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2023-09-10 16:29:00
Extravagantly theatrical: Handel's Flavio revived by Bayreuth Baroque in the splendour of the 18th-century theatre
Handel: Flavio - Rémy Brès-Feuillet (in bath), Yuriy Mynenko - Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival (Photo: Clemens Manser)Handel: Flavio; Julia Lezhneva, Max Emanuel Cencic, Monika Jägerová, Yuriy Mynenko, Rémy Brès Feuillet, director: Max Emanuel Cencic, Concerto Köln, conductor Benjamin Bayl; Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival at the Margravial Opera House, BayreuthReviewed 9 September 2023An undeserved Handel rarity in a lavish production highlighting the historical background and managing to combine comic and serious Having revived a real rarity in Vinci's Alessandro nell'Indie in 2022 [see my review], the 2023 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival opened with, if not a rarity, a work from the Handelian fringes. Handel wrote Flavio for the end of the 1722/23 season, a season that had included the premiere of Handel's Ottone and the sensational London debut of soprano Francesca Cuzzoni. Flavio, which starred Cuzzoni alongside castrato Senesino, received eight performances, and was revived by Handel in 1732. Then it […]
2021-09-23 15:58:18
Wigmore Hall, LondonMax Emanuel Cenčić’s exemplary breath control and dazzling colaratura made this recital with Polish period ensemble Orkiestra Historyczna an outstanding one Countertenor Max Emanuel Cenčić’s concert with the Polish period ensemble Orkiestra Historyczna juxtaposed arias by Handel with music by composers he regarded as rivals: from Porpora, who directly challenged Handel’s dominance on his effective home turf by travelling to London, to Vinci and Hasse, who did so at a more discreet distance from the continental mainland. Cenčić has long been an outstanding recitalist, and everything was done with the combination of intelligence and flair that we have come to expect from him. His voice, warm, even and velvety, remains exceptionally beautiful, with little sense of pressure in his upper registers. Exemplary breath control allows him to spin out the long lines of Se dolce m’era gia from Handel’s Floridante with exquisite ease, while his coloratura was dazzling […]
2021-07-19 09:18:39
We can dream: Bayreuth Baroque Festival 2021
One of the reasons that Richard Wagner built his festival theatre in Bayreuth was because he had been recommended the town because it was the home of Germany's largest theatre, the Margravial Opera House built by Frederick the Great's sister Wilhelmine in 1748, with an interior designed by the Italian theatre-design family of Bibiena, father and son. Performances had effectively ceased after Wilhelmine's death in 1758, which is why the theatre is so well preserved. Wagner barely used the theatre, it was not suited to his purposes, but restored in 2018 the theatre forms a superb backdrop for Baroque opera. The Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival was founded in 2020, under artistic director Max Emanuel Cencic, and the festival is returning this year for a second edition from 1-12 September 2021. There will be another chance to see Cencic's production of Nicola Porpora's opera Carlo il Calvo with Franco Fagioli, Max […]
2020-06-07 01:30:00
Mahler - Vocal and Chamber Music and Arrangements - Pinnock - Caine - Creed - Rozhdestvensky - Tetzlaff
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)Das Lied von der ErdeJohan Botha tenorKaren Cargill mezzosopranoBBC Scottish SODonald RunniclesBBC Music Magazine 2009Das Klagende Lied (original version) Eva Urbanova soprano Jadwiga Rappe contralto Hans Peter Blowchitz tenor Hakan Hagegard baritone Soloist of the Wiener Sangerknaben Hallé Orchestra and Choir Kent Nagano Erato 2000 Symphony No. 4Max Emanuel Cencic boy sopranoLjubljana RSOAnton NanutRed Note 2010Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" (Arreangement for small Orchestra) Marlis Petersen soprano Janina Baechle mezzosoprano Wiener Singakademie Wiener Kammerorchester Gilbert Kaplan Avie 2014 Mahler (arr. Schoenberg)Lieder eines Fahrendes GesellenZemlinsky (arr. Austin)Six Songsop. 13Busoni (arr. Stein)Berceuse ElegiaqueWagner: Siegfried IdyllGareth Brynmore John baritoneKatie Bray mezzosopranoRoyal Academy of Music Soloists EnsembleTrevor PinnockLinn 2014 Mahler/Schnittke Piano Quartet Alfred Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 Piano Quintet Ludmilla Berlinsky piano Borodin SQ Virgin 1991 Symphony No. 4(Chamber version by E. Stein)Christian Tetzlaff violinChrsitiane Oelze sopranoFestival Ensemble SpannungenCavi 2015 Clytus Gottwald […]
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