Friday night brings with it the First Night of the Proms, the opening fanfare of over one hundred concerts which will draw to a close with one last rousing chorus of Jerusalem on September 10th. In between, performances of every shade of classical music will be on offer from a phalanx of the world’s finest… Read more »
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Nightmare On Elgar Street
Were you to bury your entire face in the wrong end of a French horn – the bell, as it is called – you could scream yourself hoarse while remaining almost completely unheard by those immediately around you. The horn’s capacity to swallow sound is second only to its more conventional capacity to emit. Since… Read more »
Hearing the phenomenal40. First glimpse of Striggio's mass in surround sound
As I’ve mentioned in earlier blog posts, a CD and DVD is about to released by a group of singers called I Fagiolini - the little beans. It contains, among other things, two pieces of music for a phenomenal forty separate voices* (hence my attempt to get the #phenomenal40 hashtag off the ground – help!). One is… Read more »
Preparing for I Fagiolini’s release of a spectacular recording of a Striggio mass for a #phenomenal40 voices
Two weeks ago my car inched its way through the rain-soaked streets of a run down corner of Ipswich, to pick up a particularly special set of eBay winnings – a surround sound DVD system, won for £60. One week tomorrow, a spectacular CD and DVD by the vocal group I Fagiolini will be released…. Read more »
The return of I Fagiolini
NOTE: This post was originally posted as one of a daily series highlighting interesting singing from around the web For the rest of this series I’ll be publishing an hour later, at 10am GMT on each day of Advent. I am posting a video each day of a piece which, in my opinion, celebrates the best… Read more »
How Spem in Alium came to exist – supreme music of power and politics
It’s a precious thing to hear a piece of music which never leaves you. To be absolutely confident that you know and may never forget every twist of the soundscape. For me there is only one work that has so comprehensively captured my soul, and burnt itself in to my memory. It goes by the… Read more »
More must-listen music: War Horse
More music sharing. The National Theatre’s War Horse is currently playing in the West End, and greatly deserves each of the five star ratings it has received. Music is in itself a character in the story, and the production includes stirring arrangements of hymns and traditional songs. The soundtrack is well worth buying. I have… Read more »
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