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2021-01-29 17:21:30
[…] Louis XIV and one of the first female composers in music history to have her work published. The venue is an old synagogue in Alsace, Le ventre, which was saved from being demolished.Performing Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre's air 'Sur une Mer' from her cantata Le Sommeil d'Ulysse are Margarita Slepakova - mezzo soprano, Teodoro Baú - viola da gamba, Pablo FitzGerald - archlute, Weronika Kłosiewicz - harpsichord, with video by Wawrzyniec Skoczylas and Tomasz Ebert, and audio by Leonardo Bortolotto.
2020-10-14 23:00:00
PELLEAS ET MELISANDE - GLYNDEBOURNE, GUI 1963
Claude DebussyPelléas et MélisandeHans Wilbrink (Pelléas), Denise Duval (Mélisande)Michel Roux (Golaud), Guus Hoekman (Arkel)Anna Reynolds (Geneviève), Rosine Brédy (Yniold)John Shirley-Quirk (a Doctor)The Glyndebourne ChorusThe Royal Philharmonic Orchestradir : Vittorio GuiGlyndebourne GFOCD 003-63 mono 3 CDs [P] 2009Recorded live at Glyndebourne, summer 1963 Individual FLAC files, logs, booklet, scans A Fine Cast makes for a Memorable Pelléas from Glyndebourne in 1963 As John Steane noted, welcoming Glyndebourne's 1962 Figaro, that "vintage year" saw the return to Sussex of Carl Ebert "to produce not only Figaro but also Glyndebourne's first Pelléas". Recorded here on its revival a year later, Pelléas was conducted by Vittorio Gui, 78 in 1963, whose connection with the Glyndebourne company extended back to 1948. If Gui's reading is "Italianate", this is because it gives considerable though never excessive weight to the drama's emotional intensity. The idea that Debussy's opera […]
2020-05-24 07:41:00
When Schumann isn't what we thought
[…] the hope that he would perform it. Bochmul was entrusted with the responsibility for the technical aspect (bowings and fingerings) of the solo part, and made many changes and ‘suggestions’. Perhaps he had good intentions, but reading letters between the pair, I’ve gathered Schumann found the ‘improvements’ irritating and they were mostly ignored. Following various excuses, a performance never materialised. The Concertoseems to have remained unperformed owing to Schumann’s death in 1856, until Ludwig Ebert played it in 1860, first at Oldenburg on 23 April and later at the Leipzig Conservatoire on 6 September. Schumann’s Concertowas the first nineteenth-century cello concerto to achieve classic status, but it was slow in establishing itself. Alfredo Piatti gave the British premiere in London in April 1866, but the work seems to have lacked an immediate advocate. It was not heard again in England until 1880, when at the Crystal Palace, London on […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-03-18 02:31:47
The Slipped Disc daily comfort zone (1)
The pianist is Harry Ebert. The interpretation, on the eve of war, is out of this world.
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