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Vivid intensity and profound expressivity: Vox Luminis explores the world of the 17th century Italian Stabat Mater at Wigmore Hall
[…] madrigals, a collection of lamenti for voice and continuo, and in 1666, the Sacri modulatus, which contains the Lamentatio Virginis. Evidently his texts often came through his contact with the literary academies in Siena, whilst much of his music was written for Sienese nuns. The anonymous text of the Lamentatio Virginis is in Latin though the mixed voice chorus writing hardly suggests nuns.It was a remarkable piece, with an intense, focused yet highly emotional soprano solo (Perrine Devillers, I think) as the Virgin, the music chromatic and her voice highly plangent, set off by the more homophonic ensemble contributions. After the interval, we had a last-minute addition to the programme. Lionel Meunier explained that audiences were intrigued to hear more by Alessandro Della Ciaia and the recent publication of an edition of his solo lamenti meant that they could include one. For solo tenor and continuo, it was highly chromatic and very […]
2023-09-04 22:33:29
New and recent releases of interest. Monteverdi, Vespro della beata Vergine; Renaud Brès, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Céline Scheen, Adrien Mabire, Perrine Devillers, Zachary Wilder, Marouan Mankar-Bennis, Antonin Rondepierre, Pierre Gallon, Raphaël Pichon leading the Ensemble Pygmalion (Harmonia Mundi) Tchaikovsky, Symphony...
2019-07-09 11:15:00
Review of Orpheus in the Underworld at Buxton International Festival
[…] so they might as well use them thoroughly – so we have a pas des moutons in the opening pastoral and a flies’ polka later on.And changing from a thrust stage arrangement without much of a set to the proscenium view at Buxton, with some very nice cloths and props by designer Elroy Ashmore, makes quite a difference.There’s a little orchestra with single strings plus six others, playing an arrangement of the score by Thibault Perrine which works very well, and Luna performers from the previous version are Louise Crane (Juno), Katharine Taylor-Jones (the character of embodied Public Opinion – in this case transformed into an Arts Council of England assessor who knows even less about art than Sir Les Patterson) and Tristan Stocks as Orpheus, who has to sing tenor and play Che Faro on the violin while in character – ie badly, which he does rather well.We also […]
2017-06-25 10:01:19
[…] without the pressure of performing. In Vienna, their competition program includes music by three living composers, Americans Frank Ticheli, the former composer-in-residence of the Pacific Symphony, and Paul Basler, as well as Austrian composer Thomas Doss, whose brief “Trumpet and Bridges” is a compulsory competition piece for all bands. The music of Bach is also performed. In additional concerts outside of the competition, Whitmore has added the music of living composers Eric Whitacre and Aaron Perrine to that of Ticheli and Basler; the “Radetzky March” by Johann Strauss, Jr.; John Philip Sousa’s “Washington Post March” and Bach. Whitmore, something of a Sousa aficionado, notes that the “Washington Post March” is not your typical American military march. It was written for an essay contest awards ceremony at the newspaper and became wildly popular as a dance, the newly popular two-step, which itself became known as the “Washington Post.” (Next season, Whitmore […]