Siegfried Jerusalem News
German operatic tenor
- bassoon, voice
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- Germany
- opera singer, university teacher
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2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] came up with the idea for the work. Singing in Yiddish, the quartet of outstanding vocalists was admirably led by German soprano, Johanna Ihrig, who harbours a strong, richly textured wide-ranging voice, well supported by Nora Steuerwald (contralto), Falk Hoffmann (tenor) and Steven Klose (bass) complemented by the ‘poetic whispering voices’ (Flüsterstimmen) of Eliana Pliskin Jacobs, Sasha Lurje, Daniel Kahn and Karsten Troyke. Dating from 2022 and commissioned by Yad Vashem (the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem) and the American Society for Yad Vashem, the work received its première on 5th November 2022 by the Kaunas State Orchestra and Kaunas State Choir under Constantine Orbelian in the Philharmonic Hall in Kaunas, the second largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian academic and cultural life. Inspired by the heroism of Chiune Sugihara who saved thousands of Jewish lives through his decisions and actions during the Second World War, […]
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2023-11-17 12:27:20
Some of the best known musicians in the... The post Exclusive: Russian and Ukrainian soloists play ‘Jerusalem’ for Bring Them Home first appeared on Slippedisc. The post Exclusive: Russian and Ukrainian soloists play ‘Jerusalem’ for Bring Them Home appeared first on Slippedisc.
2023-10-27 06:30:00
A bold statement of cultural synthesis: Vache Baroque's Jonathan Darbourne on celebrating the art of Salmone Rossi
[…] issue was resolved in a rather democratic manner by printing the full word at the start of a phrase and letting the singers decide how to space the syllables.)The long, multi-authored preface attests to the time and thought Rossi and his close circle had put into such an experimental project. It was absolutely a ‘grand plan,’ with the aim to rediscover (or reinvent) the music that would have been heard in the First Temple in Jerusalem thousand of years before. The Songs of Solomon was a bold statement of cultural synthesis, an attempt to breathe new life into Jewish ceremony and worship by utilising a Gentile art form.We think this mixing together of seemingly clashing cultures deserves celebration and chimes so strongly with our mission at Vache Baroque and those of so many other arts organisations. Taking inspiration from this, our first offering was to mix old and new by making […]
2023-10-26 06:37:00
Stories in music in Oxford: visual inspirations from the Mendelssohn siblings, William Blake in song & image, vivid story-telling from Wolf & Mörike
[…] Table) was not as edgy as the Britten, but it was still a welcome change of harmony and texture. RVW's London, is from his Blake songs for voice and oboe, this one just for voice giving a striking change of mood and texture.Back to America for Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) and Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920). Thomson's Divine Image was touching yet hymn-like whilst Tomlinson Griffes' Myrtle was full of controlled rapture. We ended with Hubert Parry's version of Jerusalem in a lovely subtle performance that reminded us that this was a striking song before it became the hymn-like anthem.What really made the event was the combination of Tritschler's gift for story-telling alongside Blake's vivid, disturbing, and intriguing images, always with the powerful support of Glynn's piano.The evening concert returned to the Holywell Music Room, with Devilishly Good Songs, though the event was somewhat plagued. First Malcolm Martineau had to withdraw and was replaced by pianist Hans […]
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