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2023-12-18 07:25:42
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, NY; December 16, 2023—It’s Christmas Time again in New York and that means merrily shopping crowds galore, an 800-foot-tall tree, and several different venues presenting Handel’s Messiah. I opted for one of the four at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, with Fabio Biondi making his New York Philharmonic debut—an […]
2023-12-13 19:17:00
New York Philharmonic. Fabio Biondi, conductor. December 12, 2023.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Orchestra (Seat R103, $90.25).End of concert. At 9:30 pm. Note the two trumpeters on the left.ProgramMessiah (1741) by Handel (1685-1759).ArtistsHera Hyesang Park, soprano; Hannah Ludwig, alto; John Matthew Myers, tenor; Joshua Conyers, baritone.Handel and Haydn Society ChorusLet me start off by saying this was an enjoyable concert. A group of highly competent musicians put together a traditional program to celebrate the holiday season; and one could argue a lot of good will was in the air as a near-capacity audience listened to great music, or got reminded what the Messiah was about by Handel's masterpiece.Having said that, there are some aspects of this performance I wanted to record for future reference.One can start with the conductor, who evidently is also a concert violinist. The best way to describe the result of Biondi's direction is Handel was brought forward by 100 years, to the romantic period. […]
2023-11-01 21:40:21
Fabio Biondi plays Vivaldi Concertos “Per Anna Maria”
Concerto per Violino XI, “Per Anna Maria” Fabio Biondi, violin; Europa Galante Naive Records Anna Maria (1696-1782) was one of Antonio Vivaldi’s principal muses. She was a pupil of his at Ospedale delle Pietà, where he taught for forty years. A child prodigy, Anna Maria was a violinist of enormous talent. Vivaldi recognized this […]
2023-09-24 05:02:00
Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante burst onto the musical scene with their first recording of The Four Seasons for Opus 111. That disc was a best seller, and deservedly so. For this remake, they have opted to use various original manuscript versions of each concerto in Vivaldi’s Op. 8, a clever gambit that, quite frankly, […]
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