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2019-07-08 07:27:59
The Oculi Ensemble is a flexible group of string players which grew out of the Badke Quartet, and so the ensemble can provide programmes varying from two players to seven. Jon Thorne, who plays viola with the ensemble, explained that the evolution of life and the complexities of families meant that the players of the Badke Quartet felt that the new flexible ensemble was the logical development.One of the features of the ensemble is that all the players have a string quartet background, and between them they have quite an array of distinguished instruments with a Stradivarius, two Guarneri and a Grancino, Jon calls it an amazing collection of instruments, commenting that they are very fortunate. The regular players in the ensemble are Charlotte Scott (violin), Emma Parker (violin), Jon Thorne (viola), Simon Tandree (viola), Nathaniel Boyd (cello), Pau Codina (cello) and Stacey Watton (double bass).The ensemble have a group of […]
2018-11-13 07:34:52
Late genius and two sextets: Strauss, Haydn and Brahms at Conway Hall
[…] of Richard Strauss' early Quartetsatz in E flat did not happen as the music was not available in time, but the ensemble is planning to record Strauss' string chamber music including this and a number of early rarities.The Oculi Ensemble is a newish group, a flexible ensemble based around the well established Badke Quartet. On Sunday we heard Charlotte Scott and Emma Parker violins, Jon Thorne and Simon Tandree violas and Nathaniel Boyd and Pau Codina cellos. We started with the Richard Strauss sextet which comes from Capriccio, his last opera premiered when the composer was 78.Written as the work's 'overture' it represents Strauss evoking 18th century music but is is fully in his own style. We started elegant and intimate, after all this was a performance in a small concert hall not and opera house, with Strauss' lovely lines rendered in a conversational mannder. But drama was not […]
2016-10-01 06:50:00
The Ensamble Lírico Orquestal defines itself as "an independent alternative producing projects of classical and lyric music". It isn´t accurate, for opera is also classical. In fact they programme operas and choral-symphonic concerts. It is led by the married couple of conductor Gustavo Codina and soprano Cecilia Layseca, enthusiastic artists that have kept alive the institution during the last decade. I single out three interesting things they have done: the première of Verdi´s second opera, the comedy "Un giorno di regno"; Orff´s "Catulli Carmina", the middle work of the trilogy begun with "Carmina Burana" and ended with "The triumph of Aphrodite"; and Respighi´s charming "La bella addormentata nel bosco", an adaptation of the Sleeping Beauty story. In recent years their home […]
2015-06-13 23:26:00
[…] sincere. However, both last year and now they chose operas that are surefire whilst in other seasons they offered such novelties as Respighi´s "Sleeping Beauty" ("La Bella addormentata nel bosco") and Verdi´s "Un giorno di regno". Although their denomination leads one to believe that it is just an opera company, their Artistic Coordinator Gustavo Codina considers ELO as a group that can also offer orchestral and choral-orchestral concerts. And this year after "La Traviata" they have programmed a Mozart session featuring the Requiem Mass and a Slav concert with music of Dvorák and Tchaikovsky among others. There were three performances of "La Traviata" with two casts; I saw […]
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