For enquiries contact agustin@agustinfernandez.com Misa de Corpus Christi (1978, reconstructed 2010) 3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1 Timp. Per(3 players), Pf, childrens choir, mixed choir, Baritone, Strings 40 min 20 June 1978 Niños Cantores del Valle, Sociedad Coral Boliviana, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional cond Agustín Fernández; Teatro Municipal, La Paz. 12 September 1978 DEBP choir, Sociedad Coral […]
Who better to write – or talk – about this piece than the man of letters who produced the words, Sean O’Brien. Apropos of the – then – impending repeat performance at the Newcastle Poetry Festival 2017, O’Brien gave an interview on the subject. As to me, I probably said […]
19 May 2016 Notes from UndergroundChristian Hodrea, baritoneTransylvania Philharmonic Choir – Cornel Groza, directorAntonin Ciolan OrchestraVlad Agachi, conductorPhilharmonic HallSigismund Toduta International FestivalCluj-Napoca, Romania 7 May 2016at 1930 After the Gathering (première)Kathryn Tickell and The SideAlwinton Church Summer ConcertsAlwinton, Northumberland Tickets here
Friday 4 December 2015Interval in the evening concertRadio broadcastBBC Radio 3 Interview by Sarah Mohr-Pietsch with Agustín Fernández and Sean O’Brien, including extracts from Notes from Underground recorded by Royal Northern Sinfonia, Voices of Hope and Benjamin Appl, conducted by Clark Rundell.
This project is attracting some public attention. Several weeks before the date I heard the première was nearly sold out. The local press has given it some coverage, a number of Twitter accounts have mentioned it, and last Saturday’s The Guardian (10 October 2015) printed an excellent article by Sean […]
My latest project is Notes from Underground, a song cycle for baritone, chamber choir and large chamber ensemble. The words are by Sean O’Brien, an award-winning poet also based in the Northeast of England, and also a professor at Newcastle University. The work is a commission from Durham Book Festival […]
Saturday 7 November 2015 at 1910Sean O’Brien and Agustín Fernández discuss Notes from UndergroundNorthern Rock Foundation HallSage Gateshead BBC Radio 3 Freethinking Festivalin association with Durham Book Festival http://www.sagegateshead.com/event/sean-obrien/
15 October 2015 at 1900Gala Theatre, Durham Notes from Underground (première)(words by Sean O’Brien)Commissioned by Durham Book FestivalRoyal Northern SinfoniaConductor: Clark RundellVoices of Hope, directed by Simon FidlerBaritone: Benjamin Appl Programme also includes:Britten, Hymn to St CeciliaMahler, three movements from Das Lied von der Erde (Schoenberg’s version)