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2022-05-17 07:58:15
The TRUMPETS shall sound! FANFARE 250 for the Fine City of Norwich
[…] on Miles Davis’ 1971 album Live-Evil featuring a trio of numbers he wrote. From the late 1970s to this day Hermeto has mostly led his own groups playing at many prestigious festivals ranging from Montreux in 1979 to Norwich in 2022. Now aged 86, Hermeto (known as ‘O Bruxo’, the sorcerer) performed alongside members of his equally amazing quintet comprising André Marques (piano, flute, percussion), Jota P (saxophones, flutes), Fábio Pascoal, Hermeto’s son (percussion), Itiberê Zwarg (electric bass, percussion) and Ajurinã Zwarg (drums, percussion) while the National Youth Jazz Orchestra players (many recruited from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Guildhall School of Music and Dance) comprised a formidable bunch of richly-talented performers, namely, George Garford, Asha Parkinson (alto saxophones); Emma Rawicz-Szczerbo, Joe Pickering (tenor saxophones); Luke Chakrabarti (baritone saxophone); Rianna Henriques (flute); Ewan Parkin, Gareth Howell, Ruby Barber, Dan Coulthurst, Ucheena Cohen-Shah (trumpets); Joel Knee, Felix Fardell, […]
2015-06-14 04:35:42
[…] “Florentine” groups on Victor. I for one shout “hip! hip! Hooray!!” that the Orloff Trio have been found; from here there is nothing left but discovery, and I’m happy to ring the curtain down on the wonder and nagging mystery of it all. — Uncle Dave Lewis May 24, 1919. Courtesy of RS Forste I would like to thank RS Forste and Charlie Dahan for their help with this article, but also Chris Zwarg whose Trusound Transfer this is. He sent it to me via email a number of years ago, and while I have the disc I don’t do as good a job as Chris. Dan Beddoe and the Orloff Trio – Gethsemane
2014-10-06 16:30:43
No such Gluck
[…] blusters his way through the difficult role of the warrior Achilles, Iphigenia’s betrothed, sounding too declamatory in passages that require lyric agility, such as the Act 2 trio with Iphigenia and Klytämnestra. South African mezzo Michelle Breedt lacks the supple voice for some of Klytämnestra’s passagework and also is a bit one dimensional, dramatically speaking. Worse, her careful diction reveals how the loud German consonants don’t always mesh the work’s longer melodic lines. Baritone Oliver Zwarg nicely captures Agamemnon’s anguish in big aria “Weh’ mir! Welch ein Beginnen” at the conclusion of Act 2 but lacks the legato and steady top to nail more exposed numbers such as Act 1’s “Kann vom Vater die Göttin fordern.” Bass-baritone Raimund Nolte makes a favorable impression as the seer Kalchas, as does soprano Mirjam Engel, who as Artemis saves the day by proclaiming the gods have been reconciled by Agamemnon’s willingness to make […]
2012-11-07 13:28:05
[…] Falstaff Haus für Mozart Zubin Mehta, Conductor Damiano Michieletto, Director Performers: Ambrogio Maestri, Fiorenza Cedolins, Massimo Cavalletti, Eleonora Buratto, Elisabeth Kulman, Stefanie Houtzeel, Javier Camarena, Luca Casalin, Gianluca Sorrentino, Davide Fersini Philharmonia Chor Wien Vienna Philharmonic Richard Wagner • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Grosses Festspielhaus Daniele Gatti, Conductor Stefan Herheim, Director Performers: Michael Volle, Roberto Saccà, Anna Gabler, Markus Werba, Georg Zeppenfeld, Peter Sonn, Monika Bohinec, Oliver Zwarg Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus Vienna Philharmonic Giuseppe Verdi • Don Carlo Grosses Festspielhaus Antonio Pappano, Conductor Peter Stein, Director Performers: Matti Salminen, Jonas Kaufmann, Anja Harteros, Thomas Hampson, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Eric Halfvarson, Robert Lloyd, Maria Celeng, Sen Guo, Benjamin Bernheim Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus Vienna Philharmonic Vincenzo Bellini • Norma Haus für Mozart Giovanni […]
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