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2021-01-24 10:11:12
This week’s mounting toll of Covid music deaths
The losses just keep rising. 177 Music producer Phil Spector, 81 178 Reggae musician Jayme Mejia 179 St Petersburg director Boris Grachevsky, 72 180 Broadway theatre chief Philip J. Smith, 89 181 Singer, activist Suzanne Ruley, 52 182 Moscow director Roman Viktyuk, 84 183 Romanian TV music producer, Luminita Constantinescu 184 London jazzman Keith Nichols, […]
2021-01-06 10:54:00
A surprisingly complex work: Puccini's late Verismo classic, Il Tabarro, in a new studio recording from Dresden
[…] titled Murderous Passion, but here things feel too relaxed, there is never the danger that passions will boil over. Il Tabarro needs to simmer gradually and inexorably to boiling point, and this just doesn't quite do that. Lester Lynch's Michele has his moments, and like Moore is often rather moving but there is little sense of danger. It all feels a little too sensible. The character roles are strongly etched, and I particularly loved Roxana Constantinescu and Martin-Jan Nijhof's final exit duet as Frugola and Talpa. The MDR Leipzig Radio Chorus makes a small but strong contribution. Whilst the orchestra plays finely for Marek Janowski, making a strong contribution to the recording, overall I found Janowski's approach to tempos rather too steady, too sensible. Too often, I felt the drama lacked the sense of impetus, of the unexpected. Puccini's music pays close attention to the ebb and flow of words, […]
2020-07-05 11:31:53
A Life On-Line: Dreaming of the Silver Screen in Montpellier, Weber's Euryanthe in Vienna, Tippett's The Ice Break in Birmingham,
[…] in Montpellier (Photo Mark Ginot) In November 2019 I had a more enjoyable interview with counter-tenor James Hall, one on of the things he mentioned was Ted Huffman's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream which debuted in Montpellier last year and travelled to the Deutsche Oper, Berlin this January. We caught up with the production from Montpellier on OperaVision. James Hall & Florie Valiquette were Oberon and Tytania, Thomas Atkins, Matthew Durkan, Roxana Constantinescu, Marie-Adeline Henry were the Lovers, Dominic Barberi, Nicholas Crawley, Paul Curievici, Daniel Grice, Colin Judson and Nicholas Merryweather were the mechanicals with Richard Wiegold and Polly Leech as the Theseus and Hippolyta and the American actor Nicholas Bruder as Puck. Tito Muñoz conducted. Impressively, the cast were not all Anglophone, nor presumably were the boys of the Chœur Opéra Junior - Classe Opéra. Huffman's production was very stylish, with minimal set. The fairies were […]
All the conducting master class
2019-04-18 15:36:01
The Ploiești “Paul Constantinescu” Philharmonic, an institution with tradition in promoting national and international cultural values, has a great interest in educating new generations and discovering and supporting emerging talents, often organizing events for young musicians. Ploiești International MasterClass and Conducting Competition is an experience based on young conductors’ knowledge and self-knowledge, alongside a professional […]
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