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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-23 21:54:31
A Final Flourish with Cappella Clausura
[…] audiences about these beautiful old sounds. As a friend of living composers, Amelia has both commissioned and performed 21st -century music written by such luminaries as Elena Ruehr, Hilary Tann, Augusta Thomas Read, Patrician van Ness, Gabriela Lena Frank, Joan Tower, and more. In her constant search for music by women from every century that has gone unheard, she has performed music by Barbara Strozzi, Raffaella Aleotti, Sulpitia Cesis, Rebecca Clarke, Florence Price, and Lili Boulanger. To name a few! In her final year, Amelia has expressed to us that she feels so proud to be able to title each concert by the composers’ names alone: Hilary Tann, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Ethel Smyth, and finally Chiara Cozzolani. It is really gratifying that for Amelia’s final concert we are collaborating with H&H’s educational program, Chorus of Sopranos and Altos. With them we’ll return to Cozzolani, the very first composer we ever […]
2024-04-22 15:49:49
Programme at New York’s David Geffen Hall also included works by Prokofiev and Lili Boulanger
2024-04-20 08:34:00
A day at Leeds Lieder Festival: Fauré, Boulanger, Mahler and more
Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent, 1889Lecture recital: Gabriel Fauré and his mélodies; Graham Johnson, Sarah Fox, Florian Störtz; Leeds Lieder Festival at The Venue, Leeds ConservatoireGabriel Fauré, Lili Boulanger, Mahler, Roger Quilter, Muriel Herbert; James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook; Leeds Lieder Festival at The Venue, Leeds ConservatoireReviewed 18 April 2024A day of French song with a focus on Fauré, with Graham Johnson making us love the composer's late period, and James Gilchrist in fine form, from elegant Fauré to perfumed Boulanger, Mahler in comic mode and Roger Quilter with his heart on his sleeveThursday 18 April was A Day of French Song at Leeds Lieder Festival. In the morning the festival's Young Artists had a public masterclass with soprano Dame Felicity Lott concentrating on French repertoire, then at lunchtime pianist Graham Johnson was joined by soprano Sarah Fox and baritone Florian Störtz for a lecture recital on Gabriel Fauré and his mélodies, and Johnson went on join […]
2024-03-28 03:30:00
Lang Lang: Saint-Saens
by Bill HeckSaint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals, Piano Concerto 2; Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte; Debussy: Petite Suite 71; Faure: In paradisium; Delibes: Delibes: Lakmé: Flower Duet; Saint-Saens: Toccata after the Fifth Concerto (from Six Études pour piano op. 111); Faure: Pavane op. 50; Farrenc: Étude No. 10; Sohy: Song without Words; Tailleferre: Valse lente; Bonis: The Little One Falls Asleep; Boulanger: Of a Bright Garden; Saint-Saens: The Swan. Lang Lang, Gina Alice (pianos), Gewandhaus Orchestra cond, Andris Nelsons. DG 505859 Based on an admittedly very small sample, it seems that DG is interested in producing events as much as producing recordings. I suppose that’s their business, and but my curmudgeonly side is, shall we say, a little jaded. There’s no doubt that Lang Lang is a musical superstar, and I suppose that it’s natural for DG to be trading on that fame. Thus, you can find video sections […]
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