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2024-04-02 18:37:12
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2024-03-04 15:36:37
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part II, 2024
[…] Alban Berg. Dallapiccola’s last large composition was the opera Ulisse, which premiered in Berlin in 1968; Lorin Maazel was the conductor. After that, Dallapiccola composed very little, his time went into adapting some of his lectures into a book. He died on February 19th of 1975 in Florence. In 1971 Dallapiccolo compiled two suites based on Ulisse. Here is one of them, called Suite/A. The soprano Colette Herzog is Calypso, the baritone Claudio Desderi is Ulysses. Ernest Bour conducts the Chorus and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the French Radio.
2024-02-29 07:35:00
Music that is vividly alive & vibrant, yet requires concentration & dedication to listen to: Anselm McDonnell's Kraina
[…] important here, or rather diction, instead Hilliard uses her voice and the individual syllables to create a series of colours in a way that is almost instrumental. Like the earlier cycle, Common Places sometimes revels in seeing how far it can push Hilliard's voice, and she gives a wonderfully assured performance with highly involved performances from the instrumentalists.Pollen, Blood, and Seaspray uses Euan Tait’s poetic prose which is a response to a passage from Joyce’s Ulysses where Stephen Dedalus ambles along Sandymount Strand, flitting between elusive philosophical ideas and pondering (among other things) his parentage and creation. Set for speaker, Nicole Rourke, and Dermot Dunne's accordion. Nicole Rourke's narration is wonderfully direct but against this is the vivid sound of Dunne's accordion, often not sounding like that instrument at all (and I presume there is a level of electronics to the piece). The result is a vivid tone-picture that almost […]
All the conducting master class
2024-02-12 20:36:48
EXTENSION DEADLINE UNTIL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2024, 9AM UTC (except for piano and percussion) – non conducting for new music ensemble to be coached by Ensemble Intercontemporain
Inspired by the grand tours of classical musicians travelling through Europe and the goals of training and enriching the practices of young musicians, the Ulysses Network brings together 11 European institutions for the promotion and professionalization of young composers. With the Ulysses Ensemble, the Ulysses Network reached a new peak in 2017, concentrating its efforts […]