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Finnish opera singer
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2022-09-02 12:00:35
Awards/Competitions Santander Piano Competition First Prize: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (Canada) Second Prize: Xiaolu Zang (China) Third Prize: Marcel Tadokoro (France/Japan) Verbier Festival Academy Yves Paternot (First) Prize: Bryan Cheng (Canada) Jean-Nicolas Firmenich Prize: Stéphanie Huang (Belgium) Tabor Foundation Award: Giovanni Bertolazzi (Italy), Misi Boros (Hungary) Thierry Mermod Prize: Sofie Lund (Denmark), Dennis Chmelensky (Germany), Celine Mun [...]
2021-10-30 08:53:28
Everything is in the music: conductor Antonello Manacorda on returning to La Traviata at Covent Garden, balancing concert work & opera, & music-making being a journey rather than a single event
Antonello Manacorda (Photo Nikolaj Lund) The Italian conductor Antonello Manacorda is currently conducting the current revival of Richard Eyre's production of Verdi's La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, with Lisette Oropesa, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Anush Hovhannisyan sharing the role of Violetta. Based in Berlin, Antonello will be returning to our shores later this year for a concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (23 November 2021), with further orchestral engagements in the UK planned including with a period instrument ensemble. These neatly sum up the various threads in Antonello's career, opera, symphonic concerts and historically informed performance, as he balances a career in the opera house with being the music director of the Kammerakademie Potsdam. We meet at the Royal Opera House after Antonello has had a long day rehearsing two different casts for La Traviata [which subsequently received strong reviews, see Tim Ashley's review in The Guardian]. He made […]
2021-02-12 09:20:47
Chant, improvisation and traditional instruments: Schola Cantorum Riga give us a taste of sacred music in Medieval Riga on Vox Clara on the Skani label
Vox Clara - Late Medieval Chant from Riga, Hamburg, Lund, Limoges; Schola Cantorum Riga, Guntars Prānis, Ieva Nimane; SKANI Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 12 February 2021 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) The Latvian group bringing elements of traditional music into the performance of Late Medieval chant to give a taste of how the music might have sounded in Medieval Riga The Schola Cantorum Riga was founded over twenty year ago, exploring Gregorian chant and other early music repertoires from the oldest manuscripts as well as performing contemporary composers such as Rihards Dubra. The group was founded by Guntars Prānis, who is still artistic director, and Pranis' research interests include the sacred music tradition of Riga in the context of various local practices and this feeds into the group's latest disc. Vox Clara on the Skani label features Schola Cantorum Riga and Guntars Prānis in late […]
2020-10-14 13:36:00
'Immortal': the difficult stuff
[…] Solomon's theory of the Immortal Beloved was that the woman in question was Antonie Brentano, the wife of one of Beethoven's closest friends and supporters. There were two principal reasons: first, that she was definitely in Prague on the right day in 1812; secondly, that Solomon undertook a sort of posthumous psychoanalysis of Beethoven which seemed to support this theory. His suggestion has been much approved and amplified, notably by the writer and scholar Susan Lund, who has worked on Beethoven since the 1970s and has written a novel, a play and a factual book about it. Josephine - 'Pepi' The theory has also been widely contested, even objected to, the alternative being that the Immortal Beloved was Josephine Brunsvik. Chief among the scholars exploring in this direction was the late Rita Steblin, whose articles and books have been a mainstay of my own information (I […]
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