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composer, conductor (1830-1904)
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2022-09-28 18:47:00
Wigmore Hall Brahms, arr. Busoni: Chorale Preludes, BV B 50 Fred Hersch: Variations on a Folk Song Wagner, arr. Kocsis: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178 Igor Levit (piano) A typically thoughtful programme, brilliantly performed, from Igor Levit: the second half reprising that of his Salzburg recital in August, the first quite different, yet forming an equally coherent whole. First we heard the six of Brahms’s eleven late organ chorale preludes Busoni arranged for piano in 1902. The first, ‘Herzlich tut mich erfreuen’, rightly announced itself paradoxically, or better dialectically, both emphatically as piano music and yet also as ‘letting the music speak for itself’, in that most necessary of clichés. Musical processes behind and beneath the melody revealed two—sorry, three—great minds at work. Brahms’s arpeggiated half-lights emerged, as if from his own piano music; they were never imposed. That […]
2021-11-16 03:00:00
Opera Recitals Post 2 of 3 (Rysanek. L, Borkh. I, Verrett. S, Steber. E, Tucker. R)
Leonie Rysanek Operatic Arias (1958) Verdi: Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Puccini: Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) Verdi: Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida) Verdi: Qui Radamès verrà!... O patria mia (from Aida) Giordano, U: La mamma morta (from Andrea Chénier) Puccini: In questa reggia (from Turandot) Mascagni: Voi lo sapete o mamma (from Cavalleria Rusticana) Verdi: Canzone del Salce (from Otello) Verdi: Ave Maria (from Otello) Verdi: Ecco l'orrido campo … Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (from Un ballo in maschera) Verdi: Morrò, ma prima in grazia (from Un Ballo in Maschera) Verdi: Nel dì della vittoria … Ambizioso spirto … Vieni t'affretta! … Or tutti sorgete (from Macbeth) Verdi: La luce langue (from Macbeth) Verdi: Giá nella notte densa (from Otello) with Jon Vickers (tenor) Inge Borkh Scenes from Salome & Elektra (1956 & 1958) Strauss, R: Allein. Weh' ganz allein […]
2021-07-12 14:09:34
Heinrich Isaac, 2021
[…] prolific, composing masses, 36 of which survive, motets and songs. He was one of the few composers to work in the German language lands, and thus influenced musical development in those countries. Here is Virgo Prudentissima, composed by Isaac for the court of Maximilan I. It’s performed by the ensemble Stile Antico, a British group which is rather unique in that it performs without a conductor. And here is another motet, Innsbruck, Ich Muß Dich Lassen (Innsbruck, I must leave thee); as the one above it was written for Maximilian I. The motet is based on a popular song, also composed by Isaac; it was also used by Johann Sebastian Bach at least twice, in his Cantata BWV 97 In allen meinen Taten and Cantata BWV 117 Sei Lob und Ehr dem höchsten Gut. Innsbruck is performed by the ensemble Hofkapelle under the direction of Michael Procter. We don't […]
2019-08-12 07:49:14
Helen Habershon - Found in Winter
[…] A significant achievement: Wagner's Das Rheingold in an intimate production at the Grimeborn Festival (★★★★) - Opera review Kynance Cove, On the South Downs: Truro Cathedral Choir & BBC Concert Orchestra in Dobrinka Tabakova (★★★½) - CD review Second View: Prokofiev’s War and Peace - a work ranging from the intensity of personal emotion to the grit of national determination - was also grand and intimate at the same time (★★★★) - opera review The Romantic Violin Concerto: Linus Roth in Lassen, Scharwenka, Langgaard (★★★½) - CD review Shards of sound: Messiaen's Des Canyons aux Étoiles at the Proms - concert review Home
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