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2024-03-21 03:30:00
Lavinia Meijer: Winter (CD Review)
by Karl NehringRichter: The Departure; Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37: V. Nunc dimittis; Reyer Zwart: Amethysta,b; Lambert: As Ballad; Meijer: A Winter Interlude (After Schubert); Meijer: Open Window - Part I | Part II | Part III; Satie: Pièces froides: II. Danses des travers, No. 2 Passer; Nils Frahm: Over There, It's Raining; George Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann: Song of the Fisherwomen; Britten: Corpus Christi Carol; Philip Glass/Foday Musa Suso: The Orchardc; Ölafur Arnalds: Lag fyrir Ömmua; Meijer: Tomorrowday; Glass: dFreezing (lyrics by Suzanne Vega). Lavinia Meijer, harp (all tracks); aAlma Quartet Amsterdam; bReyer Zwart, double bass; cNadia Sirota, viola; dWishful Singing. Sony Classics 19858868622I had hoped to have this review posted while it was still officially winter on the calendar; however, I will excuse and console myself by noting that as I write the words on the second full day of spring here in rural central Ohio, the wind chill is currently 33° and the overnight low is forecasted to be 20°, so it might as well still be winter here […]
2023-03-20 05:12:26
On this day in 1901 the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Reyer’s Salammbô.
2019-03-22 07:56:59
Man, myth and magic: how story telling has come back into opera
[…] opera.In the 19th century, folk tale, fairy tale and myth were common currency of the opera libretto, Composers such as Weber and Marschner established the new German romantic opera based very much on German folk tales and fairy tales, and Wagner developed this, creating his own very personal mythology based on folk tale and myth.Wagner's success gave rise to generations of emulators, all by and large failed to achieve what he did. Few now remember Reyer's Sigurd though Chausson's Le roi Arthus gets an occasional outing, but Albeniz's Merlin remained buried for decades. One composer stands out from this post-Wagner crowd, Engelbert Humperdinck whose fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel manages to be Wagnerian in construction, yet delightful and light in touch. Fairy-tale opera developed into quite a late 19th and early 20th century genre, Humperdinck would write a number and his pupil, Siegfried Wagner (Richard's son) did too.Over in […]
2017-04-01 18:10:12
Clash of symbols
[…] Norse mythology intellectually respectable, and after the triumph of Wagner’s operas, every hotshot young composer was eager to try his hand at resurrecting Teutonic folklore or (if not a Teuton) the local traditional product, whatever it might be. Fairy tales and mythic cycles were suddenly the hot thing. Of all these works—they include Strauss’s debut, Guntram, and Puccini’s, Le Villi, and Janacek’s, Sarka, not to mention the Irish operatic mythos of Rutland Boughton, Dvorak’s Russalka, Reyer’s Sigurd, Ethel Smythe’s Der Wald, the Russian epics of Rimsky-Korsakov and the entire oeuvre of henpecked Siegfried Wagner—just one piece entered the international operatic repertory and stayed there: Hansel und Gretel. But a number of playwrights were inspired by this vein, among them Ibsen, Gerhardt Hauptmann and Maurice Maeterlinck. Ibsen’s most obviously mythic drama is Peer Gynt, but he played with many a legend-like theme, such as the creative genius who destroys everyone about […]
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