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2023-10-13 12:01:00
Gay/RSB/Jurowski - Telemann, Boismortier, Ravel, Ibert, and Strauss, 12 October 2023
[…] endearingly too. Vladimir Jurowski’s gift for programming, so strong a feature of his time as Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, has not deserted him in Berlin. The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rundfunksinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) is clearly thriving under his leadership, here in music ranging from Telemann to Ravel. Telemann’s turned twice as a composer to Cervantes’s novel, in 1761 writing a one-act opera on an episode from it: Don Quijote auf der Hochzeit des Camacho. (The young Mendelssohn would also turn to this same episode.) This ‘burlesque’ orchestral suite from 1739 takes in different episodes over the course of its seven movements and proved in performance both splendidly enjoyable and vividly theatrical. Its opening French overture might indeed have been the curtain-raiser to an opera of its own, here driven in fine balance between rhythm and harmony. We heard – and may have felt we saw – horses hooves […]
2021-07-09 06:00:15
Mendelssohn’s “The Marriage of Camacho” Overture: Music for a Fleeting Opera
Felix Mendelssohn was 15 when he began work on the two-act comic opera, Die Hochzeit des Camacho (“The Marriage of Camacho”) in 1824. The young composer had already written four previous singspiele operas which received private family performances. The Marriage of Camacho, based on an episode from Cervantes’ Don Quixote, was premiered at the Berlin Schauspielhaus on April 29, 1827. Although the work was well-received by the audience, it was met with a hostile reviews. Mendelssohn was ...
2016-05-13 00:22:00
[…] Two other "Don Quixotes" may be mentioned here: those of Ninette de Valois on Roberto Gerhard´s interesting music (1950) and of George Balanchine on music by Nicholas Nabokov (1965). In fact, Petipa´s ballet is centered on one specific episode of the Cervantes novel: "The Wedding of Camacho". And both Don Quixote (and Sancho Panza as comic relief) are decorative figures, for what matters is the love story of Basilio and Kitri and their stratagems to convince Kitri´s father, an innkeeper, from forcing her to marry the rich aristocratic Camacho. Both the First and the Third Acts are dominated by them, adding several torero dances to those of the people in the village square. […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-11-02 18:33:54
A Tale of Two Cuban Universities: Part II
[…] the opportunity to study in Europe and at other major Latin American universities, and the Salzburg Mozarteum now provides an additional resource. Medal-winning ISA graduates have been able to take advantage of new scholarships to the Mozarteum, so Cubans such as violinist Braulio Antonio Labañino, violists Anolan González and Gretchen Labrada Izquierdo, cellist Annette Antúnez, and clarinetist Arístides Ariel Porto have traveled to Salzburg for master classes and graduate-level courses. 2013 piano graduate Fidel Leal Camacho auditioned successfully for a place in Wha Kyung Byun’s piano studio at New England Conservatory in Boston last year, and plans to attend (once he can supplement the partial scholarship they offered with funds to cover the remainder of the costs). Leal’s salary at ISA is paid in Cuban pesos, and he gives some private music lessons for a very modest fee, but the continuation of Cuba’s two separate currencies makes saving (local) Pesos […]
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