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American opera singer
- baritone
- United States of America
- opera singer, music teacher
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2020-02-03 00:00:00
Koechlin - Grainger - The Jungle Book
Charles KOECHLIN (1867-1950) Le Livre de la jungle 1. La Loi de la jungle 2. Les Bandar-Log 3. Berceuse phoque 4. Chanson de nuit dans la jungle 5. Chant de Kala Nag 6. La Méditation de Purun Bhagat 7. La Course de printemps Iris Vermillion (mezzo) Jacque Trussel (ten) Vincent le Texier (bar) Choeur des Opéras de Montpellier Orchestra Philharmonique de Languedoc-Roussillon/Steuart Bedford rec. live, 22 July 1998, Opéra Berlioz-Le Corum ADD ACTES SUD 2000 The valuable series of CDs from the enlightened French publishing house Actes Sud is beginning to makes its way beyond France. The notes in the present case are entirely in French with no translations. The jewel box is forgotten for a change and instead, and this is becoming something of a French hallmark, we get a stiff card folder into which the booklet notes are glued and two CD mounting stems on fold-outs. The […]
2020-01-20 07:30:05
From the rare to the popular: Fauré and Poulenc from Bertrand de Billy and the London Philharmonic
Gabriel Fauré painted by John Singer Sargent in 1889the year after the premiere of the first version of the Requiem Poulenc Sept répons des ténèbres & Organ Concerto, Fauré Requiem; Katerina Tretyakova, Stéphane Degout, James O'Donnell, London Philharmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bertrand de Billy; Royal Festival Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 January 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A warmly intimate account of Faure's popular choral work contrasted with Poulenc's spiky late masterpieceWhat to programme with the Fauré's eternally popular Requiem? For it's concert on Saturday 18 January 2020 at the Southbank Centre, the London Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor Bertrand de Billy opted for an all French programme, with Poulenc's Organ Concerto with organist James O'Donnell playing the Royal Festival Hall organ and Poulenc's Sept répons des ténèbres, thus giving the London Philharmonic Choir a chance to shine. The soloists were soprano […]
2019-09-26 09:00:00
Rating: 0 Symphony No. 9 Op. 70 (1945) Premiered: Leningrad, 1945 The Ninth Symphony should have been a glorious ode to Stalin and Russia’s heroes. Instead, Shostakovich dreamed up a subversive neo-Classical construction which cocked a Snook at the cult of the leader. At 25 minutes it ends abruptly, with no apotheosis. After the premiere, the piece was not performed again until after Stalin’s death. VASILY PETRENKO: ‘One of Stalin’s favourite dances, the Dance of the Bones, is used in the last movement. What was Shostakovich saying? The truth: that five million […]
2016-04-23 02:19:09
Kyle Wiley Pickett conducts a rehearsal of Saturday's Topeka Symphony Orchestra's season finale, a 7:30 p.m. performance of Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" in White Concert Hall on the campus of Washburn University. The guest soloists for the Topeka Symphony's season finale performance of Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in White Concert Hall on the campus of Washburn University includes its music department chairwoman, mezzo-soprano Anne Marie Snook, left, and director of opera studies, soprano Andrea Garritano.
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