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French composer (1689-1755)
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2024-02-27 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech listens to eighteenth century composer Boismortier's 'Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse'. 'Matthias Maute and his Ensemble Caprice deliver performances of the utmost clarity ...'
2024-01-08 19:12:00
Apollosaal, Staatsoper Unter den LindenJacques-Christophe Naudot: Flute Concerto in G major, op.17 no.5 Louis Couperin: Pavanne in F-sharp minor François Couperin: Concert Royal no.4 in E minor Joseph Bodin De Boismortier: Suite no.4 in A major Nicolas Bernier: Cantata: Le Caffé Regina Koncz (soprano)Thomas Meyer (flute)Laura Volkwein, Jueyoung Yang (violins)Otto Tolonen (viola da gamba)Matthias Wilke (harpsichord/director) Autumn’s Barocktage brought Charpentier’s Médée to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, conducted by Simon Rattle and directed by Peter Sellars. I was alas in the end unable to go, but as a consolation prize heard this intelligently programmed concert of French Baroque music from soprano Regina Koncz and members of the Staatskapelle Berlin in their Preussens Hofmusik incarnation, directed from the harpsichord by Staatskapelle violist Matthias Wilke. Jacques-Christophe Naudot was represented by a flute concerto in G major, a fine introduction to the concert and performance as a whole both in instrumentation and in uniting […]
2023-12-31 16:56:00
Since I am busy at work on my new book project, a two-volume study of the complete operas of Mozart in their eighteenth-century political and intellectual context, it seems fitting to have heard more music by Mozart than by any other composer this year. (For 'rules' on counting, please see my previous post.) Beyond my top four, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, and Strauss, I heard a good range of music from Alkan to Zimmermann and beyond.19 Mozart 12 Wagner 8 Beethoven, Strauss 7 Brahms, Schumann 6 Bach 5 Schubert, Byrd 4 Mahler, Prokofiev 3 Benjamin, Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt, Ravel 2 Berg, Bizet, Debussy, Dvořák, Handel, Haydn, Henze, Knussen, Puccini, Schoenberg 1 Alkan, Dieter Ammann, CPE Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, JCF Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, Korngold, […]
2023-10-13 12:01:00
Gay/RSB/Jurowski - Telemann, Boismortier, Ravel, Ibert, and Strauss, 12 October 2023
KonzerthausTelemann: Bourlesque de Quixotte, TWW 55:G10 Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la duchesse, op.97: ballet music Ravel: Don Quichotte à Dulcinée Ibert: Quatre chansons de Don Quichotte Strauss: Don Quixote, op.35 Paul Gay (bass-baritone)Alejandro Regueira Caumel (viola)Konstanze von Gutzeit (cello)Berlin Radio Symphony OrchestraVladimir Jurowksi (conductor)Images: Robert Niemeyer‘Wie klingt “Don Quijote”?’ was the question posed by (and in) the programme to this splendid tour through musical depictions of Cervantes’s would-be knight-errant. To answer the question, we discovered that Don Quixote sounds in various ways, yet always colourfully and, aptly enough, endearingly too. Vladimir Jurowski’s gift for programming, so strong a feature of his time as Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, has not deserted him in Berlin. The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) is clearly thriving under his leadership, here in music ranging from Telemann to Ravel. Telemann’s turned twice as a composer to Cervantes’s novel, in 1761 writing a […]
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