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2023-12-22 00:00:00
Vaughan Williams Christmas Music, Christmas Baroque, Orchestral Christmas & On Chritmas Night (Richard Hickox, Marc Taddei, Charles Gerhardt & Andrew Nethsingha)
Ralph Vaughan Williams - Christmas Music:01 Fantasia on Christmas Carols (composer's arrangement for baritone, choir, organ and strings) ^ [12'19]02 - 16 On Christmas Night. A Masque, after Dickens' A Christmas Carol [28'08]17 - 24 The First Nowell. A Nativity Play * [29'09]Roderick Williams- baritone; Sarah Fox- soprano *; Joseph Cullen- organ ^; Joyful Company of Singers; City of London Sinfonia conducted by Richard HickoxChandos CHAN10385 [recorded December 2005; issued 2006][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, LondonRecording engineer: Ralph Couzens; Producer: Brian CouzensChristmas Baroque:Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. J Kuhnau): Sinfonia from Cantata No. 142, BWV 142 [1'14]Giuseppi Torelli: Concerto di Pastorale, op.8 no.6 [5'15]Francesco Manfredini: Sinfonia Pastorale, op.2 no.12 [6'17]Michel-Richard de Lalande: Simphonie de Noëls [5'12]Giovanni Ferrandini: Sinfonia Pastorale [8'38]Michael Haydn: Pastorello, P.91 [9'22]Johann Stamitz: Sinfonia Patorale, op.4 no.2 [12'22]François-Joseph Gossec: Suite de Noëls [5'20]George Frideric Handel: Pifa from Messiah, HWV 56 [2'25]Giuseppe Valentini: Sinfonia […]
2022-04-30 08:17:31
A fresh coat of paint: conductor Bart Van Reyn talks about his new recording of CPE Bach's oratorio Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu
[…] with Anima Eterna, and there are questions over how often to use portamento - how cheesy to make it. There are no real rules, you have to choose and the results can be mannered or amazing. Bart Van Reyn (photo Agnete Schlichtkrull) Next month Bart is conducting Il Gardellino in Handel's Dixit Dominus and Laudate Pueri, along with Il Pianto di Maria (originally attributed to Handel and now regarded as being by Ferrandini). There are concerts [see the orchestra's website for details] and a recording, with a cast of fabulous soloists. This is music of a different style, with Italian fire. He will conduct four concerts in Belgium and one in Paris. At the beginning of next season he will be conducting Haydn's Creation in Brussels (with the Brussels Philharmonic) and in Ljubljana (with the Slovenian Philharmonic) CPE Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu - Lore Binon, […]
2022-01-28 09:15:40
English Touring Opera might be back on the road, but its ETO at Home project continues apace. The latest video, which streams tonight at 7.30pm and will then be available free on ETO's website, is Giovanni Battista Ferrandini's Il pianto di Maria performed by mezzo-soprano Catherine Carby with the Old Street Band, conductor Jonathan Peter Kenny. The film, directed by Rebecca van Beeck is very much a visual interpretation of the cantata rather than a filmed concert. Van Beek juxtaposes film of Carby's performance with images of mothers and sons, love and loss, plus footage of natural forces echoing the tumultuous earthquakes described in the original poem. Ferrandini (1710-1791) was well-known in his day; his opera Catone in Utica opened the new Bavarian Court Theatre in Munich in 1753. The theatre still survives, now known as the Cuvilliés Theatre after the architect. In retirement he was visited in Padua by the young Mozart […]
2015-12-02 20:58:40
Journey to Italy
[…] Cesare that is at the center of one of Metastasio’s most popular libretti. Its first setting by Leonardo Vinci in 1728 shocked many as it eschewed the expected lieto fine and ended with Catone’s on-stage suicide. Vivaldi, who set only one other Metastasio text (L’Olimpiade), would have none of that sort of thing and his 1737 version proposes an unconvincing last-minute change of heart by Catone followed by a perfunctory “happy ending” chorus. Giovanni Batista Ferrandini who composed a Catone for the 1753 opening of Munich’s Cuvilliéstheater ended his with an allegorical instrumental ballo (now lost), while Piccinni’s 1770 version concludes with a stark accompagnato. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyG4fVjM4n8 While one might question why Opera Lafayette (and Glimmerglass) mounted a partial torso rather than one of the composer’s surviving complete works, Catone does contain some of Vivaldi’s most striking, challenging music which Tuesday’s cast tackled with relish […]
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