Leon Jessel News
German composer (1871-1942)
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2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
[…] Marche Militaire in D major, D733 no.103 Leroy Anderson: Bugler's Holiday04 Louis Hérold: Overture to 'Zampa'05 Emile Waldteufel: Die Schlittschuhläufer. Waltz, Op.18306 - 08 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Drei Deutsche Tänze, K.60509 Henri Pierné: Marche des petits soldats de plomb, op.14 no.610 Leroy Anderson: Plink, Plank, Plunk! *11 Jean Gabriel-Marie II: La Cinquantaine12 Ludwig van Beethoven: Marcia alla Turca from 'Die Ruinen von Athen', op.11313 Emile Waldteufel: Estudiantina. Waltz, op.19114 Eduard Poldini: La Poupée Valsante15 Leon Jessel: Parade der Zinsoldaten16 Jacques Offenbach: Barcarolle from 'Les Contes d'Hoffmann'17 Leroy Anderson: The Walzing Cat *18 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov: Procession of the Sirdar, op.1019 Hermann Necke: Csikos Post20 Leroy Anderson: A Trumpeter's Lullaby21 Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from 'Gayane' *Total time: 72'50.Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesDenon CO-73674 [recorded August and November * 1988; CD issued 1989, digital download 2009][digital download; flacs, cover and (poor) inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venues: Henry Wood Hall and […]
2022-07-26 10:18:00
2022 winners announced for Garsington Opera's awards for young artists
[…] received awards. Frazer Scott received the Helen Clarke Award; he played the role of Caronte in Monteverdi's Orfeo, was the understudy for the role of Harry in Roxanna Panufnik's Dalia, and was a member of the ensemble. Ellie de Jongh received the Simon Sanbach Award; she was a was a member of the chorus for Rusalka and performed the role of the Foreign Princess in at one performance when Sky Ingram was indisposed. She was also the understudy for Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw.Full details from the Garsington Opera website.
2021-02-07 11:42:29
A Life On-Line: an operatic ghost story from OperaGlass Works, an urban fairytale from OperaUpClose, Francis Poulenc and rare Kurt Weill from the archives
[…] the more intimate, claustrophobic scenes. Costumes (by Rosalind Ebbut) are completely in period, but there is one significant but telling detail; as the Governess, Rhian Lois wears a very modern hair-style. Lois is poised and quite knowing, often addressing the camera in a telling and direct way. Yet this very confidence seems to come over almost as delusion, that she is in control. The ghosts, Robert Murray as Peter Quint and Francesca Chiejina as Miss Jessel, are firmly ghosts with remarkably stagey makeup which we deliberately see in close-up; another example of the production's showcasing the theatrical mechanisms of the work. The directors seem to take the opera's stage directions literally, and we are never given a hint that the Governess might have conjured the ghosts from her own psyche. Murray and Chiejina make strong ghosts, wonderfully seductive in their scenes with the children. Leo Jemison is an unnervingly self-possessed […]
2021-02-06 10:34:36
Never say Never: back in February 2020 I chatted to Selina Cadell & Eliza Thompson of OperaGlass Works, now their production of Britten's The Turn of the Screw is released on film
[…] get 19 people onto the stage at Wilton's (the orchestra was to be on stage with the singers), but 'never say never' can apply just as much to their determination to create The Turn of the Screw despite all that 2020 threw at them. Benjamin Britten: The Turn of the ScrewDirected by Dominic Best, Selina Cadell and Eliza ThompsonSets: Tom PiperCostumes: Rosalind EbbutPrologue and Peter Quint: Robert MurrayGoverness: Rhian LoisMiles: Leo JemisonFlora: Alys Mererid RobertsMiss Jessel: Francesca ChiejinaMrs Grose: Gweneth Ann RandSinfonia of LondonConductor: JohnWilson Available from Marquee TV 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 Margaret Catchpole: Two Worlds Apart - Stephen Dodgson's final opera on disc at last and revealed as a work full of character and richly emotive music - CD review The Russian from […]
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