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2017-07-25 20:34:04
Soul of the Statues: Music for clarinet
Atem Der Statuen (Soul/breath of the statues) German Romantic Music for Clarinet and Piano. Berg: Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5 Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 120 No. 2 Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120 No. 1 Koch, S-I: Hommages for clarinet and piano Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 Performed by Chen Halevi (clarinet), and Noam Greenberg (piano) This new recording begins and ends with the two amazing sonatas for clarinet and piano by Johannes Brahms. These two sonatas represent a high point of 19th century German Romanticism at its most mature stage, and are here given a thoughtful, fresh and exciting new interpretation by clarinettist Chen Halevi and pianist Noam Greenberg. The Brahms sonatas are partnered with Schumann’s Fantasiestucke, which set off this musical journey through German Romanticism, and which stand at the heart […]
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Royal Opera House
2017-04-18 12:02:13
Opera Essentials: Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel
[…] is a fascinating collage of different musical styles. Particularly notable are the increasingly distorted Viennese waltzes (which Adès associates with elegant social ritual and its gradual dissolution), the thundering drums in the Act I interlude (based on a Holy Week ritual from Buñuel’s home town ), the piano variations in Act I based on a Ladino song and Leticia’s virtuoso coloratura aria in Act III, a setting of a 12th-century text by the philosopher-poet Yehuda Halevi . The eerie sound of the ondes martenot represents the strange force that keeps the guests trapped in the room. Meticulously detailed Thomas Adès and his librettist Tom Cairns condense some of Buñuel’s action and amalgamate several characters, yet remain remarkably faithful to the film’s scenario – even to the arrival of the bear and sheep. Hildegard Bechtler ’s designs combine the film’s art deco glamour with a stark set whose towering arch represents […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-09-02 16:32:05
The composer who refused to play the Soviet game
I have just heard Elena Bashkirova perform a trio by Galina Ustvolskaya with Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) and Chen Halevi (clarinet) – an experience so marvellous and bewildering that I had to take a walk afterwards to clear my head. The music is just as confusing to the musicians, apparently simple on the page but with bold rhythmic diversions and sheer silence, infused with a rage that musty have been as much personal as it was political. Ustvolskaya lived a hermit life in Leningrad, refusing to open her door to visitors. The student closest to Shostakovich (he wanted to marry her), she was devoutly religious and completely unafraid. Ten years after her death, her music is only now beginning to be understood. You must hear some. It so happens that her piano concerto is the Lebrecht Album of the Week. Read here. Or here.
2016-07-11 23:43:00
[…] not an isolated concert, but as they change chameleon-like, there´s no such thing with this ensemble as a steady trio, quartet or quintet; what matters, though, is what they bring to us. In this instance, it was a clever and intelligent combination of textures between piano, clarinet, violin and cello. The other players were Chen Halevi, clarinet, from Israel; Mihaela Martin, violin, Romanian; and Frans Helmerson, cello, Swedish. Two of them (the strings, of course) are part of the Michelangelo Quartet. All have wide experience in chamber music. The programme was long (about a hundred minutes) and valid, placing two great Twentieth Century composers (Hindemith and Bartók) between two masters […]
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