Mike Fentross’ La Sfera Armoniosa – mini doc about Purcell’s silver trumpets
Graham Nicholson, trumpet builder and trumpeter, who made silver trumpets after William Bull, a contemporary of Henry Purcell. Nicholson did extensive research how to make this special silver trumpet which has a beautiful sound and was used in the recording of ‘Symphony while the swans come forward’ an album with theatre music by Purcell performed by La Sfera Armoniosa, Mike Fentross and Johannette Zomer
Stil Leven is voor La Sfera Armoniosa’s artistiek
Stil Leven (Still Life) was written for La Sfera Armoniosa’s artistic director Mike Fentross in the context of the Rembrandt Year 2019.
Mike Fentross played this composition by Calliope Tsoupaki at Podium Witteman. She was then composer laureate of the Netherlands