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American organist, pianist, composer and writer
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2022-02-07 15:00:33
Manon Lescaut
Francesco Ivan Ciampa conducts Asmik Grigorian, Boris Pinkhasovich, Brian Jagde and Josh Lovell.
2021-11-02 07:45:45
The Lost Codex of Avalon: a mix of old and new texts along with David Yardley's music in the style of Medieval and Renaissance to bring alive a mythic age
David Yardley The Lost Codex of Avalon; David Yardley, The Song Company, Sydney Chamber Choir, Sam Allchurch, Jess Ciampa, Pastance, Cristina Alís Raurich; Talisman Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 1 November 2021 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) An intriguing mix of old and new as the Australian composer/performer David Yardley weaves old-style modern music around a mix of ancient and modern texts evoking the world of King ArthurIf you go to the website Australian government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, there is a page for Mr David Yardley, currently High Commissioner to Kiribati and previously Counsellor at Australia’s Mission to the United Nations, New York. But David Yardley has a parallel career as musician and composer, mixing a love of Medieval and Renaissance music with a love of fantasy stories. His first disc was New Carols and Songs For Chaucer’s Pilgrims, taking existing texts which survive without music and […]
2015-09-20 18:48:23
Money on the dresser
[…] so that she and Damrau can eventually become the figures in Manet’s Olympia, a painting we see a lot of throughout the opera. If you have seen an Aïda or an Otello darkened this much, you have been going to the opera for much longer than I have. I ascribe no racism to Mr. Jacquot, but I wish he had gone another way with his allusion. The effect is unconvincing and distracting. Maestro Francesco Ivan Ciampa gets a silken string sound from the Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris, and his reading is leisurely, deliberate, and singer-friendly, the sort an admirer calls “loving.” Rhythm is less than taut, and the two preludes advertise tubercular delicacy in a way I find overstated. The performing edition observes several traditional cuts, including the baritone’s cabaletta, several bars of “Gran Dio! morir sì giovane,” and the deathbed party’s reactions to the denouement (the diva […]
2015-09-17 15:55:35
Verdi: La Traviata Live from the Opéra National de Paris . Diana Damrau is well known for her role as Violetta in Verdi’s Opera, La Traviata. The theatres where she has performed Verdi’s most popular opera are: the Metropolitan, New York; La Scala, Milan ; London’s Royal Opera House ; the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and the Zurich Opera. The Paris Opéra joined that list of leading houses in June 2014. The other performers in this DVD recording are: Francesco Demuro (Alfredo), Ludovic Tézier (Germont), Anna Pennisi (Flora), Cornelia Oncioiu (Annina), Kevin Amiel (Gastone), Fabio Previati (Il Barone Douphol), Igor Gnidii (Il Marchese d’Obigny), Nicolas Testé (Dottore Grenvil), and all supported by the Orchestre et Chœur de l’Opéra National de Paris, Francesco Ivan Ciampa conducting. When she first sang Violetta – in New York in 2013 – Damrau told the Metropolitan Opera’s Playbill that: “I waited a […]
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