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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-19 15:52:28
Saxophone Highlights Next BSO Concerts
[…] Symphony Hall. How does it stack up against Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, Les Éolides, Rédemption, Psyché? I think it is the most virtuosic tone poem of them all, showcasing the different instruments in the orchestra. It is one of the few pieces by Franck that makes me forget that he was an organist. In La montagne, he makes the orchestra sound like an organ, in contrast. Can I be forgiven for hearing the Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice? And it’s just as scary. Another piece that I love. Yes, you are totally right! I guess it has something to do with the main character being chased. Either by a deluge of water or demon. [caption id="attachment_57088" align="alignright" width="708"] Steven Banks (Chris Lee photo)[/caption] Are the BSO horns up to the dramatic intro? They are amazing, and I am looking forward to it! I do have a little surprise for you. […]
2023-10-26 14:00:37
Orchestre National de Lyon/Szeps-Znaider(Bru Zane, two CDs)This two-disc compilation provides a potted history of the symphonic poem genre in France. Charlotte Sohy’s little known Danse Mystique stands out as a remarkable discoveryThe symphonic poem came of age with the dozen or so examples that Liszt completed in the 1850s. The genre soon split into nationalist schools – Czech works by Smetana and Dvořák, Russian by Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov, German by Strauss and Schoenberg – and Bru Zane’s two-disc compilation provides a potted history of the genre in France, from César Franck to Lili Boulanger. Some of the 15 works included are concert staples – Franck’s Le Chasseur Maudit, Paul Dukas’ L’Apprenti Sorcier, Emmanuel Chabrier’s España, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre – but many of the other composers represented here are forgotten now.Stylistically they are a highly varied bunch: there are still traces of Berlioz in Ernest Guiraud’s Ouverture d’Arteveld from 1874, for […]
2022-11-22 01:17:00
West Edge Opera 2023
Scottish Rite TempleRear of auditoriumPhoto by Lisa HirschSummer, 2022Gosh, I am surprised to see that I never posted anything about West Edge Opera's 2022 operas and the performances. They were all good! Giulio Cesare, Coraline, and, best of all, Dukas's extremely rare Ariane et Barbe-Bleu, with truly powerhouse performances by Renée Rapier as Ariane and Sara Couden as her nurse. I loved Turnage's Coraline, too; a quirky opera based on a quirky book and film.The 2023 festival was originally announced as the new (commissioned by WEO) opera Bulrusher, but that has been postponed to 2024. Instead:Monteverdi, The Coronation of Poppea (aka L'incoronazione di Poppea)Schoenberg, Erwartung and Stravinsky, Le RossignolMartinez, Cruzar la Cara de la LunaCasts haven't been announced yet. WEO has performed Poppea before, ten or so years back when they were performing in El Cerrito. Next year's festival will presumably again be at the Oakland Scottish Rite Temple's cavernous theater, which seats 1200 and where […]
2022-10-28 12:00:00
Mike Wheeler listens to Dukas, Elgar, Tabakova and Walton from Zlatomir Fung, Ben Gernon and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
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