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2021-04-04 09:44:38
A Life On-Line: Passions from Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square and Berwaldhallen, Stockholm
[…] addition soprano for the ripieno sections in the choruses) accompanied by an ensemble including some of the finest historical performance figures around today. So for singers we had Rowan Pierce, Helen Charlston, Nick Pritchard (Evangelist), Michael Craddock (Christus), Jessica Cale, Alexander Chance, Guy Cutting, Frederick Long and Molly Noon. Orchestra 1 was led by Bojan Čičić with Magdalena Loth-Hill (violin), Stefanie Heichelheim (viola), Jonathan Rees (cello & gamba), Peter McCarthy (violone), Ashley Solomon & Marta Goncalves (flutes), Leo Duarte & Bethan White (oboes), William Whitehead (organ). Orchestra 2 was led by Oliver Webber with Gabriella Jones (violin), Katie Heller (viola), Henrik Persson (cello & gamba), Jan Zahourek (bass), Rachel Brown & Eva Caballero (flutes), Gail Hennessy & Geoff Coates (oboes), Julian Perkins (harpsichord). The performance was in the round, so that the singers of choir 1 faced orchestra 1, and for the solos the soloist stood in the middle. Whilst […]
2020-11-01 21:46:27
The first time anybody from this blog was in the house at an Emi Makabe show, it was a rapt, often otherworldly, early midweek gig in the fall of 2017 at 55 Bar in the West Village. That evening she mixed up vocal and instrumental numbers, joined by Vitor Goncalves on accordion, Thomas Morgan (fresh […]
2019-12-10 10:10:36
In the salon of Mlle de Guise: Solomon's Knot take us to 17th century France with a pair of Christmas pastorals by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
[…] St Thomas's Church, Solomon's Knot returned to St John's Smith Square's Christmas Festival on Monday 9 December 2019 with a pair of Christmas pieces by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, In nativitatem Domini canticum H.416 and Pastorale sur la naissance de Notre Seigneur Jesus-Christ H.483. The works were performed by the singers, Clare Lloyd-Griffiths, Zoe Brookshaw, Kate Symonds-Joy, Peter Davoren, Thomas Herford, Marcus Farnsworth, Jonathan Sells & Alex Ashworth, with an instrumental ensemble of Eva Caballero and Marta Goncalves (flutes), Naomi Burrell and Beatrice Scaldini (violins), Joanna Miller (viola), Jonathan Rees (viola da gamba), Carina Cosgrave (violine), Jamie Akers (Theorbo/Lute), and William Whitehead (harpsichord/organ). Famously Italian trained (he studied in Rome with Carissimi), Marc-Antoine Charpentier's style combined the French and the Italian rather too freely for the taste of some of his contemporaries. Coming up against the operatic monopoly of Jean-Baptiste Lully, Charpentier found a sympathetic home in the highly musical establishment […]
2018-08-08 18:32:00
Lisbon under Ashes - rediscovered Portuguese Baroque
In 1755, Lisbon was destroyed, first by massive earthquake, then by a tsunami pouring in from the Atlantic, then by fire and civil unrest. The scale of the disaster is almost unimaginable today. The centre of the Portuguese Empire, with treasures from India, Africa, Brazil and beyond, was never to recover. The royal palaces, with their libraries and priceless collections, were annihilated. Some manuscripts survived in other cities, suggesting the scope of the original collections, which went back centuries. This recording, by A Corte Musical, led by Rogério Gonçalves, from Pan Classics, gives us an insight to some of the music that was lost. The spirit of the Age of Discoveries invigorated the Portuguese baroque, stimulating a vibrant culture that almostuniquely embraced influences from all over the world. So lively and varied is this recoirding that even without the historic signifigance, it's a delight to listen to. Toquen as sonajas, by […]
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