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Decca Eloquence 4
Alicia De Larrocha The First Recordings Works by Mompou Esplá, Granados Rodrigo and Turina Arrigo Boito Mefistofele (Great Scenes) Cesare Siepi Renata Tebaldi Giuseppe Di Stefano Tulio Serafin Benjamin Britten Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo Winter Words Tit for Tat Purcell realisations Peter Pears tenor John Shirley-Quirk baritone James Bowman countertenor Igor Stravinsky Petrushka La Sacre du Printemps Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire Julius Katchen piano Pierre Monteux Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 "Romantic" London Symphony Orchestra Itsvan Kertesz John Coprario Funeral Teares Consort Fantasies 1, 5 and 8 Emma Kirkby The Consort of Musicke Anthony Rooley Johann Strauss II Die Fliedermaus Julius Patzak Hilde Gueden Alfred Poell Wiener Philharmoniker Clemens Krauss […]
2020-07-20 06:55:45
The Invention of English Opera: part two, the brief flowering of English opera, the rise of Italian opera and the development of ballad opera
The Old Palace of Whitehall by Hendrick Danckerts, c. 1675The Palace is probably where John Blow's Venus and Adonis premiered Considering that the country went through two revolutions, including an interregnum when music was ostensibly banned, there was a surprising amount of music theatre in England in the 17th century, and like other countries artists, performers and aristocrats eagerly experimented music and drama, sometimes creating something which we would recognise as opera, and sometimes coming up with hybrid forms. The vigour and ubiquity of Italian opera in England in the 18th century should not blind us to the importance of the tradition of the 17th century English opera. In the first part of my article, we looked at how the first operas, and the distinctive English genre of semi-opera, developed out of the masque tradition. Beaufort House, […]
2019-08-05 13:46:07
Concerto delle donne II
August 5, 2019. More on the Music in Ferrara. Today we’ll continue exploring the music at the court of the dukes of Ferrara at the end of the 16th century and its famous ensemble, Concerto delle donne. Last week we mentioned the name of Laura Peverara, the lead singer, and said that it doesn’t tell us much. Turns out that with very little effort one can find a lot about this fascinating musician. Laura Peverara (her last name is sometimes spelled “Peperara”) was born in Mantua in the summer of 1563. Her mother, Margherita Costanzi, was a lady-in-waiting to Margherita Paleologa, the wife of Federico II, Duke of Mantua. Her father, Vincenzo Peveraro, was a scholar at the service of the Gonzaga family. Laura received a good education in Latin and music, probably studying with the children of Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga, a big patron of arts and composer himself. Giaches […]
2019-07-29 13:38:47
Concerto delle donne, 2019
July 29, 2019. Concerto delle donne. There are not many musicians and composers to be celebrated this week (we continue to be fascinated with Hans Rott, born on August 1st of 1858, but we’ve wrote about him a year ago). On tweeks like this we often go back to composers of the Renaissance and early Baroque, but to do justice to their talents we should write about them more often. Music flourished during the Renaissance, especially in its later years. The church served as the main catalyst, but by the late 1500s more and more secular music was being written and performed. We know the names of the composers – they left a record of published music, but only rarely do the names of the performers of that music come up. We know, for example, that Girolamo Frescobaldi was famed as a great organ player, but we know him much […]
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