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French opera singer (1864-1954)
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2023-10-16 17:31:00
BPO/Hrůša - Dvořák, 13 October 2023
Philharmonie Dvořák: Stabat Mater, op.58Corinne Winters (soprano)Marvic Monreal (mezzo-soprano)David Butt Philip (tenor)Matthew Rose (bass)Rundfunkchor Berlin (chorus director: Gijs Leenaars)Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraJakub Hrůša (conductor) © Bettina Stöß / Berliner PhilharmonikerDvořák’s Stabat Mater is clearly a favourite work for Jakub Hrůša. Six years ago he conducted it in this same hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; in 2023, it was the turn of the Berlin Philharmonic. Hrůša has called the piece a ‘wonderful gift’; he, a fine team of soloists, chorus, and orchestra in turn offered a wonderful gift to the audience with this performance. If the work, like many others, is not without unevenness, much of it has the composer firing on all cylinders. At a time when, even by current standards, our world is overwhelmed with grief, it will surely have spoken clearly and directly to many. It certainly did so to me. A first movement of quite extraordinary power did […]
2023-07-06 23:07:00
Wigmore HallMass for 4 voices, with the Propers for the Feast of Easter Day Mass for 3 voices, with the Propers for the Feast of Corpus Christi Mass for 5 voices, with the Propers for the Feast of All Saints The Cardinall’s MusickAndrew Carwood (director) On 4 July 1623, William Byrd’s long, turbulent life ended in the Essex village of Stondon Massey, to which he had semi-retired almost thirty years earlier. Four hundred years later, the Wigmore Hall and The Cardinall’s Musick commemorated that death with performances of the three mass settings he wrote for private, recusant performance during that ‘retirement’, as published in three pamphlets printed by Thomas East between 1592 and 1595, supplemented by polyphonic settings of seasonal Propers from the two books of Gradualia (1605 and 1607). Knowing that these were probably the first English mass settings composed since the 1550s only added to the sense of […]
2021-06-05 15:00:12
Billy Budd
Performance from March 8, 1997. Steuart Bedford; Philip Langridge (Captain Vere), Dwayne Croft (Billy Budd), James Morris (Claggart), Victor Braun (Mr. Redburn), Julien Robbins (Lt. Ratcliffe), James Courtney (Mr. Flint), Paul Plishka (Dansker)
2021-04-06 10:42:53
Music of sundrie sorts, and to content divers humours: Byrd's 1588 'Psalmes, Sonets & songs of sadness and pietie' in its first complete recording
William Byrd Psalmes, Sonets & songs of sadness and pietie ; Grace Davidson, Martha McLorinan, Nicholas Todd, Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner; INVENTA Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 6 April 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Byrd's 1588 publication consort and vocal music represents the diversity of the composer's talent in this, the first complete recording of the setIn the late 1580s and early 1590s, William Byrd published four collections of his music which between them demonstrate his range. The two volumes of Cantiones Sacrae (from 1589 and 1591) consist of 37 Latin motets, many complex and large scale and setting texts which would speak particularly to persecuted Catholics and being largely non-liturgical may have been seen by cultured Protestants as a form of vocal chamber music. In parallel there were two collections of English consort songs and madrigals, Psalmes, Sonets & songs of sadness and pietie (1588) and Songs […]
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