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2022-04-18 14:01:36
Nicola Vicentino, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: April 18, 2022. Microtonal Renaissance: Nicola Vicentino. Sometime ago we presented an entry about Easley Blackwood, an American composer who wrote microtonal music, music for electronic instruments tuned to more than 12 half-tones to an octave – 13, for example, or 14. Blackwood actually tried 12 more tunings, dividing the octave up to 24 equal intervals. The results were interesting and the attempt pretty courageous, as not that many composers have tried to work in this field. Well, it turns out that Blackwood had a predecessor. Four centuries earlier there lived an audacious composer who also attempted to go beyond the usual 12 half-tone octave we are so used to hearing. His name is Nicola Vicentino. Vicentino was born, as his name suggests, in the city of Vicenza in 1511. He probably studied with Adrian Willaert in nearby Venice. Sometime between 1530 and 1540 he went […]
2018-01-02 18:43:00
Performances attended during 2017; or, where were the women?
[…] Isang Yun 2 Mark Andre, Georges Aperghis, Julian Anderson, WF Bach, Vykintas Baltakas, Alessandro Baticci, Benjamin, Birtwistle, Johannes Boris Borowski, Bruch, Busoni, Duparc, Britten, Fodé Lassana Diabaté, Eisler, Grisey, Ivan Fedele, Luca Francesconi, Franck, HK Gruber, Lou Harrison, Hindemith, Ibert, Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin, Kodály, Kurtág, Liza Lim, Liszt, Luca Marenzio, Christian Mason, Mendelssohn, Nono, Helmut Oehring, Eva Reiter, Matthias Pintscher, Erno Poppe, Prokofiev, Roussel, Rzewski, Rebecca Saunders, Iris ter Schiphorst, Johannes Schöllhorn, Marco Stroppa, Telemann, Nicola Vicentino, Walton, Weber, Weill, Gerhard E. Winkler, Wolf, John Zorn 1 Concerts and opera combined Wagner 15 Beethoven 13 Mozart 12 Brahms 9 Debussy 8 Boulez, Schubert, Schumann 7 Ligeti, Monteverdi, Schoenberg 6 Berg, Haydn, Ravel, Stravinsky, Jörg Widmann 5 Bartók, Strauss 4 Bach, Bartók, Dvořák, Mahler, Shostakovich 3 CPE Bach, Benjamin, Busoni, Carter, Chopin, Messiaen, Rihm, Rebecca Saunders, Takemitsu, Tchaikovsky, Weber, Isang Yun 2 Mark Andre, Georges Aperghis, Julian Anderson, WF Bach, […]
2017-09-12 11:20:00
Musikfest Berlin (5) – SWR SO/Rundel - Schumann, Andre, Marenzio, Vicentino, and Nono, 11 September 2017
Philharmonie, Berlin Images: Kai Bienert Schumann – Manfred, op.115: Overture Mark Andre – über, for clarinet, orchestra, and live electronicsLuca Marenzio – Ninth Book of Madrigals: ‘Crudele, acerba, inesorabil morte’Nicola Vicentino – Fifth Book of Madrigals: ‘L’aura che’l verde lauro et l’aureo crine’Nono – Il canto sospeso Jörg Widmann (clarinet) Laura Aikin (soprano) Jenny Carlstedt (mezzo-soprano) Robin Tritschler (tenor) SWR Experimentalstudio Michael Acker, Joachim Haas, and Sven Kestel (sound design) SWR Vocal Ensemble (chorus master: Michael Alber) SWR Symphony Orchestra Peter Rundel (conductor) A programme that promised much and, ultimately, ‘delivered’ – as they now say. The main attraction was Nono’s Il canto sospeso: one of the undisputed masterpieces of what I am still old-fashioned enough to call the post-war avant garde. I have been waiting twenty years or so to hear it ‘live’, since I first listened, astonished and terrified, to […]
2016-12-06 10:06:25
Huelgas Ensemble/Van Nevel (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)What’s the term for when parody surpasses the material it parodies? Musicologists have described Monteverdi’s Missa in Illo Tempero as a “parody mass” because it’s built around archaic material and techniques. But when he wrote it at the dawn of the 1600s, Monteverdi was already looking back from some distance at the previous century – already inventing a kind of neo-Renaissance gloss that simultaneous confirmed him as a master of the old polyphony and blazed into new baroque sounds and styles. This robust, bold-sculpted recording from Paul van Nevel and his Belgian early music group Huelgas splits up the mass’s movements with four earlier madrigals, so the Kyrie segues into the chromatic thicket of Nicola Vicentino’s Laura Che’l Verde Lauro, then the stately, pliant Credo sinks into Giaches de Wert’s Mia Benigna Fortuna, and so on. As if Monteverdi’s meta-mass wasn’t enough for anachronisms, the […]
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