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2023-12-15 08:34:00
A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
Members of Vache Baroque and lutenist Kristiina Watt rehearsing at St John's Smith Square (Photo: The Musicians' Photographer)A Baroque Hanukkah: Salmone Rossi, Thomas Campion, Heinrich Schütz, John Farmer, Francesco Cavalli, Henry Purcell, Thomas Ravenscroft, Thomas Weelkes; Vache Baroque, La Vaghezza; St John's Smith SquareReviewed 13 December 2023The culmination of Vache Baroque's celebrations of Salomone Rossi paired his Hebrew-texted psalm settings with music of his contemporaries in wonderfully engaged performances highlighting Rossi's distinctive place in the musical universeIn 1623, the Italian Jewish violinist and composer, Salomone Rossi, achieved an ambition that had been germinating since around 1610, when he published, השירים אשר לשלמה (Hashirim Asher leShlomo, The Songs of Solomon), a collection of Jewish liturgical texts in Hebrew set to polyphonic music in the modern Baroque tradition with little connection to the tradition of Jewish cantorial music. The result is a work of remarkable cultural synthesis. The name is also a mischievous […]
2023-10-27 06:30:00
A bold statement of cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque's Jonathan Darbourne on celebrating the art of Salmone Rossi
[…] Ltd and choreographed by the dancer-actor Ukweli Roach. [watch FAREWELLS on YouTube]To place Rossi within his musical and cultural world, we are now in the middle of a series of performances being given in London synagogues [11 November 2023, further details] and in the hall of The Vache house [4 November 2023, further details]. These programmes place the sacred and secular vocal music by Rossi alongside pieces by contemporaries such as Monteverdi, Caccini, Byrd, Weelkes, Campion, and Kapsberger. Madrigals, solo songs, motets, metrical psalm settings, and a handful of settings from ‘The Songs of Solomon’ attest to a highly diverse and experimental musical climate - what we like to view now as a shift from Renaissance rules to Baroque rule breaking.To finish the year, the acclaimed ensemble La Vaghezza will join eight singers and two instrumentalists from Vache Baroque at St John's Smith Square [13 December 2023, further details]. Here we […]
Serenade (Western Classical Music in India)
2023-10-15 18:31:06
Unforgettable Moments
Maestro Zubin Mehta, NCPA Chairman Khushroo N. Suntook, SOI Music Director Marat Bisengaliev and members of the audience share their thoughts on the concerts which brought the Maestro and the SOI together for the first time. Zubin Mehta My friend of 80 years, Khushroo Suntook (we were classmates at Mumbai’s Campion School starting 1943) has been asking me to do this for a long time and I am finally here to do it. I did not expect the quality that […]
2023-02-13 05:00:00
Music on Gamba [4 CDs]
Marin Marais (1656-1728)Gamba Suites, Tombeau, Labyrinthe et alLouis Couperin (1626-1661)Harpsichord PréludesMarieke van der Velden - Viola da GambaGlen Wilson - harpsichordRecorded April 2000Label: Channel Classics CCS 15898Download 1fichier uptobox zippyLe Grand BalletMarin Marais - SuitesFrancois Campion (1686-1747) - GigueJean-Henry d'Anglebert (1629-1691) - ChaconneRonald Martin Alonso - Viola da GambaEnsemble VedadoRecorded October 2020Label: Paraty 1321.296Download 1fichier uptobox zippyJohannes Schenck (1660-1712)Le Nymphe di Rheno, Opus 8Gamba Sonatas Nos. 1-6 (Vol. 1)Les Voix HumainesSusie Napper, Margeret Little - GambaRecorded May 1997Label: Naxos 8.554414Download 1fichier uptobox zippyJohannes Schenck (1660-1712)Le Nymphe di Rheno, Opus 8Gamba Sonatas Nos. 7-12 (Vol. 2)Les Voix HumainesSusie Napper, Margeret Little - GambaRecorded September 1998Label: Naxos 8.554415Download 1fichier uptobox zippy
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