There was a ‘wow!’ moment from The Glasshouse this week with the announcement that the Philip Glass Ensemble is performing there on September 26, on a rare UK tour. The group were founded in New York in 1968 by Glass himself, the composer who upended classical and film music in the last century with his …
Tickets are on sale for BBC Proms at The Glasshouse whose return with a clutch of varied concerts will be music to the ears of all who enjoyed last year’s inaugural weekend mini-season. It puts the North East music centre on a par with the Royal Albert Hall and provides a weekend home for the …
This has been the stand out concert for me since last August when Dinis Sousa, Royal Northern Sinfonia principal conductor, was picking out some highlights of the orchestra’s forthcoming 2023-24 season for me. They were all highlights, of course. But when looking ahead to the performance of Robert Schumann’s oratorio, Paradise (Paradise and the Peri, …
Film music plays a leading role among April’s musical highlights in the North East. Royal Northern Sinfonia will be bringing the Charlie Chaplin silent classic Modern Times to noisy life at The Glasshouse on April 18, before the music of Harry Potter illuminates the vast spaces of Durham Cathedral on May 3. Looking (far) ahead, …
There’s an urban myth about a star solo violinist asked to stand-in at the last minute for an unwell colleague, who only discovers the concerto he is playing is Mendelssohn not Mozart after the lights go down and the orchestra strikes up the opening note. This is a musician’s in-joke based on the fact that, …
Rumour has it that The Glasshouse bosses were nervous nobody would turn up, having programmed an entire weekend of music by a cultish but heavy-going Austrian country boy born 200 years ago. Forget the nerves – the Big Bruckner Weekend pulled in packed houses drawn by the unique opportunity to hear the composer’s final three …
Newcastle upon Tyne Bach Choir will mark the 300th anniversary of Bach’s St John Passion with a performance in the King’s Hall, Newcastle University. The celebrated work, telling of the last days of Jesus Christ, was first performed on Good Friday in 1724 at St Nicholas Church in Leipzig, where the composer had just been …
A big night is coming up at The Glasshouse for RNS Moves, the inclusive ensemble for disabled and non-disabled orchestral musicians. Joining them in the smaller of the two concert halls will be much feted rising star Héloïse Werner (Paris-born, London-based) who is both soprano and composer. Recently appointed an associate artist of London’s Wigmore …
Friday night’s Royal Northern Sinfonia concert with guest soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason was a spectacular evening of music. The eldest of the famous musical Kanneh-Mason siblings from Nottingham delighted the audience with a performance of Clara Wieck Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor, a work included on Isata’s chart topping album Romance: The Piano Music of …
Anton Bruckner’s music has never been used to advertise after shave or motor oil or even soap. Nor has it appeared in the opening credits of a weepy movie or sci-fi spectacular. Maybe that’s the real reason for its intimidating reputation with concertgoers. The late 19th Century Austrian composer wrote nine symphonies each clocking up …
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