Erica Jeal
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‘I never choose the cautious option’: Royal Opera’s Jakub Hrůša on collaboration, control and conducting Wagner - AOL (opens the original)
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‘You can choose the cautious option – or you can take the full risk and just go and conduct. Maybe I would like the cautious option, but I never choose it.” Jakub Hrůša learned to trust his instincts at the Royal Opera House back in 2022 when he conducted his first ever Wagner opera – Lohengrin – there, describing the experience as “one of the absolute highlights of my life”. Now he’s a year into his role as the house’s music director and about to conduct his first Parsifal, staged by Evgeny Tit
Roomful of Teeth/Kahane review – twisty and tuneful songs with a darkly comic edge - AOL (opens the original)
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Between having a clarinet concerto at the Proms and a duo project with violinist Pekka Kuusisto this autumn, the singer, songwriter and composer Gabriel Kahane is touring with Roomful of Teeth, the virtuoso US vocal ensemble whose founding members include Caroline Shaw. Elevator Songs, which he wrote for them in 2023, is a darkly whimsical piece somewhere between a concept pop album and a song cycle. We are in a wormhole of a hotel, where the elevator – cue chimes – takes us to what seem like pa
Exaudi: Pocket Universe album review – virtuoso vocals with a joyfully bonkers bent - AOL (opens the original)
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There is a lot of joy in this release from Exaudi and their conductor, James Weeks, bringing together four substantial, eclectic works written for the vocal group during the 2010s. The first is Guide by Cassandra Miller. Based on a devotional song as recorded in 1968 by the folk singer Maria Muldaur, phrases of which are repeated freely by the singers in imitation of Muldaur’s swooping, full-voiced style, it builds quickly into a kind of controlled cacophony. Andrew Hamilton’s Proclamation of th
Opus13: Mendelssohn and Grieg album review – an assured and distinctive debut - AOL (opens the original)
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You would expect good things from Opus13 – current BBC New Generation Artists, and winners at last year’s Wigmore Hall and Bordeaux string quartet competitions – and this assured, distinctive debut lives up to that. The quartet formed in Oslo in 2014 as teenagers, naming themselves after the first piece they played together, and it’s with that work, Mendelssohn’s Op 13 No 2, that they lead off. The brief, soulful introduction breaks into a tense, runaway allegro in which the occasional violin sw
Alcina review – Handel’s opera of sex and sorcery comes alive in vivid staging - AOL (opens the original)
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Handel, but make it fun. Perhaps that was Richard Jones’s brief for his production of Alcina, first seen here in 2022 and revived by Sarah Fahie, its original movement director. And of all Handel’s operas perhaps it’s this one, with its desert-island storyline of sorcery and sex – what happens on the island stays on the island – that invites this treatment. Jones makes the “good guys” into members of a kind of puritan cult, so the tension between the moral world and the sensual, instinctive one
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