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2021-09-08 11:22:00
Authentic Korngold to raise the Proms roof
Last Saturday night, I left the Royal Albert Hall after the debut Prom of the Sinfonia of London and started down the slippery slope to South Kensington tube station. Moments later I stopped, because I'd realised I was, rather uncharacteristically, shaking all over. What induced this state was an extraordinary concert by an orchestra that hasn’t performed for more than 60 years, reconvened and conducted by John Wilson. Their programme was of works that can thrill and terrify in equal measure: Johann Strauss, Berg, Ravel’s La Valse, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Symphony in F sharp. John Wilson conducting the Sinfonia of Londonphoto: BBC/Chris Christodoulou Thirty-five years after I first fell in love with Korngold’s music, 30 after seeing with horror how loathed it was in certain quarters of the music world, and a quarter-century since my compact biography of him was published, I’d finally witnessed […]
2017-06-05 07:00:22
Classical music: The first-ever Mineral Point Chamber Music Festival takes place this coming weekend – and looks both very appealing and very affordable
[…] program look engaging and the prices sure look affordable. Concerts by three young professional classical chamber music ensembles will be presented in the recently restored historic Mineral Point Opera House (below top and bottom, with the top photo by Michael J. Smith), an ideal chamber music venue with excellent acoustics. The weekend will begin on Friday at 7 p.m. with a panel discussion by several ensemble performers and Festival Director Peter Schmalz about various aspects of classical music. A reception in the Mineral Point Public Library will follow the discussion. Scheduled concerts include: at 1 p.m. on Saturday, the Ami String Quartet (below top) from Northwestern University in the String Quartet No. 1 by Bela Bartok and the “Harp” String Quartet, Op. 74, by Ludwig van Beethoven; at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Trombone Quartet (below bottom) will perform music by Johann Sebastian […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-04-03 18:10:19
Herons in Seville’s Golden Age
[…] Spain. These ministriles of Seville were instrumental, so to speak, in getting people to come into the “divine services in the holy church” according to a 1553 document. Dark Horse Consort, who some readers might have heard last year at the Boston Early Music Festival’s performances of Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers and Orfeo, performed five solo pieces and distinguished themselves admirably. (Kiri Tollaksen and Alexandra Opsahl cornets; Priscilla Herein, shawm and dulcian; Gred Ingles, Eric Schmalz, and Mack Ramsey, sackbuts). By the crowd gathered around her at intermission it would appear that Pricilla Herreid and her dulcian were a big hit; in songs where just Herreid played with singers, her playing was quite lovely. The other players were similarly impressive. Soprano Margot Rood, countertenor Martin Near, tenors Michael Barrett, Jason McStoots, and Mark Sprinkle, along with bass-baritone Paul Guttry opened with six songs from the Cancionero de Palacio (compiled after […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-10-31 23:58:17
The Insane Genius of Castello?
[…] sense of shifting light. Several works on the second half featured Andrew Schwartz’s dulcian, a precursor to the bassoon. It had a pleasant sound with a halo of buzz around it: every note had just a slightly different color. In the Sonata nona a3 (Book II) his playing was technically fearless, great sheets of notes pouring out of an instrument that had no keywork to simplify its fingering. In several pieces we also heard Erik Schmalz play trombone: this was a revelation in that the historical instrument, smaller but otherwise almost unchanged from a modern instrument, blended so well and so easily with the strings, giving a deeper vibration to the works in which it appeared. As interesting as Castello is, his kaleidoscopic variations rarely reach deep, so other pieces served to leaven the mix. Several were works for three violins, an ensemble of some modishness at this time, according […]
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