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2021-09-08 08:26:13
Ancient and Modern: Helen Charlston & Toby Carr premiere Owain Park's new piece for mezzo-soprano and theorbo
[…] to breathe yet preserving that sense of intimacy that this repertoire requires. Whilst some of the music was written for the stage, in performing it with just theorbo accompaniment Charlston and Carr were reclaiming it for a long tradition of taking music from the opera house into aristocratic salons. We began with 'Oh lead me to some peaceful gloom' from Purcell's incidental music to Bonduca, written in 1695 for a play by Fletcher and Beaumont. Charlston and Carr began in intimate style, plangent, expressive voice over a bare theorbo bass line. This was closer to expressive recitative than aria, though there were moments of fabulous bravura (such as when the 'trumpets sound'). Charlston's attention to the words was very fine indeed, some moments really hitting home and I imagined what it must have been like to hear a performance as intensely engaging and involving as this as part of […]
2021-06-24 08:02:19
Celebrating Alexander von Zemlinsky's influential period as music director of the New German Theatre in Prague
Alexander von Zemlinsky Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942) was the music director of the New German Theatre (now the State Opera) in Prague from 1911 to 1927, during which time he expanded the repertoire and premiered numerous works, including his own compositions, but also Arnold Schönberg's Erwartung, as well as performing music by Ernst Krenek, Paul Hindemith, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Franz Schreker.To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, on 14 October 2021, a festival will be held in his honour in Prague from 8 to 10 October 2021 as part of the Musica non grata programme. The highlight of this will be the world premiere of the fragment of his opera Malva based on a story by Maxim Gorky will be premiered at the State Opera on 10 October 2021, orchestrated and edited by Antony Beaumont. In addition, four concerts with works by Zemlinsky, his contemporaries and composers […]
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