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2022-04-26 17:36:49
Wolfgang Rihm Jagden und Formen Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Franck Ollu, conductor BR-Klassik CD Wolfgang Rihm’s hour long orchestra work Jagden und Formen (2008) has its roots in an earlier work, some fifteen minutes long, from 1996, dedicated to Helmut Lachenmann on his sixtieth birthday. The piece ultimately morphed and expanded into the version recorded […]
2019-09-12 14:00:52
Petrinsky/Nigl/Van Mechelen/Montalvo/Opéra de la Monnaie/Ollu (Cyprès)The story of an Amazonian queen who falls in love with the warrior Achilles and violently kills him, Dusapin’s work is taut and compelling, lingering in the mind First performed at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2015, Penthesilea was
2019-03-06 22:50:00
George Benjamin Ensemble Modern Into the Little Hill
Ensemble Modern George Benjamin and Ensemble Modern at the Wigmore Hall with Anu Komsi and Helena Rasker in Benjamin's Into The Little Hill. There have been many George Benjamin Days at the Wigmore Hall (also featuring this piece) and Ensemble Modern are welcome regulars in London But this was a historic occasion since Benjamin's Into the Little Hill was for Ensemble Modern, who gave the world premiere in Frankfurt in November 2006, conducted by Franck Ollu, with Anu Komsi and Hilary Summers. For me, the highlight was hearing Anu Komsi singing it live. Though other singers, have done the part well, Komsi is much more than just a singer. She's a phenomenom, a true coloratura with an unusually wide range and the agility to use her voice in the service of Benjamin's fiendishly tricky score, where extreme changes of register and technique continuously contort and challenge. That, in esssence, is […]
2018-10-15 15:31:00
Passion, Music Theatre Wales, 13 October 2018
[…] to go back towards the light?”’ Just as composers from Monteverdi to Birtwistle have retold, remade the myth in the light of their own concerns, the concerns of their times too, so have Dusapin and a splendidly integrated team of performers. Johnny Herford (Him) and National Dance Company Wales Worthy successors to the not inconsiderable team of Barbara Hannigan, Georg Nigl, Ensemble Musicatreize, Ensemble Modern, and Franck Ollu, Jennifer France, Johnny Herford, EXAUDI, the London Sinfonietta, and Geoffrey Paterson offered an outstanding musical performance, ably shadowed, incited, and criticised by a fine team of dancers. One had little doubt that the Sinfonietta and Paterson were not only presenting what one was ‘supposed’ to hear, but in the emphatic sense performing it, bringing it into life and revealing its form in the dramatic here and now. Comparisons make little sense in the case […]
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