Already Series Eight of Music in New Malden is drawing to a close. This season has ranged across a wider repertoire than previously, including a piano sonata by Michael Tippett, baroque violin duos, yet another Mozart piano concerto in an arrangement for fortepiano and classical winds, and a semi-staged seventeenth-century opera! Series 8 ends with …
Month: May 2016
GSMD Cantata Group 15 May
Yesterday we enjoyed a repeat visit from the talented musicians of the Historical Performance department of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, directed by James Johnston. Their performance of John Blow's 1683 masque, "Venus and Adonis" offered a glimpse into a rarely-heard work that was an obvious precursor of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, considered …