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'A Dangerous Obsession: The Relationship of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud' at the London Song Festival
[…] French poetry and both would inspire generations of composers. For the latest concert in pianist Nigel Foster's London Song Festival season at Hinde Street Methodist Church (26 November 2021), A Dangerous Obsession saw tenor Ben Vonberg-Clark, baritone Julien Van Mellaerts, actor David Mildon and Foster exploring Verlaine and Rimbaud's relationship through songs to their poems, with music by Faure, Charpentier, Debussy, Varese, Vierne, Hahn, Hahn, John Alden Carpenter, Poldowski, , Daniel Ruyneman, Hindemith, Jean Rivier, Eisler, Leon Orthel, Maxime Jacob, Britten, and Pascal Zavaro. The evening was arranged as a narrative, with Ben Vonberg-Clark (who stepped in at the very last possible minute) singing settings of Rimbaud's poetry and Julien Van Mellaerts singing settings of Verlaine's poetry, plus David Mildon providing linking narrative, the whole having being devised by Nigel Foster. The fascinating thing was that, unlike many similar such programmes, here the songs became part of […]
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2017-11-27 06:18:58
Henri Merckel With Pierre-Michel Le Conte And The ORTF Orchestra Play Music Of Rivier – 1954 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Jean Rivier – Violin Concerto – Henri Merckel, violin – ORTF Symphony – Pierre-Michel Le Conte – ORTF Studio recording, circa 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary Belgian violinist Henri Merckel accompanied by Pierre-Michel LeConte and the ORTF Orchestra in this broadcast studio performance of the violin... The post appeared first on Past Daily.
2014-05-01 02:04:43
Forgotten Records: Resurrecting noteworthy recordings of Florent Schmitt’s music from the LP era.
[…] from radio broadcasts – some of them the world premieres of contemporary French compositions. Among the trove of Forgotten Records releases are eight CDs that contain the music of Florent Schmitt. They include: Hasards, Op. 96 (1939), performed by pianist Monique Mercier and the Pasquier Trio — the same ensemble that premiered the work in 1943 (radio broadcast performance from May 30, 1959). Forgotten Records FR 922 , coupled with works by Jean Rivier and Arnold Schönberg. Quartet for Strings, Op. 112 (1947), performed by the Champeil Quartet (recorded by EMI/Pathé-Marconi on December 7, 1956 at Maison de la Mutualité, Paris). Forgotten Records FR 323 , coupled with Maurice Ravel’s String Quartet. Une Semaine du petit elfe Ferme-l’oeil, Op. 58 (1912) and Trois rapsodies, Op. 53 (1903-4), performed by duo-pianists Robert & Gaby Casadesus (recorded in Paris by Columbia Records in June 1956). Forgotten Records […]
2013-12-09 05:14:50
Janiana: Florent Schmitt’s Rich, Robust Symphony for String Orchestra (1941)
[…] of L’Orchestre feminin de Paris, led the first performance of Florent Schmitt’s “Janiana” Symphony. The Janiana Symphony was composed in 1941 at Schmitt’s summer home in Artiguemy, high in the Pyrenees Mountains. As alluded to in its title, the symphony was dedicated to Jane Evrard and her Orchestre féminin de Paris – an ensemble of 25 women musicians she founded in 1930, and for which other French composers such as Albert Roussel, Jean Rivier and Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur also wrote scores. It was Evrard’s orchestra that would give the premiere performance of the symphony in Paris in the spring of 1942. To my knowledge, there has been only one commercial recording of this work ever made – recorded by Erato in 1966 with the Jean-François Paillard Orchestra . As one of the first of Schmitt’s orchestral works beyond La Tragédie de Salomé to receive a recording in the modern […]
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