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Italian composer (1602–1676)
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2024-02-26 15:10:33
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part I, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: February 26, 2024. Missed dates and Luigi Dallapiccola. For the last three weeks, we’ve been preoccupied with Alban Berg, and we feel good about it: Berg was a revolutionary composer (not by his constitution but by the nature of his creative talent) and he should be celebrated, even if our time, philistine and woke, doesn’t suit him well. The problem we have is that we missed several very significant anniversaries: for example, George Frideric Handel‘s – he was born on February 23rd of 1685; also, one of the most interesting German composers of the 16th century, Michael Praetorius, was born on February 15th of 1571. We missed the birthday of Francesco Cavalli, a very important composer in the history of opera, on February 14th of 1602. Two famous Italians were also born during those three weeks, Archangelo Corelli on February 17th of 1653 and Luigi Boccherini, […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] was common at the time in Germany (and occasionally in France). Handel’s oft-performed Serse (i.e., Xerxes), entirely Italian, is treated this year to a splendid recording that features two utterly marvelous sopranos, Mary Bevan and Lucy Crowe, under the responsive baton of Harry Bicket. Other Baroque operas that proved entertaining and enlightening were L’Idalma by Bernardo Pasquini (best known for his “cuckoo” piece for organ, gloriously orchestrated by Respighi in the Ancient Airs and Dances), Cavalli’s L’Egisto (featuring two remarkable and distinctive tenors: the lighter Zachary Wilder—a favorite of Boston audiences—and the darker Marc Mauillon), Lully’s Psyché (which is full of colorful details, including music for giants hammering at anvils, two centuries before Wagner, though of course the percussion here is more modest than the actual anvils in the Ring Cycle), and Rameau’s Zoroastre, featuring astonishingly accomplished performances by Jodie Devos, Véronique Gens (again!), Gwendoline Blondeel, Mathias Vidal, and Tassis […]
2023-12-15 08:34:00
A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
Members of Vache Baroque and lutenist Kristiina Watt rehearsing at St John's Smith Square (Photo: The Musicians' Photographer)A Baroque Hanukkah: Salmone Rossi, Thomas Campion, Heinrich Schütz, John Farmer, Francesco Cavalli, Henry Purcell, Thomas Ravenscroft, Thomas Weelkes; Vache Baroque, La Vaghezza; St John's Smith SquareReviewed 13 December 2023The culmination of Vache Baroque's celebrations of Salomone Rossi paired his Hebrew-texted psalm settings with music of his contemporaries in wonderfully engaged performances highlighting Rossi's distinctive place in the musical universeIn 1623, the Italian Jewish violinist and composer, Salomone Rossi, achieved an ambition that had been germinating since around 1610, when he published, השירים אשר לשלמה (Hashirim Asher leShlomo, The Songs of Solomon), a collection of Jewish liturgical texts in Hebrew set to polyphonic music in the modern Baroque tradition with little connection to the tradition of Jewish cantorial music. The result is a work of remarkable cultural synthesis. The name is also a mischievous […]
2023-11-09 08:50:00
Celebrating 17th-century Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists - Infinite Refrain: Music of Love's Refuge
Infinite Refrain: Music of Love's Refuge: Monteverdi, Cavalli, Boretti, Melani, Castrovillari; Randall Scotting, Jorge Navarro Colorado, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings; Signum ClassicsReviewed 3 November 2023A wonderful album that celebrates Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists in the 17th century, with music by Monteverdi and Cavalli, alongside modern-day premieres by the little-known composers Boretti, Melani, and Castrovillari During the 17th and 18th centuries, Venice had a reputation, particularly during the Carnival, where people could wander around masked and all sorts of activities could take place. Exciting things that would not be possible elsewhere. Tourists flocked, and entertainment for them stretched from the lucrative trade of prostitutes right through to the opera. It was fun for young heterosexual men, of course, women were far more available, but it was even bigger a draw for gay men.Thanks to disputes between the Venetian authorities and the church, there was greater […]
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