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A distinctive voice & a richly rewarding sound-world: songs by Franco Alfano from Anna Pirozzi & Emma Abbate
[…] a significant role for the piano way beyond simply supporting the voice, a reflection perhaps of Alfano's own ambitions as a pianist.Anna Pirozzi and Emma Abbate begin with four songs from Alfano's Sei liriche dating from the years 1919 to 1922. By now Alfano was established as an opera composer, Risurrezione having had numerous performances, whilst his subsequent operas show the influence of Debussy and Richard Strauss. The final song in the group sets an Italian translation of Rabindranath Tagore, a poet that Alfano would return to.The songs all have a very distinctive voice, a confluence of 20th-century influences yet creating something distinct, richly complex piano parts complementing vocal lines that are almost expressionist at times. The writing is quasi-operatic at times, and all four songs here have striking dramatic qualities. Pirozzi has a lovely plangent tone to her voice, and makes a very affecting protagonist. Then comes È giunto il nostro ultimo autunno, a […]
2023-02-20 10:50:00
He was not an online kind of person
In a 2013 article Peter Sheeran explained that Vernon Handley (Tod) "...was not an online kind of person, and his telephone answering process was not fool-proof, so if you needed to discuss something you either sent a taxi to drag him out of his home or went down to Skenfrith [his home in Monmouthshire] yourself". Since Tod died in 2008 we have all, whether we like it or not, become online people. But, despite their lack of online kudos, Tod's definitive cycles of the symphonies of Arnold Bax, Robert Simpson, Malcolm Arnold, Granville Bantock, and Charles Villiers Stanford remain towering achievements. Vernon Handley's advocacy even extended further. In 1999 he recorded Edgar Bainton's Second Symphony for Chandos, and eight years later Bainton's Third Symphony for Dutton. Edgar Bainton (1880-1956) worked and lived in both England and Australia; in 1932 toured India and was a guest of Rabindranath Tagore. His path to obscurity was hastened by […]
2022-05-01 10:48:32
A list of my songs
[…] the 2008 A.E. Housman Competition organised by the English Poetry and Song Society Farewell Love (2011) Five songs to poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt Tenor (or Baritone) & Piano (version for baritone) He Wishes (2012) Four songs to poems by W.B. Yeats Winter Journey (2012) Song cycle setting Rowan Williams' "Winterreise: for Gillian Rose, 9 December 1995" Tenor (or Baritone) & Piano Gitanjali (2014) Three songs to texts by Rabindranath Tagore for Soprano & Piano Love's Lordship (2015) Four sonnets by Michelangelo Buonarroti, translated by J.A. Symonds Tenor (or Baritone or Soprano) & Piano Voyages (2015) Four songs for baritone and piano to poems by Hart Crane Single Songs To His Coy Mistress (1997), Text: Andrew Marvell, Alto & Piano Kiss Thou, this Rose (2007), Text: Helen Waddell. Soprano & Piano The Sleep (2012), Text: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, […]
2022-01-18 14:57:45
Australian violinist Emily Sun joins violinists Rachel Podger and Jack Liebeck at Percius Management. Born in 1991, Sun was the 2016 recipient of the Royal Overseas League's Commonwealth Musician of the Year award and won the 2018 ABC Young Performer of the Year competition. She also received the Tagore Gold Medal in her final […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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