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Vivid intensity and profound expressivity: Vox Luminis explores the world of the 17th century Italian Stabat Mater at Wigmore Hall
Domenico Scarlatti painted in 1738 by Domingo Antonio VelascoStabat Mater: Lotti, Monteverdi, Domenico Mazzocchi, Alessandro Della Ciaia, Domenico Scarlatti; Vox Luminis; Wigmore HallReviewed 21 February 2024An imaginative programme that moved from an anonymous 13th century solo Lai to the ten voices of Scarlatti's Stabat Mater, each work rendered with vivid intensity and profound expressivityThe vocal ensemble Vox Luminis returned to Wigmore Hall on Wednesday 21 February 2024 with Stabat Mater, a programme centred on Domenico Scarlatti's glorious ten-part Stabat Mater but which also took in an anonymous 13th century Lai, Lamentation de la Vierge au Croix, Antonio Lotti's Crucifixus a8, Monteverdi's Adoramus te Christe and music by two lesser-known 17th century figures, Domenico Mazzocchi and Alessandro Della Ciaia, all focusing on the crucifixion and the lamentation of the Virgin at the foot of the cross.Vox Luminis fielded an ensemble of eleven singers, directed from within by artistic director and bass […]
2024-02-11 19:52:00
Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. Ching-Chun Lai, conductor; Diana Kim, violin. February 10, 2024.
Nicholas Music Center, Mason Gross PAC, New Brunswick, NJ. Open seating ($12.50).There is supposedly "no video recording or photography" inside the music center, at all times. I have no idea how strictly the policy is enforced. I managed to snap this shot of Kim and Lai leaving the stage.Programsubito con forza (2020 by Unsuk Chin (b. 1961).Symphony No. 2, H. 295 (1943) by Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959).Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 (1806) by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).After attending one of their events, I get bombarded with Rutgers advertisements. Not that there is anything wrong with it (except the tremendous waste of paper and other resources), and that's how I found out about tonight's performance by the RSO, with Beethoven's violin concerto on the program. At a cost of $10 (for seniors, plus handling fee), nothing can possibly go wrong.And nothing did. Indeed I loved the Beethoven violin concerto. Kim did […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] can hear another composer’s very capable and sometimes quite individual responses to the same sequence of dramatic events. It helps that Patrick Kabongo, a young tenor from the Democratic Republic of Congo (and now a French citizen) is on hand, embodying the peasant lad who finally realizes that he is worth being loved for his own merits. [caption id="attachment_57299" align="alignright" width="566"] Tenor Rinde Eckert, in a performance of Jonathan Berger’s 2015 powerful opera Mỹ Lai, now available on CD (or for download or streaming). Maria Alejandro Cardona photo)[/caption] Most notable in this early-nineteenth-century group are the best recordings yet of two works long recognized as major: Spontini’s 1807 La Vestale (with Marina Rebeka utterly superb in a title role that once belonged to Maria Callas; this recording just won the Premio Abbiati del Disco for best opera recording of the year) and Robert le diable (1831) by the aforementioned […]
2022-07-13 15:29:53
Kronos Quartet – Mỹ Lai (CD Review)
Mỹ Lai Kronos Quartet Smithsonian Folkways In one of its most ambitious projects to date, Kronos Quartet has recorded Mỹ Lai, an opera by composer Jonathan Berger (Professor at Stanford University) and librettist Harriet Scott Chessman, who has also written a libretto for Georg Friedrich Haas’s next opera. Vocalist Rinde Eckerdt and multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh […]
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