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2021-06-21 07:25:45
Grange Park Opera gives us a rare chance to see Rimsky Korskov's first opera, Ivan the Terrible in a striking production by David Pountney
Rimsky Korsakov: Ivan the Terrible - Grange Park Opera (Photo Marc Brenner) Rimsky Korsakov: Ivan the Terrible (The Maid of Pskov); Clive Bayley, Evelina Dobracheva, Carl Tanner, David Shipley, dir: David Pountney, cond: Mikhail Tatarnikov; Grange Park Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 19 June 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Grange Park makes a strong case for Rimsky Korsakov's first opera in what may well be its UK premiere, with Clive Bayley on superb form as the autocratic TsarRimsky Korsakov wrote 15 operas yet few have attained any sort of currency outside of Russia. As part of The Spaced Season 2021, Grange Park Opera presented Rimsky Korsakov's Ivan the Terrible and the production's opening night on 19 June 2021 may well have been the work's UK premiere. The production was directed by David Pountney and conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov, with Evelina Dobracheva as Olga, […]
2021-01-08 08:01:35
The missing link: romances by Alexander Dargomyzhshky, a friend of Glinka and an influence on a later generation of Russian composers
Alexander Dargomyzhshky Romances; Anastasia Prokofieva, Sergey Rybin; Stone Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 6 January 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A chance to explore songs by a composer who is an important link between Glinka and the Russian composers of the later 19th centuryWhen we think of Russian song in recital, it tends to be songs by Mussorgsky (1839-1881), Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), and Rachmaninov (1873-1943) that performers reach for first, and even then, quite a small group of songs by each composer. But on disc, things are starting to get more interesting, in 2016 Katherine Broderick and Sergey Rybin recorded a disc of Mussorgsky songs which explored the links between the composer and French Impressionism [see my review], then in 2018, Anush Hovhannisyan, Yuriy Yurchuk, and Sergey Rybin recorded a disc of Romances by Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) [see my review], and now pianist Sergei Rybin is joined by […]
2020-01-17 09:42:13
European song exploration: Malcolm Martineau's Decades - A Century of Song reaches the 1840s
Decades - A Century of Song: Volume 4 - Schumann, Dargomyzhshky, Franck, Donizetti, Lindblad, Josephson, Geijer, Mendelssohn; Anush Hovhannisyan, Ida Evelina Ranzlöv, Nick Pritchard, Oliver Johnston, Florian Boesch, Alexey Gusev, Samuel Hasselhorn, Malcolm Martineau; Vivat Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 17 January 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Malcolm Martineau's song exploration reaches the 1840s, and shows us that there was much more to European song than simply SchumannPianist Malcolm Martineau's Decades - A Century of Song on Vivat reaches the 1840s with Liederkreis where he is joined by singers Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano), Ida Evelina Ranzlöv (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Oliver Johnston (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Alexey Gusev (baritone) and Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone) for a selection of songs from the decade by Robert Schumann, Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhshky, Gaetano Donizetti, Adolf Fredrick Lindblad, Jacob Axel Josephson, Erik Gustav Geijer, and Felix Mendelssohn. The problem with any selection […]
2018-09-21 08:27:29
Decades - 1830-1840
Decades: volume 3, songs from the 1830s; John Mark Ainsley, Lorna Anderson, Alexey Gusev, Angelika Kirchschlager, Soraya Mafi, Malcolm Martineau; Vivat Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 21 September 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Songs from the 1830s, a valuable survey from the Mendelssohns and Loewe, through Meyerbeer and Berlioz to Alyabyev and DargomyzhskyWith Volume 3 of Vivat's Decades: A century in Song we reach the 1830s, a period after Schubert's death and before Schumann launched into song. A landscape with fewer towering masterpieces perhaps, but one full of fascinating incident. So here we have songs by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Franz Lachner, Felix Mendelssohn, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Alexander Alyabyev, Alexander Varlamov, Hector Berlioz, Alexander Dargomyzhsky and Carl Loewe, performed by John Mark Ainsley, Lorna Anderson, Alexey Gusev, Angelika Kirchschlager and Soraya Mafi with Malcolm Martineau, artistic director of the series, at the piano. We start with Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, […]
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