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Knowing no boundaries: on Circus Dinograd contemporary & period performers move between styles & genres without embarrassment
Circus Dinograd; traditional, Jean-Luc Ponty, Purcell, Ravel, Jarmo Ramponen, David Faber, Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross, Marie-Louise de Jong, Marleen Wester, Judith van Driel, Byrd, John Dowland; Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross, Dudok Quartet Amsterdam; Zefir RecordsReviewed 14 February 2024Sui generis, a disc that moves between genre and style without embarrassment as the ensemble of contemporary and period performers cross from the historical to the contemporary to the improvisedCircus Dinograd on Zefir Records is an intriguing new cross-genre collaboration between contralto Hilary Summers, the bass clarinet and theorbo/vihuela duet of Maarten Ornstein and Mike Fentross, and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam (Judith van Driel, Marleen Wester, Marie-Louise de Jong, David Faber). The idea behind the disc seems to be that there are no boundaries, so we have reimaginations of Byrd, Purcell, and Dowland alongside folksong, Ravel and pieces by the different members of the ensemble, notably a set of Seven Deadly […]
2022-12-13 12:00:00
Geoff Pearce is impressed by Dudok Quartet Amsterdam's performances of Shostakovich and Bacewicz. '... freshness and vitality ...'
2020-11-22 14:54:28
A Life On-Line: Janacek in London, Ravel in virtual reality, the London Handel in Italy and Germany, Weill in Paris
[…] Stuart Laing, Nicholas Butterfield, Campbell Russell and Dean Robinson provided strong support as the family, altering the musical textures with their strong four-part male, neo-Barbershop singing and a serious, pointed edge to their performance. James Holmes conducted with some point, the bouncy dance numbers all had an edge to them, so that the whole piece felt the right mix of fun and danger. Dancing on the edge of the volcano indeed! [Opera North] The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam gave us a delightful version of a Hungarian tune, Santa Ördög, a tune originally first performed by Balogh Kálmán and the Gipsy Cimbalom Band, and the quartet play it on gut strings! [YouTube]. The Leicester International Music Festival, artistic Nicholas Daniel, has been giving a series of on-line lunchtime concerts, I caught soprano Anna Cavaliero and pianist Sholto Kynoch recital which moved from the brilliance of Britten's On This Island (two songs), […]
2020-06-07 18:06:17
OUT NOW | Dudok Quartet Amsterdam’s New CD: ‘Haydn Op. 20 1, 4, 6’ [LISTEN]
Resonus Classics has announced the release of the Dutch-based Dudok Quartet Amsterdam‘s new album: ‘Haydn Opus 20. 1, 4, 6‘. The disc features Haydn‘s String Quartets Op. 20 No. 1, 4, and 6. ”The program of our very first performance as the Dudok Quartet included a string quartet from the Opus 20 cycle of Joseph […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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