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Das Lied von der Erde, Kožená, Staples, LSO, Rattle, Barbican online review - more joy than sorrow
New life around the corner in Mahler’s multi-faceted farewell
by Peter QuantrillTuesday, 11 May 2021
Spring torrents: consolation as well as sorrow in Mahler s song-cycle, with Magdalena Kožená, the LSO and Sir Simon RattleAll photos: Mark Allan/LSO/Barbican
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Colin Currie Records NOW returned to Scotland and living in suburban Glasgow, star percussionist Colin Currie has used the recent hiatus in performance opportunities to start his own label. This release brings together two recordings made by the BBC, one in the BBC Phil’s Manchester home at the Bridgewater Hall with Spanish conductor Juanjo Mena, the other a world premiere at the 2015 Proms with Finn John Storgards on the podium. Heinz Karl Gruber is a composer who divides opinion. Also an orchestral double bassist, he has maintained a performing career as a baritone “chansonnier” (his preferred designation) after starting his musical life as a member of the Vienna Boys Choir in the 1950s. Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire and Peter Maxwell Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King join his own Frankenstein!! in his theatrical repertoire, and that is far from irrelevant to the music of his works for percussion.
Jane Manning: always amenable and a friend to composers whatever their demands
Credit: Magnus-Lewinska, Mayotte/ Bridgeman Images
Jane Manning, who has died aged 82, was the go-to British soprano for contemporary music and an indispensable friend to many modern composers, giving the first performances of more than 350 works by the likes of Richard Rodney Bennett, Harrison Birtwistle and her husband Anthony Payne.
The critic Edward Greenfield wrote in awe of how she was able to defy the laws of musical gravity when tackling avant-garde music’s craggy altitudes. Where many singers would be fearful of damaging their voices, she was willing to try anything, with new challenges and variety bringing out the best in her.
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