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To boldly go: Daniel Pioro and the Marian Consort in music for violin and voices by Tom Coult, Nick Martin and Bach
Daniel PioroTom Coult, Daniel Pioro, Nick Martin, Bach; Daniel Pioro, the Marian Consort; Wigmore HallReviewed 28 March 2024 (Maundy Thursday)A wonderfully thought-provoking evening of music for violin and voices from three contemporary works to a speculative version of Bach's great ChaconneUnder the title, Divine Revolutions: Revolving around God: Circular music and the Divine, violinist Daniel Pioro's recital at Wigmore Hall on Thursday 28 March 2024 was something a little bit different. Daniel Pioro's violin was a joined by the voices of The Marian Consort (artistic director Rory McCleery) for a programme exploring music for violin and vocal ensemble. The climax of the programme was Bach's Partita no. 2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV1004 with the 'Chaconne' including accompanying chorales based on the work of musicologist Helga Thoene. The first half featured three contemporary works, the premieres of Tom Coult's O ecclesia oculi tui (after Hildegard of Bingen) and […]
2022-06-21 16:49:58
Anglais - McVicar’s Old Zauberflöte continues to be Magical
[…] Xavier Pujol Barcelona, 20th June 2022 Die Zauberflöte by Mozart. Stephen Milling, bass. Javier Camarena, tenor. Matthias Goerne, baritone . Kathryn Lewek, soprano. Lucy Crowe, soprano. Thomas Oliemans, baritone. Roger Padullés, tenor. Mercedes Gancedo, soprano. Berna Perles, soprano. Gemma Coma-Alabert, mezzosoprano. Marta Infante, mezzosoprano. Orchestra and Choir of Gran Teatre del Liceu. VEUS-Children’s Choir Amics de la Unió. Conductor, Gustavo Dudamel. Stage director, David McVicar. Restaging director, Angelo Smimmo. Scenography and costumes, John Macfarlane. Lighting, Paule Constable. Production by Royal Opera House. Gran Teatre del Liceu. Barcelona, 20th June.
2021-09-26 11:59:15
An engaging young Papageno and fine international cast, David McVicar's production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte is in fine health at Covent Garden
[…] have so far managed to miss it, despite revival on an almost biennial basis. The current revival of David McVicar's production is directed by Daniel Dooner and performances feature a complex web of double casting. On Saturday 25 October 2021, we saw Daniel Behle at Tamino, Salome Jicia as Pamina, Krzysztof Baczyk as Sarastro, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Aleksandra Olczyk as the Queen of the Night, conducted by Hartmut Haenchen. The designs by John Macfarlane are still extremely handsome and the production itself seems to be in superb health. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Huw Montague Rendall - Royal Opera House McVicar takes quite a straightforward view of the piece, with an Enlightenment setting creating a sense of the all-male, quasi Masonic atmosphere of Sarastro's merry band, with Sarastro (Krzysztof Baczyk) himself as something of an enlightened despot of a ruler. The lighter elements […]
2021-09-20 20:24:08
[…] is far better, however, to pass these props off as ironic in their humour than to risk falling flat on one’s face by trying to make them more serious. Elsewhere, the staging has a pleasing understated quality. The Temple of Wisdom, in which the Speaker appears, finds enough to draw the eye with just a few celestial instruments and figures, while the Queen of the Night appears against a backdrop of constellations in the sky. John Macfarlane’s set, coolly yet brilliantly lit by Paule Constable, sees deliberately ill proportioned columns run down both sides of the stage, which give the resulting structure a post-modern feel. These can be relatively compressed to suggest an overbearing, enclosed space, or opened out to create a far larger area. The Magic Flute (c) ROH 2021, photo by Bill CooperThe Magic Flute (c) ROH 2021, photo by Bill Cooper The production includes a […]
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