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2019-11-10 05:29:24
A magical mystery tour with Ed Lyon, Fretwork come full circle, and the story of the early music revolution • One of the year’s most enjoyable discs is a new album by the tenor Ed Lyon. His 17th Century Playlist (Delphian) includes songs of contrasting mood by Cavalli, Landi and other less familiar baroque composers. All, except one by Dowland, were new to me. Part of the charm, Lyon’s versatile singing aside, is the rich accompaniment – plucked and bowed – provided by lutenist Elizabeth Kenny and the ensemble Theatre of the Ayre, playing variously guitar, theorbo, triple and Irish harp, viola da gamba and violins. Taking the notion that much of this music was written for small courts, shaped in response to the tastes of a benefactor or dedicatee, Lyon has conceived the programme as a highly personal mixtape-cum-playlist. Switching with agility between French, Italian and English, he gives each […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-10-19 08:59:00
The best new classical albums: October 2019
[…] or more tamed (Bohm, Abbado and Thielemann). Here we find a middle of 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 […]
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 Britten […]
2018-08-09 17:12:00
Anglais - William Christie, the Sun King of Baroque Opera
[…] one of the rare craftsmen of the baroque repertoire who never went far beyond Mozart - who would have thought that Nikolaus Harnoncourt would record Aida? It wasn't a closed mind, but a simple awareness that the imbalance remains such that to play only music prior to Mozart is still seen as work for the public good. Bach was not one of his priorities, but he had many other champions. To stage Il Sant'Alessio by Landi, on the other hand, it took and still takes courage. Our contemporaries can easily imagine that this opera, based on the life of a fifth-century saint, created in Rome in 1632 and based on a libretto by a future pope, was likely to have an air of the sacristy and the font about it. Those who listened to the recording and then saw the production that Christie directed in Caen, Nancy or Paris, to […]
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