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2022-05-24 08:17:38
The Vache Baroque Festival, which takes place this year from 2 to 4 September 2022, has launched a new video series celebrating the work of women composers of the Baroque era. The videos will feature performances of music by the English composer (and wife of a baronet) Lady Mary Dering (1629-1704) who studied with Henry Lawes, the Italian composer Lucia Quinciani (c1566, fl 1611) the earliest known published female composer of monody, the Italian composer Francesca Caccini (1587-1641), daughter of a composer, she worked at the Florentine court and wrote the oldest surviving opera by a woman, French composer Julie Pinel (1710-1737), born into a family of composers and who published a collection of songs, English composere Elisabetta de Gambarini (1730-1765), born in England to Italian aristocratic parents, she may have studied with Geminiani, and Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602-1676/78), a cloistered nun who wrote music for her convent.The first video appeared […]
2022-03-07 13:05:09
Grand Siècle in a triple bill of French Baroque operas including two premiere stagings of works by female composers
Later this month there is a chance to catch stagings of two rarely performed short operas by female composers of the French Baroque. The ensemble Grand Siècle is performing a triple bill of Rameau's Pygmalion, Julie Pinel's Iphis et Daphné, and Elizabeth Jaquet de la Guerre’s Raccommodement Comique de Pierrot et Nicole, at The Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon, Oxfordshire on 18 and 19 March 2022. Julie Pinel (fl 1710-1737) was a composer and harpsichord player born into a family of French court musicians. Very little is known about her, but her published collection of songs from 1737 is dedicated to Charles de Rohan, Prince de Soubise, who was a patron of her family. Harpsichordist and composer Elizabeth Jaquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) is perhaps a better known name, but like Pinel's opera, Jaquet de la Guerre's is a first staging. Like Pinel, she was born into a family of musicians and instrument makers, and […]
2021-12-20 18:06:00
Barbican Hall Harriet Eyley (soprano)Jess Dandy (contralto)Stuart Jackson (tenor)James Newby (baritone) Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge (director, organ: Richard Pinel) Britten Sinfonia David Watkin (conductor) Messiahs take many forms. They did during the eighteenth century; they did in the nineteenth; they did in the twentieth; despite the more or less complete victory of ‘authentic’—was ever the term less apt than for this work?—performance practices in the rest of Handel’s œuvre, they have continued to do so in the twenty-first. Sadly, even tragically, the video of that inimitable ‘Handel meets Pop with Messias’, starring the still-more-inimitable Robbin Casey, seems to have vanished not only from YouTube but the planet. (Please do let me know if you have a copy of the original broadcast!) But we still have options ranging from Mozart to McCreesh, from Beecham to Britten Sinfonia. The small forces employed here, including a tiny orchestra (strings 3.3.2.2.1) and a […]
2021-12-19 09:15:34
Music and meaning: Handel's Messiah from Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge and Britten Sinfonia with conductor David Watkin at the Barbican
The Great Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, where Messiah was first performed in 1741 Handel Messiah; Harriet Eyley, Jess Dandy, Stuart Jackson, James Newby, Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia, David Watkin; Barbican Centre Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 17 December 2021 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) A team of young soloists and a young choir in a performance that relished the litheness of the instrumental forces and reinforced the real message of Charles Jennens' selection of textsFeeling like something of a little miracle in its own right, Britten Sinfonia brought their performance of Handel's Messiah to the Barbican on Friday 17 December 2021 (the second of three performances in Norwich, London and Saffron Walden). David Watkin conducted the Britten Sinfonia and Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge (director Richard Pinel who played the organ in the performance) with a fine team of young soloists Harriet Eyley (soprano), Jess […]
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