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2023-12-30 14:00:16
Le Nozze di Figaro
A historic performance from April 7, 1956 in celebration of the centenaries of Cesare Siepi and Victoria de los Angeles featuring Nadine Conner, Mildred Miller, and conductor Max Rudolf
2023-11-29 07:41:00
Handel by candle-light & a gig on Jimi Hendrix's bed: Handel Hendrix After Dark
[…] she continued singing with Lennon & McCartney's Michelle. The combination of Musaelian's rather folk-inspired voice and the rich counterpoint that the viols brought to Lennon & McCartney's music was very striking. A Monteverdi madrigal followed, intimate and affecting, making you realise that these were the type of spaces that this music was written for. Finally a Handel aria. Handel never wrote anything for viol, but here they made a striking arrangement of Cleopatra's Piangero from Giulio Cesare in Egitto, bringing out the contrast between the clarity of Musaelian's voice and the lovely, dark chestnutty sound of the two viols.Maya Delilah in Jimi Hendrix's bedroomAfter a lovely wander around the candle-lit rooms, making you realise quite how little light people had in the evenings, we repaired to Jimi Hendrix' bedroom where, largely sitting on the floor, a full audience heard a lovely gig from singer/songwriter Maya Delilah and her guitar. She commented […]
2023-11-14 08:54:00
Engagement, exploration & discovery: London Handel Players return to Handel at Home for Total Eclipse
[…] hand and involved himself in the works being published.The London Handel Players' Handel at Home series on SOMM explores this approach to the music. The ensemble, Rachel Brown flute/recorder, Adrian Butterfield, Oliver Webber and Naomi Burrell violins, Rachel Byrt viola, Gavin Kibble cello, Carina Cosgrave double bass, Silas Wollston harpsichord, has returned to Handel's music in chamber arrangements, both contemporary and their own. On this second volume, Total Eclipse we have music from Rinaldo, Radamisto, Samson, Giulio Cesare and The Choice of Hercules plus a Sonata a 5, in arrangements for ensemble or in transcriptions for harpsichord.Within seven weeks of Handel's first opera for London, Rinaldo, making its debut in 1711, publisher John Walsh had issued a collection of arias for voice and basso continuo. The publication was so popular that two further printings were made during the four month run of performances. Thus everyone who was anyone would be able to hear the music […]
2023-10-11 13:00:13
Ace of bass
On February 10 of this year was the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great Italian basso Cesare Siepi. I found that this milestone was scarcely noted in the opera press.
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