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2024-01-02 10:48:00
William Christie & Les Arts Florissants celebrate New Year's Eve at Wigmore Hall in fine style with Hugh Cutting & Carlo Vistoli
Antonio CaldaraMonteverdi, Steffani, Fontana, Caldara, Vivaldi, Bononcini, Handel; Hugh Cutting, Carlo Vistoli, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie; Wigmore HallReviewed 31 December 2023One of those evenings where the performers sheer delight in the music carried you away; Les Arts Flo in a delightful sequence of Italian Baroque duets and solo cantatasThe Wigmore Hall ended the year in fine style with a concert of 17th and 18th century Italian duets from Les Arts Florissants. William Christie directed from harpsichord and organ with Emmanuel Resche-Caserta and Augusta McKay Lodge, violins, and Cyril Poulet, cello, with countertenors Hugh Cutting and Carlo Vistoli. The programme included duets by Monteverdi, Agostino Steffani, Giovanni Bononcini, Handel and Vivaldi, along with solo cantatas by Antonio Caldara and Vivaldi, and instrumental music by Giovanni Battista Fontana, Vivaldi and Caldara.We began with one of Monteverdi's Scherzi Musicali, the duet Damigella tutta bella published in 1607, a delightfully perky and distinctly skittish dance. Then came the duet Aita […]
2023-06-02 00:00:00
Barber, Piston & Tower Orchestral Works and Abraham Lincoln Portraits (Leonard Slatkin)
[…] sent me this CD-rip but without any artwork. I recently found that archive.org could come to my rescue- so now here it is with thanks.Abraham Lincoln Portraits1.01 Charles Ives: Lincoln, The Great Commoner * [3'39]1.02 Vincent Persichetti: A Lincoln Address, op.124 ^ [13'22]1.03 Roy Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight ~ [14'10]1.04 - 1.15 Ernst Bacon: Ford's Theatre. A Few Glimpses of Easter Week, 1865 [29'43]2.01 Morton Gould: Lincoln Legend [16'36]2.02 - 2.06 George Frederick McKay: To a Liberator. A Lincoln Tribute * [11'18]2.07 Paul Turok: Variations on an American Song. Aspects of Lincoln and Liberty, op.20 [9'18]2.08 Aaron Copland: Lincoln Portrait ^ [14'31]Barry Scott- narrator^; Sharon Mabry- mezzo~; Nashville Symphony Chorus*; Nashville Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard SlatkinNaxos 8.559373-74 [recorded July 2007 and July & September 2008; CD and download issued 2009][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: Laura Turner Hall, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USARecording […]
2021-05-01 19:08:27
Violinist Augusta McKay Lodge and her violist sister Georgina are a throwback to a time when classical musicians were also routinely expected to be good improvisers. Their new album J.G. Graun: Chamber Music from the Court of Frederick the Great – streaming at the violist’s music page – unearths rare baroque treasures for a global […]
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