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2024-02-20 08:43:00
Knowing no boundaries: on Circus Dinograd contemporary & period performers move between styles & genres without embarrassment
Circus Dinograd; traditional, Jean-Luc Ponty, Purcell, Ravel, Jarmo Ramponen, David Faber, Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross, Marie-Louise de Jong, Marleen Wester, Judith van Driel, Byrd, John Dowland; Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross, Dudok Quartet Amsterdam; Zefir RecordsReviewed 14 February 2024Sui generis, a disc that moves between genre and style without embarrassment as the ensemble of contemporary and period performers cross from the historical to the contemporary to the improvisedCircus Dinograd on Zefir Records is an intriguing new cross-genre collaboration between contralto Hilary Summers, the bass clarinet and theorbo/vihuela duet of Maarten Ornstein and Mike Fentross, and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam (Judith van Driel, Marleen Wester, Marie-Louise de Jong, David Faber). The idea behind the disc seems to be that there are no boundaries, so we have reimaginations of Byrd, Purcell, and Dowland alongside folksong, Ravel and pieces by the different members of the ensemble, notably a set of Seven Deadly […]
2024-02-19 08:51:00
As it enters its second decade, Tectonics Glasgow is still blurring boundaries of new and experimental music
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's Tectonics Glasgow festival, co-curators Ilan Volkov and Alasdair Campbell, is entering is second decade with the 2024 festival on 4 and 5 May 2024. This year's festival continues to blur boundaries between musical genres with artists including vocal and movement artist Elaine Mitchener reflecting and responding to the circumstances which gave birth to the centuries-old hymn Amazing Grace and its contemporary resonances; Koichi Makigami, leader of a Japanese experimental rock band, performing with the legendary drummer Roger Turner; New York based vocalist Ka Baird combining their live performance within minimalistic, visceral composition and Japanese improviser, recorder player Eiko Yamada. Sarah-Jane Summers (fiddle) and Juhani Silvola (guitar) will interweave Scottish traditional music with Scandinavian influences alongside the BBC SSO strings; and Edinburgh-based artists Euan Currie and Marlo De Lara present a live improvisation drawing on voices, electronics and field recordings.Ilan Volkov conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in three […]
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2024-01-18 00:51:25
Peter Schickele Dies at 88
Peter Schickele died on January 16th, after increasing health problems that confined him to his home in Woodstock, New York. He was 88 years old. He had a long parallel career as a serious composer and a musical comedian, in which he was known all over as P. D. Q. Bach and made memorable recordings still in print. His parodies of learned styles and burlesques of well-known masterpieces endure for their educational value as much as for their unerring drollery — as in the Concerto for Horn and Hardart in which a quasi-Mozart appoggiatura is drawn out for 30 seconds before gasping to a resolution, and in the Quodlibet with tonic-dominant melodies from all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies accumulating, followed by a combination of Schoenberg’s Little Piano Piece, op. 19, no. 2, and Puccini’s Un bel di vedremo (who would have thought that one could work?). You can’t forget his […]
2023-11-24 09:54:00
Magical textures & supple lines: Fauré's La bonne chanson, Ravel & Canteloube from Louise Alder & eleven friends at Wigmore Hall
[…] banker and Fauré's mistress. During the 1890s Fauré wrote La bonne chanson for Emma and the Dolly Suite for Emma's daughter. Fauré's relationship with Emma Bardac would last around a decade, but she would go on to divorce her husband and marry Debussy in 1905, who would write Children's Corner for his and Emma's daughter. And Emma was the dedicatee of the final song in Ravel's cycle.Fauré wrote the cycle, for soprano and piano, during the Summers of 1892 and 1893 when he stayed with Emma and her husband, and Emma would sing the newly composed material for him each day. It was published in 1894, dedicated to Emma, then in 1898 Fauré created a version for piano and string quintet. The work received a mixed reception, after the premiere Saint-Saens declared that Fauré had gone mad but Proust loved it! The cycle sets nine poems from Verlaine's 1870 collection of […]
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