Boy Donne good: Toby Spence at Snape Maltings

Par Charlotte Valori, 24 juin 2016

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Critique faite à Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, le 20 juin 2016

Britten, On this Island for soprano or tenor and piano, Op.11

Tippett, Piano Sonata no. 4

Tippett, Boyhood's End

Britten, The Holy Sonnets of John Donne for soprano or tenor and piano, Op.35

Tippett, String Quartet no. 5

Toby Spence, Ténor

Julian Milford, Piano

Steven Osborne, Piano

Heath Quartet

« Notre besoin de consolation » : Calixto Bieito au Festival d'Automne

Julius Lay, 12th November

Calixto Bieito offre avec The String Quartet's Guide to Sex and Anxiety un spectacle intime sur l'angoisse existentielle, accompagné par le Heath Quartet.

****1

Luminous Rest: The Tallis Scholars sing Tavener at the Proms

David Fay, 4th August

The Tallis Scholars and the Heath Quartet perform the music of John Tavener at the Royal Albert Hall, on the 100th anniversary of the start of Britain's involvement in the First World War.

*****

Great Expectations not met in Dublin

Cynthia Wilson, 12th June

“My Mother was a stalker”: The target of her affections T.S.Eliot. Great expectstions drew us to his Four Quartets and to one of Beethoven's best during the Music In Great Irish Houses festival.

**111

Heartfelt Schumann and stylish Brahms in Winchester

Katy S. Austin, 4th May

This Winchester Chamber Music Festival programme made a stab at being eclectic, with two sets of early 20th century Webern miniatures to start. Yet the meat was in two substantial Romantic works by Schumann and Brahms.

****1

Heath Quartet sparkles at Winchester’s Discovery Centre

David Truslove, 2nd May

Members of the London Bridge Ensemble and the Heath Quartet enthralled a capacity audience at the Discovery Centre in the fourth event of the Winchester Chamber Music Festival. The main focus this year was Beethoven and Schumann, the music selected to highlight their musical development at specific times in their careers.

****1

Wigmore Hall: Late Tippett

Chris Garlick, 17th January

A revelatory concert at Wigmore Hall of late works by Michael Tippett, featuring exemplary performances by Steven Osborne, Mark Padmore, Craig Ogden and the Heath Quartet.

*****

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

Boy Donne good: Toby Spence in Tippett and Britten III, Aldeburgh Festival