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Ragged Music Festival 2021, Ragged School Museum review - harrowing of hell from great musicians
Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy welcome colleagues for a mind-blowing weekend
by David NiceWednesday, 26 May 2021
Samson Tsoy (in orange shirt) gives a thanksgiving speech on Sunday evening in the company of John Myerscough, Pavel Kolesnikov, Lawrence Power and Alina IbragimovaDavid Thompson
Seven months might just about be enough time to have digested the deep and intense offerings of the Second Ragged Music Festival before moving on to more soul-shattering and transcendence in the third.
Verdi’s
Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s
Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, written especially for this concert. This will be performed between two Brahms viola sonatas which were originally written for clarinet. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
Australian Chamber Orchestra
‘Rapture and Revolution’ was the first in the Australian Chamber Orchestra’s series of eight StudioCasts scheduled for 2021. A seven-day ticket for each event costs AU$35 (around £19.50 or US$27; a series subscription is available) but these are clearly conceived as premium productions.
Sydney’s Victorian Town Hall practically became a studio. The galleries and the grand organ were highlighted as architectural features. Beyond this, the camera shots were sensitive to the musical action, creating a distinctive style with lots of immersive, close-arc shots. The audio is impressive too, perhaps slightly favouring the cellos and bass – but why wouldn’t you, when you can achieve a mahogany sound as deep and yet as clearly spoken as this?