Cambridge Summer Music Festival : concerts with a first-time visitor to Cambridge
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28 July
Some Tweets about four concerts, in three days, at Cambridge Summer Music Festival (#CSMF16), with - and chosen by - a first-time visitor to Cambridge
A follow-up to A quick overview, by Tweet, of I Fagiolini’s programme 'Amuse-bouche' at Cambridge Summer Music Festival...
1. Benjamin Appl (baritone) (@BenjaminAppl), standing in for Louise Alder (soprano) (@louisealdersop), with Gary Matthewman (piano) (@songpianist) at The Fitzwilliam Museum (@FitzMuseum_UK) ~ Monday 25 July at 7.30 p.m.
A shame not to have @WatkinsHuw's settings of Larkin, which would have been fascinating, but the division into chansons / arias survived...— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 26, 2016
A real treat to hear @BenjaminAppl as a native speaker sing Schumann, and with such an operatically infused affect - as the arias bore out !— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 26, 2016
By the passion in and for Heine / Schumann, a reminder of @Ianbostridge with Winterreise : https://t.co/fXfNdUj4M5 https://t.co/9HXBD0Fxvb— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 26, 2016
The Duparc, Mozart (fr. Don Giovanni), a little My Fair Lady, or even some chilling Britten - all showed his command https://t.co/9HXBD0Fxvb— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 26, 2016
Interlude (general grumping) :
Notes to recital audiences :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 26, 2016
* Not stifling a cough, or holding it to the closing chords, is disrespectful
* So is turning a page too soon
'Too soon' means, as in the desire to applaud everything (and not allow pieces to be grouped), prioritizing oneself. https://t.co/iCqjR7Btlv— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 26, 2016
Resuming with Appl (@BenjaminAppl) and Matthewman (piano) :
The patience, restraint, skill of @songpianist @BenjaminAppl at @cambridgemusic are to be commended - dealing with unneeded applause / noise
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 31, 2016
And what @songpianist had to express to us in those postludes needed to be heard fully - not concentrating on one's own / others' rustling !
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 31, 2016
2. The Piatti String Quartet at ‘Little St Mary’s’ (The Church of St Mary the Less [Wikipedia®]) ~ Tuesday 26 July at 1.15 p.m. :
-> We heard its structure symphonically, which carried through to the closing Allegro assai, and its modulations, and moves into the minor— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 26, 2016
3. The Academy of Ancient Music (@AAMOrchestra), directed by Pavlo Beznosiuk, in The College of St John the Evangelist, St John's College (@stjohnscam) ~ Tuesday 26 July at 7.30 p.m.
At @cambridgemusic, we heard, amongst others from @AAMorchestra, the loveliness of Rachel Brown (baroque flute) and Alastair Ross (hspchd) !— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 27, 2016
If you weren't at @stjohnscam, Freiburger Barockorchester, idiosyncratic at Schloß Köthen :https://t.co/NgYIZX3PPj https://t.co/pt25chAkHb— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 27, 2016
In truth, a chapel's acoustic can do strange things - but could it make Iwona Muszynska sound out of tempo with Pavlo Beznosiuk, #CSMF16 ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 31, 2016
Amongst in other places, a matter not of unimportance in BWV 1043 that the fellow first violinist heed the director. https://t.co/nNIoiWsb4g— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 31, 2016
4. #Gallicantus at The Round Church ~ Wednesday 27 July at 9.30 p.m.
As a melding of Latin texts set in the mid-sixteenth century (1555) and contemporary ones 460 years later, some remarkable aural synergy...— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 28, 2016
Many thanks to #Gallicantus, to John McMunn as director of @cambridgemusic, and to The Round Church, for letting us be part by proximity !— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 28, 2016
Not bad as a review, @yourspaceapts, though most of it could clearly have been written ahead of time, with comments and quotations added...— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 28, 2016
-> Afterwards, Gabriel Crouch (dir. / baritone) acknowledged no evangelical intent in this gig at The Round Church https://t.co/4pvVEyRLNr— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 28, 2016
What makes a review of a live event not a review ? :— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 30, 2016
When it clearly resembles a template, to which a few adjectives, etc., were then added
Also from #CSMF16 : A quick overview, by Tweet, of I Fagiolini’s programme 'Amuse-bouche' at Cambridge Summer Music Festival...
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
