Tag Archives: Ivor Novello

La Sonnambula, Il re pastore, Buxton Festival, July 2023

Posted on 12 July 2023

This year’s Buxton Festival opened with a look back at the past, in a musical set to works from the 1930s by Ivor Novello which featured the activist and pacifist Vera Brittain, who lived in Buxton during her teenage years. A moving tribute, and very different from Bellini’s La Sonnambula on the second night, and …

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A Celebration of Ivor Novello, BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, August 2012

Posted on 10 August 2012

“A gentle, more elegant age” was how the BBC’s Katie Derham referred to the world of Ivor Novello in her brief introduction, quoting We’ll Gather Lilacs in connection with his funeral in 1951. After that we were placed in the very capable hands of Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra for a glorious late night concert. They …

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