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There is no right reaction to great music
[…] Royal Conservatory of The Hague before establishing a formidable reputation as a leading Dutch jazz pianist and recording four albums for ECM.Ruins and Remains was composed by Wolfert Breferode in 2018 in response to a commission to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Since the premiere however the work has evolved to embrace a wider perspective on human frailty, helped by the improvisatory experiments of the Matangi Quartet and percussionist Joost Lijbaart.ECM's promotional copy describes how in Ruins and Remains "there is a vulnerable but resilient quality to the music, as it hovers over its emotional terrain, with moods both bleak and guardedly hopeful". Which means it lacks the conventional development and form which received wisdom demands as a feature of 'great' music. In turn this raises the question of whether development within a defined structure is a sine qua non of art music..A few years back David […]
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Faces of classical music
2020-02-16 20:44:00
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata BWV 29, “Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir” – Maria Keohane, Damien Guillon, Valerio Contaldo, Lionel Meunier, Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven (HD 1080p)
[…] Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir [04:00]iii. Aria (tenor): Hallelja, Stärk und Macht [07:06]iv. Recitativo (bass): Gottlob! es geht uns wohl! [13:17]v. Aria (soprano): Gedenk an uns mit deiner Liebe [14:32]vi. Recitativo (alto, chorus): Vergiß es ferner nicht [20:25]vii. Aria (alto): Hallelja, Stärk und Macht [20:53]viii. Chorale: Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren [22:42]Maria Keohane, sopranoDamien Guillon, altoValerio Contaldo, tenorLionel Meunier, bassLeo van Doeselaar, organNetherlands Bach SocietyConductor: Jos van VeldhovenFilm directors: Lucas van Woerkum, Joost HonselaarSt Martin's Church, Groningen, Netherlands, March 15, 2014(HD 1080p)* Start time of each movement Around a quarter of cantata BWV 29 consists of notes Bach had written earlier. The festive sinfonia comes from a wedding cantata presumed to have been written in 1729. The organ "tune", nowadays better known as the "Nokia tune", is much older. Bach composed this melody in Köthen in 1720, as a piece for solo violin.The opening chorus "Wir danken dir, […]
2019-08-25 08:18:38
Final of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition in Oslo
Final of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition 2019First prize winner, Sergey Kaydalov (Russia) & H.M. Queen Sonja on Norway (Photo Adrian Nielsen) Final of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition; Oslo Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 August 2019 Six young singers from Germany, Poland, Russia, Moldova and China competing in the 30th anniversary edition of the competition Queen Sonja International Music Competition 2019Stefan Astakhov (Germany), Risto Joost (Photo Adrian Nielsen) 2019 is the 30th anniversary of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, and this year the biennial event in Oslo, Norway featured over 300 young singers competing. On Friday 23 August 2019, the final involved six singers from Germany, Russia, Poland, China and Moldova, who sang arias and duets at the Oslo Opera House, in front of a distinguished jury from a variety of walks of musical life. The singers were […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-10-27 12:19:29
Busoni competition refuses to pay prizes after contestants cry fraud
[…] to the toilet (you have to go through the side room of the church to get to the toilet) I saw a note lying openly on the table, which shocked me so much, that I had to take a picture to have a proof of it: It clearly says:1° Premio Cioni (the president of Cultural Association Silver) 2° Premio Tognetti (first violin Chamber Orchestra of Florence) 3° Premio Jost / A Ostetrov Joost Smeets, one of the 3rd prize winners, who also saw the note and also took a picture of it, (and got very angry about it – he throw away the small cup, which he got as a prize, into the trash container outside the church) got a message from Lanzetta which led to following exchange of messages (Lanzetta during the communication admitted that he wrote the note as “as a joke”): (see 6 screenshots […]
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