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2021-08-14 08:16:11
Don't be scared of song: I chat to pianist Malcolm Martineau the sheer variety of Fauré's songs
Gabriel Fauré playing piano duets Mlle. Lombard in 1913 Pianist Malcolm Martineau has just released the fourth (and final) volume of The Complete Songs of Gabriel Fauré on the Signum Classics label, following on from his set of the complete songs for Francis Poulenc on the same label, the Fauré volumes use a wide variety of singers both young artists and those of rather more mature vintages to great effect. I recently met up with Malcolm at a cafe conveniently between our homes in South London to chat about Fauré, song and much else besides. Malcolm Martineau at the recording session for his recent Fauré disc So, what was it about Fauré's songs which made Malcolm want to record all of them, and for the second time, as he recorded them in 2009 with mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and baritone Tom Krause […]
2020-01-17 09:42:13
European song exploration: Malcolm Martineau's Decades - A Century of Song reaches the 1840s
Decades - A Century of Song: Volume 4 - Schumann, Dargomyzhshky, Franck, Donizetti, Lindblad, Josephson, Geijer, Mendelssohn; Anush Hovhannisyan, Ida Evelina Ranzlöv, Nick Pritchard, Oliver Johnston, Florian Boesch, Alexey Gusev, Samuel Hasselhorn, Malcolm Martineau; Vivat Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 17 January 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Malcolm Martineau's song exploration reaches the 1840s, and shows us that there was much more to European song than simply SchumannPianist Malcolm Martineau's Decades - A Century of Song on Vivat reaches the 1840s with Liederkreis where he is joined by singers Anush Hovhannisyan (soprano), Ida Evelina Ranzlöv (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Oliver Johnston (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Alexey Gusev (baritone) and Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone) for a selection of songs from the decade by Robert Schumann, Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhshky, Gaetano Donizetti, Adolf Fredrick Lindblad, Jacob Axel Josephson, Erik Gustav Geijer, and Felix Mendelssohn. The problem with any selection […]
2020-01-10 10:23:57
The music around him: a look at Mozart as he writes Mitridate, Re di Ponto in The Mozartists '1770 - a retrospective' at Wigmore Hall
Mozart in January 1770 (School of Verona, attributed to Giambettino Cignaroli ) 1770 - a retrospective - Mozart, Vanhal, GLuck, Haydn, JC Bach, Jommelli; Samantha Clarke, Ida Ränzlöv, The Mozartists, Ian Page; Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 January 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A fascinating look at 14-year-old Mozart in Italy and the music that was around at the timeSo, we have reached 1770 in Ian Page and The Mozartists ambitious Mozart 250 project which tracks Mozart's progress year by year. 1770 means that we have reached the first of his major youthful operas, the highly impressive Mitridate, Re di Ponto, premiered in Milan, but there was much else happening that year also.For 1770 - a retrospective at Wigmore Hall on 9 January 2020, Ian Page and The Mozartists were joined by soprano Samantha Clarke and mezzo-soprano Ida Ränzlöv for a programme of music […]
2019-07-17 06:21:55
Into 1770 - Classical Opera and The Mozartists 2019/2020 season
[…] Ian Page conducts performances of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte with soloists Ana Maria Labin, Emily Edmonds, Rebecca Bottone, Matthew Swenson, Benjamin Appl and Richard Burkhard.Mozart 250 moves into 1770 with 1770 - A Retrospective at Wigmore Hall on 9 January 2020, with music by JC Bach, Johan Baptist Vanhal (one of Mozart's Czech contemporaries), Gluck, Haydn and Mozart, with soloists soprano Samantha Clarke, this year’s recipient of the Guildhall School’s Gold Medal, and mezzo-soprano Ida Ränzlöv who, following studies at the Royal College of Music (where she was memorable in the title role of Handel's Faramondo, see my review), is now a member of the opera studio at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.There is a three-concert series Mozart's Keys with pianist Ronald Brautigam combining operatic arias with major orchestral works and concentrating on the keys which inspired Mozart most! And Mozart's Czech contemporaries are explored in Mozart's Czech Mates at Wigmore Hall, […]
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