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2022-02-22 09:00:41
[…] van der Linde, Nicholas Hariades, Annastina Malm, Amelie Müller and Philipp Kranje, a co-production with the Donaufestwochen im Strudengau festival. Handel's pasticcio, Carlo Fabrice (based on an opera by Hasse) receives its first performance in modern times with Nicholas Kierdorf conducting Concert Royal Köln Baroque orchestra with cast including Lukasz Koniezcny, Julie Vercauteren, Fanny Lustaud, and Anne-Aurore Cochet. Handel's Brockes Passion is being presented in a staging directed by Walter Sutcliffe and conducted by Michael Hofstetter, with a cast including Romelia Lichtenstein (winner of the 2016 Handel Prize), Robert Sellier and Michael Zehe. The production was planned for 2021 but cancelled, and originally presented in October 2021. The Portuguese orchestra Divino Sospiro makes its festival debut with Mozart's version of Messiah. MDR Radio Choir and Leipzig Baroque Opera present Susanna with a cast including Marie Lys, Ciara Henrick, Benjamin Hulett, and Benjamin Bevan, conducted by Philipp Ahmann. Howard Arman […]
2021-03-22 13:31:21
Bartok & more, 2021
[…] the Italian Opera Seria. Hasse stands as one of the great opera composer of the early 18th century, on par with Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Caldara of the generation before him, and George Frideric Handel, Nicola Porpora, Antionio Vivaldi and Leonardo Vinci, with whom he competed directly. Here’s a lovely aria from Hasse’s 1742 opera Didona Abbandonata on the libretto of his friend Metastasio. The countertenor is Valer Barna-Sabadus. Hofkapelle München is conducted by Michael Hofstetter. Franz Schreker is another opera composer who was very popular during his lifetime but who disappeared practically without a trace soon after. Here is what we’ve written about him a couple years ago. And that year, as this one, the pianist Egon Petri had his anniversary during the same week. Like Bartók, he was born in 1881 and would be 140 on March 23rd. Speaking of pianists: Byron Janis will turn 92 on […]
2020-05-15 08:42:34
Care pupille: The London Concert 1746 - Samuel Mariño in soprano arias by Handel and Gluck
Care pupille: The London Concert 1746 - arias by Handel and Gluck; Samuel Mariño, Handel Festspielorchester Halle, Michael Hofstetter; Orfeo Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 15 May 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The young Venezuelan counter-tenor sings soprano arias by Handel and Gluck in a debut recital which demonstrates his remarkable poise and technical facilitySamuel Mariño is a young counter-tenor from Venezuela whose voice has the astonishing ability to sing in the soprano register. His debut disc evokes the tantalising relationship between George Frideric Handel and Christoph Willibald Gluck; the two met whilst Gluck was in London but there are conflicting reports of their relationship. The new disc from Orfeo, Care pupille: The London Concert 1746, invokes a joint concert that was given by the two composers. Samuel Mariño sings largely soprano castrato arias from Handel's Berenice, Atalanta and Arminio, and Gluck's Antigono, La Sofonisba, La Corona, Il Tigrane, […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-12-28 12:00:00
The Faces of Classical Music Choose the 20 Best Albums of 2019
[…] up to this first instalment, it will certainly be one to watch and to return to with relish. Documentation and recording are first class, and Rouvali's "solo" debut is definitely one to remember.Source: europadisc.co.uk Carl Maria von Weber: OberonLibretto by James Robinson PlanchéClemens Kerschbaumer (Oberon), tenorMirko Roschkowski (Hüon von Bordeaux), tenorDorothea Maria Marx (Rezia), sopranoGrga Peroš (Scherasmin), baritoneMarie Seidler (Fatime), mezzo-sopranoDmitry Egorov (Puck), countertenorRoman Kurtz, narratorChor und Extrachor des Stadttheaters GiessenChoral Conductor: Jan HoffmannPhilharmonisches Orchester GiessenConductor: Michael HofstetterRecorded Live December 2016 and January 2017, at Stadttheater Gießen, GermanyReleased on July 12, 2019 by Oehms ClassicsFor the specific atmosphere of Oberon, Michael Hofstetter found it crucial that the performance was played on the period instruments Weber composed for. In Giessen, he worked with four natural horns, natural trumpets, finely tuned trombones and not least flutes made of wood instead of metal. This produced an inexhaustible wealth of acoustic colors, enabling us to sensually experience […]
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