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2022-12-18 18:14:00
Goerne/Ólafsson - Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms, 9 December 2022
[…] heard and, crucially, felt from voice and piano alike, the latter’s chords almost Lisztian (as also in the preceding Wehmut), yet propelled by Schubert’s easy, almost profligate way with melody. The sweet beauty of death, or Death, could chillingly be felt at its close. Piano line in Fahrt zum Hades was just as crucial to the song’s course as the vocal line, almost as if this were a vocal sonata. And the piano’s response to Mayrhofer’s dread words ‘dein alter Fluss’ said as much as Goerne’s, finely judged rubato and all. Piano figuration and tone again worked together with voice in Schatzgräbers Begehr, the Lisztian chordal future (‘Il penseroso’, perhaps) returning in Grenzen der Menschheit: a special partnership with Goerne’s declamatory reading of Goethe. We turned then to Schumann, to five Lenau songs (nos 2-6) from the Sechs Gedichte und Requiem, op.90. ‘Meine Rose’ set the new scene perfectly from […]
2022-11-29 05:00:00
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 Unfinished (Stefan Gottfried, Concentus Musicus Wien)
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished' (All 4 Mvmts)Tränenregen (No. 10 from Die schöne Müllerin, D795)Der Wegweiser (No. 20 from Winterreise, D911)Memnon, D541 (Mayrhofer)Geheimes, D719 (Goethe)Ihr Bild, D957 No. 9Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, second version, D583 (Schiller)Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)Stefan Gottfried, Concentus Musicus Wien (Period Instruments)Aparte AP 189 (2019)[Flac & Scans]
2022-07-25 09:02:00
Friends & Lovers: London Song Festival explores the close relationship between poet & composer
[…] tenor Ronald Samm and soprano Gweneth Ann Rand perform Coleridge-Taylor's settings of Dunbar, alongside music by Florence Price, and William Grant Still.The season opens on 28 October with Lotte Betts-Dean, Julien Van Mellaerts, Harriet Slater and John D Collins, in an exploration of the relationship between Ralph Vaughan Williams and his poet wife Ursula, including new songs by Roderick Williams. Then on 4 November, Alessandro Fisher, Marcus Farnsworth and David Mildon, explore the relationship between Schubert and Mayrhofer.On 11 November it is the turn of Berlioz and Théophile Gautier, with Clara Barbier Serrano, Alexandria Moon, Ben Vonberg-Clark, James Atkinson and Kevin Moore, and music by Berlioz (including the complete Les Nuits d'Eté), and Gautier settings by Debussy, Fauré, Duparc, Pauline Viardot, and Paladilhe, Then on 12 November there is the Association of English Singers and Speakers Prizewinners' concert, with Jemima Price, Hector Bloggs, Michael Lafferty, Sophie Clark, Matthias De Smet and Theo Diedrick.The […]
2022-03-11 08:47:01
[…] a couple of concerts, too, with their first offering an inspirational new concerto for orchestra featuring an array of percussion instruments collected from hundreds of pieces of rubbish thereby creating an incredible array of perfectly tuned and untuned percussion instruments offering a greater range of sounds and timbres than a normal orchestra’s percussion section. Here they showcase the resulting concerto - an inspirational project, the brainchild of percussionist Vivi Vassileva and composer-conductor Gregor A. Mayrhofer - performed by the brilliant orchestral players of the Britten Sinfonia. For their second concert, conducted by Gregor A. Mayrhofer, Beethoven’s Symphony no. 6 in F major (the Pastoral) will be heard in stark contrast to a new work from Brett Dean in response to the Beethoven while Vivi Vassileva will give the first UK performance of a new work by Bushra El-Turk, one of this year’s featured composers.From large musical forces to the […]
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