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2021-06-19 06:41:08
Directing the Don and discovering Dido: I chat to director Jack Furness in advance of his production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Nevill Holt Opera
[…] feels that his whole attitude to the process of making opera has changed, and now it is about joy and fun in the rehearsal room, enjoying the incredible music, the amazing stories and the raw energy of someone getting on stage and acting it out. Then he smiles and adds, 'see how long it lasts!'Coming up, Jack has several plans bubbling away. He is directing a site-specific production of of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, with David Kempster in the title role, at Børsen (the 17th century Stock Exchange) in Copenhagen, Denmark for the Copenhagen Opera Festival in August. There are also a lot of plans with Shadwell Opera, including several digital commissions and commissioning a new opera which they are planning to produce in 2023. Having formed the Shadwell: Ensemble there are plans for a concert in July. And he feels that during the past year he has been lucky to […]
2020-12-17 20:16:00
In praise of well-recorded Beethoven
[…] from outside the incestuous celebrity circuit. The Van Baerle Trio is a young Amsterdam-based piano trio founded by pianist Hannes Minnaar, violinist Maria Milstein and cellist Gideon den Herder in 2004. Its members met whilst studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, a stone‘s throw from the Concertgebouw which they now consider their musical home. The Trio's survey of Beethoven's Complete Works for Piano Trio for Channel Classics has attracted rave reviews. In Fanfare Magazine William Kempster described their interpretation of the underrated Triple Concerto with Jan Willem de Vriend conducting the Residentie Orkest The Hague as "by a staggering margin the finest performance and recording of this masterpiece that has ever been put down", and their Archduke "as the greatest recording that piece had ever received". But it was the sound quality as well as the superlative interpretations that struck me when auditioning the 5 CD set from the […]
2019-12-06 00:00:00
Elgar - Second Symphony x 3
[…] Producer: Brian Pidgeon. Digital download, flacs; cover and inlay scans only.01. Edward Elgar - Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op.47^ [14'26]02. Percy Bysshe Shelley - Song* [2'02]03. - 06. Edward Elgar - Symphony No. 2 in E-flat major, op.63 [58'39]Mark Elder- reader*; Halle Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder.Halle HLL 7507 (issued 2008)Recorded at BBC Studio 7, New Broadcasting House and Bridgewater Hall*^, Manchester in July 2003 and June 2004*. Recording engineers: Simon Eadon and Stuart Kempster*; Producer: Andrew Keener. Digital download, flacs; cover, inlay and booklet scans. Downloads from MEGA,As with the recordings of the First Symphony posted here on MIMIC two weeks ago, none of these three recordings would replace my current favourites for the Second Symphony - Vernon Handley with London Philharmonic (EMI/CfP) or, more recently, Sakari Oramo with Royal Stockholm Philharmonic (BIS) - but they all come very close indeed. For me, Rozhdestvensky's performance of the Second is […]
2018-04-02 05:30:00
Four Italians in Paris: 1829-1855
[…] Donizetti's death in 1848 and remained popular during the century, a bit longer than Les Martyrs, but eventually both became rarities. Here's the chance to discover two versions of another good opera. Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) Poliuto José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Juan Pons Chor der Wiener Singakademie Wiener Symphoniker Oleg Caetani CBS M2K 44821 (1989). Recorded 1986 [flac, cue, log, scans with libretto] Gaetano Donizetti Les Martyrs Joyce El-Khoury, Michael Spyres, David Kempster, Brindley Sherratt, Clive Bayley, Wyne EvansOpera Rara ChorusOrchestra of the Age of EnlightenmentMark ElderOpera Rara ORC52 (2015). Recorded 2014[flac, cue, log, covers, digital booklet]Courtesy of Bodtje
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