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Faces of classical music
2019-01-05 07:26:00
The Faces of Classical Music Choose the 20 Best Albums of 2018
[…] in Vienna as the first of Gluck's "reform operas". In these works Gluck emphasised simplicity of form and directness of expression, consciously rejecting the extravagances of opera seria, which dominated the early 18th century and was typified by convoluted plots and extended showpiece arias.2017 brought the release on Erato of Jaroussky's own retelling of the myth, La storia di Orfeo, which comprised arias by three Italian composers from the 17th century – Monteverdi, Rossi and Sartorio. His Euridice was the Hungarian soprano Emőke Baráth, who in the Gluck opera moves over to the role of Amor, god of love. Euridice is sung in the new recording by the American soprano Amanda Forsythe, who already features in the Erato catalogue alongside Jaroussky in Agostino Steffani's opera Niobe, Regina di Tebe.In addition to La storia di Orfeo, Diego Fasolis has collaborated with Philippe Jaroussky on Erato recordings of Vinci's Artaserse (audio and […]
2018-12-30 15:56:00
Tallies of concert and total (concert and opera) performances, 2018
[…] William Cornysh, Dario Costello, Louis Couperin, Brett Dean, Duparc, Duruflé, Andris Dzenītis, Elgar, Fauré, Andrea Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Glière, Gounod, Christoph Graupner, Handel, Reynaldo Hahn, John Harbison, Hasse, Henze, Anders Hillborg, Holst, Philippe Hurel, Kódaly, Krenek, Lachenmann, Lassus, Gordon Lightfoot, Magnus Lindberg, Matthew Locke, Steven Mackey, Alma Mahler, Massenet, Mendelssohn, Emilie Meyer, Milhaud, Mosolov, Thea Musgrave, Mussorgsky, Offenbach, Palestrina, Edmond de Polignac, Poulenc, Purcell, Rebecca Saunders, Sciarrino, Scriabin, John Sheppard, Nat Shilkret, Ravel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Antonio Sartorio, Takemitsu, Alexander Tansman, Taverner, George Thalben-Ball, Ernst Toch, Joan Tower, Turnage, Weber, Hedy West, Jörg Widmann, Charles Wuorinen, Wolf, Peter Yarrow Overall 13 Mozart 11 Brahms, Wagner 10 Haydn 9 Debussy 8 Schubert, Strauss 7 Beethoven, Schoenberg, Stracinsky 6 Webern 5 Stockhausen 4 Berg, Janáček, Mahler, Prokofiev, Puccini, Schumann, Tchaikovsky 3 Ligeti, Liszt 2 Bartók, Berio, Benjamin, Bizet, Charlotte Bray, Dvořák, Handel, Helen Grime, Olga Neuwirth, Poulenc, Ravel, Frederic Rzewski, Szymanowski, Tallis, Turnage, […]
2018-08-04 19:19:00
Prom 26: Prohaska/Il Giardino Armonico/Antonini - Purcell, Graupner, Sartorio, Handel, Costello, Cavalli, and Hasse, 2 August 2018
Royal Albert Hall Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Overture and ‘Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with torment’Christoph Graupner: Dido, Königin von Carthago: ‘Holdestes Lispeln der spielenden Fluthen’Antonio Sartorio: Giulio Cesare in Egitto: ‘Non voglio amar’Matthew Locke: The Tempest: ‘The Second Musick: Curtain Tune’Sartorio: Giulio Cesare: ‘Quando voglio’Graupner: Dido: ‘Der Himmel ist von Donner … Infido Cupido’, ‘Agitato da tempeste’Handel: Concerto grosso in C minor, op.6 no.8Handel: Giulio Cesare in egitto: ‘Che sento? Oh dio! … Se pietà di me non senti’Dario Costello: Sonata no.15 in D minorCavalli: Didone: ‘Re de’ Getuli altero … Il mio marito’Hasse: Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra: ‘Morte col fiero aspetto’Purcell: The Fairy Queen: ‘Chaconne – Dance for Chinese Man and Woman’Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: ‘Oft she visits this lone mountain’, ‘Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth’ Anna Prohaska (soprano) Il Giardino ArmonicoGiovanni Antonini (conductor) In this, her Proms debut, Anna Prohaska offered something akin to a […]
2018-08-03 08:30:08
Prom 26: Late night Baroque queens at the Royal Albert Hall
BBC Prom 26 - Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (Photo BBC / Chris Christodoulou) Purcell, Graupner, Sartorio, Cavalli, Hasse, Handel; Anna Prohaska, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 2 August 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Dido and Cleopatra take centre stage in a recital which mixed both well known and lesser known to vivid effect.For the late-night BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on Thursday 2 August 2018, soprano Anna Prohaska and Il Giardino Armonico, conductor Giovanni Antonini, took us on a tour of Baroque queens. Moving from Purcell's Dido to Handel's Cleopatra, the programme included a number of lesser known depictions of these two queens by Christoph Graupner, Antonion Sartorio, Francesco Cavalli and Johann Adolf Hasse, plus instrumental music by Matthew Locke and Dario Castello. The Royal Albert Hall is not always an ideal venue for Baroque […]
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