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2020-05-30 08:23:04
Thaïs: Massenet's lyric drama gets a rare outing on disc in a stylish performance with Canadian forces conducted by Sir Andrew Davis
[…] Nicias, something of a cypher really, seems rather stronger in character here. The smaller roles are all well taken, with Nathan Berg as warmly flexible Palémon, the old Cenobite with an important role in the first scene, Liv Redpath and Andrea Ludwig stylish and sexy as Crobyle and Myrtale, the two slaves who pop up a surprising amount in the Alexandrian scenes, plus Emilia Boteva as Albine, the abbess of the convent, and Stacey Tappan as the dancer La Charmeuse. Having the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir on the recording is a real luxury, as it means that for the opening of the opera, the male chorus of Cenobites has the wonderfully rich, well-upholstered sound of a lot of men (there are over 40 tenors and basses in the choir) singing very quietly, to magical effect. The full choir is heard to fine effect in the middle of the opera, […]
2019-09-01 11:48:06
[…] Andrew Davis’s programme with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra is as much a protagonist in the drama as the soprano and tenor soloists, and an extended orchestral scherzo, depicting the monstrous Comus (son of the witch Circe) inviting his followers to join him in an orgiastic dance, forms the climax. That is when Wood’s score is most impressive, with an irresistible energy and sweep to the writing that the BBCSO conveyed brilliantly; soprano Stacey Tappan and tenor Anthony Gregory had to work much harder to make anything as vivid from the vocal exchanges that frame it, despite the delicacy of the nocturnal sounds in which Wood’s score envelops them.
2019-08-30 16:23:00
Andrew Davis : British Prom - Hugh Wood, Elgar, RVW
An all-British Prom with Sir Andrew Davis, conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. All three pieces are classics and also classic Andrew Davis territory, which he's conducted many times and has made memorable recordings of in the past - Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis, Hugh Wood Scenes from Comus and Edward Elgar The Music Makers. Hugh Wood's Scenes from Comus Op.6, (1965), brought the young composer to fame. Inspired by John Milton's Comus : a Masque presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, it's a large scale dramatic piece, for orchestra, soprano and tenor (here Stacey Tappan and Anthony Gregory). Andrew Davis made the first recording, also with the BBCSO for NMC way back in 2001. A magical introduction - horns leading strings in an evocation of a dense forest. This might be the primordial forest, where subconcious desires are released : the source of so many […]
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2017-03-20 13:21:01
Did your kid or cousin get into the US National Youth Orchestra?
[…] Cleveland Heights, OH Emilia Sharpe, Winston Salem, NC * Natasha von Bartheld, Reno, NV Jason Wang, Keller, TX * Annalisa Welinder, Port Jefferson, NY William Yao, Barrington, RI * Viola Steven Baloue, Chicago, IL + Kayla Cabrera, Crete, IL * Sophie Choate, Provo, UT Emma DeJarnette, Snellville, GA * Juliette Duguid, Westfield, NJ + Matthew Garcia, Harlingen, TX + Andrew Hughes, Old Tappan, NJ * Tyler Jacoby, Flower Mound, TX Sean Juhl, New York, NY * Alex Koller, Orlando, FL Conor McAvinue, Wilmington, DE Peter Morin, Deerfield, IL Tabby Rhee, Brookfield, WI Karlie Roberts, Eugene, OR Cello Joshua Chiang, San Jose, CA Ryan Chung, Manhasset, NY * Drew Dansby, Charlotte, NC Simon Housner, Cherry Hill, NJ * Dylan Howard, Oxford, MS Annie SeEun Hyung, Irvine, […]
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