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2020-02-03 00:00:00
Koechlin - Grainger - The Jungle Book
Charles KOECHLIN (1867-1950) Le Livre de la jungle 1. La Loi de la jungle 2. Les Bandar-Log 3. Berceuse phoque 4. Chanson de nuit dans la jungle 5. Chant de Kala Nag 6. La Méditation de Purun Bhagat 7. La Course de printemps Iris Vermillion (mezzo) Jacque Trussel (ten) Vincent le Texier (bar) Choeur des Opéras de Montpellier Orchestra Philharmonique de Languedoc-Roussillon/Steuart Bedford rec. live, 22 July 1998, Opéra Berlioz-Le Corum ADD ACTES SUD 2000 The valuable series of CDs from the enlightened French publishing house Actes Sud is beginning to makes its way beyond France. The notes in the present case are entirely in French with no translations. The jewel box is forgotten for a change and instead, and this is becoming something of a French hallmark, we get a stiff card folder into which the booklet notes are glued and two CD mounting stems on fold-outs. The […]
2019-10-07 14:27:00
Review: the Hallé in Berlioz' Roméo et Juliette, Bridgewater Hall
Without Sir Mark Elder, and without Alice Coote and Paul Nilon, the originally advertised mezzo and tenor soloists, the Hallé performance of Berlioz’ Roméo et Juliette was still a magnificent undertaking and magnificently accomplished.Julie Boulianne, the French-Canadian mezzo who sang Marguerite for Glyndebourne’s The Damnation of Faust and Mary for the Hallé’s Proms performance of The Childhood of Christ in the summer, became Juliette and the widely experienced tenor Yann Beuron her Roméo: Laurent Naouri took the bass-baritone role of Friar Lawrence as advertised.And Ludovic Morlot stepped in as maestro. It’s a strange and sprawling work, almost proto-Wagnerian in its combination of programme-symphony and quasi-opera (Berlioz called it a ‘dramatic symphony’), and the dramatic element in it is the key to its successful realization.What came across most impressively in this performance was the quality of the preparation done by the ‘home’ teams of Hallé Choir, Royal Northern College of Music […]
2019-09-03 11:22:36
A dazzling carnival erupts onto the stage and we don't want it to stop: Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini at the BBC Proms
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Duncan Meadows, Monteverdi Choir - BBC Proms (Photo BBC / Chris Christodoulou) Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini; Michael Spyres, Sophia Burgos, Lionel Lhote, Adèle Charvet, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 2 September 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Berlioz' complex yet engaging opera erupts onto the Royal Albert Hall stage in a carnivalesque manner, but with a thrilling attention to detail Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini - Michael Spyres, Tareq Nazmi, Adèle Charvet - BBC Proms (Photo BBC / Chris Christodoulou) Berlioz' Benvenuto Cellini is quite rarity on UK stages, Covent Garden last performed it in 1976 and English National Opera performed it for the first time in 2014 (in Terry Gilliam's riotous production), and yet the opera never quite goes away either. Chelsea Opera Group has performed it at least twice, Sir Colin Davis persuaded […]
2019-04-15 03:30:00
Cassandra - Gnecchi - World Première
Vittorio Gnecchi (1876-1954) Cassandra Denia Mazzola-Gavazzeni, Tea Demurishvili, Alberto Cupido Arnold Kocharyan, Nikola Mijailovic, Pierre Lebon Latvian Radio Chorus Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon dir: Enrique Diemecke Agora Musica (2000) AG 260.2 DDD 2 CDs (excellent sound) Rec.live RadioFrance, July 13, 2000 at Opéra Berlioz-Le Corum [flac & cue, cover, inlays, booklet & disc scans] Review "Vittorio Gnecchi's Cassandra initially seemed headed for certain success. Toscanini himself conducted the 1905 Bologna premiere, but the Byzantine machinations of Italian musical politics foreshortened the piece's Italian performance history, and forced Toscanini to break off relations with the composer. The occasion of Salome's 1906 Italian debut inadvertently set the stage for a scandal, when Gnecchi offered Richard Strauss the piano-vocal score of Cassandra. When both Cassandra and Strauss's new Elektra both were performed in Dresden during the 1908-9 season, "surprising similarities" (as the booklet puts it) were noted between the […]
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