Carl Friedrich Zelter News
German composer (1758-1832)
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Jet Set - Classical Glitterati (Simon Murphy, New Dutch Academy Chamber Orchestra)
Carl Friedrich Zelter (1758-1832)Viola Concerto in E-Flat majorCarl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)Symphony in C major, Op. 14 No. 1, WKO 25Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 14 No. 2, WKO 26Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492 - Deh vieni, non tardarJohann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814) Symphony in G majorStephen Storace (1762-1796)The Siege of Belgrade - Domestic Peace, my Soul's DesireGiovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) [Flac & Scans]L'amor contrastato ''La molinara'' - Nel cor piu non mi sentoSimon Murphy, New Dutch Academy Chamber Orchestra(Period Instruments)Pentatone PTC 5186 787 (2019)
2022-01-10 08:27:05
[…] At Alexandra Palace Theatre on Sunday 23 January 2022, with soloists Julia Doyle, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Ronald Samm and Ashley Riches they will be performing Felix Mendelssohn dramatic cantata Die erste Walpurgisnacht along with his setting of Psalm 42 and his chorale cantata Vom Himmel hoch. Alongside these will be Fanny Mendelssohn's cantata Hiob (Job) and her part-song, Lockung. Felix's Die erste Walpurgisnacht sets a poem by Goethe. Goethe wrote it to be set to music but his friend Carl Zelter had two goes (in 1799 and 1812) and failed, it would be the young Felix who set it in 1833. His large-scale setting of Psalm 42 dates from 1838; setting Luther's German translation of the Biblical text, the piece is one of a number of psalm settings that Felix wrote both for unaccompanied choir and for choir, soli and orchestra. In the late 1820 and early 1830s, Felix wrote a series of small scale […]
2021-12-15 08:18:32
Meyerbeer's first opera, written when he was just 21, is finally available in a modern recording that enables us to begin to appreciate what we've been missing
Meyerbeer Jephtas Gelübde; Sönke Tams Freier, Andrea Chudak, Markus Elsäßer, Laurence Kalaidjian, Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, Dario Salvi; Naxos Music Library Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 December 2021 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) Meyerbeer's first opera, written when he had just turned twenty, finally recorded in a performance that allows us to appreciate the imagination of the workGiacomo Meyerbeer was talented young and coming from a wealthy Berlin Jewish family, the Beers [see my review of Elaine Thornton's book, Giacomo Meyerbeer and his family: Between two worlds], he received great encouragement and support from his family. Having studied with Antonio Salieri and Carl Friedrich Zelter, at the age of 19 in 1810 he went for formal lessons with Abbé Vogler at Darmstadt, where fellow students included Carl Maria von Weber (who would become a friend and supporter), some five years older then Meyerbeer. The time with Vogler was important for Meyerbeer, […]
2021-04-06 19:57:34
The 2021 Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, in Easton, Maryland, announced its four final-round candidates. The finalists are: AYA Piano Trio Dior Quartet Soma Quartet Zelter String Quartet The 2021 preselection jury comprised Catherine Cho, Adrian Morejon, Tara Helen O’Connor, Todd Phillips, Marcy Rosen, and Diane Walsh. The 2021 final round jury will comprise J. Lawrie […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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