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2 months
2 weeks ago
Listen again, as Jez Nelson was joined by a panel of the UK’s leading jazz critics to play selections from their favourite album releases of 2009. The first track was Dave Douglas recorded live at Cheltenham Jazz Festival and the last track Paul Dunmall playing bagpipes at the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham.
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We’ve tagged this post with BBC, BBC Radio 3, jazz, listen on Tuesday 22 December 2009.
3 months ago
From the 15th December all the way up until Christmas day, BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting a series of concerts recorded at the 2009 Cheltenham Music Festival.
Tune in at 1pm each day to catch eight lunchtime performances from Music 2009:
…and following concerts will have programme details will be available nearer the time:
See a list of upcoming lunchtime concerts from BBC Radio 3.
We’ve tagged this post with BBC Radio 3, listen, music on Wednesday 9 December 2009.
3 months
2 weeks ago
“I’m a big fan of this festival…I think it’s one of the most interesting and forward-thinking jazz festivals in this country”
Jamie Cullum
The 2010 Cheltenham Jazz Festival programme is shaping up nicely — but one of the most exciting things about next year is that for the first time the festival will welcome Jamie Cullum as Guest Director.
BBC Radio Gloucestershire caught up with him during the Literature Festival — listen here to what he’s looking forward to about Cheltenham Jazz 2010:
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from BBC Radio Gloucestershire
We’ve tagged this post with 2010, Guest Director, Jamie Cullum, jazz, listen on Tuesday 24 November 2009.
5 months
1 week ago
Whether or not you managed to see the 50th anniversary Hoffnung exhibition at the Summerfield Gallery during the 2009 HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival, you may be interested to know that Radio 4 broadcast a play on Hoffnung on Monday 28 September – and you can Listen Again here until Sunday 3 October.
One tubby British comic genius – Little Britain’s Matt Lucas – plays that other tubby British comic genius from another age, Gerard Hoffnung, in a play that also features Gina McKee (as Hoffnung’s wife Annetta), Hugh Bonneville and – playing herself in the present day – Annetta Hoffnung.
Hear the play on BBC Radio 4 →
We’ve tagged this post with BBC, exhibition, Hoffnung, listen, music on Wednesday 30 September 2009.
5 months
3 weeks ago
Listen again to Discovering Music from the 2009 Cheltenham Music Festival, broadcast on Radio 3 at 5pm on Sunday, 20 September.
Presenter Stephen Johnson is joined by the Aronowitz Ensemble to explore the music of Gustav Mahler and Alfred Schnittke — two composers who came together in one of the festival’s central themes this year, music of Jewish heritage. The brilliantly illuminating insights of Stephen Johnson surround excerpts from and performances of Mahler’s early Piano Quartet movement, Schnittke’s Piano Quintet and the Mahler/Schnittke Piano Quartet.
listen again on the BBC Radio 3 website
Eight other concerts from the 2009 Cheltenham Music Festival will be broadcast in the fortnight leading up to Christmas Day — 15–18 and 22–25 December — a reminder of great summertime music-making from Cheltenham in the depths of winter!
We’ve tagged this post with BBC Radio 3, listen, music on Monday 21 September 2009.
8 months ago
Next week the festival plays host to performances by Christiane Stotijn and Elizabeth Watts. They were chosen by festival Director, Meurig Bowen, not just for their musicality, intelligence and technical assurance, but because of their ability to communicate with their audience: for an event with a real connection with the performer, there is little better than a song recital!
Soprano Elizabeth Watts won the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Award in 2006, the Rosenblatt Recital Award at the 2007 Cardiff Singer of the World, and was nominated for a Classical Brit earlier this year. She is currently a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and is making great strides internationally on the opera stage and in concert. Her programme at Cheltenham will ably demonstrate her fresh, joyous approach to music-making, and is not to be missed.
Dutch mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn is one of the great singers of her generation and shares with Liz a real generosity and warmth on stage. She recently performed in the prestigious Risør Chamber Music Festival in Norway and her Cheltenham programme includes Mahler, for which she is particularly renowned — sure to be a festival highlight.
Among young mezzo-sopranos, Christianne Stotijn is in a class apart; she stamps every note and word with character, and delivers her songs with a lyrical glow that considerably advances global warming…
“Whatever the song, Stotijn sings from the heart to the heart”.
The Times 2009
Click below to hear some music samples!
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We’ve tagged this post with listen, music on Thursday 9 July 2009.
9 months ago
In the midst of the 2009 Cardiff Singer of the World competition (catch the final on Sunday 14 June on the BBC), it’s a good time to recall the superb performances of the English representative in the 2007 competition.
Soprano Elizabeth Watts was a finalist and, following in the footsteps of Bryn Terfel years back, won the prestigious Song Prize. Since then, Liz has continued to impress audiences with the loveliness of her voice, technical assurance and magnetic stage personality.
Liz is now a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and she appears at the HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival on Tuesday 14 July (M49) in the superb singing acoustic of the Pittville Pump Room. She performs her own new ‘cycle’ of Schubert songs, Frulingsreise (Spring Songs, as a counterpart to the Winterreise), alongside Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs and a selection of Benjamin Britten’s ever-appealing folksong settings.
Her debut recital recording of Schubert lieder with pianist Roger Vignoles shows what a remarkable talent she is — and you can listen to two of these here:
We’ve tagged this post with listen, music on Sunday 14 June 2009.
9 months ago
Courtesy of the Sounds of Science guys, find out what Dara Ó Briain, Alice Roberts and all thought, did and enjoyed about this year’s Science Festival!
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by Sounds of Science — www.soundsofscience.co.uk
We’ve tagged this post with interview, listen, retrospective, science on Saturday 13 June 2009.
10 months
2 weeks ago
Thirty audio samples from a huge range of artists are now online to give you a taste of the Jazz Festival which starts this week.
Take your pick from any of the following, amongst the sell-outs we still have a few tickets left, but don’t leave it too long!
… and there are plenty more events!
We’ve tagged this post with jazz, listen on Monday 27 April 2009.
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