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2021-01-19 09:54:56
Bach & the art of transcription: Benjamin Alard's survey of Bach's keyboard works reaches the late Weimar period and the composer's discovery of Vivaldi's concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Works for Keyboard, Volume 4: "Alla Veneziana" - Concerti Italiani; Benjamin Alard; Harmonia Mundi Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 January 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Benjamin Alard's historical survey reaches the second half of Bach's Weimar period and his discovery of the music of Vivaldi with transcriptions of concertos for harpsichord and for organThe French organist and harpsichordist Benjamin Alard has reached volume four of his astonishing 17 volume project to record all of Johann Sebastian Bach's keyboard works. Alard is proceeding on an historical basis, so that in each volume the works for harpsichord that Bach wrote at the period sit alongside the works for organ. Volume One, The Young Heir, covers Bach's early keyboard works alongside those of composers who influenced him, and Volume Two, Towards the North, takes us from 1706 to 1708 (when Bach arrived in Weimar) covering […]
2020-10-13 23:14:00
Metropolitan Opera at Home - Wagner's Siegfried. October 9, 2020.
Original Performance Date: April 26, 1990. Conductor - James Levine. Siegfried - Siegfried Jerusalem, Mime - ?, Wotan (the Wanderer) - James Morris, Alberich - Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Fafner - ?, The Woodbird - ?, Erda - ?, Brunnhilde - Hildegard Behrens. I was a bit busy on October 9 and 10, and thus watched only Acts 1 and 2 of this opera, missing Act 3 where Siegfried awakens Brunnhilde. Also, I didn't get to view the credits at the end of the broadcast, so the list of artists listed in this entry is not complete, and may be in error. However, I am sure Siegfried Jerusalem sang the title role. He was Loge in Das Rheingold. Both recordings are from April, 1990, so evidently he sang both roles in the same Ring cycle. I wrote this after seeing Gotterdammerung, and found out Christa Ludwig sang the roles of Fricka (in […]
2020-01-28 08:55:29
Genesis: accordionist Bartosz Glowacki's fine debut recording moves from Scarlatti & Rameau to Trojan, Gubaidulina, Vlasov, Pärt & Piazzolla
Genesis - Scarlatti, Rameau, Trojan, Gubaidulina, Pärt, Vlasov, Piazzolla; Bartosz Glowacki, Rob Luft, Elias Peter Brown; DUX Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 January 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) An eclectic programme for accordionist Bartosz GLowacki's debut album showcases some terrific playing and fine contemporary writing for the instrumentGenesis is the debut album from the accordionist Bartosz Glowacki, on the Dux label, where he plays an eclectic selection of music from transcriptions of Scarlatti and Rameau to contemporary accordion masterpieces, Vaclav Trojan's Ruined Cathedral, Sofia Gubaidulina's De Profundis and Victor Vlasov's Five Views on Gulag State, plus a transcription of Arvo Pärt's Intervallo. The recital ends with Glowacki being joined by guitarist Rob Luft and a string ensemble, conducted by Elias Peter Brown, for Astor Piazzolla's Double Concerto 'Hommage a Liege' for bandoneon, guitar and string orchestra. We open with Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata in A major which […]
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