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Italian composer, violinist and organist (1710–1736)
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2024-02-08 08:14:00
Sitting in a concert hall is not a great place to have a musical experience: Frederick Waxman introduces Our Mother, Figure's dramatic staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
This is my body Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri from Figure at the Swiss Church in 2023The ensemble Figure, co-artistic directors Frederick Waxman and Philip Barrett, has had some considerable success with its stagings at Opera Holland Park of Handel's Serse (in 2022) and Shakespeare/Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream (in 2023), but last year the company also created a remarkable immersive staging Buxtehude's sacred cantata sequence Membra Jesu Nostri [see my review].From 20 to 23 March 2024 they will be presenting Our Mother at Stone Nest. This will be a dramatised staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with additional music by Alex Mills. Directed by Sophie Daneman, the staging will be performed by women of multiple generations, Dame Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce and Katie MacDonald.When I chatted to Frederick Waxman about the production he commented that whilst everyone knows the first 20 seconds or so of Pergolesi's music, they wanted to […]
2024-01-08 16:07:00
Catching up, January 2024
[…] Chopin’s but later he developed a musical language all his own, with a very fluid tonality, if not quite atonal. His grandiosity, both personal and musical, and his attempts to synthesize music and color didn’t age well (especially in his orchestral output), but his piano music is still played very often and is of the highest quality. Among other anniversaries: Francis Poulenc’s 125th was celebrated on January 7th (he was born in 1899). Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, who died tragically young, aged 26, from tuberculosis, but left us a tremendous Stabat Mater and a brilliant intermezzo La serva padrona (Sonya Yoncheva is great as Serpina in this production), was born in a small town of Jesi, Italy, on January 4th of 1710.
2023-11-19 05:00:00
Hiller: Jauchzet dem Herren (Handels' Company)
Johann Adam Hiller (1728-1804) Jauchzet Dem Herrn, Alle WeltLass Sich Freuen AlleArrangement of Pergolesi's Stabat MaterRainer Joahnnes Homburg, Handels' Company(Period Instruments)Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm MDG 902 1876-6 (1995)[Flac & Scans]
2023-08-20 04:00:00
Italian Arias of the 18th Century (Mónika González, Fabio Pirona, Savaria Baroque Orchestra)
Italian Arias by: Niccolò Jommelli, Tommaso Traetta, Leonardo Leo, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Giovanni Paisiello, Niccolò Piccinni, Antonio Sacchini & Baldasare GaluppiMónika González, SopranoFabio Pirona, Savaria Baroque Orchestra(Period Instruments)Hungaroton HCD 32253-2(See back cover for complete track listing) [Flac & Scans]
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