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2022-01-28 12:21:09
1772: A Retrospective - The Mozartist in Mozart, Haydn and more exploring the musical world of the 16-year-old composer
1772: A Retrospective - Mozart, Jommelli, Traetta, JC Bach, Gassmann, Haydn; Ian Page, The Mozartists, Chiara Skerath, Jessica Cale; Cadogan Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 27 January 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Reform is in the air: Mozart alongside music by his contemporaries from the year he turned 16It is 1772 and Mozart has just turned 16. He has an official position at the Archbishop's court in Salzburg, and a new boss, the far less relaxed Archbishop Colloredo. In Naples, Niccolo Jommelli completes his penultimate opera, Cercere placata despite having suffered a stroke, whilst in St Petersburg, Tommaso Traetta debuts his final masterpiece, Antigona. Reform is in the air. Welcome to the musical world of Ian Page and The Mozartists' 1772: A Retrospective at Cadogan Hall, with music by Mozart, Jommelli, Traetta, JC Bach, Gassmann and Haydn, with sopranos Jessica Cale and Chiara Skerath. We began with Mozart's […]
2020-05-09 09:06:14
Music aiming to deliberately provoke shock and terror: Ian Page talks about his new Sturm und Drang recording project with The Mozartists on Signum Classics
Ian Page and The Mozartists recording volume one of Sturm und Drang In the midst of their Mozart 250 project (exploring the output of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) year by year, and which this year reached 1770), Ian Page and The Mozartists are embarking on a survey of music by Mozart's contemporaries, specifically the style known as Sturm und Drang. This month [May 2020] the ensemble has the first of a planned seven Sturm und Drang discs out on Signum Classics. For the first disc, Ian and The Mozartists are joined by soprano Chiara Skerath for a programme of music by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Franz Ignaz Beck (1734-1809) and Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779). I recently chatted to Ian, via Skype, to learn more about the disc and the project, but first of all 'what is Sturm und Drang?'. Chiara […]
2019-10-22 19:45:29
Spectacular and distracting: Weber's Der Freischütz in Paris from Insula orchestra and Cie 14:20
Weber: Der Freischütz - Theatre de Champs Elysees - Photo Julien Benhamou Carl Maria von Weber Der Freischütz; Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Johanni van Oostrum, Chiara Skerath, Vladimir Baykov, Cie 14:20, Insula orchestra, Laurence Equilbey; Theatre de Champs Elysees, Paris Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 20 October 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) La magie nouvelle fails to say anything new dramatically, in a musically strong account of Weber's masterpieceI think that the last time I saw a full staging of Weber's masterpiece Der Freischütz was in 1989, with the final revival of Covent Garden's 1977 production originally directed by Götz Friedrich. Since then the opera has been a relative rarity in London, John Eliot Gardiner conducted a semi-staging of Berlioz' arrangement of the work at the Proms, Sir Colin Davis (who conducted both the 1982 and the 1989 revivals of the Covent Garden production) conducted it at the […]
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