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Estonian mezzosoprano and specialist for early music (1928-1999)
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2023-11-22 07:33:00
Epic re-imagining of Miles Davis’ legendary album 'Bitches Brew' in the first ever performance from super group London Brew
[…] seminal album that inspired it all. When the final number of the free flowing set, the enigmatically titled Raven Flies Low, came crashing to a deafening conclusion, the fully sold out Barbican audience erupted into a massive welter of appreciative applause and a sustained standing ovation.Reviewed by Florence Anna MaundersRaven Bush violin, Theon Cross tuba, Eska vocals, Nubya Garcia tenor saxophone, Tom Herbert bass, Nikolaj Topp Larsen keys/electronics, Dave Okumu guitar/musical director, Saleem Raman drums, Nick Ramm piano, Dan See drums, Robert Stillman saxophone and clarinets, Martin Terefe guitarNever miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogSongs for Our Times: songs by Stuart MacRae & Bernard Hughes based on texts by Chinwe D. John - record reviewChallenging and exciting: Marius Neset joins London Sinfonietta for a performance his Geyser - concert reviewSinging in the rain: London Song Festival […]
2023-07-22 15:31:00
[…] best part of 250 years on. The scoring inevitably had one hear the two flutes as soloists, with the violin, Cannabich’s own instrument, and viola as inner voices, often interestingly and always gratefully conceived. Benedikt Don Strohmeier provided here, as throughout, exemplary playing for the cello bass line. Another work for Munich, Mozart’s own Oboe Quartet, followed. Flautists Vera Becker-Öttl and Edoardo Silvi were replaced with the equally mellifluous Heike Steinbrecher, today’s incarnation of Friedrich Ramm, whose playing so impressed Mozart and inspired him to stretch the instrument’s (newly acquired) range to its near limits. This is a work of greater magnitude in every sense, treasured by oboists, string players, and of course audiences the world over. Here the oboist is at best first among equals, a chamber musician like the rest. Interest is dispersed throughout each part and, above all, in their harmonic and contrapuntal combination; that, moreover, was […]
2021-09-24 08:27:47
[…] groups of wind instruments, in 1773 he wrote a pair of Divertimenti for a ten-piece Harmonie in Milan, though subsequent wind pieces for Salzburg would be for the more usual sextet (pairs of oboes, horns, bassoons). It is possible that Mozart started writing the Gran Partita when he was in Munich producing Idomeneo (in 1781) for Prince-Elector Karl Theodor's court opera which had recently moved there from Mannheim. Mozart was very impressed with the playing of its oboist Friedrich Ramm. He had presented Ramm with his oboe concerto in Mannheim, and wrote the oboe quartet for him in Munich. Then again, others have suggested that the work is related to Mozart's marriage in 1782. We will probably never know for certain. However, there is an opportunity to hear Mozart's Gran Partita, performed in historically informed style by the new historical performance ensemble, Figure. Led by oboist Leo Duarte, Figure perform Mozart's Gran […]
2021-02-11 21:15:16
The Oboe Quartet in F major, K. 370, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in early 1781. The quartet is scored for oboe, violin, viola and cello. In 1780, Mozart was invited to Munich to visit Elector Karl Theodor, who had commissioned the opera Idomeneo for a carnival celebration. While in Munich, Mozart renewed an acquaintance with Friedrich Ramm, a virtuoso oboist in the Munich orchestra. It was for Ramm that Mozart composed the quartet. The quartet is a work in three movements, and an average performance takes around 15 minutes. Here are Heinz Holliger and friends to re-acquaint you with this music:
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