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2023-12-15 08:34:00
A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
Members of Vache Baroque and lutenist Kristiina Watt rehearsing at St John's Smith Square (Photo: The Musicians' Photographer)A Baroque Hanukkah: Salmone Rossi, Thomas Campion, Heinrich Schütz, John Farmer, Francesco Cavalli, Henry Purcell, Thomas Ravenscroft, Thomas Weelkes; Vache Baroque, La Vaghezza; St John's Smith SquareReviewed 13 December 2023The culmination of Vache Baroque's celebrations of Salomone Rossi paired his Hebrew-texted psalm settings with music of his contemporaries in wonderfully engaged performances highlighting Rossi's distinctive place in the musical universeIn 1623, the Italian Jewish violinist and composer, Salomone Rossi, achieved an ambition that had been germinating since around 1610, when he published, השירים אשר לשלמה (Hashirim Asher leShlomo, The Songs of Solomon), a collection of Jewish liturgical texts in Hebrew set to polyphonic music in the modern Baroque tradition with little connection to the tradition of Jewish cantorial music. The result is a work of remarkable cultural synthesis. The name is also a mischievous […]
2022-05-19 06:34:59
Shining Shore: The Music of Early America
Shining Shore: The Music of Early America; Three Notch'd Road: The Virginia Baroque EnsembleReviewed 17 May 2022 (★★★★) A delightful disc that explores the music of early America with its mixed and varied influences from songs from Vauxhall to shape-note singing This lovely disc takes you to a world that is at once strange yet familiar. Three Notch'd Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble, performs the music of early America on Shining Shore. The disc features Steuart Pincombe (baroque cello), Michelle Pincombe (soprano), Peter Walker (vocalist, English guitar, cittern, Appalachian dulcimer, harp), Dominic Giardino (historical clarinet) and Fiona Hughes (artistic director, baroque violin, alto, harp) in music by Purcell, Handel, Jeremiah Ingalls, Thomas Baltzar, T. Ravenscroft, A Davisson, Oliver Shaw, Charles Thomas Carter, William Walker, and George Frederic Root. Some will be familiar names, but many will not. Named for a colonial route through central Virginia, Three Notch’d Road: The Virginia […]
2021-11-06 09:49:35
Finding her own way: I chat to cellist Clare O'Connell about her innovative concert series in Berkhamsted, Behind the Mirror
Clare O'Connell performing at Light Night in the Howard Assembly Rooms, Leeds, 2021 (Photo Tom Arber) There is much talk at the moment about going local; the importance of being involved in and supporting your local community. The music world has, however, been as guilty as any other field for its fondness for distant travel. Cellist Clare O'Connell has been well ahead of the game in respect to concentrating on the local community, and for over ten years she has been running a highly regarded concert series in her home town of Berkhamsted. And it isn't just another classical concert series, Behind the Mirror includes a strong element of contemporary music allied to innovative programming. For the series, Clare has commissioned many new works from composers such as Alex Mills, Leonardo Margutti, Luke Bedford, David Bruce, Freya Waley Cohen and Rubens Askenar, as well as experimenting with varying instrumental line-ups, […]
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