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2024-04-22 16:07:57
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2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
[…] Fox. Fauré was only 16 when he wrote it, a student at the École Niedermeyer where it came to the attention of a young teacher, Camille Saint-Saens (just ten years older than his pupil) and the two would remain friends. This followed by Florian Störtz in a serious and subtle account of Mai, a surprisingly complex work for a young man.Fauré was the only major French composer of the period not to have trained at the Paris Conservatoire. Johnson explained that his training at the École Niedermeyer was designed for church musicians, including teaching church modes to equip organists to improvise. This training gave Fauré his unique approach to harmony. From his second period we heard, Nell with Fox giving us a stylishly soaring melody over a shifting web of harmonies, then Störtz was richly melancholy in the dark Automne. Fauré's discovery of Verlaine came next with three songs performed by Sarah Fox. […]
2024-04-10 17:00:38
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2024-03-28 07:26:00
Without a shadow of doubt, a brilliant programme all round: Sibelius, Prokofiev & Saariaho in Berlin with Jan Lisiecki, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Tarmo Peltokoski
[…] ‘Spectralists’, a French group of composers whose compositions are based on the computer analysis of the sound spectrum of individual tones on various instruments. Therefore, she turned to a style characterised by long-held bass notes and the use of microtonal intervals and writing. And in this particular and distinctive style, she composed what’s widely recognised as her best-known work: Graal théâtre for violin and orchestra (1994-97). In millennium year, Saariaho (who, sadly, passed away in Paris, June of last year, aged 70) turned to opera and Kent Nagano (a champion of her work) conducted the première of L’amour de loin (Love from a distance) at the 2000 Salzburg Festival. A five-act opera written to a libretto by Amin Maalouf and based on the biography of troubadour, Jaufré Rudel, entitled La vida breve. The opera was recorded by Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Rundfunkchor Berlin in 2011 under the direction of Kent […]
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