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+••.••(...)) Carl Friedrich Abel: Sonata in e minor for Bassoon and Harp. (Original for Viola Da Gamba) Arranged and performed for Bassoon and Mac Playback Harp by Robert Rønnes, 1st June 2013. / About the composer: ( From Wikipedia) Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 / 20 June 1787)[1] was a German composer of the Classical era. (The Chambers Biographical Dictionary gives his year of birth erroneusly as 1725.)[2] He was a renown player of the viola da gamba, and composed important music for that instrument. Abel was born in Köthen, the son of Christian Ferdinand Abel, the principal viola da gamba and cello player in the court orchestra. In 1723 Abel senior became director of the orchestra, when the previous director, Johann Sebastian Bach moved to Leipzig. The young Abel later boarded at Leipzig's Thomaschule, where he was taught by Bach. On Bach's recommendation in 1748 he was able to join Johann Adolph Hasse's court orchestra at Dresden where he remained for ten years. In 1759 (or 1758 according to Chambers),he went to England and became chamber-musician to Queen Charlotte. He gave a concert of his own compositions in London, performing on various instruments, one of which was a five-string cello known as a pentachord, which had been recently invented by John Joseph Merlin. In 1762, Johann Christian Bach, the eleventh son of J.S. Bach, joined him in London, and the friendship between him and Abel led, in 1764 or 1765, to the establishment of the famous Bach-Abel concerts, England's first subscription concerts. In those concerts, many celebrated guest artists appeared, and many works of Haydn received their first English performance. For ten years the concerts were organized by Mrs. Theresa Cornelys, a retired Venetian opera singer who owned a concert hall at Carlisle House in Soho Square, then the height of fashionable events. In 1775 the concerts became independent of her, to be continued by Abel and Bach until Bach's death in 1782. Abel still remained in great demand as a player on various instruments new and old. He traveled to Germany and France between 1782 and 1785, and upon his return to London, became a leading member of the Grand Professional Concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms in Soho. Throughout his life he had enjoyed excessive living, and his drinking probably hastened his death, which occurred in London on 20 June 1787. One of Abel's works became famous due to a misattribution: in the 19th century, a manuscript symphony in the hand of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was catalogued as his Symphony no. 3 in E flat, K. 18, and was published as such in the first complete edition of Mozart's works by Breitkopf & Härtel. Later, it was discovered that this symphony was actually the work of Abel, copied by the boy Mozart—evidently for study purposes—while he was visiting London in 1764. That symphony was originally published as the concluding work in Abel's Six Symphonies, Op. 7.
Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin Clarke Bourdon Dmitri Usatov Gounod Sergei Rachmaninoff Mussorgsky Boito Arturo Toscanini Sir Thomas Beecham Pabst Private Opera Bolshoi Theatre Scala Metropolitan Opera 1847 1872 1873 1894 1896 1899 1901 1907 1913 1914 1918 1921 1926 1927 1929 1931 1932 1933 1937 1938 1943 1984
Feodor Chaliapin sings - in English - 'The Blind Ploughman,' with orchestra conducted by Rosario Bourdon, recorded by Victor in the Church Building at Camden, New Jersey, on 18 March 1927. From Wikipedia: Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin... February 13 [O.S. February 1] 1873 – April 12, 1938) was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form... Feodor Chaliapin was born into a peasant family...His vocal teacher was Dmitri Usatov +••.••(...)). Chaliapin began his career at Tbilisi and at the Imperial Opera in Saint Petersburg in 1894. He was then invited to sing at the Mamontov Private Opera (1896–1899); he first appeared there as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust, in which role he achieved considerable success. At Mamontov Chaliapin met Sergei Rachmaninoff +••.••(...)), who was serving as an assistant conductor there and with whom he remained friends for life. Rachmaninoff taught him much about musicianship, including how to analyze a music score, and insisted that Chaliapin learn not only his own roles but also all the other roles in the operas in which he was scheduled to appear. With Rachmaninoff he learned the title role of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, which became his signature character. Chaliapin returned the favour by showing Rachmaninoff how he built each of his interpretations around a culminating moment or 'point.' Regardless of where that point was or at which dynamic within that piece, the performer had to know how to approach it with absolute calculation and precision; otherwise, the whole construction of the piece could crumble and the piece could become disjointed. Rachmaninoff put this approach to considerable use when he became a full-time concert-pianist after World War I. On the strength of his Mamontov appearances, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow engaged Chaliapin, and he appeared there regularly from 1899 until 1914. During the First World War of 1914-1918 Chaliapin also appeared regularly at the Zimin Private Opera in Moscow. In addition, from 1901, Chaliapin began touring in the West, making a sensational debut at La Scala that year as the devil in a production of Boito's Mefistofele, under the baton of one of the 20th century's most dynamic opera conductors, Arturo Toscanini. At the end of his career, Toscanini observed that the Russian bass was the greatest operatic talent with whom he had ever worked. The singer's Metropolitan Opera debut in the 1907 season was disappointing due to the unprecedented frankness of his stage acting; but he returned to the Met in 1921 and sang there with immense success for eight seasons, New York's audiences having grown more broad-minded since 1907. In 1913 Chaliapin was introduced to London and Paris by the brilliant entrepreneur Sergei Diaghilev +••.••(...)), at which point he began giving well-received solo recitals in which he sang traditional Russian folk-songs as well as more serious fare... Chaliapin toured Australia in 1926, giving a series of recitals which were highly acclaimed...[He remained] perpetually outside Russia after 1921. He still maintained, however, that he was not anti-Soviet. Chaliapin initially moved to Finland and later lived in France. Cosmopolitan Paris, with its significant Russian émigré population, became his base, and ultimately, the city of his death. He was renowned for his larger-than-life carousing during this period, but he never sacrificed his dedication to his art. Chaliapin's attachment to Paris did not prevent him from pursuing an international operatic and concert career in England, the United States, and further afield. In May 1931 he appeared in the Russian Season directed by Sir Thomas Beecham at London's Lyceum Theatre. His most famous part was the title role of Boris Godunov (excerpts of which he recorded 1929–31 and earlier)... Largely owing to his advocacy, Russian operas...became well known in the West. Chaliapin made one sound film for the director G. W. Pabst, the 1933 Don Quixote. The film was made in three different versions – French, English, and German, as was sometimes the prevailing custom. Chaliapin starred in all three versions, each of which used the same script, sets, and costumes, but different supporting casts... In 1932, Chaliapin published a memoir, Man and Mask: Forty Years in the Life of a Singer... Chaliapin's last stage performance took place at the Monte Carlo Opera in 1937, as Boris. He died the following year of leukaemia, aged 65, in Paris, where he was interred. In 1984, his remains were transferred from Paris to Moscow in an elaborate ceremony. They were re-buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery... I transferred this side from an Australian laminated pressing of HMV DA 993.
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Rachmaninov Natalia Iretskaya Pauline Viardot Fyodor Chaliapin Scala Covent Garden
Oda Slobodskaya sings "The Lilac" by Rachmaninov, one of many songs in her extensive Russian repertoire. Slobodskaya was born in Vilno and studied in the St Petersburg Conservatoire. Her teacher was the formidable Natalia Iretskaya, a pupil of Pauline Viardot Garcia. She was chosen by Fyodor Chaliapin to be Elisabetta in Don Carlos, opposite his King Philip, when he brought his opera Company to Paris and London in the 1920s. She later settled in England and enjoyed a major international career, singing at La Scala and Covent Garden as well as touring South America. In later years she was famous, and much loved, as a recitalist and definitive interpreter of Russian song. She was a fine teacher, at both the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School, and continued to give lecture recitals up to the last year of her life.
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