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Engaging the audience: James Newby and Joseph Middleton in a folk-inspired programme at a cool Leeds café/bar
[…] much, 'Là-bas, vers l’église' was concentrated and intent, 'Quel galant m’est comparable?' moved from a strong, expansive gesture to being rather knowing, 'Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques' was haunting and we ended with the vividly engaging, 'Tout gai!'Leeds Lieder 2024 - the author captured by Tom Arber at Hyde Park Book ClubJohn Jacob Niles' version American traditional song Black is the colour of my true love’s hair is a piece I rather associate with Cathy Berberian, here Newby was strongly felt and very direct. Then we moved to Scotland for Thomas Traill's My Luve’s in Germanie and here Newby really put over the story well. German composer Joseph Suder (1892-1980) is not a well-known name and it was lovely to encounter his version of a Urlicht, more usually associated with Mahler. The setting belied its composer's dates and had a very late 19th-century, late-Romantic feel to it. Beautifully constructed with plenty […]
2023-12-31 16:56:00
Since I am busy at work on my new book project, a two-volume study of the complete operas of Mozart in their eighteenth-century political and intellectual context, it seems fitting to have heard more music by Mozart than by any other composer this year. (For 'rules' on counting, please see my previous post.) Beyond my top four, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, and Strauss, I heard a good range of music from Alkan to Zimmermann and beyond.19 Mozart 12 Wagner 8 Beethoven, Strauss 7 Brahms, Schumann 6 Bach 5 Schubert, Byrd 4 Mahler, Prokofiev 3 Benjamin, Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt, Ravel 2 Berg, Bizet, Debussy, Dvořák, Handel, Haydn, Henze, Knussen, Puccini, Schoenberg 1 Alkan, Dieter Ammann, CPE Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, JCF Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, Korngold, […]
2022-11-15 15:25:21
Tragic carpet ride
Diva November on Chris’s Cache continues with a half dozen of my favorite singers performing solo concert works you’ve likely never heard them in before: Janet Baker, Cecilia Bartoli, Cathy Berberian, Bernarda Fink, Elina Garanca and Jessye Norman in music by Haydn, Monteverdi, Schoenberg, Wagner, Porpora and Beethoven.
2022-08-05 07:02:00
Vox in Bestia: Laura Catrani uses solo voice to explore Dante's animals with music from three contemporary Italian composers
Vox in Bestia: Gli animali della divina commedia - Fabrizio de Rossi Re, Matteo Franceschini, Alessandro Solbiati; Laura Catrani; StradivariusReviewed 1/8/2022 (★★★)Italian soprano Laura Catrani explores the beasts Dante's Divine Comedy via music written for her solo voice by three contemporary Italian composers, to dazzling, virtuosic and challenging effectLuciano Berio's Sequenza III, written in 1965 for soprano Cathy Berberian, helped define a whole genre of unaccompanied vocal work that used the voice's many other expressive modes besides singing. Berberian would create her own response to this in 1966 with Stripsody, an equally virtuoso work but one that merged virtuosic onomatopoeic sounds with ideas from comic strips.As a young student at the Conservatoire in Milan, soprano Laura Catrani studied Berio's Sequenza III and it soon became her piece de resistance [see her performance on YouTube] and she has continued to explore and expand the solo voice repertoire. Her Vox in Femina project from 2010 brought together some […]
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