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The countertenor makes a guitar album, while the Brooklyn foursome mix madrigals and minimalism in lockdown • In their first joint album, À sa guitare (Erato), the French duo of star countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and classical guitarist Thibaut Garcia give their eloquent take on music from the Renaissance to the late 20th century. Drawing on French, Spanish, Italian and English repertoire, their recital bursts with the unexpected: the pure sound of Jaroussky, who always sings in the falsetto register and is best known for his expertise in baroque opera, taking on the four characters of Schubert’s Erlkönig, Garcia’s dextrous ingenuity making you quite forget that his thunderous part was written for piano; the startling segue from a solo guitar piece by the Brazilian Dilermando Reis (1916-77) to Mozart’s elegiac evening song Abendempfindung, K523. There’s much more, from Poulenc and Fauré to Rossini, Lorca, Purcell, Dowland and Britten. I am always dubious […]
2021-07-02 07:30:03
More than a work in progress: first showing of Erchao Gu and Clare Best's opera Rotten Kid
Erchao Gu: Rotten Kid - artwork used during scenographyGuildhall School of Music and Drama Erchao Gu and Clare Best Rotten Kid; Guildhall School of Music and Drama Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 30 June 2021 A new opera based on a comic Chinese folk tale, presented as work-in-progress but demonstrating remarkably confident handling of the genreIts creators describe the new opera Rotten Kid as a work in progress, but at the score-in-hand work-in-progress showing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama's Milton Court Concert Hall on Wednesday 30 June 2021, Rotten Kid proved to be a wonderfully confident cross-cultural creation. With music by Erchao Gu and libretto by Clare Best, the piece was performed in a production directed by Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh with George Curnow (tenor) as Rotten Kid, Juliet Wallace (soprano) as Mother and Francisco Reis (bass) as the Suitors. Victoria Hofflin conducted with an ensemble of […]
2020-07-23 13:30:43
Five pieces for the Summer sunrise: Concert: First, Reis glorios (Glorious King), a 12th century alb
2019-04-09 08:23:50
A musical encounter between two traditions: classical guitarist Christoph Denoth's engaging exploration of tango - Tanguero: Music from South America
[…] he aims 'to exploit the acoustic range of the guitar in order to integrate the tango and its untame beauty into classical music'.On the disc are twenty one pieces by thirteen South American composers, in Denoth's own arrangements for classical guitar. So we have seven pieces by Piazzolla ranging from Libertango to Milonga del Angel, plus music by Angel Villoldo, Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, Carlos Gardel, Eladia Blaquez, Roland Dyens, Egberto Gismonti, Joao Teixeira Guimaraes, Dilermando Reis, Antonio Lauro, Abel Fleury, Jorge Cardoso and Julia Sagreras, composers from Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Uraguary, as well as Tunisia. The music explores the 20th century tango from pioneers such as Angel Villoldo (1861-1919) through to contemporary exponents such as Jorge Cardoso (born 1949) and Egberto Gismonti (born 1947).The 20th century saw the tango develop from a basic dance-form into a complex musical genre which was not necessarily a dance, but throughout there were […]
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