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2024-04-06 11:15:00
Bizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances
Bizet: Carmen, Act One - Blaise Malaba, Aighul Akhmetshina - Royal Opera House (Photo: ROH/Camilla Greenwell)Bizet: Carmen; Aigul Akhmetshina, Piortr Beczala, Olga Kulchynska, Kostas Smoriginas, director: Damiano Michieletto, conductor: Antonello Manacorda; Royal OperaReviewed 5 April 2024The new production pairs finely musical performances with a sense of gritty realism and a reluctance to add any local colour and movement.For all its iconic status and abundance of good tunes, Bizet's Carmen remains something of a challenge for large opera companies. Until relatively recently matters of edition and style were unquestioning, the grand opera version with Ernest Guiraud's recitatives and a setting that was 'traditional 19th-century Spain'. Since then, things have got more complex with a return to using the opera comique version and a wish to avoid the lazy stage-Spanish stereo-types. It is worth emphasising that the Bizet's opera has little Spanish input, composer, librettists and original author were all French men. And whilst […]
2024-03-28 04:00:00
EASTER PASSION MUSIC 2024 [24 CDs]
Again a collection of Easter Passion Music, from The Middle Ages to The 20th Century, brought together by the members Cadfael, Cunctator and DutchPublisher.We wish you all an enjoyable time!Planctus Mariae - Music of Holy Week from the Late Middle Agesensemble für frühe musik augsburgRecorded 1994Label: Christophorus CHR 77147Download 1fichier gofile workuploadLa voce della passionePassion chants between theMiddle Ages & Sicilian folkloreNoemi La Terra, Lamentori di MontedoroEnsemble DonnafugataRecorded March & October 2013Label: Raumklang RK 3301Download 1fichier pixel workuploadHeinrich Isaac (c1450-1517)Missa Paschalis, with organ verses by Hans Buchner (1483-1538)Cantus Modalis, Rebecca Stewart - directionRecorded 2012/13Label: ambitus amb 96 965Download 1fichier gofile workuploadLudovico G. da Viadana (1564-1645), Franc. Soler (c1625-1688),Carlo D. Cossoni (1623-1700), Giovanni P. Cima (c1570-1622),Giovanni F. Sances (1600-1679), Giovanni M. Asola (c1532-1609),Gerolamo Ballione (1575-1608)In Musica VeritasRecorded 2011Label: Ad Vitam Records AV 120315Download 1fichier gofile workuploadHeinrich Schütz (1585-1672)Historia de Auferstehung, SWV 50And other vocal worksLa Chapelle RhénaneBenoit Haller - directionRecorded July 2007Label: K617 K617199Download […]
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