September 2009 - newsletter 10
MRM Artists success in the
press
Andrew Foster-Williams/Handel Jephtha - Gabrieli
Consort, London
…the rousing singing of
Andrew Foster Williams as Zebul confirmed his position as today’s leading
English bass-baritone for Baroque music
Richard Fairman, The
Financial Times, 28 June 2009
Andrew Tortise/Britten Song Cycles - Aldeburgh Festival
Opening
the concert was Britten's first Canticle, My Beloved Mine, Andrew
Tortise allowed the beauty of the music to unfurl lyrically, in a
refreshing natural and unforced way
Lynne Walker, The Independent, 22 June 2009
Stephan Loges/Schubert Schwanengesang - East Neuk Festival
expressed with unflinching directness by the powerful baritone
Kenneth Walton, The Scotsman, 8 July 2010
He has a superb range, the high tenor notes required in the opening Liebesbotschaft as precisely produced as the lower register needed for Kriegers Ahnung and Aufenthalt
Keith Bruce, The Herald, 8 July 2010
Mark Padmore/Britten Before life and after - recording with Roger Vignoles
Padmore
is perhaps today's outstanding interpreter of the repertoire Britten
wrote for his musical, and life partner, Peter Pears. His distinctive
timbre, his colouring of words and his understanding of the drama of
Britten's word-setting make him an ideal exponent of the Holy Sonnets
of John Donne ....Padmore and Vignoles burrow deeply into Donne's
"blacke soule" finding the right tone for each of the nine
settings...Padmore lavishes a palette of tone colour to match or even
outshine Pears here.
Hugh Canning, Sunday Times, 23 August 2009
MRM Artists forthcoming
highlights
Ingela Bohlin will sing in a performance of
Handel’s Berenice, conducted by Alan Curtis, in
Paris on November 21. The work will also be recorded in
Venice.
Katherine Broderick is the soprano soloist in
Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 for
The Philharmonic Society of Orange County on October 24 conducted by Ivor
Bolton. Katherine can then be heard at Kings Place, London, on November 12,
singing Britten’s Poet’s Echo with Malcolm Martineau. Later
that month she is in Madrid singing in Bruckner’s Mass No 3 with the
Orquestra Nacional de Espana conducted by Simone Young.
Karen Cargill will sing Isabella in Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri
for
Scottish Opera, in Glasgow from 21 October, then on tour in
Scotland, with the final perfromance in Edinburgh on 27 November.
Andrew Foster-Williams will sing the role of Ismenor in Opera de Lille’s production
of Rameau’s Dardanus during October and
November. Performances take place in Lille, Caen and Dijon,
and are conducted by Emanuelle Haim.
Lukas Jakobski makes his debut, on
September 15, with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, singing the role of a Flemish Deputy in a
revival of Nicholas Hytner’s production of Verdi’s Don Carlos. The
conductor is Semyon Bychkov.
Simon
Lepper is performing at the North Norfolk Music Festival with
mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer on September 13. They repeat the
programme - Women on the Edge - at the Royal Scottish Academy of
Music and Drama in Glasgow on October 9. On September 18, Simon appears with soprano Joan Rodgers in the
Gala Concert of the Chelsea Schubert Festival and in the following month, on 19 November, he will perform Schumann's Dichterliebe with Mark Padmore in Nottingham.
Pär Lindskog makes a role debut as Bacchus Ariadne auf Naxos for
Washington Opera on October 28.
Stephan Loges will be in Denmark from 9 October singing in performances of Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Manze.
Sally Matthews will be in Brussels in October,
singing Anne Truelove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress
at La Monnaie conducted by Lawrence Renes, with whom she
will also sing Brahms
German Requiem on November 6 at the Palais des Beaux-Arts.
Edgaras Montvidas is also singing with
Scottish Opera, as Nemorino in Donizetti's L’Elisir D’Amore. The
performances, starting September 23, are
conducted by Scottish Opera Music Director Francesco Corti.
Mark Padmore opens the Wigmore Hall’s new season on September 12 with
Schubert’s Die Shöne Müllerin, accompanied by Paul Lewis. This concert
also inaugurates Mark’s period there as Artist in Residence for the 2009/10 season. Then on the 22nd,
again with Paul Lewis, Mark performs Schubert’s Winterreise in
Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw. From October 20, Mark joins Sally Matthews in
performances of The Rake’s Progress at La Monnaie, singing the
role of Tom Rakewell.
Annalena Persson will make her house and role debut
singing Salome with Netherlands Opera starting on November 10 in a
new Peter Konwitschny production.
Viktor Rud's first performance as a member of the Ensemble of the Hamburg State Opera will be as Schaunard Boheme on 6 September. Following this he will make role debuts as Silvio Pagliacci and Sharpless Madama Butterfly.
Andrew Tortise will be singing Ferrando in
Glyndebourne on Tour production of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, opening at Glyndebourne on 13 October.
Fflur Wyn makes her role debut on October 9 as
Sophie in Opera North’s new production of Massenet’s
Werther.
Thomas Walker sings his first Rossini role, Lindoro in L’Italiana in Algeri, alongside Karen Cargill
at Scottish Opera on October 21.