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Italian composer (1605–1674)
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2024-02-04 15:08:02
Barbican, LondonJoyce DiDonato probed Dido’s desire and anguish with characteristic subtlety, while the Pomo d’Oro Choir were superb in Carissimi’s JephtePart of
2022-03-21 14:12:43
La descente d'Orphée aux enfers: the Vache Baroque Festival returns with Charpentier, Carissimi and more
In 2020, I chatted to co-founder Jonathan Darbourne about his new Vache Baroque Festival [see my interview]. That year events included Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Katie Bray, whilst last year's festival included a staging of Handel's Acis and Galatea as well as a celebration of Milton. This year the festival returns for the third edition from 26 August to 4 September 2022 at the beautiful grounds of The Vache, a house once owned by King James II. The centrepiece of this year's festival is a staging of Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux enfers, led by music director Jonathan Darbourne and stage director Jeanne Pansard-Besson, with Samuel Boden in the title role and choreography by Ukweli Roach with dancers from BirdGang Ltd. Other events surrounding this include a series of pop-up multi-disciplinary installations, including Carissimi's Jephthe. And the festival moves to London temporarily in November, with a gala celebration of the 300th anniversary Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. […]
2022-02-21 11:25:25
[…] We hear a sonata from his last set, published in 1682 Giovanni Battista Buonamente came to Vienna with Eleanora Gonzaga and became musicista da camera to the Emperor so we can imagine Buonamente and colleagues playing his Sonata Prima (from his sixth book of sonatas) for the Emperor's delectation or simply has background music! Johann Caspar Kerll studied initially with Valentini, one of Schmeltzer's Italian predecessors at the Viennese court, before travelling to Rome and studying with Carissimi. Time as Kapellmeister at the Munich court ended with a dispute, which is how he ended up in Vienna, where he lived through both the plague and the Ottoman Turks' siege. Here we hear a Passacaglia where the mix of German and Italian idiom is clear, embedded in a classic French form! Not much of his chamber music survives, so the ensemble also records a sonata with a virtuosic obbligato viola da gamba part. This comes […]
2021-06-21 12:58:47
Wrong Portrait
This Week in Classical Music: June 21, 2021. A Wrong Portrait. Some years ago we published an entry about an interesting early-Baroque Italian composer Giacomo Carissimi. We decided to include his portrait, as we often do when we write about a composer or a performer, so we searched the web and came up with the portrait you see to theleft. It was used on many sites, some quite established, for example, France Musique, a French national public music channel. Then some time ago we received an email from one of our listeners, who told us that the portrait is not of Carissimi at all. That was surprising, so we decided to research the matter. Sure enough, almost immediately we came across an old article by the musicologist Gloria Rose called A Portrait Called Carissimi. In this article Rose wrote about the origins of the portrait: it could be found at the […]
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