Woods To Join Orchestra of the Swan
The Stratford-Upon-Avon based Orchestra of the Swan have announced the appointment of American musician Kenneth Woods as their Principal Guest Conductor from 2010. Woods, who just completed his tenure...
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Marillion - Sounds That Can't Be Made (E.A.R. Music) Toshimaru Nakamura/English - One Day (Erstwhile) William Duckworth - The Time Curve Preludes - R. Andrew Lee (Irritable Hedgehog, via Bandcamp )...
View ArticleMercury prize shortlists: why no classical music?
If the Mercury 2012 judges want to reward fresh and dynamic new music, why has classical music disappeared from the list? There's no classical on the Mercury shortlist this year; just another season in...
View ArticleMercury prize shortlists: why no classical music?
If the Mercury 2012 judges want to reward fresh and dynamic new music, why has classical music disappeared from the list? There's no classical on the Mercury shortlist this year; just another season in...
View ArticleDavies: Iris; Falling Angel; Loopholes and Lynchpins; Spine, etc – review
Concordia/BCMG/Azalea/Austin (NMC) The nine pieces here, songs, ensemble works and solo instrumentals, encompass a decade in Tansy Davies 's career as a composer, from the solo-violin Loure of 2000 to...
View ArticleBCMG/Knussen – review
CBSO Centre, Birmingham The number of composers in the audience for Birmingham Contemporary Music Group's concert to mark Oliver Knussen 's 60th birthday was its own tribute to a pivotal figure in...
View ArticleContemporary classics: what are the composers' favourite works?
Birtwistle, Knussen or Ligeti – whose works do other composers find inspiring? Mark-Anthony Turnage Ophelia Dances by Oliver Knussen is the perfect miniature from the best ears in the business....
View ArticleSpoleto Festival USA 2012 Opera and Classical Music Programs Feature 8 U.S....
Works by composers Philip Glass (U.S.), Guo Wenjing ( China ), Jonny Greenwood ( UK ), Tansy Davies ( UK ), Toshi Ichiyanagi ( Japan ), Toshio Hosokawa ( Japan ), Somei Satoh ( Japan ), Hooshyar Khayam...
View ArticleWhy there are so few female composers | Kerry Andrew
Women who write music are still far outnumbered by their male peers. We need to address this inequality. Here's how I hate the old adage that creative work from women and men comes from a different...
View ArticleBarbican 2012-13 orchestral
Karol Szymanowski everywhere this year! Szymanowski was Poland's "first modernist", a cosmopolitan intellectual and contemporary of Bartók, dismissed by the Communist Party for his aesthetic...
View ArticleFive-Spot: What caught my eye on December 15, 2011
By Robert D. Thomas Music Critic Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News __________ Each Thursday morning, I list five events that pique my interest, including (ideally) at...
View ArticleTansy Davies’ Troubairitz
Tansy Davies Toubairitz Anna Snow, voice; Damien Harron, percussion; Azalea Ensemble; Christopher Austin, conductor Nonclassical CD A constant, if sometimes subtly articulated, pulse runs through much...
View ArticleAlbum: Tansy Davies, Troubairitz (Nonclassical)
The full range of Tansy Davies's varied modernist interests is displayed on Troubairitz, from the title suite itself, a song-cycle based on 19th-century poems by women troubadours, sung here either a...
View ArticleDavies: Troubairitz; Neon; Salt Box; etc – review
Snow/Harron/Azalea Ensemble/Austin (Nonclassical) The first disc to be devoted to Tansy Davies's music is built around Troubairitz, her 2005 settings of Derek Mahon's translations of poems by women...
View ArticleWhat music would you choose for the royal wedding?
From Handel to Kiri Te Kanawa, royal nuptials have inspired great performances. But what are the musical prospects for WillKat's wedding? And lo, in the distance, the pre-pealing begins with drums in...
View ArticleWhat music would you choose for the royal wedding?
From Handel to Kiri Te Kanawa, royal nuptials have inspired great performances. But what are the musical prospects for WillKat's wedding? And lo, in the distance, the pre-pealing begins with drums in...
View ArticleSuggesting a Feminine Side to the NY Phil
Errollyn Wallen Following up on Alex Ross’ post about the New York Philharmonic’s 2011-’12 season, which mentioned the lack of representation of American composers on the Contact! series and women...
View ArticleAdriana Lecouvreur; Tansy Davies – review
Royal Opera House, London WC2; Portsmouth Cathedral There is a deliciously topical moment in the sensationally lavish new production of Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur , which opened to a...
View ArticleProms 72/73: BBCSO/Belohlavek; Penguin Cafe/Tickell, Royal Albert Hall (4/5,...
How should we listen to a complicated piece of new music? The premiere of Tansy Davies’s ‘Wild Card’ raised this simple-seeming question – to which the correct answer is not ‘let it wash over you’ – in...
View ArticleBBCSO/Belohlávek | Classical review
Royal Albert Hall, London A little programme note can be a dangerous thing. Tansy Davies's new work, Wild Card, is a 20-minute orchestral traversal through the tarot deck and the "Fool's journey" it...
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