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2018-07-18 12:12:00
Le Jardin de Monsieur Rameau with Les Arts Florissants, directed by William Christie, reissued as part of a series by Harmonia Mundi. Like a garden, where different plants are combined for maximum display, this recording is a bouquet of selections from Rameau, Gluck, Campra, Pignolet de Monteclair, and others, arranged to highlight the variety of 18th century form. In this delughtful bouquet or sounds, well known perennials blend with relative rarities and dramatic colours alternate with the more discreet : a excellent introduction to the rest of the Harmonia Mundi series reissuing Les Arts Florissantes recordings. This selection was first heard during the Rameau anniversary year when Les Arts Florissantes were joined by soloists (Daniela Skorka, Emilie Renard, Benedetta Mazzucato, Zachary Wilder, Victor Sicard and Cyril Costanzo) from their academy, Le Jardin de Voix. Michel Pignolet de Montéclair's Jephté, (1633) was written a hundred and twenty years before Handel's oratorio […]
2015-02-27 21:45:49
Konzerthaus Käsekrainer Hot Dog mit Senf und Ketchup: 4,20 € Ticket an der Oper: 4 € Ticket an dem Musikverein: 5 € Hearing the best operas and concerts in the world: Priceless. Since arriving in Vienna on January 8th, I’ve been a regular at the Vienna State Opera, the Staatsoper. And while I’m obviously fascinated by the wonderful music making that happens inside of this historic site, I would like to share one of my favorite bits of Viennese history. The comical story of this building, the first one on the Ringstraße, includes incredible public criticism, the suicide of one of the architects, and an accidental bombing. In short, Eduard van der Nüll and August Sicard von Sicardsburg began constructing the Staatsoper in 1861 in an Italian neo-Renaissance style which caused a great deal of public unrest (basically everyone thought it looked like a military building). Van der […]
2013-04-11 02:40:38
The boy friend
[…] Center in October. The Jardin concert at BAM on April 19 features music by Dauvergne, Grandval, Montéclair, Campra and Gluck (selections from L’ivrogne corrigé, which was recently staged in New York), as well as Rameau. The widely varied program looks fascinating and any opportunity all to hear performed live Rameau’s supremely beautiful quartet “Tendre amour” should be embraced. This year’s laureates include Daniela Skorka (Israel), Emilie Renard (UK), Benedetta Mazzucato (Italy), Victor Sicard (France), Cyril Costanzo (France), and Zachary Wilder (US). A tenor, Wilder is only the third American chosen out of the 44 singers who have so far participated in the six editions. I wondered what this experience has been like and he was extraordinarily generous in answering a few questions for Parterre. DeCaff: You already have a promising career in the US and Europe, so what prompted you to enter the competition for the 2013 […]
2012-01-20 18:41:00
Leaning on an Archway
[…] munificence of Emperor Franz Josef. But it was little surprise that our eyes trained on this cute Wienerisch boy with his even cuter rump. Clearly exhausted from too much Ringstraße historicism - the worker's mallet discarded at his feet - the young man leans against the archway, checking if anyone can see him. All of these glorious interiors were conceived by Baron Karl von Hasenauer, one of the pupils of the gay architectural pair August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, who designed the Staatsoper. Totems of the Gründerzeit era, they were nevertheless crushed by the Emperor's unwitting criticism of their 'sunken chest' of an opera house. van der Nüll killed himself in 1868 and, distraught, von Sicardsburg died 10 weeks later, diagnosed with TB. It's a sweet but probably erroneous thought that this charming boy was von Hasenauer's tribute to his teachers.
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