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Pure Bliss – rediscovering a great forgotten composer Can new recordings of this neglected British composer’s music finally put an end to our ignorance of Bliss? Unbridled originality: Sir Arthur Bliss  Credit: Bettman The two volumes of the piano music of Sir Arthur Bliss, played with great perception and sensitivity by Mark Bebbington and available on the Somm label as part of its heroic mission to present lesser-known pieces by British composers, has precipitated me back into an exploration of the work of this curate’s egg of a composer. I have always thought Bliss missed out on the...

Bard Music Festival Presents a Program of French Piano Music Both the recital and scholar talk will be available to stream on-demand through UPSTREAMING, the Fisher Center at Bard’s virtual stage, February 19–25.by BWW News Desk This February, the Bard Music Festival presents "A Program of French Piano Music, Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger," a recital of French music performed by pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in fall 2020. Commissioned by the Bard Music Festival, the concert features works by César Franck, Lili Boulanger,...

Country Life Trending: Barnes played a role in everything from the invention of football to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Carla Passino takes a closer look. Until an army of 19th-century engineers descended on Barnes to build bridges and railways, this was a world apart, a rural idyll preserved intact by the Thames that bounds it on three sides. Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the village had made history even earlier, when it was granted by King Æthelstan to the canons of St Paul in the 900s. The link between Barnes and St Paul’s persists more than 1,000 years on, as the Dea...

Home > classical > Voces8 LIVE from London online review part 2 – an assortment box of Christmas choral treats Voces8 LIVE from London online review part 2 – an assortment box of Christmas choral treats | reviews, news & interviews Voces8 LIVE from London online review part 2 – an assortment box of Christmas choral treats Voces8 LIVE from London online review part 2 – an assortment box of Christmas choral treats The second half of this ambitious festival provides further multifarious pleasures by Bernard HughesSunday, 27 December 2020 Vocal ensemble Voces8, hosts of LIVE ...

Christmas Oratorio. Ensemble Resonanz presents Bach's Christmas Oratorio as Hausmusik among friends. With a small cast and no large choir, the ensemble has arranged 30 arias, recitatives, choruses, and chorales from Bach's masterpiece in its own version. The score remains untouched, but electric guitar and Hammond organ sound in the continuo, there’s only one trumpet, and the whole ensemble joins in the chorales. View here. ** Delibes’s Sylvia. Conductor: Kevin Rhodes, choreography: Manuel Legris after Louis Mérante. With Kiyoka Hashimoto, Masayu Kimoto, and Davide Dato. Production fro...