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2021-03-04 06:06:00
Recent English Symphonic Releases (CD/SACD Reviews)
By Karl W. NehringPerhaps it can all be traced back to the British Invasion back in the 60s, the Beatles and Stones and all that, but in any event, my wife and I have pretty much become dyed-in-the-wool Anglophiles over the years. William Wordsworth, John Mayall, Ian Fleming, Monty Python, Eric Clapton, Fawlty Towers, John Le Carré, All Creatures Great and Small. Agatha Christie, Black Adder, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Keeping Up Appearances, John McLaughlin, The Good Neighbors, J.R.R. Tolkien, Are You Being Served?, Jeff Beck, Endeavour, Inspector Morse, Inspector Lewis, Miss Marple, Malcolm Arnold, Dr. Who, D.C.I. Banks, Sherlock, J.K. Rowling, Boaty McBoatface, Planet Earth, Top Gear, Mum, Hold the Sunset, All Creatures Great and Small (redux), The Great British Baking Show… And then there is As Time Goes By, which our local PBS station aired for years and years every weeknight at 11, over and over […]
2021-01-27 04:37:11
Capuçon describes the recording as "a very special and emotional moment together, sharing music in this very difficult time." The other cellists include Jean-Baptiste Cabannes, Marie Chatellier, Olivier Chéreau, Jérémy Garbarg, Rémi Guérin, Caroline Guillaumin, Jennifer Hardy-Brégnac, Charles Hervet, Raphaël Jouan, Dan Levy, Nicolas Menut, Marion Oudin, Aurélien Pascal, Lucile Perrin, Eric Pilavian, Marta Pulecka, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-06-29 06:39:48
Politics, Poetry & Personal Interest: Lully, King Louis XIV and the invention of French opera
[…] of his acts was to dispense with the Italian opera troupe (Cavalli was despatched back to Italy), and to support the creation of a French Academy of Poetry and Music. The French also seem to have developed a dislike for the castrato voice, or perhaps the operation necessary. View of the early home of the Académie Royal de la Musique Académie Royal de la Musique The poet Pierre Perrin began thinking and writing about the possibility of French opera in 1655, more than a decade before the official founding of the Paris Opera as an institution. The prevailing opinion of the time was the French language was fundamentally unmusical, but Perrin believed that this was completely incorrect. Seventeenth-century France offered Perrin essentially two types of organization for realizing his vision of French opera: a royal academy or a public theatre. In 1666 […]
2019-01-30 15:47:00
Il primo omicidio, Opéra national de Paris, 26 January 2019
Palais Garnier Images: Bernd Uhlig / Opéra national de Paris Caino – Kristina Hammarström, Hippolyte Chapuis Abele – Olivia Vermeulen, Rémi Courtel Adamo – Thomas Walker, Armand Dumonteil Eva – Birgitte Christensen, Alma Perrin Voice of God – Benno Schachtner, Riccard Carducci Voice of Lucifer –Robert Gleadow, Léo Chatel Romeo Castellucci (director, designs) Silvia Costa (artistic collaboration) Piersandra Di Matteo, Christian Longchamp (dramaturgy) B’Rock Orchestra René Jacobs (conductor) The Paris Opéra celebrates its 350th anniversary this year. Its archives preserve its founding document, the twelve-year privilege or monopoly granted by Louis XIV, ‘par la Grâce de Dieu, Roy de France et de Navarre,’ to the poet Pierre Perrin, to found anywhere in France, with whichever business partners he might choose, academies of opera. This ‘Privilège accordé au Sieur Perrin pour l'établissement d'une Académie d'Opéra en Musique et en Vers François’ was renewed up […]
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