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2022-07-23 07:45:00
From Bayreuth to Grimeborn: having assisted at Bayreuth Festival's new Ring Cycle, Peter Selwyn moves on to conduct the concluding parts of the Grimeborn Festival's ambitious Ring Cycle
[…] which gives a big symphonic sound, with harp and organ to give extra weight. So, there are plenty of moments when you get overwhelmed by the sound, yet there are more detailed chamber moments too. And Peter mentions the chamber versions of Mahler symphonies where you hear more detail, get more transparency, they stand up on their own very well.Wagner: Das Rheingold - Andrew Tipple (Fasolt), Paul Carey Jones (Wotan), Gareth Brynmor John (Donner), Dingle Yandell (Fafner) - Grimeborn Festival 2019 (Photo Lidia Crisafulli)There is nothing reduced about the casting, all could sing the full opera. They have gone for a full Wagner sound, and Peter admits that there is something of a crossover with Longborough Festival Opera in the casting, they have simply gone for some of the best people out there. Lee Bisset, who sings Brünnhilde at Grimeborn, sang the role in Longborough's production of Siegfried this year […]
2021-12-28 15:55:07
[…] a glorious sequence of Heinrich Schütz's music on Friday 23 December 2021. The second half was devoted to Die Weihnachtshistorie (The Christmas Story) whilst the first half was a sequence of Christmas motets by Schütz and Michael Praetorius with instrumental music from Johann Verdanck and Johann Hermann Schein. A very full Wigmore Hall platform featured singers Miriam Allan and Zoe Brookshaw (sopranos), Alexander Chance (alto), Laurence Kilsby, Nicholas Mulroy, Guy Cutting (tenors), James Newby (baritone), Dingle Yandell and William Gaunt (bass), alongside a proto-orchestra featuring violins, viols, violone, recorders, dulcian (a sort of early bassoon), cornets, trombones, lute, organ and harpsichord. One of the things to bear in mind about Schütz is that he was long-lived (dying at the age of 87!) and remained musically active into old age so that Die Weihnachtshistorie dates from 1660 when he was 75 (and published four years later), very much the grand old man, yet how […]
2021-11-02 09:38:49
Beethoven’s Fidelio at Glyndebourne with Dorothea Herbert and Adam Smith
[…] by Leonore to Florestan before her rescue mission. Containing Leonore’s poem, written specifically for this production, too, by Zoë Palmer, it was delivered in a spirited performance by Ms Thoma in her native language echoing a Berlin cabaret performer! But in a Stasi-type raid, she’s soon bundled off to prison screaming her head off making her final statement against the brutality regime cultivated by prison governor, Don Pizarro, the role admirably sung by baritone Dingle Yandell. Beethoven: Fidelio - Gertrude Thoma - Glyndebourne on Tour (© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith) In the pivotal role of Leonora, German dramatic soprano, Dorothea Herbert (who sang the role for the first time in Chemnitz last year) was superb. Her strong and well-controlled voice was radiant and a joy to listen to especially in the confines of Glyndebourne’s comfy auditorium boasting such excellent acoustics. In fact, Ms […]
2021-09-03 06:28:50
Quite an occasion: Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts early Handel and Bach for his 60th appearance at the BBC Proms
[…] the work. Dixit Dominus is a psalm used at vespers so Handel's setting may have been written for a private vespers service for one of his patrons, or for the rather grander services for the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at the Carmelite Order's Roman Church. For this performance the soloists were taken from the choir, Julia Doyle and Emily Owen (soprano), Behtany Horak-Hallett (alto), Graham Neal and Peter Davoren (tenor), and Dingle Yandell (bass), so that the solos in the ensemble numbers seemed to arise out of the choir. It remains a dazzling work, though Handel would write more sophisticated sacred works, and the opening movement was full of engaging bounce and clear enjoyment from the singers. John Eliot Gardiner encouraged such strong articulation and accent from the choir that there were moments where the music felt particularly fierce. It did, however, ensure that the faster passages […]
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