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Italian composer (1751–1798)
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2024-03-29
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Vivid intensity and profound expressivity: Vox Luminis explores the world of the 17th century Italian Stabat Mater at Wigmore Hall
[…] off by the more homophonic ensemble contributions. After the interval, we had a last-minute addition to the programme. Lionel Meunier explained that audiences were intrigued to hear more by Alessandro Della Ciaia and the recent publication of an edition of his solo lamenti meant that they could include one. For solo tenor and continuo, it was highly chromatic and very free, with some highly virtuoso passages and the whole exploring extremes of emotion. The tenor (Raffaele Giordani, I think) gave a terrific performance making the bravura sections particularly expressive.We ended with Domenico Scarlatti's Stabat Mater, written around 1715 before he departed Italy for the Iberian peninsular. It is a striking and stylistically confident work, using ten voices (divided into two unequal choirs, one - four sopranos and bass, two - two altos, two tenors and bass) and throughout he uses the voices freely, sometimes writing polyphony but sometimes allowing individual lines […]
2023-09-15 07:11:00
A glimpse into the lively musical life of 18th-century Dublin: Smock Alley from Carina Drury's ensemble Irlandiani
Smock Alley: Tommaso Giordani, Thomas Roseingrave, Domenico Scarlatti and Geminiani; Irlandiani - Carina Drury, Poppy Walshaw, John-Henry Baker, Nathaniel Mander, Eimear McGeown; First Hand RecordsCentring on a group of cello duos by an 18th century Italian composer based in Dublin, this disc engagingly explores the life of Irish and Italian musicians of the period in the cityTommaso Giordani (1730-1806) was a composer born in Naples to a musical family. Though trained in Naples, his father and family travelled in Europe, ending in London in the 1750s. In 1764, he accepted an invitation to act as musical director of the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin, where he stayed for the next three years, performing comic operas and co-producing the first ever opera seria to be performed in Ireland, L'eroe cinese (1766). In 1767 he returned to London but was back in Dublin in 1783, taking part in the lively musical life there until […]
2023-08-29 06:27:00
Giordano: Fedora - Charne Rochford, Sky Ingram - IF Opera (Photo: LAIMA)Giordano: Fedora; Sky Ingram, Charne Rochford, Lorena Paz Nieto, Alexey Gusev, director: John Wilkie, Bristol Ensemble, conductor: Oliver Gooch; IF Opera at Belcombe CourtA young cast and an admirably lucid production bring out the passion and melodic charms of Giordano's thrillerUmberto Giordani's 1898 opera Fedora doesn't get out often enough. You can find plenty off reason why it shouldn't work, but those sort of criteria apply equally to operas firmly in the canon, and there is plenty of music in the piece of a quality to make an spending an evening in the theatre with Fedora a rewarding experience.At IF Opera, director John Wilkie [see my recent interview with John] gave Fedora (seen 26 August 2023) a good rethinking. Conducted by Oliver Gooch (IF Opera's artistic director) with the Bristol Ensemble in the pit, the production featured Sky Ingram as Fedora, Charne Rochford […]
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