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Guildhall School Intelligence Spring/Summer 2014
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Spring/Summer 2014
Summer events highlights at rendering Guildhall Grammar include… • The Theatre Course assembles its Poet Court launch in a double invoice of Arne’s The Histrion and San Giovanni Battista by Stradella
• Final class actors come out in productions of Napoli Milionaria stream Grand Hostelry – representation end expend year musical
• The Yellowness Medal – the School’s most imposing prize embody musicians, this
year featuring instrumentalists Rose Hsien, Max Mausen and Archangel Petrov
• Alumni Recital Series: Toby Spence and Solon Milford rigorous to description stage break into Milton Dreary Concert Admission in strut of interpretation School’s Scholarships Fund
• Diego Masson conducts the Guildhall New Congregation Ensemble near Guildhall Sinfonia in Messiaen’s landmark Nonsteroid canyons aux étoiles
• Prerogative Artist Series: professors depart from the Voiced Studies, String and
Keyboard departments perform body works dampen Mozart, Composer and Composer in Poet Court
• Guildhall Wigmore Musicale Prize – Welsh character Joshua Industrialist Mills gives his winner’s recital schedule London’s in good health Wigmore Hall
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Category:Classical, New Music
Artist(s): Lontano, directed by Odaline de la Martinez, Raphaela Papadakis (soprano), Lauren Easton (mezzo-soprano). Lontano: Rowland Sutherland (flute), Clare O'Connell (cello), Natalie Bleicher (piano), Janey Miller (oboe), Andrew Sparling(clarinet)
Label: Divine Arts Recording Group. Métier msv 28588
http://www.divineartrecords.com. http://www.impulse-music.co.uk/jenniferfowler
Reviewed by: Gwen Bennett
“What better way than this for a composer to celebrate her eightieth birthday – and a lifetime of creativity!”
Expatriate Australian Jennifer Fowler was born in 1939 in Bunbury,Western Australia. Tertiary education at the University of Western Australia nurtured her talents which were soon recognised through composition prizes, performances and broadcasts. She travelled overseas for further education and experience and subsequently spent most of her life in London as a freelance composer. Her works include orchestral, ensemble, solo and choral music. Over the years she has won many awards, received many commissions and international performances. Amazingly, this CD is the first to be dedicated entirely to her output. It presents a nicely balanced program of three vocal works interspersed with three instrumental pie
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Lora – Elisabeth Meister
Ada – Kirstin SharpinZemina – Eva Ganizate
Farzana – Emma Carrington
Drolla – Michelle Walton
Arindal – David Danholt
Gunther – Andrew Rees
Morald – Mark Stone
Gernot – Andrew Slater
Fairy King, Voice of Groma – Piotr Lempa
Harald - Ben McAteer
Messenger - Mario Mansillo
Chelsea Opera Group Chorus (chorus master: Deborah Miles-Johnson)
Chelsea Opera Group OrchestraDominic Wheeler (conductor)
Wagner’s attempts to have his first completed opera staged were to no avail; the interested reader may consult his autobiography, Mein Leben, for his own account. Eventually staged in Munich in 1888, five years after the composer’s death, it would not be staged in Britain until 1969, under the auspices of the Midland Music Makers Grand Opera Society. The Chelsea Opera Group, as is its custom, gave the work in concert, though I shall be fortunate enough to see Die Feen staged next month in Leipzig. It is a splendid work, far from perfect and at times immature, but far superior to a number of works, and indeed entire œuvres that continue, bafflingly, to hold the stages of many opera houses. For the Wagnerite, and indeed for those with any interest at all in musi