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2024-04-16 06:36:00
The sound of an image: recent chamber music by New York City-based, Puerto Rican-born composer Gabriel Vicéns
[…] trio, features violinist Adrianne Munden-Dixon, cellist Rocío Díaz de Cossío, and pianist Mayumi Tsuchida. Again, it uses a pointillist, fragmented approach with flurries of notes that never seem to quite coalesce, the texture taking on a nervy uncertain quality. When the instruments do come together, the two string instruments play motifs over a circling piano accompaniment that has a modernist ground-bass feel to it.The third piece, El Matorral [The Bush] (2022) for is Pierrot ensemble, Roberta Michel, flute, Raissa Fahlman, clarinet, Joenne Dumitrascu, violin, Wick Simmons, cello, Corinne Penner, piano, and John Ling vibraphone, conducted by David Bloom. We return to the ground-bass idea here, as the work begins with a sort of classic walking bass on the piano over which vibraphone and then other events occur. Then rather then accumulating, Vicéns subtracts, he removes the piano and leaves instrumental motifs floating in air, so that the space around them becomes as […]
2024-04-08 14:26:23
Sol Hurok, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: April 8, 2024. Sol Hurok, Impresario. He was neither a musician nor a composer, but Sol Hurok did for classical music in America more than almost any other person we can think of. Hurok was born Solomon Gurkov on April 9th of 1888 in Zarist Russia and moved to New York in 1906. A natural organizer, he started with left-wing politics in Brooklyn; that didn’t last long as he switched to representing musicians: Efrem Zimbalist and Mischa Elman, the talented violinists who also emigrated from Russia, were among his first clients. He represented the Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin for several years (he also worked with Nellie Melba and Titta Ruffo). He then turned to dance: Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, and Michel Fokine became his clients, as well as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. In 1942, he organized one of the first tours of the American […]
2024-03-28 04:00:00
EASTER PASSION MUSIC 2024 [24 CDs]
[…] SWV 50And other vocal worksLa Chapelle RhénaneBenoit Haller - directionRecorded July 2007Label: K617 K617199Download 1fichier pixel workuploadGuillaume Bouzignac (1587-1643)Jean de La Ceppede (1548-1623)Jean Gilles (1668-1705)Lamentations - Holy Week in ProvenceSchola Cantorum of Boston, Boston Camerata/Joel CohenRecorded 1994Label: Warner Classics/Apex 2564 60151 2Download 1fichier gofile workuploadJohann Valentin Meder (1649-1719)Passionsoratorium nach MatthäusDie Kölner Akademie, Orchester Damals und HeuteGerd Türk, Dorothee Merkel and other soloïstsMichael Alexander Willens - directionPublished in 2006Label: Raumklang RK 2506Download 1fichier pixel workuploadFrançois Couperin (1668-1733)Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726)Leçons de TénèbresEmma Kirkby, Agnès Mellon - soprano,Charles Medlam - bass viol, Terence Charlston - organRecorded 2005Label: BIS CD-1575Download 1fichier gofile workuploadGeorg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)Easter CantatasJohanna Winkel - soprano, Georg Poplutz - tenor,Margot Oitzinger - alto, Peter Kooij - bassKölner Akademie, Michael Alexander WillensRecorded November 2020Label: CPO 555 425-2Download 1fichier pixel workuploadJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)St John Passion (BWV 245)Ch. Daniels (Evangelist) - tenor, Joshua Hopkins (Jesus) - bassShannon Mercer - soprano, Matthew White […]
2024-03-07 10:06:33
Baritone Will Liverman celebrates women in new album 'Show Me The Way'
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