
Rosalind Ventris performances on BBC Radio Three
Two of Rosalind Ventris’ performances at Cowbridge Music Festival have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
City Music Foundation is pleased to announce that Helen Charlston’s record, Battle Cry, has been nominated for the Vocal Award in this year’s BBC Music Magazine Awards.
This powerful yet understated recital of modern and seventeenth-century works aims to revisit but also to re-balance the obsession of earlier music with female abandonment and lament.
The stories of women such as Dido and Ariadne have been told and retold throughout history. Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston reconsiders the assumed helplessness of those often seen as being left behind by male adventure and success.
A recent work commissioned for Charlston from the composer Owain Park further takes up the challenge of giving ‘abandoned women’ their own platform, as well as exploring new possibilities for an instrumental pairing – that of voice and theorbo – that remains little explored in contemporary music.
Battle Cry was commissioned by City Music Foundation.
Acclaimed for her musical interpretation, presence and “warmly distinctive tone” (The Telegraph), Helen Charlston has quickly cemented herself as a key performer in the next generation of British singers.
Two of Rosalind Ventris’ performances at Cowbridge Music Festival have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Connaught Brass will take part in Chichester Chamber Concerts 2023-24 season in January 2024.
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