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German singer and opera singer (1942-1999)
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2023-09-14 06:23:00
Tragédie lyrique given with great sympathy and style: Passion from Véronique Gens with Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas at Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival
Passion - Véronique Gens, Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo: bayreuth.media)Passion: Lully, Henry Desmarest, André Cardinal Destouches, Rebel, Charpentier; Véronique Gens, Les Surprises, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas; Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival at Ordenskirche St GeorgenImmense style and mesmerising performances in the wonderful selection of music from tragédies lyriques by Lully and his contemporariesVéronique Gens recorded her programme Passion with Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas and Les Surprises in 2021. It is an exploration of music written for two singers who inspired Lully, Mademoiselle Saint Christophe and Marie Le Rochois, focussing on music by Lully and his younger contemporaries.Véronique Gens, Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas and Les Surprises brought Passion to the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival and performed it on Sunday 10 September 2023 in the splendour of the Ordenskirche St Georgen, Bayreuth. Véronique Gens was joined by an instrumental ensemble of eleven, directed from the harpsichord and organ by Louis-Noel […]
2023-06-15 03:30:00
Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles… (CD Review)
[…] fills up CD 2 (45:12). An examination of the titles of each of the dozen sections offers an insight into the creative imagination of the composer as well as hints at the variety of the musical sounds to be found in then score. Part 1: Le Désert ("The desert"); Les orioles ("The orioles"); Ce qui est écrit sur les étoiles ("What is written in the stars"); Le Cossyphe d'Heuglin ("The white-browed robin-chat"); Cedar Breaks et le don de crainte ("Cedar Breaks and the gift of awe"); Part 2: Appel interstellaire ("Interstellar call"); Bryce Canyon et les rochers rouge-orange("Bryce Canyon and the red-orange rocks"); Part 3: Les Ressuscités et le chant de l'étoile Aldebaran ("The resurrected and the song of the star Aldebaran"); Le Moqueur polyglotte ("The mockingbird"); La Grive des bois ("The wood thrush"); Omao, leiothrix, elepaio, shama ("ʻōmaʻo, leiothrix, ʻelepaio, shama"); Zion Park et la cité céleste ("Zion Park and the celestial city"). (For those who might understandably might be wondering, ʻōmaʻo etc. are bird species.) The opening notes from the horn set the tone – for the […]
2021-05-08 05:15:00
Classical Music News of the Week, May 8, 2021
[…] Julie Rodrigues Widholm will guest curate the episode, taking audiences on a virtual tour of both Rosie Lee Tomkins: A Retrospective, one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of Tomkins’s work to date, and Edie Fake’s Affordable Housing for Trans Elders, BAMPFA’s most recent commission for its Art Wall. Filmed on location, musicians from Berkeley Symphony will perform a selection of chamber works including the second movement from Florence Price’s String Quartet in G Major, Messiaen’s Appel Interstellaire for solo horn, Michael Daugherty’s Diamond in the Rough for violin, viola, and percussion, and Jessie Montgomery’s Strum for string quartet.All episodes of REAL Berkeley will be streamed free of charge on the Berkeley Symphony YouTube channel and will remain available for viewing after the initial release date. Full details for episodes three and four will be announced later this month.For more information, please visit http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/.--Brenden Guy PRWhat's Streaming: Classical (Week of May […]
2019-12-16 15:41:00
[…] ‘Aria, Askak, Hoketus’, ‘Solo, Intermezzo, Mixtur, Kanon’, and ‘Spectra’. An ensemble of untold yet controlled giddiness led us by the hand toward that fifth movement of near-Messiaensque sublimity. The closing ‘Capriccio’ and ‘Hymnus’ lived up fully to their names and yet equally expanded our understanding of them and their possibilities. For an encore, Dohr treated us to some of the finest playing and musicianship I have ever heard on any instrument, in a riveting Messiaen ‘Appel interstellaire’ from Des Canyons aux étoiles. And so, we returned to Haydn and to E-flat major for the Drum-RollSymphony, his penultimate, written more than thirty years later than the first symphony we had heard. Just as Ligeti’s work had, in context, picked up the importance of horns from Haydn, now Haydn picked up from Martinů aspecial role for timpani. Matthias Kelemen, beguilingly inventive without a hint of narcissism for his Intrada, […]
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