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Venetian singer and composer
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2021-05-02 20:32:28
Mr. Castro-Balbi has previously guest taught at Yale School of Music, The Juilliard School, the Central Conservatory in Beijing, the Paris Conservatoire, Leipzig and Stuttgart Hochschule, and the Japan Cello Society. As a performer, he previously soloed with the Denmark, Dallas, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras and the China, Louisiana, and Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestras. He […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-04-30 22:54:11
Cellist Lynn Harrell, just this month, performing a special 8-part arrangement of Camille Saint-Saens’ ‘The Swan‘. Lynn sadly passed away this week – aged 76. Recorded from the musicians’ homes as part of the ‘Classic at Home‘ quarantine series – performance featuring cellists Johannes Moser, Tina Guo, Yibai Chen, Alexander Hulshoff, Alexandre Castro-Balbi, Fjodor Elesin, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2018-06-09 23:00:00
Ludovico Balbi: Psalmi ad Vesperas Canendi per annum
Ludovico Balbi (1545-1604) Psalmi ad Vesperas Canendi per annum, Voll.1&2Schola Cantorum di Santa Giustina, Daphne Ensemble, Alberto e Fabrizio da RosTC540201 & TC540202 (2012) EAC, FLAC TRACKS, LOGS, SCANS
2015-08-09 09:00:13
Jimmy López: Perú Negro, Synesthésie, Lord of the Air, América Salvaje CD review – bold and colourful
Julius Castro-Balbi (cello), Norwegian Radio Orchestra/Harth-Bedoya (Harmonia Mundi) Virile, noisy and rhythmic, tonal and modal, the music of Peru’s Jimmy López (b1978) is widely known in America but less so to audiences here. (His opera Bel Canto, based on the Ann Patchett novel and starring Renee Fleming, premieres in Chicago later this year.) These orchestral works show the influence of Afro-Peruvian music, in the pulsating Perú Negro especially, but López is also an honorary European, having studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Synesthésie explores tuned percussion, sensuous strings, murky woodwind and shimmering brass. Lord of the Air, for solo cello and orchestra, is inspired by the flight of the Andean condor. América Salvaje, mixing folk culture and high-art styles, is in effect one long, energetic crescendo honouring the wild Americas of its title. It’s bold and colourful. Continue reading...
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