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2020-09-22 11:46:01
Elisabetta Brusa: Firelights Context Italian-British composer Elisabetta Brusa is an award-winning musician with a wealth of experience in the music industry. Her music has been performed by some of the top orchestras in the world including the CBC Vancouver Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, and The Women’s Philharmonic. […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
2017-04-09 03:42:26
As is the case with all too many things historical, the talent of women composers is underrepresented in the genre of classical music. In spite of the odds being against them women wrote, and continue to write, exceptional classical music that can be enjoyed today. They deserve more exposure, so it feels like a good idea to do my bit to mitigate our cultural musical myopia. Below are four female classical composers whose works I enjoy, with links to songs for each of them. Elisabetta Brusa (April 3, 1954) is an Italian composer. She started writing piano pieces as a child. Orchestral Works, excerpts from Naxos CD Vol.2 Germaine Tailleferre (image source ) Germaine Tailleferre (April 19, 1892 – November 7, 1983) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six. Concertino […]
2016-06-24 09:00:06
Nightingales
[…] develop that seed and present a number of works that have an association with the nightingale, beginning with that perennial favourite of mine by Maschwitz and Manning Sherwin. The next two pieces (and there are many more) were inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, The Nightingale, in which an emperor takes more pleasure from the sounds of a mechanical bird than the song of a real nightingale. Favole (8.555267 ) by Elisabetta Brusa is a suite the composer dedicated to her godson on the occasion of his birth. The second movement, The Real Nightingale and the Mechanical One, is described by Brusa as follows: “[Note] the difference between the lyrical melody of the real nightingale (flute) and the more rhythmical and less emotional melody…of the mechanical bird played by the piccolo and the glockenspiel; all of a sudden the mechanical nightingale breaks down, onomatopoeically expressed by the […]
2016-05-20 19:32:00
[…] by sopranos Rebecca Woodmass and Norderval. Woodmass was particularly luminous in her role as the young, idealistic Isasa, and was generally well-matched to Norderval. Though she sometimes overpowered the composer-performer, it was fitting within the context of the narrative; Patricia’s memories proved to be a powerful force in rekindling her hope and desire to rebuild both her life and the city she loves. Issues of balance also affected the trio of Ramos (Dion Mazerolle, baritone), Brusa (Daniel Pincus, tenor), and Facino (Vincent Ranallo, baritone), who were sometimes covered up by the density of the scoring. Their scene, a courtroom tango with full chorus (Ensemble Kô), was partially submerged by the bandoneón, an Argentine accordion traditionally associated with the dance. Yet these small considerations aside, the production wanted for nothing. Each technical element—whether lighting, video, tape, or 3D animation—was thoughtfully integrated so that even the noise from retracting screens added to […]
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