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Aimard/RSB/Popelka - Schoenberg and Mahler, 9 March 2024
[…] hard-driven at the close of its first iteration. The trio evinced grace and Schwung, though it might have had greater depth. The reprise of Ländler material was on the brash side: deliberately so, I am sure, though veering a little too close to the ‘orchestral showpiece’ tendency driven by past decades’ Mahler-saturation. The third movement came off better, its opening taken (thank God) by solo double bass rather than the frankly idiotic practice suggested by editor Sander Wilkens of employing the entire section. The mood, as it and Mahler’s writing developed, was nicely twilit. Ensuing stylistic contrasts were well handled and integrated, a hushed, languorous sweetness imparted to the second trio. It was, perhaps, a bit listless, but that seemed to be the point, to evoke a world of dreams, disrupted by the return of Bruder Martin. The final mostly fell into place very well, balance, weight, and momentum well judged, […]
2023-11-28 07:35:00
Sophia Lambton introduces her new book, The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography
[…] in the studio and the rehearsal hall with banal moments like her play with poodles, marital disputes, shopping excursions. I seek to prove that genius is not a lightbulb moment: Callas’ great apexes were worked toward obsessively and furiously and not always attained. As every other life, it is a journey weaving in and out of shoddy days and hazy headiness; euphoria and uproar.My discovery of crucial documents – primarily Callas’ correspondence with her manager Sander Gorlinsky, as well as letters to her legal separation lawyer, Augusto Caldi-Scalcini, directors Luchino Visconti and Alexis Minotis and many others – offered me insight into Callas’ dizzying rollercoaster of a life. That and a heap of 3395 sources spanning twenty-one countries made over eighty years add up to make a narrative rich in real dialogues and vivid exhibitions of the episodes in her career and in her private life. It feels like a […]
2023-11-13 07:42:00
Plenty of food for thought & some terrific singing: Oliver Mears' staging of Handel's Jephtha at the Royal Opera with a towering performance from Allan Clayton in the title role
[…] the Ammonites in Act OneRoyal Opera House (Photo: Marc Brenner)It was thus with great interest that we caught the second performance of Oliver Mears' new production of Handel's Jephtha at the Royal Opera House. Laurence Cummings conducted the orchestra of the Royal Opera House with Allan Clayton as Jephtha, Alice Coote as Storge, Jennifer France as Iphis, Cameron Shahbazi as Hamor, and Brindley Sherratt as Zebul. Sets were by Simon Lima Holdsworth, costumes by Ilona Karas, video by Sander Loonen, lighting by Fabiana Piccioli and movement by Anna Morrissey. In fact, Mears was working with the same team as his production of Verdi's Rigoletto.Holdsworth's sets were based around two massive stone panels with writing on them, these moved, reconfiguring the space so that the more intimate scenes were far more acoustically sympathetic, but the big visual coup was that as well as the Israelites we saw their enemies, the Ammonites. These Israelites were […]
2022-01-08 11:54:46
We live in a world where nothing has been left untouched by humanity: composer Jan-Peter de Graaff chats about the inspirations for his new cello concerto
Jan-Peter de Graaff, Maya Fridman and North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra after the premiere of The Forest in April, live-streamed from Tivoli-Vredenburg in Utrecht in March 2021 (Photo Anna van Kooij) In November 2021, Moscow-born Netherlands-based cellist Maya Fridman released The Forest in April, a disc of cello concertos by the Dutch composer Jan-Peter de Graaff, recorded with North Netherlands Symphony Orchestra and conductors Sander Teepen and Nicolò Foron on the TRPTK label. The disc features Jan-Peter's Concerto No. 5, The Forest in April, which was written for Fridman, alongside his Concerto No. 4, Rimpelingen (Ripples). Jan-Peter's music is often inspired by nature and by physics, and The Forest in April is inspired by man's relationship to nature. The work was premiered in March 2021 in a live-streamed performance. I recently spoke to Jan-Peter to find out more. The project began when Maya Fridman heard […]
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