Gisela Stille News
Last update
2024-03-24
Refresh
2024-02-27 09:59:00
Classical music must not cease from exploration
Today is a poignant personal anniversary, so I have been listening to Valentin Silvestrov's Stille Lieder (Silent Songs) in the 1986 ECM recording. This morning that performance by baritone and Sergej Jakowenko accompanied by Ilja Scheps was, for me, the most sublimely appropriate masterpiece. But that is because of the personal conditions relating to today. Tomorrow, depending on the conditions, a Sibelius symphony, a Mozart string quartet, Iiro Rantala's jazz improvisations, or Steve Roach's electronica will be sublimely appropriate. Masterpieces, like every human condition, are impermanent. They come and go, and return and return - Silvestrov's Stille Lieder first featured here back in 2008, many years before the Ukrainian tragedy gave their composer his 30 minutes of fame. (Newcomers to Silvestrov's music should know that Stille Lieder are the root from which his better known masterpieces, the Fifth Symphony and Requiem for Larissa grew.) For decades classical music has been trying, without success, […]
2024-01-21 00:00:00
Stille Klagen
Stille KlagenRemorse & Redemption in German BaroqueWorks of Buxtehude, JS Bach, TelemannGriet de Geyter - sopranoEnsemble Il GardellinoLeo van Doeselaar - organMarcel Ponseele and othersRecorded January 2020Label: Passacaille PAS 1040Download 1fichier pixel workupload
2022-12-23 00:00:00
TOWER Voices New Zealand - A Voices Christmas
A Voices Christmas01 Benjamin Britten: Hodi Christus natus est, Procession from 'A Ceremony of Carols'02 Francis Poulenc: O magnum mysterium, No. 1 from 'Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel'03 Trad.: Ther is no rose of swych vertu04 John Joubert: There is no rose of such virtue05 Jan Sandstrom: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen06 David Griffiths: Dormi Jesu07 Bob Chilcott: Nova! Nova!08 Francis Poulenc: Quem vidistis, No. 2 from 'Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel'09 Bob Chilcott: The Shepherd's Carol10 Franz Gruber: Stille Nacht! heilige Nacht!11 Francis Poulenc: Videntes stellam, No. 3 from 'Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel'12 Richard Rodney Bennett: Susanni, No. 5 from 'Five Carols'13 Jonathan Dove: The Three Kings14 Herbert Howells: Here is the little door15 Peter Wishart: Alleluya. A new work is come on hand16 Trad. arr. Peter Hayward: The Christ-Child's Lullaby17 Richard Rodney Bennett: Sweet was the song, No. 4 from 'Five Carols'18 […]
2022-04-18 23:05:14
Beethoven today reviews and corrects a copyist’s score of the piano reduction of Meeres Stille und Glückliche Fahrt, op.112, originally written for chorus and orchestra in 1815. The names of neither the arranger nor the copyist are known, but the arrangement was not by Beethoven. He places today’s date on …
or
- timeline: Lyrical singers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): S...