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on May 11, 2011

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The Art of Venus: review by Charlotte Valori

Packing all the punches: Edward Lambert’s The Art of Venus, Tête à Têteoperissimawhispers / August 16, 2017 “I have tried to destroy the picture of the most beautiful woman in mythological history as a protest against the Government for destroying Mrs Pankhurst, who is the most beautiful character in modern history. Justice is an element of beauty as much as colour and outline on canvas.” So, in 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson explained why she had slashed the Rokeby Venus, a masterpiece by Velázquez which still hangs today (restored) in the National Gallery. Edward Lambert’s The Art of Venus takes Richardson’s act of aesthetic terrorism as a starting point for imagining Venus herself, a goddess both mighty and furious at her reduction, by humanity, to a mere sex symbol. Venus, sung with sculptural beauty and luminous, near-maleficent presence by Kate Symonds-Joy, rails with disdainful fury at a rather endearing Mars (smooth-voiced barito…

Choir's back-to-Biber triumph (Roderic Dunnett)

A browse through previous concerts by Newbury Chamber Choir is revealing. Its members have contributed their share of Handel and Vivaldi, Mozart and Brahms. But what intrigues its eye-catching less familiar repertoire.
Newbury’s capable, well-tuned choir prides itself on including music undeservingly overlooked. They have engaged with beguiling medieval Play (Opera) of Daniel, reaching back to the 13th century. The early Baroque yielded Carissimi’s oratorio Jonas; and from a generation later the Missa Dolorosa of Venices’s Antonio Caldara (which is also featured on 25th March at St. Lawrence, Eastcote, Middlesex by the Sine Nomine Singers: www.sinenomine.org.uk)
Newbury has shone light on two composers who achieved a kind of ‘first’: introducing sacred concertos by Giovanni Paolo Cima (1570-1622), a Monteverdi contemporary credited with inventing the trio-sonata; and more crucially, the choral work Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo (1600), by the slightly older Emilio de’ Ca…

Aspects of "Work" in Manchester Art Gallery

It was thrilling to be able to attend the first performance of my Aspects of Work in the Pre-Raphaelite Gallery of Manchester Art Gallery where Ford Madox Brown's famous panorama of Victorian life is beautifully displayed.

Performed by Julian Jacobson and Mariko Brown
Translating a picture, especially one as far reaching as this, into another art form seems an unlikely task: music can make a good attempt at capturing the mood of a painting - but ‘Work” is a complex and compressed panorama of Victorian life, and interpreting all that in musical terms was going to be a challenge.
The realism of “Work” is typical of the Pre Raphaelites (of whose brotherhood Brown was never actually a member) with their immense attention to detail. “Work” took 10 or more years to create. I was attracted to the very idea that Brown was also celebrating his own labour of love, a delight in an achievement that is hand made and crafted with great skill and care, hard toil, patience and perseverance.
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