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2022-06-01 16:58:11
Real music-making of the highest standards: the Swiss youth orchestra "il mosaico" is caught on tour in Italy by composer Edward Lambert
Jugendorchester Il Mosaico Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Brahms' Piano Concerto No 2; Liu Pinxin, Jugendorchester Il Mosaico, Hermann Ostendarp; Auditorium Sant’Agostino, Cortona, Italy Reviewed 28 May 2022, by Edward Lambert Composer Edward Lambert catches the Swiss youth orchestra, il mosaico, on tour in Italy with some impressive music making from the young players A shout out to the Youth Orchestra "il mosaico” from the St. Gallen area of Switzerland. It’s been in existence for many years and by 2000 it was acknowledged as the leading youth symphony orchestra in the country. I caught them at a recent concert in Cortona, Italy (28 May 2022) in the beautiful surroundings of the deconsecrated church of Sant’Agostino as part of an Italian tour that had been arranged to replace one to Ukraine. This bunch of excellent young musicians are nothing if not enterprising: a previous exchange with the Chamber Music Centre of New York resulted in […]
2020-11-25 08:58:24
Beautifully conceived and performed: La vanita del mondo, Philippe Jaroussky and Ensemble Artaserse in Italian oratorio arias
La vanita del mondo - Italian oratorio arias; Philippe Jaroussky, Ensemble Artaserse; ERATO Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 November 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The French counter-tenor moves from Baroque opera to oratorio in a recital disc full of delightsOn this lovely disc, La vanita de mondo on Erato, counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky turns his attention away from Baroque opera to oratorio with a selection of arias from late 17th and 18th century Italian Oratorios. With Ensemble Artaserse, Jaroussky sings arias from Pietro Torri's Abramo and La vanita del mondo, Alessandro Scarlatti's La Giuditta, Fortunato Chelleri's Dio sul Sinai, Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, Antonio Caldara's Assalone, Santa Ferma and Morte e sepultura di Christo, Antonio Maria Bonocini's La decollazione di San Giovanni Battista, Nicola Faco's Il faraone sommerso, Johann Adolph Hasse's La conversione di Sant'Agostino, and Benedetto Marcello's La Giuditta. The recording […]
2013-06-14 22:47:19
I'm getting excited now !
This picture was taken of our group following our final rehearsal together before we leave. As Sunday approaches, I am starting to get really excited about our Italian adventure :) At the RCS during my first year I have studied with many talented students and one of those students is Max Fane the conductor and organiser of the trip. Here is some information if you happen to be in Florence, Mercatale, Citta’ di Castllo, and Cortona area next week ‘Four years ago, in September 2009, I put on our first impromptu concert in the village of Mercatle. Such was the success of the event that the following two years, the group Dieci Cantabile returned officially under my direction to the Italian Hills and performed in a series of concert for two summers running. Having lived near Preggio for all of my life, performing in many concerts […]
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