Tim Ashley

6 days ago | theguardian.com | Tim Ashley

William Christie and Les Arts Florissants marked Holy Week at Wigmore Hall with a selection of Tenebrae Lessons and Responsories by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, written for liturgical use on the evenings before Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. The Lessons take their texts from the Lamentations of Jeremiah, while the Responsories use brief extracts of passion narratives from the gospels.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Tim Ashley

The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra marked its centenary with a performance of Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony under their principal conductor Joanna MacGregor – only the fourth music director in the orchestra’s 100-year history. MacGregor herself is a familiar interpreter of the obbligato piano part, which here was played by her former pupil, Australian pianist-composer Joseph Havlat, while MacGregor conducted the symphony with considerable fire and brilliance.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Tim Ashley

Édouard Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ys was first performed in Paris in 1888. A work of often startling originality, it was hugely admired in its day and still hovers on the fringes of the repertory in the French-speaking world. Elsewhere, however, its outings have been sporadic, so Chelsea Opera Group cannot be too highly commended for tackling it in a very fine concert performance conducted by Paul Wingfield.

1 month ago | msn.com | Tim Ashley

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Tim Ashley

Jonathan Dove’s Uprising is a new youth and community opera, premiered at Glyndebourne, though later this month there are performances, with different orchestral and choral forces, at Saffron Hall (whose trust co-commissioned it with Glyndebourne), and also in Edinburgh and Glasgow. It’s an opera of distinct halves.