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2022-03-19 04:18:00
JoAnn Falletta to Conduct Three World Premiere PerformancesThe Buffalo Philharmonic led by JoAnn Falletta will perform three world premieres commissioned by the orchestra this Spring at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York: Kenneth Fuchs’s Point of Tranquility (Sat. Mar. 19 & Sun. Mar. 20), inspired by abstract expressionism; Russell Platt’s Symphony in Three Movements (For Clyfford Still), (Sat. Apr. 23 & Sun. Apr. 24), a musical interpretation of abstract impressionist works by Still that hang in Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Wang Jie’s The Winter that United Us (Sat. June 11), celebrating the City of Buffalo. The BPO opened the season in September with the world premiere of Daren Hagen’s Bandana Overture.Falletta, who has garnered international praise as an advocate of new and lesser-known music, has introduced over five hundred works by American composers, including well over 100 world premieres. She remarks “Orchestral music is a beautiful continuum, stretching back over three centuries […]
2022-01-31 05:29:00
[…] emotional contrasts, some music scholars consider it an important forerunner of Romanticism.Whatever, Ms. Falletta’s way with Haydn is much in the manner of the rest of the program. She handles it with great confidence in an easygoing, cultivated performance that is bigger on tenderness and compassion than it is on excitement or thrills. It makes a fine and fitting conclusion to an album that glows with affection.Producer and engineer Bernd Gottinger recorded the music at Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York in 2020 and 2021. The sound is plush, warm, and comfortable, about what you would hear from the audience’s perspective at a medium distance in a concert hall. There is a pleasant, ambient glow around the music that is most flattering.JJPTo listen to a brief excerpt from this album, click below:
2021-08-16 04:04:00
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (CD review)
[…] he didn’t play them in the order Vivaldi did; he organized them as “Otoño” (Autumn), “Invierno” (Winter), “Primavera” (Spring), and “Verano” (Summer). More often, though, contemporary musicians order as they are here: Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Spring. Ms. Falletta uses an orchestral arrangement by Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov, with violin solos by Tessa Lark. It’s quite the best I’ve heard these works done, particularly the haunting “Winter” selection.Producer Bernd Gottinger made the recording live at Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York in September and October, 2020. Yes, the box says “recorded live” in 2020, during the height of the pandemic. One must assume the audience observed social distancing, so there couldn’t have many in attendance. This is supported by the fact that we hear nary a peep from them, and any applause that may have been there was edited out. Everything is dead quiet. Nor is it as closely miked […]
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