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Danish opera singer (1864-1942)
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2022-09-05 09:00:44
In this issue South African cellist Abel Selaocoe tells Charlotte Smith about his unique musical upbringing and his ongoing mission to bring African and Western classical music together. Elsewhere, Leon Bosch reports on the work of the Buskaid charity in inspiring the South African musicians of tomorrow; Rick Jones Dons his boater and follows in the footsteps of Vaughan Williams in the hunt for English folk music; Simon Heighs reports on the listeners and performers returning to the joys of vinyl; and pianist Evgeny Kissin shares frank thoughts with Michael Church on the Ukraine crisis and Russia, country of his birth. For this month’s BBC Music Magazine Interview, Claire Jackson speaks to flautist Sharon Bezaly as she releases her new album, Synergy. We pick out the best recordings of Vivaldi‘s Gloria, and Nikolai Medtner is our Composer of the Month. […]
2022-02-22 20:09:04
Anglais - Jamie Manton’s New Production of The Cunning Little Vixen at the London Coliseum
Composed between 1921 and 1923, Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen is based on the serialised novella Liška Bystrouška by Rodolf Těsnohlídek of 1920. This first appeared in the newspaper Lidové noviny, with illustrations by Stanislav Lolek, and Janáček adapted its words to arrive at the final libretto for the opera. A more literal translation of the Czech title would be Tales of Vixen Sharp-Ears, and the story tells of the adventures of this Vixen as she is caught and chained up by a Forester, escapes from his clutches and has children with a Fox before finally being shot dead. It represents, however, a far wider exploration of the cycle of life and death as a host of other animals appear alongside some humans, and the Forester, despite always claiming he wants to kill the creature, reveals a special affection for the Vixen. The Cunning Little Vixen is, with the exception […]
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2020-11-06 22:01:05
Don DeLillo And Martin Amis Were Literary Lions Of The 1980s. Now, Not So Much
“New novels from Don DeLillo and Martin Amis, two of the remaining Dons of the literary scene of the 1980s, are out within a week of each other, like some last blast of “Remember when?” just before the 2020 election further propels us into a new realm of reality. Amis has written a novel so […]
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