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An intimate & private piece: Heinrich Biber's Requiem in a superb new account from Vox Luminis & Freiburg Barockconsort on Alpha
[…] distant. There are a number of recordings of Biber's sacred works, including the Requiem and the huge Missa Salisburgensis but none of them are really familiar. So having a new disc of the work, sensitively performed, is more than welcome. On this new disc from Alpha Classics, Vox Luminis (artistic director Lionel Meunier) and the Freiburger Barockconsort perform Biber's Requiem in F minor, C 8, alongside Christoph Bernhard's motets Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener and Tribularer si nescirem, Johann Joseph Fux’s motet Omnis Terra Adoret, and instrumental sonatas from Fux and from Johann Michael Nicolai. The forces used are quite small, 12 singers (six sopranos, two counter-tenors, two tenors and two basses) and 14 instrumentalists (two violins, two violas, one viola da gamba, two cornets, three trombones, dulcian, violone, lute and organ). This is intimate music, practical in terms of forces and size. We don't know when […]
2020-10-24 05:16:00
Classical Music News of the Week, October 24, 2020
[…] to panel discussions on bringing inclusion to the arts,” said Francisco J. Núñez, founder and artistic director of YPC.The new virtual platform will continue to feature performances by choristers and upcoming events, with a much more innovative and robust user experience.To learn more, visit http://www.ypc.org/--Young People’s Chorus of NYCLos Angeles Master Chorale Announces New Board MembersThe Los Angeles Master Chorale announced today the appointment of two new members to its board of directors: Jennifer Flinton Diener and Shawn Kravich.The board, chaired by Philip A. Swan, provides leadership in carrying out the Master Chorale’s mission to share the spectrum of choral music with the widest possible audience. “We are excited to welcome Jennifer Flinton Diener and Shawn Kravich to the Master Chorale’s dedicated board of directors,” said Swan. “Their knowledge and expertise, combined with their passion for the arts, will help us to continue to adapt to the challenges of the […]
2019-09-12 17:51:09
Internationale Opernwerkstatt Waiblingen: 13 young singers working with Melanie Diener & Thomas Hampson
Melanie Diener and Thomas Hampson You may not have heard of the town of Waiblingen, near Stuttgart in Germany but it happens to be the home town of German soprano Melanie Diener. But if you are a young singer then Melanie Diener and baritone Thomas Hampson aim to put the town on the musical map. With the aid of a remarkably supportive city council, Diener and Hampson have created an international opera workshop, the first of which runs from 23 to 28 September 2019, culminating in a grand closing concert with all the soloists and the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Dan Ettinger. And for the 13 young people taking part, it is all free! Waiblingen in 2007 Diener and Hampson have invited 13 young singers from eight countries to be scholarship holders and take part in the workshop. Participation is free to the scholarship holders, travel costs […]
2019-04-07 08:00:41
Making Bach's music visible: the St John Passion staged by Peter Sellars with Simon Rattle and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
[…] want souvenirs as well.I would have liked to hear Georg Nigl singing standing up, and likewise would have liked Camilla Tilling to “just sing”. Christus’ “Es ist vollbracht” is usually followed by a long pause. Here the downward phrase was segue’d by the heartbreaking viola da gamba solo (Richard Tunnicliffe) and Christine Rice’s devastating and devastated aria. Very powerful.Some of the translations seemed a little wilful: “Jünger” were “students” rather than the usual disciples and “Diener” were “agents”. I am not sure what that added. The surtitles stayed up for much longer than usual so we could dwell on the written text without hearing any words.It was a long evening: a 7pm start and it finished after 9.30, there were long long pauses after some of the recits, but Mark Padmore’s gaze kept us focused for all that time. At times I felt the cavernous space of the Festival Hall […]
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