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Magnum Opus: Britten Sinfonia's composer development scheme showcases work from 2023 composers David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla Serghiou
[…] powerful and expressive jazz singer, Emma Smith. Daniel Soley is a composer, experimental sound artist and producer whose eclectic work has ranged from orchestral scores to music and sound design for public installations in the Middle East. His new accordion concerto has been written for Ryan Corbett, the first accordionist to be selected to be a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. And the three composers selected for Magnum Opus 2024 comprise Alex Groves, Eden Lonsdale and Anibal Vidal, who’ll write new works for septet to be premièred London’s Milton Court (opposite Barbican Centre) on Tuesday 9 April (6.00pm, see Barbican website) while also choosing chamber pieces for their works to be paired with. They’ll be supported by programme directors, Dani Howard and Michael Zev Gordon, working towards writing new chamber concertos to be premièred at the 2024 autumn showcase. Alex Groves is an Ivor Novello-nominated composer and curator working across contemporary classical and electronic […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] Airs and Dances), Cavalli’s L’Egisto (featuring two remarkable and distinctive tenors: the lighter Zachary Wilder—a favorite of Boston audiences—and the darker Marc Mauillon), Lully’s Psyché (which is full of colorful details, including music for giants hammering at anvils, two centuries before Wagner, though of course the percussion here is more modest than the actual anvils in the Ring Cycle), and Rameau’s Zoroastre, featuring astonishingly accomplished performances by Jodie Devos, Véronique Gens (again!), Gwendoline Blondeel, Mathias Vidal, and Tassis Christoyannis. Classic era: From the mid to late 1700s, we got a remarkable collection of arias by “Maestrino” (young master) Mozart, sung enchantingly by Marie-Ève Munger, with an early-instrument ensemble from Montreal; Paisiello’s L’amor vendicato (1786), which demands remarkable virtuosity from one of the two sopranos and from a solo oboist (though this particular oboist is only so-so); and L’Accademia di musica (1799), a richly humorous comic opera by Johann Simon (Giovanni […]
2023-10-31 12:20:00
Engaging & involving: Christophe Rousset & Les Talens Lyriques release Thésée as their 12th Lully opera album
Lully: Thésée; Mathias Vidal, Karine Deshayes, Deborah Cachet, Philippe Estephe, Benedicte Tauran, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset; Aparté One of Quinault's finest librettos and some of Lully's most varied and imaginative music in a performance that is wonderfully responsive and stylish, with a natural flow and elegance to the dramaLully and Quinault's Thésée was the third of their tragédie en musique, and it has particular significance in that it was the first such to be supported by King Louis XIV. Thésée was presented as part of the Carnival celebrations at court in 1675, its premiere delayed so that it could also be a celebration of the French victory at Turckheim in the war with the Dutch Republic. Following the premiere, at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, it went on to have 18 more performances before being given in Paris in April 1675 and there were regular performances during the later 1670s with revivals continuing […]
2022-03-21 10:26:03
Le Destin du nouveau: a hitherto unknown opera-ballet by André Campra provides a glimpse into the largest Jesuit teaching institution in Paris, and some engaging music
André Campra Le Destin du nouveau siècle; Marc Mauillon, Mathias Vidal, Florie Valiquette, Claire Lefilliatre, Thomas van Essen, La Tempesta, Patrick Bismuth; Château de Versailles Spectacles Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 21 March 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A hitherto unknown opera-ballet gives us a glimpse of France on the cusp of the 18th century.This new disc from Patrick Bismuth and La Tempesta presents the first recording of a hitherto unknown opera ballet by André Campra, Le Destin du nouveau siècle with soloists Marc Mauillon, Mathias Vidal, Florie Valiquette, Claire Lefilliatre and Thomas van Essen, plus Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, on the Château de Versailles Spectacles label. Lasting some 80 minutes the work is an examination of how the future century might unfold, a very apt subject for a work premiered in 1700 at a time when King Louis XIV had been on […]
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