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2022-07-17 14:42:47
Baroque gem: Hasse's early serenata gets an intriguing modern staging in Buxton with some stylish singing.
[…] 1708. It was an imaginative idea for Buxton International Festival to stage Hasse's serenata with two singers from this year's chorus.We caught Buxton International Festival's production of Hasse's Antonio e Cleopatra on Saturday 16 July 2022 at the Pavilion Arts Centre. Directed by Evangeline Cullingworth with designs by Grace Venning, the opera featured Ellie Neate as Cleopatra and Thalie Knights as Antonio. Satoko Doi Luck directed the Buxton Festival Baroque Orchestra from the harpsichord (Michael Gurevich & Emily Nebel, violins, John Crockatt, viola, Tim Smedley, cello, Dawn Potts, double bass).Hasse: Antonio e Cleopatra - Ellie Neate, Thalie Knights - Buxton International Festival (Photo David John King Photography)The work takes the traditional form of a sequence of da capo arias ending in a duet. Unusually for opera seria, it eschews the exit aria convention, what we have is an operatic dialogue as Antonio and Cleopatra, after their defeat at the battle […]
2022-03-24 18:24:00
Alexander Goehr 90th Birthday Concert – Goehr, Richards, and Anderson, Nash Ensemble et al., 22 March 2022
[…] Werner, stepping in at very short notice for an indisposed Claire Booth, extended our understanding not only of Goehr but of Molly Bloom, leading us to the calculated disruption of the wake-up call: ‘You are a poor old stick in the mud. Go and see life. See the wide world.’ Julian Anderson’s early Ring Dance (1987) for two violins followed. Its grating—in a positive sense—Hardanger fiddling truly dug into the instruments of Nabarro and Michael Gurevich; or rather, they did, in its service. Work and performance served up an arc clearly felt, experienced, as well as observed, its notes worked for and achieved. Whilst it could hardly be considered spectral music, perhaps some of its processes fulfilled a similar function, not unlike Goehr’s transformations for serialism. It is, at any rate, a work newly released by the composer for public performance, and which he considers ‘to some extent … a […]
2021-06-29 02:28:48
The Baroque Virtual Sessions will include baroque performances, lessons by top professionals, and opportunities to perform baroque music. Along with Nicola Benedetti, the internationally acclaimed Baroque performers and educators leading the masterclasses and sessions include violinists Rachel Podger, Kati Debretzeni, Maggie Faultless, Michael Gurevich and Andrea Marcon; violists Clifton Harrison and Becky Jones; cellists Luise […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-05-31 09:04:34
Handel the young Italian: Ensemble Marsyas in chamber music and duets from the composer's early years
[…] (the cantata) and his early years in London. Of course, this is not precise as he was notorious for re-using material so the Hanover chamber duets were copied out in 1711 and may have been written earlier. We began with the Sinfonia in B flat HWV 339 which may well date to Handel's years in Hamburg (1704-1706). This introduced us to the vividly engaging and energised playing of the ensemble, violins Sarah Sexton and Michael Gurevich, cello Sarah McMahon, and theorbo Sergio Bucheli directed from the harpsichord by Peter Whelan. The sinfonia was in three movements, fast slow fast, very Italianate in style and in both the fast and slow movements really enjoying the interplay of the two violins. Next came the first of the chamber duets, Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi HWV 197, with Louise Alder and Christopher Lowrey accompanied by Whelan, McMahon and Bucheli. These duets were […]