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Pastorals : Beethoven and Knecht
[…] comes in too late several times and its bassoonist who can only play three notes, the sudden thunderclaps...." Charming as Knecht's Le portrait musical de la nature is, Beethoven's symphony is altogther more sophisticated. His landscape portrays the storm in the context of the lives of people who live in the countryside, the storm part of the wider cycle of Nature. His titles refer to emotional states : "Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunftauf dem Lande", and "Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm". As Gülke says, the initial notes "come so close to the character of bird cals that it is only a tiny step to Nightingale - Cuckoo -Quail, in which Art and Nature finally become one." Gülke also compares and contrasts the Fifth and Sixth symphonies, premiered together in the Vienna concert of 22nd December 1808. Although there are so many Beethoven Sixths on the […]
2019-08-27 18:03:00
Refreshing many languages - Harding, Orchestre de Paris Prom - Beethoven, Widmann, Schumann
[…] done so many times, there are lots if valid ways of listening to it. Different performers, different "languages". More fool those who arevthretened by diversity - there is so much in this symphony that it doesn't dim with familiarity. Harding worked with the strengths of the Orchestre de Paris - clarity, elegance, lucidity - creating an account that felt fresh and exhilirating. The first movement isn't titled "Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande" for nothing. The protagonist (not the peasants) arrive in the countryside and feels refreshed. Sure, there's a storm but storms happen, as peasants who live close to Nature know only too well. So they survive, and give "cheerful thanks". After a storm, the air is clear and the land refreshed. What Beethoven - an early Romantic, don't forget - is celebrating here is not the storm so much as the power human beings have […]
2018-12-03 06:28:00
Kawarsky: Spoon Hanging from My Nose (CD review)
[…] most somber and earnest on the program. Still, it is easy to listen to because the composer eschews most of the modern conventions that drive audiences to distraction, even Kawarsky's work does get a tad raucous at times. The final item Kawarsky titled Episodes for piano and orchestra, and it celebrates the 75th anniversary of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, New Jersey. It is performed by the Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, with Vladimir Lande, conductor, and Peter Laul. piano. It has kind of a jazzy beat, all up-tempo and rhythmic in the opening section and alternating with a more-serene landscape as the piece goes on. The most obvious borrowing the composer incorporates here is from Mussorgsky, and it works nicely. The soloist and orchestra afford the whole work a dignified presentation. Producers John Page, Brad Michel, Vit Muzik, Alexei Barashkin, and Bob Lord, with engineers John McCartney, Brad […]
2018-09-10 09:21:14
BREMF 2018 - Europe: 700 years of music from 17 European countries
[…] the Duke and Duchess of Sussex) and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. Whilst the English Cornett and Sackbutt's programme Legal Aliens looks at the music of Italian families like the Bassanos who lived in Tudor London (including Aemelia Bassano who may have been Shakespeare's Dark Lady of the Sonnets).The final event of the festival is on 11 November 2018, so rather appropriately it is Peace in Europe:A Concert for Armistice Day with music by Handel, De la Lande, Zelenka, Blow, Charpentier and Purcell from The BREMF Players (leader Alison Bury), The BREMF Singers (director John Hancorn) and soloists from BREMF's Early Music Live! including Elizabeth Adams, Nancy Cole, Helen Charlston (winner of this year's Handel Singing Competition), Josh Cooter and Tim Dickinson.Full details from the BREMF website.
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