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2019-11-18 07:43:13
From complex Renaissance harmonies to contemporary improvisation, O/Modernt's exploration of Labyrinths in Wimbledon culminated in a terrific account of Strauss' Metamorphosen
[…] Aurelio de la Vega - The Magic Labyrinth (image courtesy Library of Congress) From here we moved to the modern labyrinth of contemporary Cuban composer Aurelio de la Vega (born 1925). His The Magic Labyrinth is a depiction of a labyrinth, a one-page visual realisation with fragments of music which the players use alongside improvisation to create an aural equivalent. With Ticciati and Lubbe (now on viola) at the high altar and Jordi Carrasco Hjelm (double bass) at the back of the church, the audience was surrounded by the music. There was a sense, in the music, not of harmony but of fragments which happened to exist together, a shifting feeling of the labyrinth.We returned to emotional labyrinths for the final item of the first half, Monteverdi's madrigal sequence Lamento d'Arianna based on the excerpt from his lost opera Arianna. Here I found the decision to not give the […]
2019-07-02 07:56:47
Weaving their magic: Hugo Ticciati and O/Modernt's From the ground up: the chaconne
From the ground up: the chaconne - Bach, Pellegrini, Piccinini, Purcell, Bogdanovic, Marmen; O Modernt, Hugo Ticciati, Sam West; Signum Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 2 July 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A journey through the chaconne, with an eclectic mix of old and new woven into a single magical wholeHugo Ticciati and O/Modernt's recordings are never straight-forward and whilst From the ground up: the Chaconne on Signum Classics takes the chaconne as its basis, exploring the music's dance origins alongside Bach's 'Chaconne' for the Partita in D minor for solo violin and more recent work by Dusan Bogdanovic, there is much else besides. This is reflected in the diverse group of performers, Hugo Ticciati (violin, artistic director), Luciana Mancini (mezzo-soprano), Baba Israel (beat poet), Sam West (reader), Johannes Marmen (violin), Gareth Lubbe (viola/harmonic singing), Julian Arp (cello), Jordi Carrasco Hjelm (double bass), Cecilia Knudsen (viola da gamba), […]
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