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2023-12-15 08:34:00
A remarkable cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque & La Vaghezza bring a lovely sense of dialogue to their celebrations of Salmone Rossi's Hebrew-texted The Songs of Solomon
Members of Vache Baroque and lutenist Kristiina Watt rehearsing at St John's Smith Square (Photo: The Musicians' Photographer)A Baroque Hanukkah: Salmone Rossi, Thomas Campion, Heinrich Schütz, John Farmer, Francesco Cavalli, Henry Purcell, Thomas Ravenscroft, Thomas Weelkes; Vache Baroque, La Vaghezza; St John's Smith SquareReviewed 13 December 2023The culmination of Vache Baroque's celebrations of Salomone Rossi paired his Hebrew-texted psalm settings with music of his contemporaries in wonderfully engaged performances highlighting Rossi's distinctive place in the musical universeIn 1623, the Italian Jewish violinist and composer, Salomone Rossi, achieved an ambition that had been germinating since around 1610, when he published, השירים אשר לשלמה (Hashirim Asher leShlomo, The Songs of Solomon), a collection of Jewish liturgical texts in Hebrew set to polyphonic music in the modern Baroque tradition with little connection to the tradition of Jewish cantorial music. The result is a work of remarkable cultural synthesis. The name is also a mischievous […]
2022-05-14 10:21:57
Vividly present playing & discreet virtuosity from Ensemble 360 at the launch of Music in the Round's 2022 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival
[…] vivid and very present playing. The delicate second movement, with muted instruments, was quietly virtuosic with some remarkably intricate writing. We had had folk hints in the first movement, and the third went full folk-dance, brilliant writing and a bit of madness with some terrific playing. We ended part one with Anna Meredith's enigmatic but delightful Tripotage Miniatures, for clarinet, flute, oboe, horn, viola, and double bass, each movement has a gnomic name, 'Lanolin', '40 Watt', 'Moth', 'Buzzart, 'Scrying' and 'Majolica', and she uses a variety of combinations so the full ensemble only plays in the last movement. Each movement seemed to set up a particular interplay of timbre, texture and motif, and then introduced a disruptive element. 'Lanolin' for horn and clarinet, used rhythmic repetition with the motifs not quite in synch between the instruments to toe-tapping catchy effect. As the music got faster and faster we almost reached […]
2022-05-05 00:13:16
[…] Symphony Orchestra Shea Scruggs* — Oboe, Cincinnati Symphony; San Francisco Opera; Baltimore Symphony (all former) Sonora Slocum — Principal Flute, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Herbert Smith — Trumpet, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Weston Sprott* — Trombone, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Maya Stone — Bassoon, Huntsville Symphony Orchestra Ebonee Thomas — Flute, The Dallas Opera Whittney Thomas — Viola, Utah Symphony Kenneth Thompkins — Principal Trombone, Detroit Symphony Orchestra Titus Underwood* — Principal Oboe, Nashville Symphony Robert Watt — Assistant Principal Horn, Los Angeles Philharmonic (retired) Richard White — Principal Tuba, New Mexico Philharmonic Alana Wiesing — Principal Timpani, Tucson Symphony Orchestra Owen Young — Cello, Boston Symphony Orchestra Afendi Yusuf — Principal Clarinet, The Cleveland Orchestra *BON Founding Member
2021-07-11 18:20:44
Jim Watt Leads a Riveting Jazz and Painting Performance to Benefit Musicians Imperiled During the Lockdown
Thursday night at Collab in Bushwick was a rare opportunity to watch painter Jim Watt creating art out of thin air. Beyond public murals, sidewalk art or the occasional landscaper dedicated to capturing a scene alfresco, painting is typically a solitary craft. What made the evening even more fascinating was that Watt was engaging with […]
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