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2023-12-31 16:56:00
Since I am busy at work on my new book project, a two-volume study of the complete operas of Mozart in their eighteenth-century political and intellectual context, it seems fitting to have heard more music by Mozart than by any other composer this year. (For 'rules' on counting, please see my previous post.) Beyond my top four, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, and Strauss, I heard a good range of music from Alkan to Zimmermann and beyond.19 Mozart 12 Wagner 8 Beethoven, Strauss 7 Brahms, Schumann 6 Bach 5 Schubert, Byrd 4 Mahler, Prokofiev 3 Benjamin, Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt, Ravel 2 Berg, Bizet, Debussy, Dvořák, Handel, Haydn, Henze, Knussen, Puccini, Schoenberg 1 Alkan, Dieter Ammann, CPE Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, JCF Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, Korngold, […]
2023-10-20 00:00:00
Robert Simpson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Nordic Showcase & The French Connection (Christian Lindberg, Neville Marriner et al)
The French Connection:01 - 04 Maurice Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (1917) [16'53]05 Claude Debussy: Danse sacrée et danse profane (1904) * [9'49]06 - 11 Gabriel Fauré (orch. Rabaud): Dolly Suite, op.56 (1894-97) [17'25]12 - 17 Jacques Ibert: Divertissement (1930) [15'53]Ossian Ellis-harp*, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Neville MarrinerASV CD-DCA 517 [recorded August 1982; CD issued 1994][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Abbey Road Studios, LondonRecording engineer: Michael Sheady; Producer: Anthony SargentRalph Vaughan Williams:01 - 04 Symphony No. 3 'Pastoral' ^ [37'32]05 - 08 Symphony No. 4 in F minor [34'16]09 Saraband 'Helen'. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? * [9'06]David Butt Philip- tenor, BBC Symphony Chorus*; Elizabeth Watts- soprano^; BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn BrabbinsHyperion CDA68280 [recorded November and December 2018; issued 2020][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: The Colosseum, Watford, UKRecording engineer: Simon Eadon; Producer: Andrew KeenerRalph Vaughan […]
2023-10-13 12:01:00
Gay/RSB/Jurowski - Telemann, Boismortier, Ravel, Ibert, and Strauss, 12 October 2023
KonzerthausTelemann: Bourlesque de Quixotte, TWW 55:G10 Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la duchesse, op.97: ballet music Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Ibert: Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte Strauss: Don Quixote, op.35 Paul Gay (bass-baritone)Alejandro Regueira Caumel (viola)Konstanze von Gutzeit (cello)Berlin Radio Symphony OrchestraVladimir Jurowksi (conductor)Images: Robert Niemeyer‘Wie klingt “Don Quijote”?’ was the question posed by (and in) the programme to this splendid tour through musical depictions of Cervantes’s would-be knight-errant. To answer the question, we discovered that Don Quixote sounds in various ways, yet always colourfully and, aptly enough, endearingly too. Vladimir Jurowski’s gift for programming, so strong a feature of his time as Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, has not deserted him in Berlin. The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) is clearly thriving under his leadership, here in music ranging from Telemann to Ravel. Telemann’s turned twice as a composer to Cervantes’s novel, in 1761 writing a […]
2023-09-30 08:32:00
What is essential is that you have to be passionate about the work: Canadian baritone Étienne Dupuis, Don Carlo in the Royal Opera's revival of La Forza del Destino on his clutch of Verdi roles
[…] Étienne's favourite pieces and a work by Rejean Coallier who is a friend of the string quartet, and he took a work for baritone and piano and worked it for baritone and string quartet. It all came together almost by accident, and then the record company heard them performing the programme and they were able to record it too.Apart from the recording of Meyerbeer's Dinorah with the Deutsche Oper Berlin on cpo and Honegger & Ibert's L'Aiglon on Decca, the rest of his discs he owes to Palazzetto Bru Zane, who explore works that have fallen by the wayside and become forgotten, some justified and some not as Étienne wryly adds. Halevy's La Reine de Chypre, which he recorded in 2018 [see my review], he was rather taken with, calling it beautiful and amazing. Like Verdi, Massenet wrote a considerable number of operas but we only hear four or five. […]
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