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Virtuosity and Protest: Frederic Rzewski's Songs of Insurrection receives its first recording
[…] the song (with different words) also became a rallying cry for anti-Fascist Italian partisans The spiritual, Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'round which developed into a freedom anthem of the American civil rights movement in the 1960s Irish Republicans fighting for Irish independence used The Foggy Dew, not the English folk-song but a song about the 1916 Easter Uprising with a melody based on a traditional Irish song Zeca Alfonso's 1971 song Grandola, Vila Morena, which had been banned by the Portuguese regime, was broadcast on 25 April 1974 as a sign to begin the pro-democracy Carnation Revolution in Portual During the Spanish Civil War the song Los Cuatro Generales, which was based on a popular version of a song by Federico Garcia Lorca, vowed fearless resistance to Fascist attacks The oldest song in this list, Oh Bird, Oh Bird, Oh Roller arose with the Gabo Peasant Revolt […]
2019-01-28 06:17:00
Volver (CD review)
Placido Domingo; Pablo Sainz-Villegas, guitar. Sony Classical 88985416852.As one of the world's greatest tenors has aged (as of this writing, Placido Domingo was seventy-seven), he hasn't slowed down. True, he's now singing mostly popular rather than operatic material, and he's matured into more of a baritone range than tenor, but the voice is still rich and robust. This time out, he's doing mainly famous Iberian and Latin America songs, accompanied by Spanish classical guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas, who also does three guitar solos during the program. This is Sainz-Vellegas's first album for Sony, by the way, and somewhere around the eight-hundred-and-first album for Domingo on a variety of labels. Here's the track list: 1. Carrillo: Sabor a mí 2. Cardenas: Nunca 3. Assad: Valeria's Bossa - guitar solo 4. Ferrao: Coimbra 5. Saavedera: Adiós Granada 6. Mangore: Una limosna por el amor de Dios - […]
2016-08-18 16:02:23
La Duchesse s’amuse
As promised, “Trove Thursday” offers Don Quichotte chez la duchesse, a second nearly unknown opera based on Cervantes’ towering literary masterpiece. Joseph Bodin de Boismortier’s 1743 opéra-ballet features Felicity Palmer and Philip Langridge and is conducted by Roger Norrington. Francesco Conti’s Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena, conducted by René Jacobs who returns tonight to New York for the first time in a decade to lead Idomeneo at Alice Tully Hall, is well over three hours long and full of elaborate seria-like arias. On the other hand, Boismortier’s sparkling work is less than 80 minutes and with lots of charming dance music. Don Quichotte seemed to drop into obscurity again after this British performance from the early 1970s until French conductor Hervé Niquet and his Le Concert Spirituel revived it a few years ago. Their vulgar, over-the-top production, much performed and now available on DVD , is far from my […]
2016-07-11 23:48:00
August 18, 1991. First performance at the Colón of the revival of Mozart´s "The Marriage of Figaro" in a new production by Sergio Renán. An Argentine-Spanish cast except for the Countess: a beautiful young American called Renée Fleming at the start of her international career. With a crystalline lyric soprano timbre and impeccable line, she proved to be a charming actress as well. Unfortunately, that was her only operatic role in BA. We missed her in such operas as Massenet´s "Thaïs" and Dvorák´s "Rusalka", but especially in Straussian parts (the Marschallin in "Der Rosenkavalier", Arabella, the Countess in "Capriccio"), for she was a leading interpreter of all the mentioned operas. It´s useless to speculate about the reasons, but the Colón has had strong ups […]
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