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2024-03-04 15:36:37
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part II, 2024
[…] in the manner of one of his idols, Alban Berg. Dallapiccola’s last large composition was the opera Ulisse, which premiered in Berlin in 1968; Lorin Maazel was the conductor. After that, Dallapiccola composed very little, his time went into adapting some of his lectures into a book. He died on February 19th of 1975 in Florence. In 1971 Dallapiccolo compiled two suites based on Ulisse. Here is one of them, called Suite/A. The soprano Colette Herzog is Calypso, the baritone Claudio Desderi is Ulysses. Ernest Bour conducts the Chorus and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the French Radio.
2024-03-04 15:22:21
Luigi Dallapiccola - Ulisse, Suite AColette Herzog (Soprano)Claudio Desderi (Baritone)Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Orchestra)Ernest Bour (Conductor)
2022-02-07 14:06:00
R.I.P. Hans Neuenfels, 1941-2022
[…] staging and vice versa. Again, the darker side of Lohengrin, the nature of its ultra-mysterious charismatic hero and the way a crowd would follow him, was the stuff of the conflict. (That could not help but leave one asking: were Ortrud and Telramund right to resist? Were they the true rebels, revolutionaries even?) It was a pity, therefore, that we did not hear the word Führer when Lohengrin introduced his successor, Gottfried (‘Seht da den Herzog von Brabant! Zum Führer sei er euch ernannt!’) Schützer, the ‘Protector’ employed earlier for Lohengrin, was used instead. Perhaps the abiding question with which we were left related to who was actually running the experiment? Who was on the outside? It is, in a sense, a variation upon a perennial problem of political philosophy, never more so than in Rousseau: who is the Legislator? ‘A superior intelligence beholding all the passions of men without […]
2021-10-12 03:19:34
In June, 25-year-old Quebec City native Julien Siino returned to the concert stage to play Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with conductor Mathieu Herzog and Ensemble Appassionato at the Seine Musicale in Paris. “Such an exhilarating experience,” says the recent recipient of an award of excellence from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Siino was cellist in [...]
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