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Vox in Bestia: Laura Catrani uses solo voice to explore Dante's animals with music from three contemporary Italian composers
Vox in Bestia: Gli animali della divina commedia - Fabrizio de Rossi Re, Matteo Franceschini, Alessandro Solbiati; Laura Catrani; StradivariusReviewed 1/8/2022 (★★★)Italian soprano Laura Catrani explores the beasts Dante's Divine Comedy via music written for her solo voice by three contemporary Italian composers, to dazzling, virtuosic and challenging effectLuciano Berio's Sequenza III, written in 1965 for soprano Cathy Berberian, helped define a whole genre of unaccompanied vocal work that used the voice's many other expressive modes besides singing. Berberian would create her own response to this in 1966 with Stripsody, an equally virtuoso work but one that merged virtuosic onomatopoeic sounds with ideas from comic strips.As a young student at the Conservatoire in Milan, soprano Laura Catrani studied Berio's Sequenza III and it soon became her piece de resistance [see her performance on YouTube] and she has continued to explore and expand the solo voice repertoire. Her Vox in Femina project from 2010 brought together […]
2014-01-10 15:51:00
Papageno in silhouette Reiniger 1935
More Weimar silhouettes from Lotte Reinger, this time a ten minute fantasy on Papageno by Lotte Reinger, amde in 1935 as part of her projected series "Silhouetten Opernhaus", the first of which was Zehn Minuten Mozart (1930). described by her as a "Schattenspile zu Meisterwerken der Tonkunst", animations that illustrated music. Zehn Minuten Mozart brings together snippets from different works by Mozart to forming a coy narrative which delights a Romantic imagination. Papageno is much more sophisticated, concentrating on Papageno and his relationship to nature. The tighter focus allows Reiniger to create exceptionally elaborate silhouettes - look at tracery of ferns and vines, which bring out the delicate intricacy of the music perhaps in a way no staged performance can. Look at Papageno's bells at right . It's hard to believe they were crafted form cardboard. And enjoy the birds as they move and sing. […]
2013-07-01 02:30:44
Le petit elfe Ferme-l'oeil: Florent Schmitt’s Children’s Ballet
Opera-Comique, Paris The popularity of large-scale works like Psalm XLVII , La Tragédie de Salomé and Dionysiaques would make one think that Florent Schmitt cared little for intimate subject matters as inspiration for his compositions. But the reality is different. While it’s true that the more grandiose and dramatic scores of the composer tend to be the ones that are best-known and oft-performed, it’s also that case that Schmitt was inspired by subjects that were the polar opposite of these. A case in point is the music Schmitt composed for the ballet Le petit elfe Ferme-l’oeil, Opus 73, which was mounted at the Théâtre de la Opéra-Comique in 1924. Actually, the music dates back a decade before, when Schmitt composed a suite for piano duet he titled Une semaine du petit elfe Ferme-l’oeil. This suite of seven piano pieces (Schmitt’s Opus 58), drew its inspiration from a Hans Christian […]
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2013-05-12 22:29:36
May 4 Pacifica Quartet
At three-quarters’ strength, Pacifica Quartet sounds remarkably ‘whole’ There was more to celebrate in the Pacifica Quartet’s delivery Saturday than just good music By David Abrams ici As may be expected of one who performs in a professional string quartet, Sibbi Bernhardsson has an acute sense of timing. His stork, not so much. Bernhardsson, long-time second violinist with the acclaimed Pacifica Quartet, did not make the trip to Syracuse Saturday for the 2012-13 season-ending concert of the Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music due to the anticipated birth that evening of his new daughter. The resulting change in personnel prompted a switch on the program, with a quartet by Luigi Boccherini scratched in favor of one by Joseph Haydn. That made two good reasons to pass out the cigars. Since its last […]
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