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2020-06-18 07:28:48
A journey over the rainbow: Ailish Tynan & Iain Burnside take us from mature Grieg to Harold Arlen
[…] songs' freshness. Next came a group of Hugo Wolf's settings of Goethe. Wolf's Gedichte von J.W. v. Goethe dates from 1888 and 1889, almost contemporaneous with the Grieg, and Wolf wrote 51 settings of Goethe's poetry in a year. We began with Blumengruss, toughing and thoughtful, followed by Ganymed where Wolf's interestingly complex song successfully erases thoughts of other settings, particularly when performed, as here, with such an intense sense of rapture. In Gleich und Gleich, Tynan and Burnside created a delightful sense of character, and then finished with Mignon's Kennst du das Land. There is no sense here that Mignon is a 13-year-old girl, Wolf's setting of Goethe's sophisticated lyric is interestingly complex and large scale, and received a darkly passionate performance from Tynan and Burnside. We then moved forward in time with a group of traditional Irish songs arranged by Herbert Hughes. Hughes […]
2020-01-07 08:22:17
Haydn’s The Creation at the Bartók National Concert Hall (Müpa Budapest) by Concentus Musicus Wien and the Purcell Choir produced a memorable performance under Ádám Fischer
[…] knowledge to an even and well-read performance especially in the monumental choruses such as ‘Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes’ (The heavens are telling the glory of God) majestically heard at the end of Part I while in Part II the chorus and trio performed wonderfully ‘Der Herr ist groß in seiner Macht’ (The Lord is great in his might) while in the recitative passage that followed telling of the creation of the animals - ‘Gleich öffnet sich der Erde Schoß’ (At once Earth opens her womb) - Mr Bauer truly captured the spirit and sounds of the animals especially in relation to the ‘roar’ of the lion to the amusement of a packed house and, indeed, his fellow soloists, while Concentus Musicus Wien showed orchestral colour and strength throughout a scintillating and mesmerising performance that was absolutely enlightening and fulfilling to the last bar. Therefore, Maestro Fischer, please take […]
2018-06-20 08:09:22
Solomon's Knot Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Christoph Bach; Solomon's Knot; St Gile's Church, Barbican Centre Reviewed by Ruth Hansford on 16 June 2018 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Motets by JS Bach and his cousin JC Bach from this conductorless ensembleThe Barbican Centre has been celebrating Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s 75th birthday with seven concert over three days, with events in the Barbican Hall, St Giles’ Cripplegate, Milton Court and LSO St Luke’s. Gardiner used some of his players and singers from the 2000 Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in combination with some newcomers. The Bach takeover weekend also provided ample opportunity to hang out in the Centre, drinking coffee, catching up with old friends and fighting off the ubiquitous pigeons.The Saturday afternoon concert (16 June 2018) was given by Solomon's Knot in a packed-out St Giles’ Church. It contrasted motets by Johann Sebastian Bach with those […]
2018-05-28 23:57:00
Pan European Orpheus : Julian Prégardien, Teatro del mondo
"Orpheus I am!" - An unusual but very well chosen collection of songs, arias and madrigals from the 17th century, featuring Julian Prégardien and Teatro del mondo. Devised by Andreas Küppers, this collection crosses boundaries demonstrating how Italian, German, French and English contemporaries responded to the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus himself is described in the first set, beginning with a by Robert Johnson (1583-1633), it begins with strong single chords and bold exclamation : "Orpheus, I am, come from the deeps below, to thee, fond man, the plagues of love to show". Dramatic declamation "Ha-a-a-ark ! how they groan who died despairing". Ma, divertirmi lo voglio from a opera from 1683 by Antonio Draghi (1634-1700), with an extended central section where low timbred strings - violas de gamba and theorbos-sing a grave yet sensous melody, enchanting the beasts of the wild. The pace picks up more brightly as […]
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