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2023-09-20 18:16:00
San Francisco Opera Opening Concert
Aleksandra Kurzak and Roberto AlagnaSFO opening night concertPhoto: Cory Weaver/San Francisco OperaStarting in 2021, San Francisco Opera switched from programming an opera for opening night to programming a concert. The last two years were great; 2021 featured the dynamic duo of Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Jamie Barton in a richly varied and delightful program; last year featured a bunch of different singers doing their thing, mostly marvelously. This year, we got returning soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and, in what Matthew Shilvock termed "a long overdue debut", Kurzak's husband, tenor Roberto Alagna.Alagna, you might or might not know, has been making headlines since the mid-1990s: the tragedy of his first wife's early death, leaving him a widower with a small daughter; his romance with soprano Angela Gheorghiu and their marriage on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera house, with officiant Rudy Giuliani, back in the days when Giuliani was hated for fewer reasons than now; the tempestuous […]
2022-10-03 16:42:40
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2022-07-21 05:01:00
New Releases, No. 33 (CD reviews)
Prism IV: Danish String Quartet. Bach: Fugue in G minor, BWV 861; Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor op. 132; Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor op. 13. Danish String Quartet (Frederik Øland, violin; Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin; Asbjørn Nørgaard, viola; Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin, cello). ECM New Series 2564.By Karl W. NehringMy first encounter with the late string quartets of Beethoven – which was also my first encounter with string quartets, period (I had heard the were the pinnacle of the string quartet repertoire, and figured I might as well start with the very best, right?) – was a box set of LPs by the Yale Quartet on the Vanguard label that I picked up at a discount sale price during my last term as an undergraduate student. I was, as we often said in those days, “blown away” by the music emanating from my then-new Polk […]
2022-04-03 04:12:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 3, 2022
[…] have played in composition and performance throughout the centuries.”Tickets will go on sale to the public on April 11.The full schedule is available at https://newportclassical.org/--Christina Jensen, Jensen ArtistsDanish Quartet North American TourThe Grammy-nominated Danish String Quartet (DSQ), widely acclaimed for impeccable musicianship, sophisticated artistry, and daring programming, returns to North America with the second round of their ambitious four-year international commissioning project, DOPPELGÄNGER. The project, launched in 2021, pairs world premieres from four renowned composers—Bent Sørensen, Lotta Wennäkoski, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Thomas Adès—with four major works from the masterful chamber music repertoire of Franz Schubert. Each concert is built around the new work and its "doppelgänger"—the Schubert quartet or quintet that inspired it. The DOPPELGÄNGER pieces are commissioned by the Danish String Quartet with the support of Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures, Vancouver Recital Society, Flagey in Brussels, and Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam.DOPPELGÄNGER 2World Premiere by […]
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