Élisabeth Duparc News
French opera singer
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- opera singer, painter
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2024-01-15 16:11:56
Schein and many other, 2024
[…] Piston (b. 1/20/1894), a prolific and prominent American composer of the 20th century who often used Schoenberg’s 12-note method; Alexander Tcherepnin (b. 1/20/1899), a Russian composer who was born into a prominent musical family (his father, Nikolai Tcherepnin was a noted composer and cultural figure), left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, settled in France, moved to the US after WII and had several symphonies premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and, finally, another Frenchman, Henri Duparc (b. 1/21/1848), best known for his art songs. None of these composers were what is usually called “great” but all were talented and some of their works are very interesting. Listen, for example, to Alexander Tcherepnin’s 10 Bagatelles, op. 5 in a version for piano and orchestra (here). Margrit Weber is at the piano, Ferenc Fricsay conducts the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Or, in a very different way, here’s Duparc’s fine song, L'invitation au Voyage. Jessye […]
2024-01-15 15:34:25
Henri Duparc - L'invitation au voyage Jessye Norman (Soprano)Dalton Baldwin (Piano)
2023-12-31 16:56:00
Since I am busy at work on my new book project, a two-volume study of the complete operas of Mozart in their eighteenth-century political and intellectual context, it seems fitting to have heard more music by Mozart than by any other composer this year. (For 'rules' on counting, please see my previous post.) Beyond my top four, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, and Strauss, I heard a good range of music from Alkan to Zimmermann and beyond.19 Mozart 12 Wagner 8 Beethoven, Strauss 7 Brahms, Schumann 6 Bach 5 Schubert, Byrd 4 Mahler, Prokofiev 3 Benjamin, Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt, Ravel 2 Berg, Bizet, Debussy, Dvořák, Handel, Haydn, Henze, Knussen, Puccini, Schoenberg 1 Alkan, Dieter Ammann, CPE Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, JCF Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, Korngold, […]
2023-10-26 14:00:37
[…] España, Camille Saint-Saëns’s Danse Macabre – but many of the other composers represented here are forgotten now.Stylistically they are a highly varied bunch: there are still traces of Berlioz in Ernest Guiraud’s Ouverture d’Arteveld from 1874, for instance, while Boulanger’s D’un Matin de Printemps of 1918 brings together Debussy and early Stravinsky. There’s Debussy too in Mel Bonis’s rapturous Le Rêve de Cléopatre, but it’s Wagner who casts a shadow over Vincent d’Indy’s Istar, Henri Duparc’s beautiful Aux Étoiles, Augusta Holmès’s La Nuit et l’Amour and Ernest Chausson’s Arthurian Viviane. Meanwhile, Alfred Bruneau’s La Belle au Bois Dormant owes a clear debt to his teacher, Massenet.
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