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2020-05-09 09:06:14
Music aiming to deliberately provoke shock and terror: Ian Page talks about his new Sturm und Drang recording project with The Mozartists on Signum Classics
Ian Page and The Mozartists recording volume one of Sturm und Drang In the midst of their Mozart 250 project (exploring the output of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) year by year, and which this year reached 1770), Ian Page and The Mozartists are embarking on a survey of music by Mozart's contemporaries, specifically the style known as Sturm und Drang. This month [May 2020] the ensemble has the first of a planned seven Sturm und Drang discs out on Signum Classics. For the first disc, Ian and The Mozartists are joined by soprano Chiara Skerath for a programme of music by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774), Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Franz Ignaz Beck (1734-1809) and Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779). I recently chatted to Ian, via Skype, to learn more about the disc and the project, but first of all 'what is Sturm und Drang?'. […]
2020-01-23 16:32:00
From Saturday 25th January on Operavision, "the last operetta of the Weimar Era", Jaromír Weinberger's Spring Storm (Frühlingsstürme) commissioned for Berlin’s Admiralspalast, which poremiered a few days before January 30th 1933, when Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany, thereby ending the creative floutrish that marked the early years of the 20th century. To prepare I've been revisting Weinberger's Švanda dudák a Czech libretto by Miloš Kareš, which premiered in Prague in 1927 followed by the German premiere in Breslau in 1928, in a translation by Max Brod. Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer was a smash hit, particularly in German speaking countries. Boosey & Hawkes describes it thus: "The strikingly folksy and yet anything but old-fashioned opera that makes enormous demands on the performers. It is not a “comic opera” for light voices and a mere municipal theater orchestra. The great conductors of the time, such as Erich Kleiber and […]
2018-11-02 07:00:00
The Border MailTwo Crooks have been caught-out during a thieving and vandalism spree on Lincoln Causeway.
2017-06-26 13:55:06
“My success is going to your head!”
Born on this day in 1922 actress Eleanor Parker. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCAecWeXd28 Born on this day in 1900 tenor Richard Crooks. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_zONgy2_c Born on this day in 1902 tenor Hugues Cuénod. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wepiXvtAC2c Born on this day in 1911 tenor Hans Beirer. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGWuRQo1MfE Born on this day in 1914 tenor Wolfgang Windgassen. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK5mB72IRwI Born on this day in 1916 baritone Giuseppe Taddei. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PE6Ztlm1BM Born on this day in 1933 conductor Claudio Abbado. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=80g9E1JZoZg
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