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2021-07-15 06:41:48
Enjoyable, rare and marvellous: Lully's 'Ballet royal de la Naissance de Vénus' from Les Talens Lyriques
[…] costumes. Plots were intended as the glue which held these disparate elements together, but also were designed to showcase the glories of the court or the particular monarch's reign. There was a participatory element, many of the dancers were aristocrats at court of great technical ability, whilst there would also be larger-scale ensemble moments. It was during the 13-hour (!) Ballet Royal de la Nuit, with music by music by Jean de Cambefort, Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Michel Lambert and others, that premiered in 1653 in Paris that the 14-year-old King Louis XIV (whose dancing of the role of Apollo cemented his epithet as the Sun King) came to regard a young Italian musician and dancer, Jean-Baptiste Lully. Within a month, Lully had been made royal composer for instrumental music. Designs for the Ballet Royal de la Nuit (1653) Lully wrote music for everything, hastily assembled events […]
2020-03-02 18:20:22
by Paul-James Dwyer Le Sacre Royal de Louis XIV (the Coronation of Louis XIV). Antoine Boesset, Etienne Mouliné, Jean Veillot, Roland de Lassus, Henry Du Mont, Francesco Cavalli, Charles d’Helfer, Anonymous. Les Pages du Centre de musique baroques de Versailles/Olivier Schneebeli. Ensemble Correspondances/ Sébastien Daucé. Harmonia Mundi CV5017 Total time: 108 minutes. Ensemble Correspondances seems [...]
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Faces of classical music
2019-10-19 08:59:00
The best new classical albums: October 2019
[…] the road approach. It can have fine results indeed, as in the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seven and Eight Symphonies. With a state of the art sound and luxurious packaging and documentation, this may be a decent purchase and a good listen, but not one of the top cycles from the nearly 200 alternatives.Source: Tal Agam (theclassicreview.com) 17th Century Playlist – Francesco Cavalli, Stefano Landi, Pierre Guédron, Nicholas Lanier, Étienne Moulinié, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Michel Lambert, Antoine Boësset, Sébastien Le Camus, John DowlandEd Lyon, tenorTheatre of the Ayre:Elizabeth Kenny, lute, guitar , theorboSiobhán Armstrong, triple harp, Irish harpReiko Ichise, viola da gambaRodolfo Richter, Jane Gordon, violinsRecorded at St Martin's Church, Salisbury, England, on January 27-30, 2019Released on September 27, 2019 by DelphianA mixtape of 17th century ear-worms, from the toe-tapping to the plangently melancholy, in highly engaging performances.Tenor Ed Lyon is one of those performers who seem to pop up in a wide […]
2019-10-09 08:19:16
17th century Playlist: from toe-tapping to plangently melancholy, Ed Lyon & Theatre of the Ayre
17th Century Playlist - Francesco Cavalli, Stefano Landi, Pierre Guedron, Nicholas Lanier, Etienne Moulinie, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Michel Lambert, Antoine Boesset, Sebastien Le Camus, and John Dowland; Ed Lyon, Theatre of the Ayre; DELPHIAN Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 October 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A mixtape of 17th century ear-worms, from the toe-tapping to the plangently melancholy, in highly engaging performancesTenor Ed Lyon is one of those performers who seem to pop up in a wide variety of music from 17th century opera [Cavalli's L'Ormindo at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, see my review] to contemporary [Thomas Adès' The Exterminating Angel at the Royal Opera House, see my review], Mozart singspiel [Die Entführung aus dem Serail at The Grange Festival, see my review] to Broadway musical [Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, with the full Robert Russell Bennett orchestrations, at the Chatelet Theatre, see my review], and […]
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