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Tag Archives: Monteverdi
Amen to that!
Following on from the canticle and anthem ‘World Cups’, Twitter has recently been enlivened by a similar venture to find the setting of the best setting of the word Amen. I followed this from the start and indeed nominated a … Continue reading
Posted in repertoire
Tagged Brahms, Finzi, Handel, Monteverdi, Parsons, Philip Moore
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Opera at the V & A
I caught the V & A’s exhibition Opera: Power, Passion and Politics 10 days or so before it closed (which it has done now – sorry), and found it thought-provoking though not in the ‘unmissable’ category. The exhibitions centres on … Continue reading
Posted in opera
Tagged Handel, Monteverdi, Mozart, Richard Strauss, Shostakovich, Verdi, Victoria and Albert Museum, Wagner
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Stile Antico get dirty
A perk of being in the Three Choirs Festival Chorus is that you can claim unsold seats for concerts in the Cathedral. Strictly speaking, these should be in the quire, in other words without a view, but when some … Continue reading
They shall laugh & sing
This is the inscription outside the new song room at Norwich Cathedral, which I visited for a weekend with the Erleigh Cantors. It was good to be somewhere with plenty of space, proper replica stalls and a decent accompanying instrument, … Continue reading
Posted in singing at services
Tagged Erleigh Cantors, Gabriel Jackson, Gabrieli, Howells, Mawby, Monteverdi, Norwich Cathedral, Rachmaninov, Richard Shephard, Sumsion, Walton
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LPs batch 27: forever in the catalogue
Not much early music among our LPs, but I hit a chunk of it here with two lots of Monteverdi. Sadly, I think the eponymous Monteverdi Choir’s performance of the Vespers of 1610 (the earlier, studio, recording) is in too … Continue reading
Posted in repertoire
Tagged Beaux Arts Trio, Brahms, Istvan Kertesz, Kathleen Ferrier, Monteverdi, Raymond Leppard, Schubert, Vienna Phiharmonic
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Mozartfest 2010: Monteverdi’s aspect ratio
Others in the family made it to one of the central performances of the Mozartfest, Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort and Players’ interpretation of Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. This was quite a marathon as it was given without an … Continue reading
Posted in going to concerts
Tagged Bath Abbey, Gabrieli Consort, Monteverdi, Mozartfest, Paul McCreesh
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Mozartfest 2008
We liked the programme for this year’s Mozartfest and got to four concerts. The Nash Ensemble just brought their string players this time. I enjoyed the Mozart (G minor string quintet) and Strauss (prelude to Capriccio) in the first half, … Continue reading
Posted in going to concerts
Tagged Bath Forum, Beethoven, Charles Mackerras, going to concerts, Kate Royal, Mark Padmore, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Mozart, Mozartfest, Nash Ensemble, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ravel, Rebecca Evans, Richard Strauss, Roger Vignoles, Schumann, Vienna Piano Trio
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Composers in the British National Corpus
I have recently come across this intriguing graphical representation of the frequency of words in the British National Corpus, a corpus of spoken and written British English dating from the early 1990’s. As it includes proper names, I tried various … Continue reading
Posted in on the Web
Tagged Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Elgar, Gibbons, Haydn, Johann Strauss, Mahler, Messiaen, Monteverdi, Mozart, Puccini, Purcell, Richard Strauss, Schoenberg, Schubert, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Tallis, Tchaikovsky, Tippett, Wagner, Webern
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