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[…] good portion of the music on Lontano is improvised, this is clearly not jazz; no, not even ECM-style “chamber jazz.” Rather, Lechner and Couturier have produced an enchanting program of honest-to-goodness chamber music that features their own compositions and improvisations along with music by Ariel Ramirez, Giya Kancheli, Anouar Brahem, and Henri Dutilleux. This is music that sings, that soars, that exults in the sheer joy of music-making. In his liner notes, music author Stephane Ollivier writes that “since the start of their duo collaboration in the early 2000s as members of the Tarkovsky Quartet, German cellist Anja Lechner and French pianist François Couturier have been inventing a music that is genuinely impossible to pin down. Though in some senses continuing the European chamber music tradition in its forms and instrumental colours, it is nevertheless distinct from it in its variety of repertoire and in its approach, which knowingly, virtuosically […]
2019-08-29 17:27:00
Mourning, Variation, Transcription, Completion: Piano Works by Liszt and Busoni
[…] in the footsteps of his great pianist-composer predecessor – are works in progress. Even when not, though, we can sense a restless tendency, something moreover of an improvisatory, experimental beginning, with or without closure. A Father’s Grief The origins and ‘poetic idea’ of Liszt’s Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen Variations are autobiographical. Liszt’s daughter Blandine had died on 11 September 1862; at the end of that month, his son-in-law Émile Ollivier travelled from Saint-Tropez to Rome to inform Liszt of her last days. In response, Liszt penned a series of 48 variations on the ground bass from the opening movement of Bach’s 1714 cantata Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV 12, also familiar from Bach’s own recycling in the ‘Crucifixus’ of the Mass in B minor. A chromatically descending line furnishes Liszt, as it had Bach, with plenty of scope for what Schoenberg would christen ‘developing […]
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2016-09-29 13:30:44
The Matthew Bourne Dancer Killed In A Collision Last Year? The Driver Was Talking On His Cell Phone
“Dancer Jonathan Ollivier was killed when his motorbike was hit by a minicab while the driver was making a hands-free call on his mobile, a court has heard. Ollivier died last August after his motorbike collided with a car as he was making his way to the final performance of Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man.”
2016-07-18 05:20:00
The great FREMANTLE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA is doing two concerts this coming weekend. One in Fremantle on Sunday and one in Perth on Saturday. They will perform Haydn: Symphony 44, Hoffmeister: Viola Concerto INTERVAL Cunéo: “Le Verre Siffleur” (world premiere), Mozart: Symphony 29. Conductor Ollivier-Philippe Cunéo soloists Sally Boud Saturday 23 July @ Perth Town Hall at 3pm (till 5pm, with heating). Sunday 24 July @ Fremantle Town Hall at 3pm (till 5pm, with heating). Haydn’s Symphony 44 and Mozart’s 29 are considered highlights of the classic period as is the charming Hoffmeister Viola Concerto. Its first movement an audition piece for aspiring violinists. Sally Boud was a member of the Australian String Quartet touring internationally and played the Bruch concerto with her husband last July to great acclaim. Mr Cunéo is back from Paris to conduct FCO and he will also present “Le Verre Siffleur” spurned on by the success of […]