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In the Garden of Polyphony: Israel Golani performs French Renaissance music for lute and guitar on Solaire Records
[…] Golani has put together an intriguing selection of works and plays them in a highly involving manner, holding your attention and engaging you interest with the way he sympathetically transfers the polyphony onto lute or guitar. In the Garden of PolyphonyFrench Renaissance Music for Lute & Guitar by Albert de Rippe (c1500-1551), Clement Janequin (c1485-1558), Pierre Attaingnant (c1494-1552), Pierre Phalese (c1510-1573), Adrian Le Roy (c1520-1598), Simon Gorlier (fl.1551-1562), Jean-Paul Paladin (fl.1549-1565), Guillaume Morlaye (c1510-c1558), Julien Belin (c1525-after 1584)Israel Golani (lute/Renaissance guitar)Recorded 14-17 June 2020, Lutheran Church, GroningenSOLAIRE RECORDS SOL1010 1CD [68:00] Available direct from Solaire [as CD or download], or via BandCamp. Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog From complex juggling patterns to cartoon sound-tracks to Melville's Moby Dick; the inspirations behind […]
2019-01-21 15:19:14
Mozart and more, 2019
[…] director of the Lübeck Opera, where he worked for four years. Then, from 1915 to 1920, he directed the Mannheim Opera. In 1920, Furtwängler succeeded Richard Strauss as the director of the Berlin Staatskapelle, the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera. He also conducted the Frankfurt Museum concerts following the departure of Willem Mengelberg. When Arthur Nikisch died in 1922, it was only natural that Furtwängler succeed him at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Belin Philharmonic. These were some of the most coveted conducting positions in the world, but the most creative (and controversial) phase of his career was only beginning. Here’s a recording of The Siegfried Idyll, music that Wagner wrote as a birthday present for his wife Cosima in 1869 and later incorporated into his opera Siegfried. Furtwängler leads RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Italians playing Wagner!), the recording quality is not terribly good even though it was […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-06-10 13:36:58
Just in: Salzburg plucks French mezzo for absent Joyce
The Salzburg Festival has named the rising but not-terribly-experienced Clémentine Margaine to replace Joyce DiDonato in this summer’s production of Nicolai’s Il Templario. Margaine, 31, was a cast member of Deutsche Oper Belin in 2011-12, then spent a season at Dallas. She’s becoming something of a new-gen go-to Carmen.
Kenneth Woods- A View From the Podium
2015-11-02 22:09:52
How much of me does the music really need?
[…] Cleveland, Cincinnati and Minnesota on their home turf, but American orchestra musicians back then really didn’t move. In fact, moving was beaten out of us in conservatory- it was seen as distracting, narcissistic and counterproductive. As my wife’s violin teacher has said-“Why move? It’s harder to hit a moving target.” And we’ve all had to sit next to, or worse yet, behind a real showboater- there is nothing more irritating or distracting. Then there was Belin, making the greatest sound I’d ever heard, and everyone in the orchestra was moving a lot, and it seemed anything but counterproductive. I realised that night that there was a flaw in the logic I’d grown up with, but it took me many years to figure out exactly what the lesson of that evening should be. It’s not just the pre-YouTube-ness of seeing the Berlin Philharmonic work for the first time in an actual […]
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