United Kingdom Chabrier, Tim Benjamin, de Falla, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev: Simon Desbruslais (trumpet), Todmorden Orchestra / Nicholas Concannon Hodges (conductor). Todmorden Town Hall, Calderdale, 10.11.2018. (RBa)
Rob Barnett
The Twelfth English Music Festival Coming Soon in May 2018
The Twelfth English Music Festival – 25-28 May 2018
This is the twelfth year in which Founder-Director, Em Marshall-Luck’s English Music Festival has flourished in Oxfordshire – principally at Dorchester-on-Thames (25-28 May 2018).
Two Bantock Tone Poems in One Concert
United Kingdom Bantock: BBC Philharmonic / Michael Seal (conductor). BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 28.11.2017. (RBa)
Witchery, Spirituality and Mediterranean Travelogues from the BBC Philharmonic
United Kingdom Lyadov, Gubaidulina, Ravel, Ibert: Lawrence Power (viola) / Ludovic Morlot (conductor), BBC Philharmonic. BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays. 22.11.2017. (RBa)
From Consonance to Atonality and Back in Four Viennese Steps
United Kingdom Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Marx: Claire Booth (soprano), BBC Philharmonic / Simone Young (conductor). BBC Philharmonic Studio, MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 1.11.2017. (RBa)
BBC Philharmonic’s Afternoon Tonal Silk and Satin in Salford Quays
United Kingdom Delius, Beethoven, Sibelius: Pavel Kolesnikov (piano), BBC Philharmonic / Rory Macdonald (conductor), BBC Philharmonic Studio. MediaCityUK, Salford Quays, 27.10.2017. (RBa)
Twelve Years of Celebrating Malcolm Arnold in Northampton
The 12th Malcolm Arnold Festival. Royal and Derngate and St Matthew’s Church, Northampton, 14-15.10.2017 (RBa)
English Music Festival in Yorkshire Lifts the Lid Off an English Treasury
United Kingdom Stanford, Ireland, Holst, Moeran, Alwyn, Delius, Howells, Milford, Vaughan Williams, W. S. Lloyd Webber, Cyril Scott, Fogg, Brian, Phibbs, Pantcheff, Bach, Butterworth, Orr, Somervell, Finzi, Armstrong Gibbs: Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin), Joseph Spooner (cello), Duncan Honeybourne (piano, organ), Rebeca Omordia (piano), Christopher Foster (bass), Kathryn Moseley (piano). The English Music Festival. St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth, Leyburn, Yorkshire, 6-8.10.2017. (RBa)