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2023-11-20 04:30:00
Roger Eno: the skies, they shift like chords (CD Review)
by Karl NehringChordal Drift; Tidescape; That Which Is Hidden; Illusion; Above and Below (Crepuscular); Through The Blue (St. Swithin’s); Mind The Gap; Arms Open Wide; Strangely, I Dreamt; Japanese Rain Garden; If Only For A Moment; Where Does This Lead Us?. Roger Eno, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, organ, programming, electronics, conductor; Christian Badzura, percussion, synthesizer; Cecily Eno, vocals; Jon Goddard, noctilucent guitar; Alexander Glücksmann, clarinet, bass clarinet; Vocalconsort Berlin, vocals; Scoring Berlin, strings. Deutsche Grammophon 486 3022We have previously reviewed a couple of releases featuring the British keyboardist and composer Roger Eno (b. 1959). The first was an album titled Mixing Colours (you can read that review here), which he recorded together with his well-known brother Brian (co-founder of the rock group Roxy Music, record producer, and noted ambient music pioneer), while the second was an album he recorded under his own name, The Turning Year (see review here). The album with Brian (b. 1948) not surprisingly has ambient music sonic leanings, but musically speaking does not […]
2021-08-31 12:14:00
Œdipe, Komische Oper, 29 August 2021
Images: Monika RittershausŒdipe (Leigh Melrose), Jocaste (Karolina Gumos), Laïos (Christoph Späth) Œdipe – Leigh Melrose Tirésias – Jens Larsen Créon – Joachum Goltz High Priest – Vazgen Gazaryan Night Watchman – Shavleg Armasi Shepherd – Johannes Dunz Laïos – Christoph Späth Jocaste – Karolina Gumos Sphinx – Katarina Bradić Antigone – Mirka Wagner Mérope – Susan Zarrabi Evgeny Titov (director)Rufus Didwiszus, Charlotte Spichalsky (set designs)Eva Dessecker (costumes)Ulrich Lenz (dramaturgy) Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin (chorus director: David Cavelius) Vocalconsort Berlin Children’s Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin (chorus director: Dagmar Fiebach) Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin Ainārs Rubikis (conductor) Tirésias (Jens Larsen), Œdipe, Jocaste Art returns in various ways. There is, nor should there be, no one-size-fits-all. In London, the Royal Opera, largely silent during the days of endless lockdown and occasional reprieve, lightened our darkness […]
2020-12-21 01:41:00
The Annual Christmas post
[…] Nicolai, Schütz, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Distler Seattle Pro Musica Karen P. Thomas - direction Label: SPM CD 9804 Recorded June 2002 [flacs & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495-1560) Magnificat I, Salve Regina, Credo, Tulerunt Dominum Oxford Camerata Jeremy Summerly - direction Label: Naxos 8.557732 Recorded March 2004 [flac & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Orlandus Lassus (1532-1594) Prophetiae Sibyllarum - Christmas motets Vocalconsort Berlin Daniel Reuss - direction Label: Accent ACC 24307 Recorded: May 2015 [flac & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) Christmas Music The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, The Parley of Instruments David Hill - direction Label: Hyperion/Helios CDH55446 Recorded: Jan 1986 [flac & scans] Download 1fichier uptobox zippy Hearken to the angels' song Choral and organ music for Advent and Christmas Kantorei […]
2020-01-15 12:08:00
Beat Furrer, Violetter Schnee, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 10 January 2020
Images: Monika Rittershaus Silvia – Anna Prohaska Natascha – Elsa Dreisig Jan – Gyula Orendt Peter – Georg Nigl Jacques – Otto Katzameier Tanja – Martina Gedeck Dancers – Uri Burger, Alexander Fend, Gernot Frischling, Annekatrin Kiesel, Victoria McConnell, Filippo Serra Claus Guth (director) Étienne Pluss (set designs) Ursula Kudrna (costumes) Arian Andiel (video) Olaf Freese (lighting) Vocalconsort Berlin Staatskapelle Berlin Matthias Pintscher (conductor) Silvia (Anna Prohaska), Tanja (Martina Gedeck) The word Gesamtkunstwerk should probably be retired – especially with respect to Wagner, who, not that one would know from 99%+ of the ‘literature’, barely used it. Or perhaps it should not, so long as we separate it from Wagner and acknowledge a broader context and understanding, both preceding and following the Master of Bayreuth (or, better, the ‘artwork of the future’). For Gesamtkunstwerk retains a certain ‘ideal’ […]