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2023-12-31 09:22:00
2023 in record reviews: 17th century Venice as a gay haven, Dichterliebe Reimagined, Elgar on viola, Ethel Smyth's first operatic success
Richard Boothby's Music to hear... explored Alfonso Ferrabosco's 1609 book of music for solo lyra viol. Jorge Navarro Colorado and Randall Scotting celebrated 17th-century Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists. We know Bach, but what of the other applicants for his Leipzig post in 1723? Leipzig 1723 gave us cantatas by Bach, Telemann, and Graupner. Whilst for the next generation of the Bach family, Les Ombres took us back to the elegance of the Bach-Abel evenings in London.With Dichterliebe Reimagined, Koen van Stade and Neal Peres Da Costa brought creative freedom and musical rhetoric to bear on an historically informed account of Schumann's song cycle. Viola player Timothy Ridout seduced in his transcription of Elgar's Cello Concerto. Ethel Smyth's first major success, Der Wald, finally received its premiere recording in a terrific account from John Andrews and BBC Symphony Orchestra, making us ask, why the wait? A disc of […]
2022-02-28 16:56:03
Review: Vivaldi, Leclair, Locatelli – Violin Concertos – Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Les Ombres
Violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Les Ombres chamber ensemble perform concertos by Vivaldi and two of his contemporaries, Leclair and Locatelli. The post first appeared on The Classic Review.
2021-11-08 15:09:45
This Week in Classical Music: November 8, 2021. Lhévinne and more. François Couperin, known as Couperin Le Grand because he was the greatest of many musicians in the Couperin family, and because he was one of the greatest French composers of the Baroque era, was born in Paris on November 10th of 1668. We’ve written about him many times, for example here. And here is the 25th Order (or Suite), from Book IV of his Pieces for the Harpsichord. The five sections of the Order are titled: La visionnaire, La misterieuse, La MonflambertI, La muse victorieuse, and Les Ombres errantes. Alexander Borodin, a chemist and fine composer, was born on November 12th of 1833. Here’s one of our entries on him. Two years ago, we published an entry on two instrumentalists born that week; their anniversaries fall on this week as well. Read here about the pianist Daniel Barenboim […]
2021-10-15 12:00:00
Boccherini quintets, heard by Gerald Fenech. 'These are finely polished scores and Les Ombres oblige with some sparkling virtuosity that is a pleasure for the senses.'
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