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2024-02-26 15:10:33
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part I, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: February 26, 2024. Missed dates and Luigi Dallapiccola. For the last three weeks, we’ve been preoccupied with Alban Berg, and we feel good about it: Berg was a revolutionary composer (not by his constitution but by the nature of his creative talent) and he should be celebrated, even if our time, philistine and woke, doesn’t suit him well. The problem we have is that we missed several very significant anniversaries: for example, George Frideric Handel‘s – he was born on February 23rd of 1685; also, one of the most interesting German composers of the 16th century, Michael Praetorius, was born on February 15th of 1571. We missed the birthday of Francesco Cavalli, a very important composer in the history of opera, on February 14th of 1602. Two famous Italians were also born during those three weeks, Archangelo Corelli on February 17th of 1653 and Luigi Boccherini, […]
2023-11-28 07:35:00
Sophia Lambton introduces her new book, The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography
[…] but I still think most fans don’t understand the sheer enormity that is the Callas art. I want music lovers to detect that Callas was not just a strong performer, but a true creator: that she sculpted characters through an extraordinary (and sometimes dangerous) manipulation of the voice; that her vast impact on the opera stage was not confined to her soprano role alone. She helped construct her colleagues’ craftmanship – including that of Franco Corelli, Alexis Minotis and Tito Gobbi. She had a hand in choosing costumes, wigs and set design and choreography. She argued about tempi and encores with maestri. Her art was not just the supreme extension of her Violetta, Gilda, Norma, Tosca. It was the ultimate rendition any given opera could become. It’s Apollonian idealism. There hasn’t been another artist of this calibre on stage or film. There likely won’t be for at least a century […]
2023-11-25 09:22:00
Dependent Arising: American violinist Rachel Barton Pine on combining classical and Heavy Metal on her latest concerto album
[…] Metal band that was different was that she was part of a song-writing collective. Instead of playing music created by a single composer, all band members participated in the creation, bouncing ideas off each other.She hopes that having now recorded Earl Maneein's Dependent Arising, the disc will get other people interested in performing the work, but recording also helps other performers understand the style of the work.Looking ahead she is planning to record the complete Corelli sonatas with her Baroque ensemble. She is also planning a digital release of all the unaccompanied violin music that has been written for her. This will be massive, with around three hours of music. And in parallel she will be recording podcasts with each of the composers, discussing their process and how she and they collaborated. Rachel points out that for many contemporary works, we do not have the trail of correspondence that illuminates […]
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2023-09-16 18:31:01
The trio sonata, which consists typically of two violins (or flutes, recorders, or oboes) and basso continuo, originated in Italy in the late sixteenth century. At first an instrumental adaptation of three-part vocal music, the form was refined and developed by Arcangelo Corelli. It is François Couperin (1668-1733), harpsichordist and court composer for Louis XIV, who is credited with introducing the trio sonata to the insular music world of France in the final years of the seventeenth century. Over the […]
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