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2019-08-25 04:01:00
This Fauré disc is among the highlights of Testament’s fascinating series of Inghelbrecht recordings. The Shylock Suite, five brief movements from incidental music to a play based on The Merchant of Venice, is an attractive morsel, primarily of interest for two vocal sections, here sung to perfection by lyric tenor Henri Legay, whose bright timbre […]
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2018-11-12 02:28:00
Claude Debussy: Les Trois Sonates (The Late Works) – Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Javier Perianes, Xavier de Maistre, Antoine Tamestit, Magali Mosnier, Tanguy de Williencourt (Audio video)
[…] 21 September 1914: "I won't talk about two months during which I haven't written a note, nor touched a piano: that is of no importance compared to current events, I'm well aware of the fact, but I can't help thinking about it with sadness... at my age, time lost is lost for ever". Fortunately, the year 1915 brought him a new lease of life, as he wrote in September to his friend the conductor Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht. He justified his delay in replying to a previous letter by explaining that he was "learning music all over again": "It's a fine thing, you must admit! It's even finer than people think it is in all those different Societies: National, International, and other low dens... The sum total of emotions that one can derive from well-disposed harmony is impossible to find in any other art! Forgive me! Forgive me! I give the impression […]
2018-04-04 07:55:22
Planet Hugill’s roving music correspondent, Tony Cooper, reports on Berlin’s Festtage
[…] painstakingly slow worker, Debussy still managed to deliver the score of Saint Sébastien in time for the work’s première on 22nd May 1911. It was good going, really, as he only accepted the commission in February of that year. The première took place at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and was of Wagnerian proportions lasting more than five hours.As so often is the case problems occurred at the rehearsal stage and chorus director, Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht, suggested on hearing Eugénie (Ninon) Vallin, that she take over the role of the celestial voice as Rose Féart, who had been engaged for the part, fell well short of the rehearsal time. Therefore, Vallin sang the role and Debussy insisted on her singing it in the fully-staged production, presented by the impresario, Gabriel Astruc. Such was Vallin’s relationship with Debussy that she continued her association with him and gave the première of his […]
2016-09-17 20:38:40
She could drive a person crazy
Born on this day in 1925 actress and chanteuse Dorothy Loudon. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQcUdSwHD_w Born on this day in 1711 composer Ignaz Holzbauer. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLvasZLZS48 Born on this day in 1878 composer Vincenzo Tommasini. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsBXuq1LD8M Born on this day in 1880 conductor and composer Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZLGnVJYRZE Born on this day in 1904 choreographer Frederick Ashton. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=maw5XB7ptD0 Born on this day in 1913 glass harmonica player Bruno Hoffman. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3isrsSdDBOQ Happy 80th birthday baritone Roland Hermann. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fHRQLH_eY8 Happy 64th birthday bass John-Paul Bogart. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofn8PvRX_Bo
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