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Austrian opera singer (1883-1945)
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- baritone
- Austria
- opera singer, stage actor
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2016-11-12 17:33:00
Beat Furrer FAMA London Sinfonietta
[…] singing pure sound, materializing as if in dream. The effect was both magical and sinister. We don't know what happens to Else, but we could hear the swirling tumult in the orchestra. Walls of sound crashed around us, giving way to uncanny chords resonating in near silence. The contrabass flute led a section that seemed almost fugue-like in its grave but quirky dignity. Else returned briefly. Her last words were "Adresse bleibt Fiala". Whatever that's supposed to mean, I do not know, but the effect was powerful, and lingers tantalisingly in the mind. FAMA is more focused than Furrer's earlier Hörtheater Begrehen, first released on DVD in 2008, which also deals with multi-level concepts of time, space and sound. Thus FAMA lends itself well to semi-concert performance, as we enjoyed at St John's, Smith Square. Although we didn't see the cool, blue walls of […]
2015-11-08 19:58:00
[…] 2015-2016 Composer-in-Residence is Nicholas Weininger, who has sung with IOCSF since 2007 and who has had several previous works premiered by IOCSF. For this season Weininger has composed “De profundis (A Song of Ascents)”, setting selected verses from Psalm 130 in English, Latin, and Hebrew, and combining the intricate counterpoint of a Renaissance motet with a modern cadential and tone-painting sensibility. “IOCSF is honored and delighted to premiere Fredrik Sixten’s extraordinary work,” said Zane Fiala, Artistic Director of IOCSF. “Having performed several of Sixten’s pieces before, we jumped at the chance to commission him for this season and could not be more pleased with the result. His Missa Brevis exemplifies the best of modern sacred music.”
2015-02-26 19:30:10
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2014-12-31 17:13:31
Albrecht Mayer, Oboe: ‘Lost and Found’. On this new CD, we get to hear Oboe player Albrecht Mayer perform several rare oboe concerti from the 18th century, which he discovered in ancient music archives in Thuringia and Saxony. Appropriately, the title of this new recording is ‘Lost and Found’. The compositions are: Fiala, J: Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra in C major Hoffmeister: Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in C major Koželuh, J. A: Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in F major Lebrun, L: Oboe Concerto No. 2 in G minor Performed by Albrecht Mayer, oboe, with the Kammerakademie. Widely considered one of the world’s greatest oboist, Mayer with his unmistakable cantabile sound, breathes new life into these long-lost jewels of classical music. These four concerti are direct predecessors to Mozart. There is even evidence that Mozart knew and studied […]
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