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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.
Friday, May 7, 2021
Jennifer Johnston has just appeared, as Waltraute, on the new BR-Klassik recording of Wagner s
Die Walküre conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. She talks to James Jolly about her decade-long association with the Bavarian State Opera and its Generalmusikdirektor, Kirill Petrenko, about music in her home city of Liverpool and memories of Christa Ludwig with whom she studied as a student.
Gramophone Podcasts are presented in association with Wigmore Hall, where the music continues despite lockdown with regular streamed concerts that are also available to watch online for at least 30 days (find full details of the week s concerts at the bottom of this page). To watch, or donate, please visit the Wigmore Hall s website.
12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents
Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the
Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels to learn excerpts of the work; Dance for PD classes appropriate for anyone with mobility concerns. View here and on demand for one week.