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opera singer (1917-2001)
- soprano
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Allan Evans died last week at age 64. I don't know what the cause was, but I've seen a reference on line to "a serious illness in recent years." Allan was the founder of Arbiter Records, a label that had two remits: Publish rare and unknown historical recordings of music from all over the world Publish rare and unknown historical recordings of important pianists and other performers of Western classical music Allan WAS Arbiter, though. He was vastly knowledgable about the history of pianism and piano style, and wrote biographies of Ignaz Friedman and Moriz Rosenthal, two pianists who lived well into the 20th c. but were very much products of 19th c. pianism. Allan was amazing, just incredible, at chasing down recordings, befriending pianists and their families, and getting unique recordings published. One example of this: he became acquainted with Iren Marik, a Hungarian pianist […]
2018-11-07 09:55:00
Intimate grandeur: Fulham Opera in Verdi's five-act version of Don Carlo
Verdi: Don Carlo - Fulham Opera (Photo Robert Workman) Verdi Don Carlo; Albero Sousa, Philippa Boyle, Keel Watson, Andrew Mayor, Siv Iren Misund, dir: Lewis Reynolds, cond Ben Woodward; Fulham Opera at St John's Church, Waterloo Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 6 November 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Vivid drama and grandeur in an intimate account of Verdi's large-scale operaStaging Verdi's Don Carlo, his longest and most complex opera, is a big stretch for any opera company and might seem over ambitious for an opera company staging works on a small scale in a church. But Fulham Opera, which presents staged productions with chamber orchestra accompaniment in St John's Church in Fulham, is no stranger to large-scale challenges having presented Wagner's entire Ring Cycle.Don Carlo was given in the 1886 five-act version (Verdi's revised four-act Modena version of the opera with the original Fontainebleau act restored), […]
2018-07-20 16:33:00
From specialist Austrian label Gramola, founded in 1924, Balladen im Wandel der Zeit (Ballads in changing times) (Please click here to access) linking Lieder and traditional ballads. Some Lieder are ballads, but not all ballads are Lieder. The differences aren't clear-cut, but it's fascinating to ponder the connections. Lieder as through-composed art song developed not directly from folk song but from literary sources, generally the preserve of the educated upper and middle classes. These composers, poets and listeners were well aware of pre-urban tradition ; witness the success of Gottfried Herder, the Brothers Grimm and Des Knaben Wunderhorn, the compilation of oral sources. Like the taste for classical antiquity, this interest in folk tradition was idealized into new forms, such as Singspiele and operas like Der Freischütz. The Lieder of Beethoven and Schubert represented progress, romanticizing the past, but looking forward. Poets as great as Schiller and Goethe […]
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