A Feast of Song from Leeds Town Hall: Leeds Lieder’s 10th Festival, Thursday, June 17th - Sunday, June 20th, 2021 Leeds Lieder has bounced back from the cancellation of its 10th Anniversary Festival at the start of Lockdown. Since last October, this dynamic organisation has livestreamed sixteen recitals from Leeds Town Hall. A landmark 10th Festival now takes place next month at the Town Hall and will pack a score of recitals, masterclasses, and pre-performance talks into just four days. Every performance will be given in front of a socially distanced audience and livestreamed on Leeds Lieder’s digital platform.
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s
Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four
Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
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Coote, Philharmonia, Gardiner, Southbank Centre online review - English masterworks | reviews, news & interviews Coote, Philharmonia, Gardiner, Southbank Centre online review - English masterworks
Coote, Philharmonia, Gardiner, Southbank Centre online review - English masterworks
Compelling Tippett and Britten alongside Elgar’s perennial favourite
by Bernard HughesSaturday, 08 May 2021
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Alice Coote and the Philharmonia in Britten s Phaedra Philharmonia
This Philharmonia concert from the Royal Festival Hall comprised three masterworks of English music, following a (welcome) trend that has emerged in COVID-era streamed concerts in digging out a couple of smaller-scale, less often programmed pieces to put alongside a sure-fire hit.
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor
Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s
Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s
Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. With Eva-Maria Westbroek, Brian Jagde, Ambrogio Maestri, Zoryana Kushpler, and Isabel Signoret; Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, Ambrogio Maestri, Andrea Giovannini, and Sergey Kaydalov. Production from November 2020. Register for free and view here.