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musician, performing artist
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- baritone;bass-baritone;bass
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2019-04-26 12:14:00
Ravel at the Barbican - François-Xavier Roth London Symphony Orchestra
[…] is disciplined movement, dancers following structure to express emotion. In the Feria this tension between restraint and freedom breaks through: burgeoning crescendoes, lit by cymbalas, note sequences that descend and rise again. Boléro got the wildest applause, and a standing ovation, because it’s a showstopper, but the sheer quality of the LSO's playing in Rapsodieespagnole was far higher. Luxury casting for Ravel's L'heure espagnole: Isabelle Druet, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, Thomas Dolié, Edgaras Montvidas and Nicolas Cavallier. Hearing it in concert performance illuminates the orchestral logic which underpins the plot. The clocks are invisible, but they're everywhere - ticking relentlessly, imposing form on time, the way dance inmposes form on motion. En masse, they can be manic. Torquemada (Fouchécourt) is regulated by machines, which is why Concepción (Druet) needs to find human pleasures elswhere. But with whom ? Gonsalves (Montvidas) is romantic but he's a bad poet, as his music suggests […]
2017-03-31 01:00:00
Handel: ARIODANTEGeorge Frideric Handel (1685-1759)ARIODANTE (1734) Lorraine Hunt, Juliana Gondek, Lisa Saffer, Jennifer LaneRufus Müller, Nicolas CavallierWilhelmshavener VokalensembleFreiburger BarockorchesterNicholas McGegan, conductor 1995 Göttingen Handel Festival Production Harmonia Mundi France 907146-48Currently out-of-print Flacs, cuesheets, logs, scans Lorraine Hunt (Ariodante)Juliana Gondek (Ginevra)Lisa Saffer (Dalinda)Jennifer Lane (Polinesso)Nicolas Cavallier (Il Rè)Rufus Müller (Lurcanio)Jörn Lindemann (Odoardo) Wilhelmshavener VokalensembleFreiburger BarockorchesterNicholas McGegan, conductor
2016-06-23 16:54:11
Sigh no more
[…] in a new Laurent Pelly staging later this summer at the Glyndebourne Festival opposite Paul Appleby. She also sings it next season in concert at the Paris Opéra with Stanislas de Barbeyrac, conducted by Philippe Jordan. Berlioz: Béatrice et Benedict Théâtre du Châtelet 7 February 2009 Béatrice: Joyce DiDonato Héro: Nathalie Manfrino Ursule: Elodie Méchain Bénédict: Charles Workman Claudio: Jean-François Lapointe Somarone: Jean-Philippe Lafont Don Pedro: Nicolas Cavallier Léonato: Christophe Fel Choeurs de Radio France Orchestre National de France Conductor: Sir Colin Davis “Trove Thursday” offerings can be downloaded via the audio-player above. Just click on the icon of a square with an arrow pointing downward and the resulting mp3 file will appear in your download directory. In addition, Béatrice, the trio of Kühmeier/Gerharher/Bryn-Julson from last week, and all previous fare remain available from iTunes or via any […]
2015-09-07 21:09:58
Moor than a feeling
[…] of it into Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Marnie. Bernard Herrmann: Wuthering Heights Opéra national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon Alain Altinoglu, conductor Opera Berlioz, Montpellier 14 July 2010 Heathcliff – Boaz Daniel Catherine Earnshaw – Laura Aikin Hindley Earnshaw – Vincent Le Texier Nelly Dean – Hanna Schaer Edgar Linton – Yves Saelens Isabelle Linton – Marianne Crebassa Joseph – Jerome Varnier Mr Lockwood – Nicolas Cavallier Hareton Earnshaw – Gaspard Ferret
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