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2022-02-11 07:32:42
Ravel, Faure, Roussel, Debussy, Josef Páleníček; Lukáš Zeman, Michaela Zajmi, Pavel Voráček; Radioservis Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 February 2022 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) Songs by the 20th century Czech composer Josef Páleníček alongside those of his teacher Roussel and other French composersRadioservis is a record label owned by Czech Radio (Český Rozhlas), and a recent disc from them is an engaging recital which features two young singers, Lukáš Zeman (baritone) and Michaela Zajmi (mezzo-soprano) with pianist Pavel Voráček in a programme that mixes songs by Ravel, Faure, Roussel and Debussy with songs by the Czech composer Josef Páleníček including his Songs of Ancient China. Josef Páleníček (1914-1991) studied in Prague and then in Paris in the 1930s, where his teachers were Albert Roussel (composition) and Alfred Cortot (piano). He is a name that is not particularly well known in the West though Páleníček composed a significant body of work. On […]
2021-10-08 14:17:29
On June 11, Rivière-du-Loup native soprano Carole-Anne Roussel won the Prix d’Europe, making her the first singer to win the grand prize of the competition since Marie-Danielle Parent in 1980. The $25,000 scholarship is intended to allow the winners to continue their training outside Quebec. “It was clear to me when I applied that my [...]
2021-10-08 11:00:38
English Songs à la française. Songs by Gounod, Hahn, Massenet, Milhaud, Poulenc, Roussel, Ravel, Saint-Saëns Tyler Duncan, baritone. Erika Swtizer, piano Bridge 9537 ★★★★✩ The catalogue of English settings by French composers is not vast, but neither is it inconsiderable, to judge by this intriguing recital by the New York State-based Canadian baritone Tyler Duncan. [...]
2021-10-06 06:46:00
What the composer found in his orgone box
In his review of Leopold Stokowski and the Houston Symphony's 1955 premiere of Alan Hovhaness' Mysterious Mountain the critic Hubert Roussel remarked that "The real mystery of Mysterious Mountain is that it should be so simply, sweetly, innocently lovely in an age that has tried so terribly hard to avoid those impressions in music". To that I would add it is also a mystery that music which is so accessible yet avoids all stylistic platitudes remains so neglected in 2021 when a continuing anti-Boulez backlash mediates concert programmes. Fritz Reiner conducting Mysterious Mountain with his Chicago Symphony Orchestra is one of the glories of recorded sound. Reiner was notorious for using his baton to whip orchestras - if you haven't heard his 1960 Scherezade you haven't lived - yet in the sublime opening of Mysterious Mountain his interpretation is patiently majestic. On the CD reissue, which couples the work […]
