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English Baroque composer
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2024-01-27 12:00:34
The virtuoso violists return to the radical 17th-century soundworld of Matthew Locke. Plus, chamber works by Boulanger, Chaminade, Tailleferre and Smyth• Never assume that because viol music, by its nature, is soft, it is therefore safe and gentle. On
2024-01-19 10:08:31
The composer’s questing harmonies and imaginative writing fill every bar with interest
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-06 21:26:14
“No Choice but Love: Songs of the LGBTQ+ Community”
[…] hunt like this. Nobody would buy a 2-CD set just for the Poulenc or Britten: major items that have each been recorded many times by equally gifted artists. But the whole program works well, and, most importantly, brings us important new repertory and makes a clear statement about the values of human uniqueness, connection, and empathy, as well as about the power of the imagination (literary, musical, and—thanks to the tenor and pianist—performative). Ralph P. Locke is emeritus professor of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. Six of his articles have won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music. His most recent two books are Musical Exoticism: Images and Reflections and Music and the Exotic from the Renaissance to Mozart (both Cambridge University Press). Both are now available in paperback; the second, also as an e-book. Ralph Locke also contributes to American Record Guide and to the online arts-magazines New York […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
). I’m happy, once again, to be presenting here at the Boston Musical Intelligencer my personal selection of some of the most notable and engaging of the lot. Baroque era: I was delighted to get to know John Frederick Lampe’s The Dragon of Wantley (1737), in a highly accomplished and spirited recording. The work feels a bit like a successor to The Beggar’s Opera, not least in its pointed satire of social norms. (The work was just performed by the Boston Early Music Festival, though with a different cast and orchestra; the Boston Globe called the result “spellbinding.” Virtual tickets to watch the videorecording are available through December 23, 2023.) A recording of a serious English opera of the period, Matthew Locke’s Psyche, was musically marvelous but utterly undone for me by the mispronunciations of the libretto by the all-Francophone cast. No such problems occurred with Jean-Marie Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus, […]
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