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2024-04-01 03:30:00
Duruflé: Requiem; Poulenc: Four Lenten Motets (CD Review)
[…] musicians. This is a theme that I will be exploring at greater depth in future postings. Steve Lehman: If I asked you who some of your influences were as a composer, would some stuff come to mind at all?Jackie McLean: OK. Alright. It would be like, I guess…it’s a funny combination of people whose music I can get a feel for. Thelonious would be one of them. Thelonious, Tadd Dameron, kind of, and then a little later, Gil Evans, his interpretations of some of that harmony and stuff. But all of them come from Duke, I learned that later on, you know, that they all come from Duke. But I had never thought of Duke as my inspiration for writing. I mean, I always loved his stuff. The more I learn about music the more amazed I am at what he was doing so early.SL: His concept.JM: Yeah, you know. But for […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-25 20:45:39
Atmospheric But Not Dreary
Odyssey Opera, in partnership with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), presents the New England premiere of Dominick Argento’s opera The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, on Friday, April 5, 2024, ay the Huntington Theater in Poe’s birthplace of Boston. For one-night only, the Grammy Award-winning conductor Gil Rose leads a formidable cast including tenor Peter Tantsits as Poe, the Odyssey Opera chorus, the acclaimed BMOP orchestra in a semi-staged version. A world premiere studio recording will follow on BMOP/sound. Synopsis and history HERE. Tickets HERE An interview with the conductor follows. FLE: We’ve talked many times, but I’ve never actually delved into your biography at all. So what guru or mentor formed your interest in in looking up unjustly neglected works? GR: Oh, Wow, it’s a good question. You stumped me right out of the gate. One person that had a big effect on me was the author Joe Horowitz. […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 19:16:31
NEP Piques Our Interest
[…] established, and what we might build on it. [We append an interesting guide from the premiere performance HERE and Harbison’s current notes HERE.] Is it an organ concerto? What Do We Make of Bach?, for Orchestra and obbligato Organ represents Bach as a performance participant, and as an explorer of older musical forms. Is organist Paul Jacobs overqualified? No doubt. Note: Here we interpolate two Qs and As from an earlier interview with Gil Rose and Paul Jacobs Why are you among the very few organists who play from memory? Your feats of derring-do are legendary. [caption id="attachment_51083" align="alignright" width="424"] Paul Jacobs[/caption] PJ: The dimension of memorization hasn’t been widely accepted by organists. Perhaps this is because we have so much to consider—beyond the music itself—during a performance. Playing a non-standardized instrument, mechanical features can differ dramatically from one instrument to the next; pistons are in different locations, […]
2024-01-25 04:30:00
Recent Releases No. 69 (CD Reviews)
by Karl NehringMozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 25 (orchestra parts transcribed for string quartet and double bass by Ignaz Lachner). Alon Goldstein, piano; Fine Arts Quartet (Ralph Evans, violin I; Efim Boico, violin II; Gil Sharon, viola; Niklas Schmidt, cello); Lizzie Burns, double bass. Naxos 8.574477Pianist Alon Goldstein remarks of these two particular pieces that they are his personal favorites from among all of Mozart’s piano concertos, then goes on to explain about the arrangements in which they appear on this recording: “Rearrangement of music was very common in the 18th and 19th centuries. The composer and conductor Ignaz Lachner rearranged 19 Mozart concertos, including the two featured on this recording for piano and string quartet with double bass, most likely for the simple pleasure of domestic use m—having the opportunity to play these beloved works without the need of a full orchestra.” Surely the vast majority of those reading this review are […]
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