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Anna Bolena is one of the many works by Donizetti which, after their modern recovery in the second part of the last century, have both never fully left the stage while simultaneously never becoming a repertoire Staple Lucia di Lammermoor or L’elisir d’amore.
2023-11-28 11:12:04
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Music. There were times during my long weekend at this year’s HCMF when i had to keep reminding myself of this word. Performance art, and works incorporating dramatic and theatrical elements, are not just a Staple of new music festivals, they’ve become in many cases tentpole… The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: ici
2023-10-27 13:00:23
Growers and showers
For Philadelphia opera lovers, October means the Giargiari Bel Canto Competition—a Staple event for the Academy of Vocal Arts, and a pipeline for the public to discover some of their strongest resident artists.
2023-10-19 03:30:00
In Memoriam: Lars Vogt
In Memoriam: Lars Vogt. Brahms: Double Concerto, Op 192; Viotti: Violin Concerto No. 22; Dvorak: Silent Woods, Op.68/5. Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Tanja Tetzlaff (cello), Paavo Järvi/Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Ondine ODE 1423-2 In case the title of this album doesn’t make it clear, the heartfelt booklet notes, taken from conversations with Christian and Tonja Tetzlaff, explain that this recording is a memorial tribute to the late Lars Vogt, the pianist with whom both Tetzlaffs and Järvi recorded frequently and who passed away in September 2022, just before his 52nd birthday. Brahms’s Double Concerto was chosen for this album in part for the obvious reason that it was written for violin, cello, and orchestra, thus involving all of these musicians. But the remaining reasons are related to the album’s reason for being: all of these musicians had recorded pieces by Brahms with Vogt and, as the notes explain, the work “…deals with […]
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