Bach's Early Years in the Royal Court Inspired Monumental Works

Edit Houston Press 27 Jan 2016
The flowering, musical energy of Bach's early years in the Duke's court; an Italian madrigal comedy; springtime expressions; the cheerful melodies and exuberant phrases of Bach's Orchestral Suites; and a Valentine's “concert of love” in the Italian Renaissance tradition are all elements of the 4th Annual Houston Early Music Festival ... February 6 ... Lucidarium – Ay me Sospiri, Love Letters from the Italian Renaissance ... ....

Bejun Mehta, La Nuova Musica, David Bates

Edit Skiddle 30 Nov 2015
Wigmore Hall in London ... 7.30pm ... Venue ... Perche Tacete, Regolati Concenti?, Hoffmann's Schlage Doch, Gewunschte Stunde, JC Bach's Ach, Dass Ich Wassers Gnug Hatte (Lamento) and Vivaldi's Pianti, Sospiri E Demandar Mercede ... ....

Which is Better -- Schirmer’s “24 Italian Songs and Arias” or Paton’s Version?

Edit About.com 27 May 2015
One of the most popular books for beginning singers is Schirmer’s Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias. Students over the decades have started their classical education learning the beautiful songs and arias included in the collection ... About Schirmer’s Songs. As Schirmer’s title states, the collection consists of 24 Italian Songs and Arias by 16 various composers ... Se tu m'ami, se sospiri (by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi)....

Reflections on Gallipoli review – Turkey and Australia's battlefield dead rise again

Edit The Guardian 25 Mar 2015
4 / 5 stars. City Recital Hall, Sydney ... Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) perform Reflections on Gallipoli. Photograph. Jamie Williams. Brigid Delaney ... The ACO’s performance is as world-class as usual, and the program mixes new compositions (the premiere of Carl Vine’s Soliloquy and Our Sons) with first world war classics including Elgar’s Sospiri and Kelly’s Elegy for strings ‘In Memoriam Rupert Brooke’ ... comments....

Reflections on Gallipoli review: Australian Chamber Orchestra sets our unresolved view of Gallipoli to music

Edit Canberra Times 16 Mar 2015
Taryn Fiebig sang with devastating intensity. Photo. Jamie Williams. Reflections on Gallipoli. Australian Chamber Orchestra ... The simple modal melodies on strings is reminiscent of, and, let it be said, derivative of, the haunting English pastoral style found in Elgar's Sospiri and Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending (with leader Richard Tognetti as soloist) which ended the first and second halves respectively ... Until March 27. ....

Richard Tognetti's Australian Chamber Orchestra concert series explores both sides of Gallipoli campaign

Edit Canberra Times 11 Mar 2015
Nigel Jamieson, Yalin Ozucelik, Richard Tognetti, Nathaniel Dean and Neil Armfield are working together on Reflections on Gallipoli. Photo. Sahlan Hayes ... Can it cut through the usual hubris and offer a different perspective? ... "How forgiving ... Bartok's roiling String Quartet No 2 gives way to Elgar's Sospiri, written in 1914 and a surprising change of mood for the composer; perhaps a portent for what lay around the corner ... aco.com.au. ....

LANGUIDI SOSPIRI>

Edit MUZU.TV 12 Dec 2014
Watch the official LANGUIDI SOSPIRI video by Eddy Ryan in HD on WWW.MUZU.TV and check out the latest new music releases and playlists for free.> ....

OAE/Tognetti review – joyfully going with the flow

Edit The Guardian 25 Nov 2014
Town Hall, Cheltenham. A partnership with guest director Richard Tognetti brings zest and brilliance to the OAE. 4. Laid-back style combined with tight discipline … Richard Tognetti. Photograph. Jason Catlett ... Segueing from Grieg’s Poème Erotique for strings and harp (the Op 43 No 5 miniature for piano in Tognetti’s own subtle arrangement) into Elgar’s Sospiri, created a rather elegant pairing ... Sign up for the Guardian Today ... ....

‘No consensus’ to stop teams collapsing – Kaltenborn

Edit F1Fanatic 19 Oct 2014
In the round-up. Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn says there is no agreement over what should be done to prevent F1’s vulnerable teams from collapsing. Links. Your daily digest of F1 news, views, features and more ... Dan ... Simtek tested Taki Inoue and Vincenzo Sospiri 20 years ago today, but although Inoue was the slower of the two it was he who got the nod to make his race debut for the team in his home grand prix at Suzuka....

Candlelit service at Westminster Abbey an eerie metaphor for war's shadow

Edit The Guardian 05 Aug 2014
"And he would have approved of this service ... The service had many moments of piercing beauty and desolation, pairing almost unbearably poignant music, including Edward Elgar's Sospiri, first performed in London in August 1914, Bach and Vaughn Williams, with prayers, poetry and prose, including Sebastian Faulks reading from his novel Birdsong, and poems read by actors Mark Gatiss, Penelope Keith, Rachel Stirling and David Morrissey ... ....

Tonight's TV highlights 18/07/2014

Edit The Guardian 18 Jul 2014
Last year, Hemsby in Norfolk was battered by the worst storm surge the area had seen in 60 years, sweeping three homes into the sea and damaging four others. The past few decades have seen an unprecedented 70 houses lost to coastal erosion ... Ben Arnold ... his Sospiri received its premiere on the first night of the 1914 season. Tonight is given over to Elgar's The Kingdom, the slow, sombre component of his unfinished biblical triptych....

FLC organise fundraising concert: Sat 14 Jun (University of Bath)

Edit noodls 09 Jun 2014
(Source. University of Bath). Three Ways School is a Bath-based special needs school. The school aims to build a café and shop on its premises. Students at the school will run both and this will provide them with work experience, life skills and accredited qualifications, all of which will help some of them to find a job once they leave school ... The concert will present music by ... Se tu m'ami, se sospiri   by Pergolesi ... (noodl....

RNCM Presents After the Silence: Music in the Shadow of War at IWM North in July

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 15 Apr 2014
Music in the Shadow of War. Manchester (PRWEB UK) 15 April 2014 ... Forming part of IWM North’s Reactions 14 season of creative responses to the First World War, this unique event features major works and lesser known gems. Elgar’s poignant Nimrod and his heartfelt Sospiri are juxtaposed with the grittiness of Paul Max Edlin’s Fifth Trumpet and Penderecki’s anguished Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima ... After the Silence ... ENDS ... IWM North....
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