The freshly-completed compositions have arrived and dates are to follow soon for the World Premiere of Michael Daugherty’s new song cycle for Rambert Dance Company with Sarah Gabriel, with performances at Sadlers Wells, London, The Lowry, Salford, and on tour in the 2012/13 season.
Composer: Michael Daugherty
Choreographer: Marguerite Donlon
Conductor: Paul Hoskins
(Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning) Rambert's 'Seven for a Secret, never to be told', 2011
Performing at a special celebration for Handel House and its many valued supporters, this evening was a very happy one for Fête Galante (Sarah Gabriel and Nathaniel Mander performing as a duo), and a truly intense interior decoration experience.
The programme included arias from Alcina, Rodelinda and Amadigi and Handel’s rarely-heard oratorio, Alexander Balus.
Here’s a rehearsal photo of Nathaniel Mander, who is more often to be found at the harpsichord.
Watching last night’s breathtaking performance of ‘The Master and Margarita’ at The Barbican brought back memories of exciting workshops with Complicite for Alexander Raskatov’s extraordinary opera, ‘A Dog’s Heart’. With the wonderful mezzo, Lore Lixenberg, working with Complicite actors and operating puppets created by Blind Summit, we both sang various roles while Simon McBurney finalised the dramaturgy before the opera’s premieres with DNO and ENO for the 2010/11 season.
Here are a few blurry photos of the Dog in various states of development…
Following their romp through the music and writings of the feted and notorious 18th century London Pleasure gardens, Sarah Gabriel (soprano), Julian Forbes (tenor) and Christopher Bucknall (harpsichord) are already planning to take another twirl around the Vauxhall Roubiliac statue. Their programme, riddled with songs urbane and profane, interspersed with ribald readings from the cantankerous and salacious journals of the age, will soon be repeated far more than any such thing should be. Dates to follow. 18th century open-mindedness advised…
Cruikshank's satirical cartoon, 'Vauxhall Fete'
This is what audience members wrote on the eponymous venue ‘feedback forms’ after today’s show at the Handel House Museum, London, giving us a unanimous 5 stars…
“Thoroughly entertaining”
“Highly entertaining, great variety”
“Very uplifting”
“Humorous rending”
“Very accomplished”
“I really enjoyed how the small venue was so intimate and how the musicians really connected with the audience”
“So fun! A wonderful combination of pieces and a cozy setting”
“Completely outstanding and uplifting”
“Fabulous entertainment”
Sarah Gabriel will play the role of The Governess in Benjamin Britten’s opera, ‘The Turn of the Screw’ for the newly-formed Anglo Hungarian Opera Company in June 2012.
Conducted by Gergely Kaposi and directed by Daisy Evans.
Sarah Gabriel and Dominic Harlan have chosen an hour of their favourite songs from their previous recitals for their concert at Chelsea Arts Club on 4th March. Their work together has included projects for Glyndebourne, Tete-a-Tete Riverside Festival and Leeds Lieder Festival.
Tickets are £8.50 and the performance starts at 6pm
The Chelsea Arts Club, 143 Old Church Street, London SW3 6EB
There are no photos of Sarah and Dom together, so here’s one of Dom brooding against a wall.
After a happy and exciting reunion with Christopher Suckling on the gamba and Jan Waterfield on the harpsichord in a Guildhall rehearsal room with baroque heating, we’re revving up for the Abbandonata mini-tour to Scotland, along with the terrific violinists Oliver Webber and Julia Black.
The highlight will be our recital for the
Salon Tuesdays continues its 2011-12 season with A Georgian Christmas
: an hour-long programme of 18th century Advent and Christmas songs, carols, and readings in the intimate drawing-room setting of the Georgian Group, Fitzroy Square, London. Early booking is advised.
Sarah Gabriel | soprano
Oliver Gerrish | countertenor
Ben Fleetwood Smyth | tenor
Matthew Altham | baritone
Nathaniel Mander | harpsichord
Tuesday 13th December, 7.30 pm
The Georgian Group, 6 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 5DX (nearest tube: Warren Street)
Tickets £20 to include a glass of prosecco, with further glasses for a paltry donation.
Booking
Online: www.georgiangroup.org.uk
(please go to the events page for December to enter the Georgian Group booking system)
By phone: 020 7529 8920
Sarah will be performing Schoenberg’s momentous String Quartet number 2 and Schubert’s much-loved ‘Shepherd on the Rock’ on 8th December with Ensemble 360 at The Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield.
Musicians from around the world were auditioned to form Ensemble 360 – a flexible, eleven-piece chamber music ensemble of five string players, five wind players and a pianist.
Music in the Round is as it suggests: a performance in which the performers are surrounded by the audience. The set-up is informal for audience and musicians alike, with an opportunity for a conversation with the artists about the programme.
Read more here:
http://www.musicintheround.co.uk/event.php?id=261
Programme:
SCHUBERT Shepherd on the Rock D965
For soprano, clarinet and piano
SCHOENBERG String Quartet in F sharp minor Op.10
With soprano
BRAHMS Piano Quartet in A Op.26
‘Schoenberg’s second String Quartet features the precise moment when the composer diverted the course of classical music from lush and romantic tonality to atonal music. The final two movements uniquely feature a soprano, with words from Stefan George’s poem Rapture.
Brahms was a big influence on Schoenberg and you can hear this in his Piano Quartet in A, which reveals just how forward-looking the supposedly conservative Brahms really was.’
Salon Tuesdays return with an hour-long programme of beautiful, rarely-heard songs and arias from the 18th century in the intimate drawing-room setting of the Georgian Group, Fitzroy Square, London. Early booking is advised.
Sarah Gabriel | soprano
Oliver Gerrish | countertenor
Nathaniel Mander | harpsichord
Tickets £20 to include a glass of prosecco.
You can book tickets online here (this link takes you to the events page for November): www.georgiangroup.org.uk
Location : The Georgian Group, 6 Fitzroy Sq, London W1T 5DX (nearest tube: Warren Street)
