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Catalan pianist, componist and music pedagogue (1835-1898)
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- composer, music teacher, pedagogue, pianist
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2024-03-26
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2022-06-21 16:49:58
Anglais - McVicar’s Old Zauberflöte continues to be Magical
[…] character in the last opera at Liceu, Wozzeck, and now he comes back with Die Zauberflöte. Roger Padullés was repugnant as Monostatos, therefore he was great. Mercedes Gancedo intelligently made the most of all of the possibilities offered by the role of Papagena. Despite the initial imbalance, the three Ladies did well and so did the three child-spirits and other secondary characters, as well as the choir in all their interventions. Xavier Pujol Barcelona, 20th June 2022 Die Zauberflöte by Mozart. Stephen Milling, bass. Javier Camarena, tenor. Matthias Goerne, baritone . Kathryn Lewek, soprano. Lucy Crowe, soprano. Thomas Oliemans, baritone. Roger Padullés, tenor. Mercedes Gancedo, soprano. Berna Perles, soprano. Gemma Coma-Alabert, mezzosoprano. Marta Infante, mezzosoprano. Orchestra and Choir of Gran Teatre del Liceu. VEUS-Children’s Choir Amics de la Unió. Conductor, Gustavo Dudamel. Stage director, David McVicar. Restaging director, Angelo Smimmo. Scenography and costumes, John Macfarlane. Lighting, […]
2022-05-26 04:49:00
New Releases, No. 31 (CD reviews)
By Karl W. NehringYolanda Kondonassis: Five Minutes for Earth. Takuma Itoh: Koholā Sings (Humpback Whales); Michael Daugherty: Hear the Dust Blow; Aaron Jay Kernis: On Hearing Nightbird at Dusk; Chen Yi: Dark Mountains; Máximo Pujol: Milonga para mi Tierra; Reena Esmail: Inconvenient Wounds; Gary Schocker: Memory of Trees; Keith Fitch: As Earth Dreams; Jocelyn Chambers: Melting Point; Philip Maneval: The Demise of the Shepard Glacier; Patrick Harlin: Time Lapse; Zhou Long: Green; Nathaniel Heyder: Earthview; Daniel Dorff: Meditation at Perkiomen Creek; Stephen Hartke: Fault Line. Yolanda Kondonassis, harp. Aziza Records AXD-71349.Classical music lovers who have been around for a while may well remember the harpist Yolanda Kondonassis from her many wonderful albums for the Telarc label. If you are one of those folks, then you should be please to learn be pleased to learn that abundantly talented Cleveland-based musician recently released a new album titled Five Minutes for Earth, a splendidly […]
2022-05-24 20:38:28
Anglais - Wozzeck at the Liceu: The Dark Beauty of Horror
[…] role of Drum Major, Peter Tantsits as Andres, Rinat Shaham as Margret and Beñat Egiarte in the role of the mad man didn’t disappoint either. The choir also did well in its small intervention. Wozzeck is primarily a team opera, rather than a stars’ show, and in this case the whole team worked well together to sign a performance which will without a doubt become one of the landmarks of the season. Xavier Pujol Barcelona, 22nd May 2022 Wozzeck at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 22nd May - 4th June 2022 Wozzeck by Alban Berg. Matthias Goerne, baritone. Annemarie Kremer, soprano. Mikeldi Atxalandabaso, tenor. Peter Rose, bass. Torsten Kerl, tenor. Peter Tantsits, tenor. Rinat Shaham, mezzosoprano. Scott Wilde, bass. Äneas Humm, baritone. Beñat Egiarte, tenor. Orchestra and Choir of Gran Teatre del Liceu. Vivaldi Choir –IPSI School. Josep Pons, conductor. William Kentridge, stage director. Luc De […]
2022-03-05 10:20:29
Anglais - A Pelléas et Mélisande of Dark Beauty at Liceu
[…] corresponds to the constant mentions of water in the text of the play. Ollé, in the form of a dreamlike illusion, knows very well how to present all the dark beauty of Pélleas et Mélisande on stage. He gives relevance to the whole powerful symbolic universe of the opera and keeps characters and action in the unsettling ambiguity that permeates this disturbing work that is full of questions and provides no answers. Xavier Pujol Barcelona, 28th February 2022 Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy. Stanislas de Barbeyrac, tenor. Julie Fuchs, soprano. Simon Keenlyside, baritone. Franz-Josef Selig, bass. Ruth González, soprano. Sarah Connolly, mezzosoprano. Stefano Palatchi, bass. Orchestra and Choir of Gran Teatre del Liceu. Conductor, Josep Pons. Stage director, Àlex Ollé. Collaboration in the stage direction, Susana Gómez. Scenography, Alfons Flores. Costumes, Lluc Castells. Lighting, Marco Filibeck. New production by Gran Teatre del Liceu based on […]
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