This week I have been recording Norwegian, Finnish and Estonian choral music by Edvard Grieg, Einojuhani Rautavaara and Veljo Tormis with the BBC Singers peut on prendre viagra. This included a range of folk-song-like settings and Rautavaara's direct and dramatic appropriation of the Magnificat. Naturally, this meant some very intense language coaching and, in my case, bringing the low bass notes that characterise a fair bit of music from these areas. We made the recording at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge for broadcast at a later date.
This entry was posted in Broadcast, Recording on April 1, 2014 by CheyneyK.
Last night I was involved in a seasonally glittering Opera Rara project-concert at the Royal Festival Hall in the middle of an incredibly busy pre-Christmas south bank. Fantasio is, even by Opera Rara's standards, a rather obscure affair that provides a vehicle for pantomime-grade characterisation with some super melody snuck in; barcorolles and the can-can are both as unmistakable and yet evanescent as Parisian perfume. As ever there was international-class singing from the principal cast and even conductor Sir Mark Elder got in on the act with spoken and sung cameos from the rostrum, delighting the audience. I was singing in the chorus.
The concert also functions as an advertisement for the recording of the opera, made during the week's rehearsals prior to the event, which will be released in 2014.
This entry was posted in Concert, Opera, Recording on December 16, 2013 by CheyneyK.
<a href="http://cheyneyk.files achat le viagra.wordpress.com/2013/08/macbeth_score.jpg"> This week I am involved in a recording of Verdi's Macbeth, an operatic treatment of Shakespeare's play. The recording is being made, nominally, by English National Opera with Edward Gardner conducting (though I am appearing as part of a hired-in chorus under ENO's umbrella).
Rather excitingly, I have taken a tiny 'step-out' role in this recording, singing the First Apparition in a characteristically spooky scene from the opera in which Macbeth (sung by Simon Keenlyside) receives cryptic visions of his future.
This entry was posted in Opera, Recording on August 20, 2013 by CheyneyK.
During this year's annual journey to Edinburgh for Bach's B Minor Mass with Ludus Baroque we also recorded Handel's little-known masque The Triumph of Time and Truth. There are a fair number of choruses, many of which punctuate solo passages and one of which is itself an aggregation of short solo parts. The recording was made by the local Delphian Records, who recorded the Alexander's Feast in which I was involved on a previous visit.
This entry was posted in Concert, Recording on August 12, 2013 by CheyneyK.