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2021-06-09 12:54:36
"Hod" by Federico Longo, Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana added to Classical Music | Writing & Study playlist on Spotify
Today we discovered a wonderful classical composition! Hod by Federico Longo, Orchestra Filarmonica
2020-11-22 14:54:28
A Life On-Line: Janacek in London, Ravel in virtual reality, the London Handel in Italy and Germany, Weill in Paris
[…] with elements from Acis and Galatea added with a new Italian text! This version received its first performance in modern times on 15 November 2020 at the Teatro Municipale, Piacenza and streamed live on the OperaStreaming website. The counter-tenor Raffaele Pe sang Aci, with his own ensemble La Lira di Orfeo, conducted by Luca Guglielmi, with Giuseppina Bridelli as Galatea, and Andrea Mastroni as Polifemo. The new edition of the work was created by Fabrizio Longo, Pe and Guglielmi. Director Gianmaria Aliverta's imaginative production made strong use of video by Tokio Studio. In a fine performance with three strong principals, the result was fascinating and intriguing, hearing the Italian Polifemo suddenly launching into 'O ruddier than the cherry' with new Italian words! This characterisation does not quite work, the English Polyphemus being more of a comic character than his Italian counterpart, but Mastroni also had the range for Polifemo's notorious […]
2018-08-10 16:22:00
Ao Longo da viola morosa
Ao Longo da viola morosaVai adormecendo a parlenda,Sem que, amadornado, eu atendaA lengalenga fastidiosa.Sem que o meu coração se prenda,Enquanto, nasal, minuciosa,Ao Longo da viola morosa,Vai adormecendo a parlenda.Mas que cicatriz melindrosaHá nele, que essa viola ofendaE faz que as asitas distendaNuma agitação dolorosa?Ao Longo da viola, morosa...Viola Chinesa by Camillo Pessanha (1867-1926) Pessanha, the Portuguese poet, who lived in Macau, acculturating as Chinese, though never fully integerated. In this poem he describes a "Chinese viola" playing a nasal yet meticulous melody which lulls into strange reverie. What is this "mournful agitation" ? Why are foreigners hypnotized by these strange imaginings? The poem was dedicated to Wenceslau de Moraes, Pessanha's friend who lived the same dream, but in Japan, the two of them outsiders wherever they went. In the above photograph, Pessanha is dressed as a Chinese peasant, while sitting in […]
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