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American opera singer
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- United States of America
- opera singer, music teacher
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A woman scorned
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] (and/or as the character played by Gérard Depardieu in the beloved film Tous les matins du monde). Another French composer from the same era is even less well known today, Desmarest, whose Circé got a stupendous recording featuring Véronique Gens. This is the same opera that the Boston Early Music Festival performed to great acclaim in Jordan Hall (see the detailed review in the Boston Musical Intelligencer). Particularly fascinating in this group of recordings is Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s sacred opera David et Jonathas (1688), whose recording (the work’s fourth!) includes, as a bonus, a video version on DVD, which is staged and costumed both imaginatively and appropriately. (Unlike some other opera productions nowadays.) The highly capable performance becomes even more effective when watched as well as heard. Reinhard Keiser was the leading opera composer and impresario in Hamburg in the early 1700s, and it was at his theater in the “Goose […]
2023-06-26 04:00:00
19th-Century Music for Wind Instruments (Biedermeyer Quintet)
Franz Danzi (1763-1826)Wind Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 56 No. 1Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)Sonata a quattro No. 4 in B-flat major (arr. by F. Berr, 1829)Antoine Reicha (1770-1836)Wind Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 88 No. 2Biedermeyer Quintet(Period Instruments)Globe GLO 5114 (1994) [Flac & Scans]
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