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2020-03-20 17:34:00
Power and patronage in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte
[…] Macy (accessed 27 February 2006), http://www.grovemusic.com. [3] T.C.W. Blanning, The culture of power and the power of culture: old regime Europe 1660-1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), pp. 178-9. [4] J.A. Rice, Antonio Salieri and Viennese opera (University of Chicago Press: Chicago and London, 1998), p. 507. [5] Rice, La clemenza di Tito, p. 5. [6] E.O. Deutsch (ed.), Mozart, a documentary biography, trs E. Blom, P. Branscombe, and J. Noble (London: Black, 1965), p. 405. [7] See letter to Constanze Mozart, 7-8 October 1791, in W.A. Bauer and O.E. Deutsch (eds.) Mozart: Briefe und Aufzeichnungen. Gesamtasusgabe, 7 vols. (Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1962-75), vol. IV, p. 157. [8] Ibid., p. 154. [9] See P. Branscombe, Die Zauberflöte(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 67-86. [10] Letter to Constanze, 14 October 1791, in Briefe, vol. IV, […]
2017-07-20 01:00:00
[…] up a great deal of space and no doubt would also incur the wrath of my editor’s red pen so I will be as brief as possible. When these discs were released a decade ago, the musical press found much praise from all concerned. Roderick Swanson wrote, “This is superb, infectious music magnificently performed. The New College Choir is on cracking form, as is the Hanover Band. Graham Lea-Cox directs with fire and precision”. Peter Branscombe observed, “Not only is the music enchanting, the performances are full of subtlety and eloquence as well as enthusiasm and spirit. Graham Lea-Cox, who is responsible for the editions used, directs the performances with great skill and discernment; he is equally successful with the wistful and the vigorous numbers, bringing an almost theatrical flair to the argument of the Masque, pomp to the ceremonial music and grace to the dance numbers.” As for me, […]
2013-07-19 01:15:39
BBC Radio 3 broadcaster and journalist Petroc Trelawny (above) plays host to a brand new jazz and classical music festival in the coastal East Devon village of Branscombe next weekend.
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