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2019-11-04 12:12:08
It should have been an icon, but – though it may seem something of a cultural mismatch (and a measur
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2019-01-10 07:15:00
New Year's Concert 2019 – Wiener Philharmoniker, Christian Thielemann (Download 96kHz/24bit & 44.1kHz/16bit)
[…] contemporary audiences enjoyed Die Tänzerin, the work failed to maintain a place for itself in the repertory and in 2019 it is being heard for the first time at one of the Vienna Philharmonic's New Year's Concerts.The whole of 1867 was overshadowed by Austria's defeat at the hands of the Prussians in the previous year's Seven Weeks' War. Many of Vienna's traditional balls had to be abandoned, but in spite of this, the Artists' Association Hesperus invited Johann Strauss to write a particularly elegant and perhaps less boisterous waltz for its ball in the Diana Hall. Titled Künstlerleben (Artists' Life), it was premiered three days after the Blue Danube waltz. Strauss took it with him to the World Fair in Paris in 1867, an event that provided the militarily weakened Habsburg monarchy with a welcome opportunity to return to the international stage. Strauss' first wife, Henriette, wrote home to report […]
2018-05-28 23:57:00
Pan European Orpheus : Julian Prégardien, Teatro del mondo
[…] Opitanischer Orpheus. More Jacopo Peri (Giote al vcanto mio) and Johan Steffens (1560-16161) Orpheus die Harfen schlug so fein for salterio (hammered dulcimer). Steffans (1560-1616) was North German, and in this contrexts represents the more understated northern baroque aesthetic. Orpheus could not save Eurydice, and had to return to the world alone. But Kindermann and Orpitz have the last word. "Doch wann du wärest gleich da, wo die Sonn aufgehet, und ich im Abende, wo Hesperus entstehet, so scheidet uns doch nichts" (If you could be wherevbtyhe sun rises and I in the evening, when Hesperus rises, we cannot be torn apart) Eventually Orpheus will die too, ripped apart by furies, but until then he plays his lute and is at one with nature. Thus the finale, an anonymous piece The Indian Nightingale, probably English, for almost the whole ensemble - flutes, violins, salterio, baroque harp and harpsichord - exqusitely […]
2017-04-19 18:24:00
[…] the Green Glen are by John Clare (1793-1864), Elias's setting is minimal, almost "Grecian". Roderick Williams and Susan Bickley sing without accompaniment, their plaintive lines evoking timeless plainchant rather than quasi-folk song. The unadorned beauty of the singing is enhanced by a slight echo effect, as if the recording was made in a silent chamber. Perhaps the "Green Glen" is a tomb-like time warp. The poems refer to the past, to "Now" and"Hesperus, thy twinkling bray" that "tolls the traveller on his way that Earth shall be forgiven". Fascinating mix of quiet and disquiet, utterly modern in spirit. . The five songs of Meet Me in the Green Glen (2009) are followed by the five songs of Once I did breathe another's breath for low voice and piano, premiered by Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside at the Ludlow English Song Weekend in […]
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