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French-American conductor (1930-2014)
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2024-03-04 15:36:37
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part II, 2024
[…] especially surprising considering that he was very close to Luigi Nono, and that Luciano Berio, also a Darmstadt habitué, was his former student. It seems that the Darmstadt composers were too cerebral and too radical for Dallapiccola, whose pieces, while strictly serial during that period, were infused with lyricism, somewhat in the manner of one of his idols, Alban Berg. Dallapiccola’s last large composition was the opera Ulisse, which premiered in Berlin in 1968; Lorin Maazel was the conductor. After that, Dallapiccola composed very little, his time went into adapting some of his lectures into a book. He died on February 19th of 1975 in Florence. In 1971 Dallapiccolo compiled two suites based on Ulisse. Here is one of them, called Suite/A. The soprano Colette Herzog is Calypso, the baritone Claudio Desderi is Ulysses. Ernest Bour conducts the Chorus and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the French Radio.
2023-11-18 12:00:00
Ron Bierman listens to orchestral music by Carlos Simon and by Wagner arranged by Lorin Maazel
2023-11-09 04:30:00
Recent Releases No. 65 (CD Reviews)
[…] in the gilded Musikverein. As you can see from the above program listing, the summer concert is more musically substantial, and because it is summer, the park of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna is the outdoor setting for the concert, allowing for a far larger audience to attend. Like the New Year’s concert, the Summer Concert is led bya top-flight conductor – Yannick Nézet-Séguin in 2023, following in the footsteps of Georges Prêtre, Daniel Barenboim, Franz Welser-Möst, Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta, Semyon Bychkov, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Harding, and Andris Nelsons. Also like the New Year’s Concert, the event is televised worldwide (PBS carries it in the USA) and is made available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and – obviously – CD. To be perfectly honest, I would think most folks would prefer to see a video version of this concert rather than merely to listen to the CD. Don’t get me wrong, though; […]
2023-10-15 17:24:45
Growing up, I listened to Moussorgky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, performed by Isao Tomita (sy
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