Xavier de Maistre News
French musician b. 1973
- harp
- France
- musician, university teacher, string player
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2023-11-02 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech strongly recommends eighteenth century music for harp, played by Xavier de Maistre. 'At times mystical, at others immensely relaxing and uplifting, this is music coming down from above that soothes the soul and calms the mind.'
2022-08-13 03:30:06
Beethoven, Symphony No. 6, Stucky, Silent Spring; Manfred Honeck conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony (Reference) Mother Sister Daughter: Music from Santa Lucia convent in Verona and San Matteo convent in Arcetri, alongside pieces by Antoine Brumel, Maistre Jhan, Leonora d'Este, and...
2021-04-08 12:53:53
Charmes: an alternative century of song from Olena Tokar and Igor Gryshyn with music by Alma Mahler-Werfel, Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot-Garcia and Vitezslava Kapralova
[…] in 1849 and in 1859 Berlioz created the role of Orphée in his version of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice for Viardot). Her operas, of which Cendrillon is the best known, she regarded simply as teaching works and despite writing around 100 songs, she didn't regard herself as a composer. They were probably written for her own salon, for herself or for pupils. The selection of poets here is interesting, Eduard Mörike (in German), Xavier de Maistre (in French), and Alexander Pushkin and Alanasy Fet in Russian (though two of the Russian songs were originally set in German). The Russian element, of course, comes from the fact that the novelist Ivan Turgenev virtually lived with Viardot-Garcia and her husband! (And in fact she wrote operas to Turgenev's librettos). The musical style veers towards the salon, and is admittedly conservative but she certainly has style and these are songs full of character. […]
2019-11-28 07:34:07
Music for Milan Cathedral
[…] Delphian they perform six of Werrecore's surviving 30 motets, the first time that any of his sacred music has been recorded! Alongside these we get motets by his contemporaries Gaffurius, Josquin, Weerbeke, and Phinot. The neglect of Werrecore is rather puzzling, because the music on this disc is very appealing and beautifully put together. The authority on Werrecore's music, Christine Getz, has suggested that a contemporary confusion between Werrecore and another composer, Matthias le Maistre, which persisted to the 19th century may have inhibited recognition. Milan Cathedral, interior - (Photo © Pietro Madaschi / Duomo di Milano) All the music on the disc is selected from part books associated with Milan Cathedral. So we have motets from Werrecore's own 1559 publication of 20 motets, plus motets from a book printed in 1543 by a printer associated with Milan, which includes three of Werrecore's motets (including one, Beati omnes […]
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