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2023-12-30 09:32:00
2023 in concert reviews: Gavin Higgins x2, Allan Clayton's Samson, Reginald Mobley in Bayreuth, the Pink Singers & Brixton Chamber Orchestra both party and Bitches Brew is back
[…] of Ancient Music for Handel's Samson at the Proms. We heard Bach's St Matthew Passion with the choir of Kings College, London and Bach's Easter Oratorio from Florilegium. Vox Luminis brought sheer musicality to Bach's Mass in B minor. Other Early Music included Figure's imaginative staging of Buxtehude's remarkable Membra Jesu Nostri. At the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, countertenor Reginald Mobley gave us Purcell, rare Handel cantatas and Ignatius Sancho.Jérémie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie combined the music of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn with the texts that inspired them. Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake enchanted in songs by Robert & Clara Schumann, Schubert, Henze and Mahler all setting texts by Rückert. Nigel Foster's London Song Festival presented the world premiere of Granville Bantock's remarkable Oscar Wilde setting, The Sphinx.Colin Currie and the BBC Concert Orchestra celebrated The Beano including the premiere of a new concerto by Gavin Higgins, and we […]
2023-12-25 04:30:00
Our Favorite Christmas Recordings (CD Reviews)
[…] DE 3132. Not the complete ballet, of course, but it’s amazing how well Tchaikovsky’s music can be adapted beyond its original orchestral context. Four guitars allow real exploration of the Harmonies that were in the orchestral version, but with completely different balances, each line winding its way through a unified whole. The playing is first rate, as is the Delos audiophile-grade sound. Nutcracker Suite as arranged by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn; played by the Harmonie Ensemble of New York, conducted by Steve Richmond. Harmonia Mundi HMU 907493. Seventeen tracks of syncopated enjoyment. Ellington and Strayhorn work their magic in (re)arranging the originals into a jazzy suite, here played by an excellent big band. (Alas, it appears that the Harmonie Ensemble is now defunct.) Just the thing to cap the holidays and send us off in rousing style! Bryan Geyer's Christmas FavoritesI'm unable to pick any particular recording, but these […]
2022-12-06 05:00:00
Spontini: Olimpie (Jérémie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie)
Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851)Olimpie, Opera in Two Acts (2nd version - 1826)Jérémie Rhorer, Le Cercle de l'Harmonie(Period Instruments)Ediciones Singulares ES 1035 (2019) [2-Disc set][Flac & Scans]
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