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South African opera singer (1895-1988)
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2024-03-26 10:14:00
Young Lovers: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton in an entrancing evening at Wigmore Hall
[…] returned to Wigmore Hall on Monday 25 March 2024 with Young Lovers, a programme that moved from French song to German, to American, beginning with Fauré and Nadia Boulanger, then Mahler's Rückert Lieder followed by Copland's 12 poems of Emily Dickinson, two songs by Ned Rorem and ending with Hello, Young Lovers from Rogers & Hammerstein's The King and I.We began with a group of songs by Gabriel Fauré, beginning with 16-year-old Fauré setting Victor Hugo, another setting of Hugo from his student days followed by two later songs. Le papillon e la fleur is Fauré's Opus 1, No. 1, his first song in a long career that would take him from 1861 through to the 1920s. We began with light amusement, yet full of engaging character and signalling that in addition to lovely tone, care about words and a luxurious sense of line, Alder is a delightful story-teller. Chanson […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-14 15:45:32
A Long Road of Remembrance and Hope
[…] any musical stereotyping, I did want to embrace what is at the heart of so much Romani music: song, from the melancholy, elegiac to the bittersweet defiantly virtuosic, and dance, even if this be a danse macabre. The core instrumental ensemble that you just mentioned is the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien. What is your relationship with them? When the strings in the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien perform as a quartet, they are known as the Hugo Wolf Quartet. Back in 2016, they commissioned and premièred my string quartet Imagined Memories at Carnegie Hall and later at Vienna’s Musikverein. That same year they formed the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien. So, would it be correct to say that the evolution from quartet to that of ensemble coincided chronologically with these two large works of yours? Yes, absolutely. My initial involvement with the quartet for Imagined Memories naturally led to a collaboration on […]
2024-02-26 11:00:55
Born on this day in 1802 author and playwright Victor Hugo
2024-02-05 15:57:39
Alban Berg, Part I, Early Years, 2024
[…] write were songs. We should note that the pre-WWI years in Vienna were a period of tremendous cultural development; despite the overall antisemitism of the Austrian society, many of the leading figures were Jewish, and sexuality was explored deeply for the first time. In music, it was Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Schoenberg, Franz Schreker, Egon Wellesz, Ernst Toch, and of course, Webern and Berg, with many younger composers to follow. Arthur Schnitzler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil and Stefan Zweig were important novelists and playwrights (Frank Wedekind, their German contemporary, was the source for Berg’s opera Lulu). The painter Gustav Klimt was Berg’s friend, and so was the architect Adolf Loos. And we shouldn’t forget Sigmund Freud, who was not just a psychoanalyst famous around Vienna but a leading cultural figure. A characteristic episode happened in March of 1913 when Schoenberg conducted what became known as the […]
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