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Recent Releases No. 62 (CD Reviews)
[…] audio magazines started touting such things. That said, we sometimes come across recordings that just seem to have something special about their sound quality. Note also that these three are not the stereotypical audiophile spectaculars featuring booming bass drums or huge brass choirs; no, these are recordings of chamber music. Enjoy! Spanish Impressions. Enrique Fernandez Arbos: Trois Pièces originales dans le genre Espagnol (Three Spanish Dances), Op. 1; Joaquin Turina: Piano Trio No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 76; Gaspar Cassado: Piano Trio in C Major; Mariano Perello: Tres Impresiones para violin, violincello y piano. Hermitage Piano Trio (Ilya Kazantsev. Piano; Sergey Antonov, piano; Misha Keylin, violin). Reference Recordings RR-151 As the three musicians of the Hermitage Piano Trio remind us with their new recording of Spanish trios, it does not always take an orchestra of 100+ musicians playing a symphony by Mahler to generate musical excitement. Chamber music can be powerful, too, especially the richly expressive […]
2023-09-25 12:01:36
American cellist Katie Tertell is seeking to recover from Japan forgotten manuscripts by Spanish composer Gaspar Cassadó.
2022-06-29 09:43:21
An exciting rediscovery: Mercadante's Il proscritto proves far more than a museum piece in this thrilling revival from Opera Rara
[…] lines that work within the context of the drama, he never comes up with any ear worms. After the first listening there was little that you came out of the theatre humming. The performance was on a high level throughout and the four leading roles, Ramón Vargas (Giorgio Argyll), Iván Ayón-Rivas (Arturo Murray), Irene Roberts (Malvina Douglas), Elizabeth DeShong (Odoardo Douglas) were well supported by the myriad smaller roles, Sally Matthews (Anna Ruthven), Goderdzi Janelidze (Guglielmo Ruthven), Susana Gaspar (Clara), Alessandro Fisher (Osvaldo), and Niall Anderson (An official of Cromwell). The function of these smaller roles was to support the dialogue, and to contribute to the first two act finales.Roberts made a moving heroine, really articulating her emotional distress. The opera is basically about her being genuinely torn between her two husbands, and choosing at the end to be with neither and so be true to both. Roberts has a fine, light yet […]
2022-01-05 10:08:48
[…] and which were probably sung by (or for) pilgrims. Francisco de Vidales (c1630 - 1702) was a Mexican-born composer yet his Los que fueren de buen gusto uses the form of a jacara, a popular dance/song from Moorish Spain and the text is Spanish. Yet whilst the form is popular the text is clearly sacred. There female vocalists were accompanied by an instrumental ensemble, creating and engaging sense of the mix of sacred and secular. Portuguese-born Gaspar Fernandes (1570-1629) was Padilla's predecessor at Puebla yet his lively and engaging Xicochi is a polyglot piece mixing an Aztec lullaby with a refrain of 'Alleluia'. Francisco Lopez Capillas (1614-1674) was a student of Padilla's who, briefly, became his successor before going on to the cathedral at what is now Mexico City. His Cui luna sol et omnia is sober and traditional, seemingly channelling Netherlandish composers. Returning to Padilla's mass, the Credo moved from a sense of […]
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