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2024-01-30 07:50:00
Back with vengeance: Nina Stemme in Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden
[…] Mofidian's nervy and anxious companion. Charles Workman was a handsomely glamorous as Agisth, a character you trust no further than you could throw him; you could see this Klytämnestra and Ägisth as media darlings, all surface and no depth.The maids (Noa Beinart, Veena Kama-Makia, Gabriele Kupsyte, Ella Taylor, Valentina Puskas) at the opening were well depicted, creating a vivid sense of place with Lee Bisset rather luxury casting as the Overseer. Marianne Cotterill and Amanda Baldwin were Klytämnestra's companions, whilst Michael Gibson was the young servant and Jeremy White was the Old Servant. And not a weak link anywhere.One last thing; I am not sure who was responsible for it, but Klytämnestra's off-stage scream was terrific too.Strauss: Elektra - Karita Mattila, Nina Stemme - Royal Opera (Photo: ROH/Tristram Kenton)Almost as important a character was the orchestra. Pappano's direction was masterly, he kept a sense of the works dramatic flow whilst […]
2024-01-15 16:11:56
Schein and many other, 2024
[…] for his art songs. None of these composers were what is usually called “great” but all were talented and some of their works are very interesting. Listen, for example, to Alexander Tcherepnin’s 10 Bagatelles, op. 5 in a version for piano and orchestra (here). Margrit Weber is at the piano, Ferenc Fricsay conducts the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Or, in a very different way, here’s Duparc’s fine song, L'invitation au Voyage. Jessye Norman is accompanied by Dalton Baldwin. One composer, also born this week, interests us more than all the above, even though his name is almost forgotten- Johann Hermann Schein. Schein, a good friend of the better-known Heinrich Schütz, was one of the most important German composers of the pre-Bach era. He was born on January 20th of 1586 (99 years before Bach) in Grünhain, a small town in Saxony. As a boy, he moved to Dresden where he joined the […]
2024-01-15 15:34:25
Henri Duparc - L'invitation au voyage Jessye Norman (Soprano)Dalton Baldwin (Piano)
2023-09-05 15:19:46
SCRUTINY | Stellar Acting & Music Light Up Baldwin’s The Amen Corner At The Shaw
Among his vast literary output, Baldwin wrote only two plays, of which The Amen Corner (1954) was the first; it contains many autobiographical allusions.
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