United Kingdom VOCES8 Live from London – Horizons: The Swingle Singers, with sound engineer Max Hunter. VOCES8 Centre, London, 22.8.2020. (CC)
Horizons: The Swingles are Live from London
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A Truth in Art: Aubrey Beardsley at Tate Britain
A truth in art, said Oscar Wilde, is one whose opposite is also true. Aubrey Beardsley’s same friend also said, one should either be a work of art or wear a work of art. That is Dandyism for you. These men would sometimes spend hours tying a cravat. Whichever way you look at Beardsley there are contradictions. It is comic while being tragic. Lightweight while being ponderous. Intense while being relaxed. Dismissive while being possessive. Comic while being tragic. Knowing while being unknowing. Gilbert and Sullivan were Beardsley’s exact contemporaries. See my recent Seen and Heard piece on G&S topsy-turveydom (click here).
Glories of the Baroque: the AAM at London’s VOCES8 Centre
United Kingdom VOCES8 Live from London: Academy of Ancient Music / Richard Egarr (harpsichord) with Bojan Čičić, James Toll (violins); Leo Duarte (oboe); Sarah McMahon, Joseph Crouch (cellos). VOCES8 Centre, London, 15.8.2020. (CC)
HGO’s open-air Sāvitri marks opera’s return to London
United Kingdom Holst, Sāvitri: Soloists, Chorus, HGO Orchestra, Thomas Payne (conductor). The Lawn, Lauderdale House, Highgate, London, 11.8.2020. (MB)
Possessive Eccentricity of Andy Warhol at Tate Modern
It will come as a surprise to no one that Andy Warhol was a mother’s boy. And Catholic to boot. As soon as he moved into what would much later be called the Factory, mum Julia moved in with him. She was already in New York with her son. It would turn out that New … Read more
The sheer love that emanates from I Fagiolini for Monteverdi made this compelling viewing
United Kingdom VOCES8 Live from London: Monteverdi – The Ache of Love: I Fagiolini / Robert Hollingworth (director). VOCES8 Centre. A Live from London stream and performed at the VOCES8 Centre, 8.8.2020. (CC)
Subtlety and ineffable beauty are among VOCES8’s traits when singing Live from London
United Kingdom VOCES8 Live from London – After Silence: VOCES8 Centre, London, 1.8.2020. Available to view if you click here. (CC)
LPOnline Summer Sessions performances that exuded life and happiness
United Kingdom LPO Summer Sesssions [2]: Rossini, Mozart, Janáček: London Philharmonic Winds. Reviewed as streamed on YouTube from Henry Wood Hall, London, 29.7.2020. (CC)
