Sigrid Wolf News
Norwegian opera singer
- mezzo-soprano
- Norway, Denmark
- opera singer, music teacher
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2024-04-21
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2024-04-20 09:51:00
A Leeds Songbook and a showcase performance: Leeds Lieder Young Artists 2024
[…] of Frank Bridge's Come to me in my dreams, touching and concentrated.Deirunas Jasiulionis (tenor) and Fang-Lin Liu (piano) gave us two songs from Robert Schumann's Myrthen. Freisinn was full of swagger and vigour with admirably firm piano accompaniment, then Zum Schluss was lyrical. Jasiulionis has quite an intense voice, and I wondered whether he might have been better served by more vividly 20th century music. Elia Farreras Cabero (soprano) and Lucas Huber Sierra (piano) paired Schumann with Wolf. First, Wolf's Mignon I (Do not bid me speak) performed with concentrated focus and real intensity plus a fine concentration on the words. Then Schumann's Auf dem See with a nice sense of freedom to it and a feeling of real identification with the song.Anton Kirchhoff (baritone) and Jou-an Chen (piano) moved from Debussy to Poulenc to Grieg. First, Debussy's Romance: 'L'âme évaporée', all lyric melancholy with a lovely darkness to the tone, then Poulenc's Le retour […]
2024-03-26 08:10:00
A radical new look: full line-up for Nevill Holt's 2024 festival
[…] by David Yarrow photography. There are recitals from pianist Benjamin Grosvenor, tenor Nicky Spence, soprano Mary Bevan & pianist Joseph Middleton, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly & pianist Imogen Cooper, and pianists Pavel Kolesnikov & Samson Tsoy (including Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring).Alexis Ffrench will be performing music from his latest album, Michael Morpurgo will be reading passages from his novel War Horse with musical accompaniment from Ben Murray, Anton Lesser will read excerpts from Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall with music by Debbie Wiseman played by Katherine Rockhill. Cécile McLorin Salvant and pianist Dan Tepfer will be performing French chanson and there is more French chanson from Jessica Walker and Joseph AtkinsJazz performers include Jalen Ngonda, and Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra, music director Pete Long, with Liane Carroll. Throughout the festival there will be a display of sculpture by Anthony Caro across the Nevill Holt estate alongside an outdoor sculpture collection including work […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-14 15:45:32
A Long Road of Remembrance and Hope
[…] musical stereotyping, I did want to embrace what is at the heart of so much Romani music: song, from the melancholy, elegiac to the bittersweet defiantly virtuosic, and dance, even if this be a danse macabre. The core instrumental ensemble that you just mentioned is the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien. What is your relationship with them? When the strings in the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien perform as a quartet, they are known as the Hugo Wolf Quartet. Back in 2016, they commissioned and premièred my string quartet Imagined Memories at Carnegie Hall and later at Vienna’s Musikverein. That same year they formed the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien. So, would it be correct to say that the evolution from quartet to that of ensemble coincided chronologically with these two large works of yours? Yes, absolutely. My initial involvement with the quartet for Imagined Memories naturally led to a collaboration on O […]
2024-03-13 08:05:00
Little short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows
[…] to Rossini and the hallmarks that would develop in his later works. Spyres manages to be plangently expressive, whilst also demonstrating his bravura chops too.The theatrical works by Carl Maria von Weber held a central place in Wagner’s early development. Here we hear Max's Act One aria, 'Durch die Wälder, durch die Auen' from Der Freischütz (1821). I have to confess, that I would have loved to hear Spyres and Les Talens Lyriques in the Wolf's Glen scene from the opera, or something from Euryanthe (1823). But here, on a rather lighter scale, Spyres is all engaging charm with moments of high drama that look forward.Auber's operas helped redefine the new style of French grand opera, whilst La Muette de Portici (1828) brought about an actual revolution too (in Belgium). We hear Masaniello's 'Spectacle affreux!…Ô Dieu! toi qui m’as destiné' from Auber's La Muette de Portici, where the voice's ability to move […]
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