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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] expansive piano part. Letter From Heaven by Goi Ywei Chern (music) and Yvonne Ugarte (words), performed by Anusha Merrin (soprano) and Chunmeng Ge (piano), was one of the most impressive songs of the event. A moment suspended in time, Merrin's high soprano managed to project an impressive number of words. A concentrated performance creating something intense and evocative.A lighthouse near Holbeck by Rosemary Shapes Tickle (music) and Kristina Diprose (words), performed by Elia Farreras Cabero (soprano) and Lucas Huber Sierra (piano), mixed spare, edgy piano with a more lyric, expressionist voice creating an intriguing sound world but raising the suspicion that more interest was in the piano with Shapes Tickle being over careful in the vocal writing. The Birdman of Adel Woods by Huw Mears (music) and Susan Darlington (words), performed by Felicitas Wrede (soprano) and Abhisri Chaudhuri (piano), was dark an expressionist in tone, conjuring real atmosphere.Richard's Song by Dawn Walters (music) and Laura Strickland […]
2022-12-02 17:11:00
Wigmore Hall, London, 1.12.2022 (MB)Sei mir gegrüsst, D 741 Dass sie hier gewesen, D 775 Lachen und Weinen, D 777 Du bist die Ruh, D 776 Greisengesang, D 778 Schwanengesang, D 957 Christian Gerhaher (baritone)Gerold Huber (piano)This memorable ScHubert from Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber opened with five settings of Friedrich Rückert, well chosen and ordered. Sei mir gegrüsst’s opening piano lilt was taken up just as keenly by Gerhaher, signalling a meeting of musical minds and practice. From the very outset, one might readily have taken dictation, verbal and musical, so clear was every aspect of the performance, that clarity never a goal in itself but means to an expressive end. Unity and variation in an initially strophic setting that then sets out along new paths were equally apparent, inspiring and comforting in similar measure. The almost Lisztian sensibility of Dass sie hier gewesen offered nice contrast, the set’s […]
2022-07-07 14:00:09
Chorwerk Ruhr/Bochum SO/Florian Helgath/Rupert Huber/Matilda Hofman/Michael Alber(Coviello)A rare recording of the German composer’s early work is paired with Mauricio Kagel’s compelling exploration of Bach choralesK
2022-03-31 04:00:00
Johann Baptist Gänsbacher (1778-1844) Serenade for Flute & Guitar, Op. 12 Joseph Ewald Reiner (b. 1784) VIII Grandes Variations for Guitar, Op. 6 Johann Nepomouk Huber (b. 1803) La vestale de Spontini - Marche (arr. for Guitar) Leonhard von Call (1767-1815) Serenade for Flute & Guitar, Op. 54 Guitar Sonata in A minor, Op. 22 No. 2 Luigi Lupo, Tranverse Flute, Giuseppe Carrer, Romantic Guitar Dynamis CDS 657 (2009) [Flac & Scans]
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