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2020-04-06 13:20:58
Claudio Merulo, 2020
This Week in Classical Music: April 6, 2020. Merulo and the painters. Claudio Merulo, the famous Italian composer, keyboardist and music publisher of the Renaissance, was born on April 8th of 1533 in Correggio, a town in the Emilia-Romagna (Correggio is also the birthplace of the famous High Renaissance painter who took his name after the town). In Correggio, Merulo studied with Tuttovale Menon, a composer who had previously worked at the court of Ferrara, one of the musical centers of Italy. Merulo probably also studied with Adrian Willaert in Venice. At the age of 23, he was appointed organist at Brescia Cathedral. Just one year later, he was elected the second organist at the Basilica of San Marco in Venice (the basilica had two organs), even though a luminary like Andrea Gabrieli was also in contention. When in 1566 Merulo took over the position of the first organist, Gabrieli […]
2014-10-15 01:34:00
The Lucerne Symphony Orchestra under its Principal conductor James Gaffigan made its local debut in a Nuova Harmonia concert at the Coliseo. Buenos Aires has received in earlier seasons the visit of the accomplished Lucerne Festival Strings. The Lucerne Symphony is in residence at a building designed by Jean Nouvel and inaugurated in 1998 called the Culture and Congress Center. The orchestra is the oldest in Switzerland, founded in 1806. Except for Mengelberg it hasn´t had starry names as Principal Conductors, and if its roster is the one printed in the hand programme, it is a small orchestra of only 65 players. Notwithstanding this, the sound was full and satisfying, though of course they didn´t play works of heavy orchestration (I don´t think it´s […]
2014-07-21 17:46:34
The curse of drink
Two operas both alike in dignity, set in dimly lit Renaissance towns ruled by seething, conspiratorial courts. Parties blaze, alleyway shadows threaten, half the characters are spies or bravos for the other half, plus a few on spec. Love is in short supply, usually twisted. What these folks need is a competent social worker with a dagger-proof vest and a cast-iron stomach. What they get is melody to live upon and die upon, melody as rich and various as the forms of pasta. This summer, Will Crutchfield’s annual Bel Canto program at the Caramoor estate in Katonah, New York, focused on the relationships between two of Victor Hugo’s musical grandchildren, Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia (1833, rev. 1840) and Verdi’s Rigoletto (1851). For those of us aware of such lovely but less familiar Hugo-derived scores as Pacini’s Maria, Regina d’Inghilterra, Mercadante’s Il Giuramento, Cui’s Angelo, Ponchielli’s Marion Delorme, Marchetti’s Ruy Blas […]
2012-08-03 16:18:46
The Great Gagliano! Several years ago I was in London. And I arranged to try out some old violins at Sotheby’s Musical Instruments department. What fun that was! Because I had made the arrangements before I arrived, the folks at Sotheby’s allowed me to play several really old violins, and I just loved that experience. Last Saturday I was in Los Angeles. And it occurred to me that there are several fine instrument shops there, so again I arranged to try out several fiddles. This time I went to see Weisshaar Musical Instruments, and I had great fun again. I played five instruments made by the following Italian makers: Vincenzo D’aria Giovanni Grancino Enrico Marchetti Arturo Francassi , and lastly Joseph Gagliano Sound, violin selection, and violin playing are a very personal thing. For me, the […]
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