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LIVE music returns to the wonderful setting of Christ Church, Skipton, this month when it plays host to a performance by the Orchestra of the Light…
Solent Concert Orchestra summer concert SOLENT Concert Orchestra gave what must have been one of the first performances by an amateur orchestra during Covid when they played outside Bramshaw Village Hall recently. The concert, under the baton of their musical director Simon Wilkins, was in aid of the Village Hall Trust which is striving to overcome the serious structural damage caused by a freak storm last year. Social distancing was in force but this did not prevent the event being very well supported by both the villagers and the orchestra’s loyal supporters, including its long-st...
Classical CDs: wolves, woodwinds and a masonic funeral | reviews, news & interviews Classical CDs: wolves, woodwinds and a masonic funeral Classical CDs: wolves, woodwinds and a masonic funeral A great pianist celebrates a significant birthday, plus music for solo winds and a rare French ballet score by Graham RicksonSaturday, 17 July 2021 Martha Argerich Edition (EuroArts) Almost eight hours of Martha Argerich on film. What a glorious prospect! This six-DVD set mostly consists of recordings of live concerts. The set was released to celebrate the great Argentinian’s 80th birth...
Denis Robinson Column: Special memories of my big assignment at Rolls-Royce I have a very special memory of the Rolls-Royce site in Hucknall, which has been bought by ITP Aero to end more than 80 years of the company's presence in the town. Friday, 21st May 2021, 5:00 pm It was in the mid-1950s, just a couple of years after I had started work as a cub reporter with the Dispatch, that I was given by far my biggest assignment up to that time. This was to report on development at Hucknall of the Flying Bedstead, the strange-looking contraption which made history as the first 'aircraft' in the ...
Published: Wh en John Wilson’s recording of Korngold’s Symphony in F sharp thundered out of its CD like a musical typhoon, I knew I’d found my personal record of the year. Few other conductors ‘get’ the sweep and bite of Korngold’s style to such a fine degree and the playing was simply awe-inspiring. Advertisement Meeting the British conductor after a recording session with the same orchestra – his newly convened Sinfonia of London (SoL) – it strikes me that his affinity with this highly controlled yet extraordinarily intense music is possibly no coincidence: Wilson i...