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Swiss musician (1878-1959)
- violin
- Switzerland
- music teacher, composer, violinist
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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-09-03 01:26:15
Alfred Pochon - Passacaglia pour alto seul [1942]
2018-04-30 04:30:17
Alessandro Scarlatti and Marcel Dupré, 2018
[…] replaced him with Arcangelo Corelli. Operas, Scarlatti’s favorite genre, were virtually prohibited by Pope Clement XI. Scarlatti wrote five operas for Ferdinando de' Medici, then the Grand Prince of Florence but that relationship also ended rather soon, as Ferdinando decided that he likes Giacomo Antonio Perti’s operas better. In this recording of the duet Caro figlio from Il Sedecia, Anna, the wife of the King Zedekiah (Sedecia), a soprano role, is sung by Virginie Pochon and Ismaele, her son, – by the countertenor Philippe Jaroussky. Notice that his part often lies above the soprano’s. And from the same oratorio, here is Isamele’s aria Caldo sangue, except that in this recording it’s performed by Cecilia Bartoli. Two wonderful, if very different, interpretations. Marcel Dupré, the French organist and composer, was born on May 3rd of 1886 in Rouen. His father was an organist and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Colli, the […]
2014-04-03 20:03:35
Platée du jour
[…] brought by an ambitious world premiere recording. Granted, Surprises may be one of Rameau’s weakest scores, but d’Hèrin’s forces still fail to do justice to it. Although Anders Dahlin excels in three tenor roles and soprano Amel Brahim-Djelloul as Adonis dominates the first entrèe “L’Enlèvement d’Adonis,” the remainder of the cast comes up short. Karine Deshayes reveals a lovely voice, but she doesn’t sound at home in this repertoire and the other two sopranos, Virginie Pochon and Caroline Mutel, are downright wretched, so painful that I would literally wince when either began to sing. Since they sing four roles, they prove a real blight on this ambitious but grandly flawed project; that this recording has received 5- and 4-star reviews on Amazon is baffling. For those intrigued by the Les Arts Florissants Platée, culturebox will stream the March 27 performance of the Robert Carsen production from the Opéra-Comique beginning at […]
2012-02-25 10:20:00
Le Freischütz
Le Freischutz, Opéra Comique in Paris, April 7 2011 Sir John Eliot Gardiner ..... Conductor Dan Jemmett ..... Director Sophie Karthäuser ..... AgatheAndrew Kennedy ..... Max Virginie Pochon ..... Annette Gidon Saks ..... Gaspard Matthew Brook ..... KounoLuc Bertin-Hugault ..... L’ErmiteSamuel Evans ..... KilianRobert Davies ..... Ottokar Christian Pelissier ..... Samiel The Monteverdi Choir Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique I am actually in Berlin where I could see last night the new Calixto Bieito production of Der Freischütz which has that recognizable Bieito theatrical smoothness, a quality that always makes his shows a special operatic experience. This is far from being the best Bieito, if you ask me, but it is still incomparable with the show we were given to see at the Opéra Comique in Paris less than a year ago. Yes, you spotted it right -- it was Le […]
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