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2023-06-13 14:45:00
Così fan tutte, Grange Festival Opera, 10 June 2023
Fiordiligi – Samantha Clarke Dorabella – Kitty Whately Guglielmo – Nicholas Lester Ferrando – Alessandro Fisher Despina – Carolina Lippo Don Alfonso – Christian Senn Martin Lloyd-Evans (director) Dick Bird (designs) Johanna Town (lighting) Grange Festival Chorus (chorus master: Tom Primrose) Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits (conductor) Guglielmo (Nicholas Lester), Dorabella (Kitty Whately), Fiordiligi (Samantha Clarke), Ferrando (Alessandro Fisher)Images: Craig Fuller To Hampshire and The Grange for the second of what should for me be three productions of Così fan tutte this summer. I cannot yet comment on Munich (Benedict Andrews/Vladimir Jurowski) but Oslo (Katrine Wiedemann/Tobias Ringborg) makes for an interesting comparison. Both had good casts, though if pushed, I should say The Grange had the edge. Though there were a good few things to admire in conductor and orchestra in Oslo, here the wonderful Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and an inspired Kirill Karabits unquestionably offered the superior experience. It was, however, […]
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2018-11-23 10:33:00
Johann Sebastian Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244 – Benjamin Hulett, Griet De Geyter, Lore Binon, Tim Mead, Alex Potter, Thomas Hobbs, Charles Daniels, Andreas Wolf, Sebastian Noack – Kampen Boys Choir, Netherlands Bach Society, Jos van Veldhoven
Great soloists and choristers, the Kampen Boys Choir, the orchestra Nederlandse Bachvereniging (Netherlands Bach Society) and the Dutch conductor Jos van Veldhoven perform Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, BWV 244. Recorded at Grote Kerk, Naarden, Netherlands, on April 16 and 19, 2014.✻Betrayal, judgement and death, but above all love; although most of the words of the St Matthew Passion are almost 2000 years old, the message is still relevant today.The St Matthew Passion tells the story of the last days of Jesus. He is betrayed, tried, crucified and buried. The lyrics were compiled by Picander (the pseudonym of Christian Friedrich Henrici), probably in close consultation with Bach himself. For their theme, they took the story as told by St Matthew the Evangelist. As different groups or people have their say, the singers get different roles – Christ, Judas, Peter, a slave girl, the pupils, the high priests, the people […]
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