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German-Italian virtuoso performer and composer
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A bold statement of cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque's Jonathan Darbourne on celebrating the art of Salmone Rossi
[…] choreographed by the dancer-actor Ukweli Roach. [watch FAREWELLS on YouTube]To place Rossi within his musical and cultural world, we are now in the middle of a series of performances being given in London synagogues [11 November 2023, further details] and in the hall of The Vache house [4 November 2023, further details]. These programmes place the sacred and secular vocal music by Rossi alongside pieces by contemporaries such as Monteverdi, Caccini, Byrd, Weelkes, Campion, and Kapsberger. Madrigals, solo songs, motets, metrical psalm settings, and a handful of settings from ‘The Songs of Solomon’ attest to a highly diverse and experimental musical climate - what we like to view now as a shift from Renaissance rules to Baroque rule breaking.To finish the year, the acclaimed ensemble La Vaghezza will join eight singers and two instrumentalists from Vache Baroque at St John's Smith Square [13 December 2023, further details]. Here we will plot […]
2020-12-07 15:15:15
Recorded at Christ Church, SpitalfieldsThe festival moved online this year, but still offered a varied and imaginative programme including eight new commissions and contributions from Chineke!’s junior ensemble This year’s Spitalfields Music, like so many festivals, took to the digisphere with a varied sequence of performances and talk programmed across a single afternoon through to late evening. Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church, whose austere splendour is usually the main Spitalfields venue, was confined to an establishing exterior shot but, graced by the Dunedin Consort with John Butt, works from the early Italian baroque were a brilliant musical parallel. From the opening Toccata by the German-Italian Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger played on the theorbo by Elizabeth Kenny, the listener could be attuned to the way that first gentle, and then more elaborate, embellishment coloured the melodic lines. Tenor Nicholas Mulroy realised a similarly rich flexibility of sound in Monteverdi and Schütz. For both their […]
2019-11-23 06:26:00
Classical Music News of the Week, November 23, 2019
[…] story captured the imagination of composers from Venice to London to Paris and beyond. Selections from perhaps the best known of Dido settings, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, open and close the concert. Cavalli's treatment of the Dido story differs from Purcell's, however. Busenello replaces Virgil's tragic destiny with a happy ending, as Dido's suitor, Iarbas, ultimately marries her after Aeneas abandons her. The vocal works are punctuated by short pieces for solo lute by Girolamo Kapsberger, a composer and lute virtuoso of noble birth and German heritage who may have been born in Venice. --Jessica Gould For more information, visit https://www.salonsanctuary.org/2019-2020-season --Publius Vergilius Maro, Salon Sanctuary ConcertsThe Crossing @ Christmas Features World Premiere of Edie Hill's Spectral Spirits Grammy-winning new-music choir The Crossing reprises its annual holiday program, The Crossing @ Christmas, at Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia on Friday, December 20, 2019 at 7:30pm presented […]
2019-11-14 13:29:05
Barbara Strozzi: Virtuosa of Venice - Fieri Consort
Barbara Strozzi Virtuosa of Venice; Fieri Consort; Fieri Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 November 2019 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) An enterprising collection of Strozzi's songs, arias and duets from this talented consortBarbara Strozzi was one of the most prolific female composers of her time, publishing seven books of secular music and one sacred collection. On this disc from the members of the Fieri Consort, on Fieri Records, with Harry Buckoke (viola da gamba), Toby Carr (theorbo and baroque guitar) and Aileen Henry (baroque harp) perform items from Barbara Strozzi's collections, alongside music by her contemporaries, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, Bartolomeo Selma y Salaverde, Benedetto Ferrari, Claudio Monteverdi, and Ascanio Maione. Unlike previous discs from the Fieri Consort, we do not hear them as an ensemble but in a series of solos and duets as their selections wander widely of Strozzi's published output. Coming from an artistic family […]
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