Adrian Ainsworth
@Adrian_Specs
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Mostly music, art, film & photography. Enjoys writing about all of these: formerly on the ‘Specs’ blog, now part of the ArtMuseLondon team.
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Joined October 2011
🖼️🤔👓 On my fellow Croydonian Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s 150th anniversary, let me tell you about the remarkable @ThreeChoirs performance of his cantata ‘The Atonement’. Features bonus enticing CD recommendations! @ArtMuseLondon .
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A highlight of a brief visit to the Three Choirs Festival this year was the opportunity to hear Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s little-known and rarely-performed choral work, ‘The Atonement’. The sense o…
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Beautiful, bewildering, bravura stuff at the Proms tonight. New to Delius’s ‘Mass of Life’ but enthusiasm ignited by this stirring performance.
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Yet again, Hairy Adrian is sent briefly into exile, while Presentable Adrian makes an appearance for a day or two before just giving up, the wimp.
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++ @mischiefcomedy have confirmed that it is permitted to smuggle curtain call photos of the excellent @spiescomedy onto social media ++
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Spectacular performance of a stunning work. 🙌 to @ThreeChoirs for reviving Coleridge-Taylor’s ‘The Atonement’ for the composer’s 150th. Now one hopes for a recording.🤞A hugely exciting close to our Hereford jaunt.
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Interval & closing bows at this lovely concert at Three Choirs in Hereford Cathedral. As you can see, we were seated almost back in Gloucester! 😉 All performers less blurry in real life.
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In Hereford for a couple of Three Choirs Festival concerts. Had a look round earlier this afternoon before it got busy.
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Can’t wait to get stuck into this, but has the technology yet been invented to read it safely? #WeightyTome #Hernia
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#OHPLucia is the kind of production to sneak up on you: haunting touches that come together by the close & stay in the mind. Soloists & ensemble all memorable - & @Jenni_France’s vivid, centred portrayal (the mad scene & all that surrounded it) was extraordinary. @operahollandpk
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Flying solo at the marvellous #OHPLucia this evening. @operahollandpk still has the Best Interval Cuppa, too. 🙌
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Another superb @AfricanSeries day @wigmore_hall draws to a close. Lovely programme tonight shuffling combinations of African & Western instruments to life-affirming effect. 🙏 💐 to @RebecaOmordia for impeccable piano / curation / organisation skills!
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Cast of thousands* (*10) for this enticing ‘African Odyssey’ programme, the finale to today’s ace @AfricanSeries day @wigmore_hall. Excited to hear these performers back in this space!
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Concert 2 of @AfricanSeries was a gem - scintillating solo piano selections from Maria Thompson Corley with Nadine Benjamin guesting on some beautiful songs. Back tonight for part 3! @wigmore_hall
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Onward with @AfricanSeries @wigmore_hall - astonishing morning concert from Tunde Jegede, Jan Hendrickse & Vincent Ademola Haastrup; now for the ‘African Women’ programme from Maria Thompson Corley & Nadine Benjamin.
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First @AfricanSeries gig starting shortly. Tunde Jegede always brilliant live. Looking forward! @wigmore_hall
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RT @AfricanSeries: Tunde Jegede, Jan Hendrickse and Vincent Ademola are sound checking ahead of this morning’s concert at @wigmore_hall, st….
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Suitably tropical conditions (!) for @AfricanSeries Day. Take shelter @wigmore_hall: kora at 11.30, song at 3, chamber at 7.30. Get involved! (And dry!)
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🖼️🤔👓 Out tomorrow (18 July) - a simmering, shimmering new disc on @SOMMRecordings of Latin American (& more) art song from Julieth Lozano Rolong & João Araújo. More enthusiasm in my write-up for @ArtMuseLondon here….
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This is a thrilling hour in the company of two artists who perform as if this music is flowing through their veins as well as their heritage. ‘Alma’ shines a spotlight on 20th-century repertoire mo…
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