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2024-01-08 14:25:30
Jazz concert at London’s Wigmore Hall featured trumpeter Avishai Cohen and trombonist Gianluca Petrella’s trio
2020-04-07 23:00:00
Bolling - Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio - Guitar Sonata - Claude Quartet - Brilliant HD
Claude Bolling (1930)Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Piano Trio (1975)Sonata pour quitare (1996)Claude QuartetDuilio Meucci guitarRoberto Porzio pianoPaolo Petrella double bassAndrea de Fazio drumsBrilliant Classics 2016digital download, HD tracks, coversNow 86 years old, Claude Bolling was a leading light in French jazz for over 60 years, winning his first competition as a prodigious pianist at the age of 14 and soon afterwards forming his first band. His eponymous big band has been a fixture on the international circuit for decades, and with it he made the first unabridged recording of Duke Ellington’s magnum opus, the Black, Brown and Beige suite.Bolling engaged in stylish crossover projects with many classically trained French soloists of his generation, among them the flautist Jean‐Pierre Rampal (Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano, 1975) and the trumpeter Maurice André (Toot Suite, 1981). This concerto works the other way around, bringing formal, if not strictly Classical, constraints to bear […]
2017-07-06 14:14:18
Iris, hence away
[…] Elisabeth in Don Carlos in a starry Krzysztof Warlikowski production in Paris conducted by Philippe Jordan alongside Elina Garanca, Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier and Ildar Abdrazakov. And after Tosca come two other new operas—Luisa Miller at the Met and La Scala’s first Il Pirata since Maria Callas performed it there 60 years ago. Whew—I’m already exhausted! A very odd opera with some glorious moments, Iris has only occasionally been mounted–for passionate Italian divas like Clara Petrella, Magda Olivero, and Daniela Dessì. But it did have a rare, memorable revival just last summer at Bard Summerscape. After the Norma was announced, I frankly expected Yoncheva to withdraw from this Iris concert in Montpellier to give her time to absorb that difficult Bellini role, but she did indeed appear…conducted by her husband Domingo Hindoyan who makes his Met debut next season leading L’Elisir d’Amore. If all goes according to the schedule of […]
2017-03-28 19:47:09
Bass of diamonds
Happy 75th birthday bass Samuel Ramey. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDS8MtD7zyY Born on this day in 1890 mezzo-soprano Sabine Kalter. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlSG-WiThVM Born on this day in 1911 librettist Myfanwy Piper. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXjuprJb9w8 Born on this day in 1914 soprano Clara Petrella. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHFW2xKiepk Born on this day in 1918 baritone Anselmo Colzani. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWnJCWalprc Born on this day in 1925 soprano Hanne-Lore Kuhse. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXShsQZusdk Born on this day in 1925 baritone Dmytro Hnatyuk. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzJIEVe6STU Born on this day in 1930 composer Robert Ashley. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXgahc8XDXU Happy 87th birthday contralto Elizabeth Bainbridge. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilqGRYuG2hI Happy 76th birthday tenor Nicola Martinucci. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKuGxyvEiv4 Happy 48th birthday mezzo-soprano Daniela Barcellona. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHSDdm-Md7A
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