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2021-01-19 09:54:56
Bach & the art of transcription: Benjamin Alard's survey of Bach's keyboard works reaches the late Weimar period and the composer's discovery of Vivaldi's concertos
[…] yet. This is another benefit of Alard's approach, we get to experience the younger Bach in his own context rather than with Papa Bach looming at us. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - The Complete Works for Keyboard, Volume 4: "Alla Veneziana" - Concerti ItalianiConcertos BWV 973, 975, 979, 972, 894, 980, 593, 978, 596, 976, 592, 594Benjamin Alard (harpsichord, pedal harpsichord, organ)Recorded June 2020: Museo Santa Caterina in Treviso, Italy, September 2019: Auditorium Antonin Artaud, Ivry, France, May 2019: Abbaye Saint-Étienne, Marmoutier, France HARMONIA MUNDI HMM 902460.62 3CDS The blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee. Elsewhere on this blog Sacred Ayres: Psalms, Hymns and Spirituals Songs by contemporary composer Paul Ayres from the chapel choir of Selwyn College on Regent Records - CD review The performer is a mirror who should […]
2019-05-31 11:09:54
An album inspired by the strange apocalyptic narratives of avant-garde writer Antonin Artaud
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-02-07 17:03:48
‘I Want To Make People Shit Themselves And Throw Up’: Theatre Director Ned Bennett
“Essentially, Bennett is creating a contemporary Theatre of Cruelty, giving the visceral and ritualistic techniques that Antonin Artaud advocated 80 years earlier a pyro, DayGlo twist. … He delights in designs that ‘bombard the audience with information, whether that’s sonic or physical or visual’. This is a director who abhors theatre ‘that doesn’t go beyond […]
2018-08-15 07:27:12
Exploring advanced techniques: Sara Minelli's New Resonances
[…] of advanced flute playing techniques, with pitch and harmony often playing a minimal role in the music, instead were are exploring rhythms and textures, creating evocative soundscapes full of breaths, tappings, eerie notes and the fascinating half-world between pitched and unpitched.What is fascinating is the commonality between the various pieces.It is clear that a work like Ferneyhough's Cassandra's Dream Song was not only ground-breaking (it was considered unplayable at first until premiered by Pierre Yves Artaud in 1974), but the piece forms the basis for much of the exploration of the extended techniques used by the younger composers. So Ferneyhough mixes pitched and unpitched, using phonics, tapping and other techniques in a rhapsodic manner, with fast flurries of notes. Sciarrino's piece is almost entirely unpitched and is an exploration, sometimes quite dramatic, of pure texture.Both of Solbiati's pieces have a sparseness and quiet intensity, and both use a mixture of […]
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