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2018-09-01 08:56:20
Language, Catalan culture & audience engagement: I chat to mezzo Marta Fontanals Simmons
[…] Nieto (soprano) and Sholto Kynoch (piano) for a Spanish themed concert as part of the Oxford Lieder Festival 2018.Marta's father is from a small region near Barcelona, so she is half Catalan, and speaks Spanish and some Catalan. Her recital at the Oxford Lieder Festival represents an opportunity to sing in both Spanish and Catalan, but the recital also explores the influence of Spain on other composers with songs by Hugo Wolf, Niels Gade, Emil Sjögren, Gounod, Delibes and Debussy. Spanish and Catalan composers represented will include Obradors, Rodrigo, Granados and Toldrá. Wolf's Spanish Liederbuch crops up more than once, not just in Wolf's settings but in Gade and Sjögren's settings of the same text, and in a sidelong glance with Judith Weir's Spanish Lieder Booklet.Marta will be singing Shostakovich's Spanish Songs, Op. 100 which are based on a collection of Spanish folk-songs which a friend gave to Shostakovich, hoping […]
2018-08-22 06:29:14
Marta Fontanals-Simmons & Lorena Paz Nieto visit Spain in Oxford Lieder Festival's Grand Tour
[…] region near Barcelona, and so she speaks Spanish and some Catalan. Her recital with Lorena Paz Nieto will feature not only Spanish and Catalan songs but the music of other composers exploring the influence of Spain and the idea of Spain on European composers.So there will be songs from Hugo Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch (which uses German translations of Spanish and Portuguese poems and folk-songs), as well as less familiar songs by Niels Gade and Emil Sjögren setting the same text as one of the Wolf songs. French composers are represented by songs by Gounod, Delibes and Debussy (his Chanson Espagnole). Sholto Kynoch Another intriguing items is Shostakovich's Spanish Songs Op. 100 from 1956, which Marta is singing. Evidently a friend gave Shostakovich a collection of Spanish folksongs, hoping for something flamboyant, but Marta describes Shostakovich's songs as simple, very word-based; not fireworks but extremely beautiful. Marta adds that she […]
2013-10-09 20:43:24
Music Director Arthur Sjogren will lead the Pro Arte Singers and Festival Chorus in a celebration of composer Benjamin Britten's centennial year in a concert Saturday, Oct. 19, at the First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan.
2012-06-21 20:19:00
Miah Persson, Swedish Song, Wigmore Hall
At the Wigmore Hall, .there's long been a tradition of Swedish song. We've heard many of the greats, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Bonney and others. Miah Persson and Roger Vignoles are in this constellation. One of their earliest London concerts was built around their 2003 recording Soul and Landscape (Hyperion). Since then, Miah Persson has become one of the most significant lyric sopranos in this country. The pair have been back many times at the Wigmore Hall, but it was still a pleasure to hear them, particularly in repertoire that is "new" to English audiences. Persson and Vignoles began their programme with Emil Sjögren's Sechs Lieder aus Julius Wollf's Tannhäuser, (1884). Not Wagner's Tannhäuser but a setting of an epic poem written in 1880. As Geoffrey Norris writes in his knowledgeable programme notes, Wollf (1834-1910) liked subjects "of a mythical past...described somewhat derogatorily as Butzenzenscheibenpoesie, a Butzenscheibe […]
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