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A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
Members of Vache Baroque and lutenist Kristiina Watt rehearsing at St John's Smith Square (Photo: The Musicians' Photographer)A Baroque Hanukkah: Salmone Rossi, Thomas Campion, Heinrich Schütz, John Farmer, Francesco Cavalli, Henry Purcell, Thomas Ravenscroft, Thomas Weelkes; Vache Baroque, La Vaghezza; St John's Smith SquareReviewed 13 December 2023The culmination of Vache Baroque's celebrations of Salomone Rossi paired his Hebrew-texted psalm settings with music of his contemporaries in wonderfully engaged performances highlighting Rossi's distinctive place in the musical universeIn 1623, the Italian Jewish violinist and composer, Salomone Rossi, achieved an ambition that had been germinating since around 1610, when he published, השירים אשר לשלמה (Hashirim Asher leShlomo, The Songs of Solomon), a collection of Jewish liturgical texts in Hebrew set to polyphonic music in the modern Baroque tradition with little connection to the tradition of Jewish cantorial music. The result is a work of remarkable cultural synthesis. The name is also a […]
2022-07-18 05:27:00
Telemann: Viola Concertos (CD review)
Overtures-Fantasias. Antoine Tamestit, viola; Sabine Fehlandt, viola; Bernhard Forck, Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin. Harmonia Mundi HMM 902342.By John J. PuccioIf you’re like me, you will immediately recognize the name of German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) but probably have trouble remembering anything he wrote. Alas, it is sometimes the fate of famous people who are perhaps more famous for their name alone than anything they actually did. The fact is, however, that Telemann was one of the most prolific composers of the Baroque age, maybe in all history, having written hundreds, if not thousands, of works. What’s more, he was a close friend of both J.S. Bach and Handel, and today he has a whole museum in Hamburg dedicated to him.On the present disc, violist Antoine Tamestit with the Academy for Ancient Music Berlin under the direction of Bernhard Forck (and alongside violist Sabine Fehlandt in a couple […]
2020-04-27 05:22:00
B2C: Bach to Choir (CD review)
Suites for Solo Cello Nos. 1 & 3, with choir. Sophie Webber, cello; Members of the Choir of the Ascension, Chicago. Sheringham Records.Sophie Webber is a British cellist now residing in San Diego, California. She recorded her debut album of the Bach Cello Suites in 2018 and titled it "Escape." Now, for something slightly different, Ms. Webber presents an unusual view of the suites, this time for cello and accompanying choir. On the present disc, she plays Suites 1 and 3 with choral arrangements of her own design. Given that every cellist who has ever lived during the age of recordings has already made an album of the Bach suites, including Ms. Webber herself, the novelty (and beauty) of offering them with vocal augmentation seems inspired. The results are lovely. The exact dates Bach wrote the suites is unclear, but it was probably somewhere between 1817-23. One thing that is […]
2019-08-20 21:59:00
Simon Rattle's musical challenge : Koechlin, Varèse and William Walton
Sir Simon Rattle, photo : Doug Peters Simon Rattle Prom with the London Symphony Orchestra, programmed with typical intelligence - Koechlin, Edgard Varèse and Walton's Belshazzar's Feast. Disparate pieces that did work together in context, enlivened by a conductor with a genuinely inquisitive musical mind. What does Charles Koechlin's Les Badar-log op 176 (1939-40) have in common with Edgard Varèse's Amériques ? and with William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast op Koechlin was bitter that the world had moved on, nearly 40 years after Debussy and Stravinsky. The racist implications of the piece are never far away. In Rudyard Kipling's poems, the monkeys of Bandar-log are scrawny - brown - upstarts - put in their place by a bullying bear. Koechlin's subtitle "the scherzo of the monkeys " isn't mant to be Disney-cute, it's a scherzo. Some composers of Koechlin's period blamed modernity on Jews, (Schoenberg and oddly enough Kurt […]
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