice, some of which hadn't been heard for over 400 years.

***11

The divine and the worldly: Exultate Singers at St George's Bristol

David Fay, 23rd February

Choral concerts often have programmes that read like compilation CDs. I don’t mean this negatively: there are countless reasons why a greater number of contrasting pieces is required – timbral, textual, temporal, contextual, historical, and so on.

****1

Exultate Singers in Roxanna Panufnik Premières

Paul Kilbey, 19th May

Contemporary religious music can seem to exist in a different world to the rest of contemporary music, and rarely since Messiaen was in his prime has there been much evidence of it as a really progressive wing of composition.

***11

Béatrice cherche son Bénédict au Festival Berlioz

Philippe Ramin, 30th August

Spécialistes du répertoire berliozien, John Nelson et l'Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg ont offert une production très estimable de Béatrice et Bénédict, malgré un Toby Spence en délicatesse dans le rôle-titre.

***11

Raffinement et virtuosité, maîtres mots pour l’ONL dans son Auditorium

Augustin Javel, 13th February

Si la direction quelque peu verticale de Lawrence Renes ne convainc pas totalement, les musiciens de l'ONL ont livré une admirable performance musicale dans un programme entièrement vingtiémiste.

****1

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.