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Faces of classical music
2018-12-28 15:08:00
100th anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy – All the posts
[…] and "Passepied".Claude Debussy spent his remaining years writing as a critic, composing and performing his own works internationally. He died of colon cancer on March 25, 1918, when he was just 55 years old, in Paris.Today, Debussy is remembered as a musical legend, whose uniquely structured compositions have served as a base for musicians over the past century, and will undoubtedly continue to inspire musical creation for decades to come.Source: biography.comClaude Debussy: Poèmes – Stella Doufexis, Daniel Heide (Audio video) It is sometimes a shock to hear a mezzo sing this music, especially when we have had the bright-toned Debussy albums from Natalie Dessay on Virgin Classics and from Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne on Hyperion so recently, but what a lovely discovery the Greek-German Stella Doufexis is. Her textually aware, warm-toned, luminous mezzo doesn't weigh the material down at all, given that many of the songs were written with […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-12-17 07:08:00
Claude Debussy: Poèmes – Stella Doufexis, Daniel Heide (Audio video)
It is sometimes a shock to hear a mezzo sing this music, especially when we have had the bright-toned Debussy albums from Natalie Dessay on Virgin Classics and from Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne on Hyperion so recently, but what a lovely discovery the Greek-German Stella Doufexis is. Her textually aware, warm-toned, luminous mezzo doesn't weigh the material down at all, given that many of the songs were written with the coloratura muse Marie-Blanche Vasnier in mind. Indeed, what pour out of the album are hidden depths to these sensual works.This hour-long program neatly covers the full extent of Debussy's song writing career, sung pretty much chronologically, from his teenage gems like the 1880's Nuit d'etoiles, to the three Stéphane Mallarmé settings of 1913, where the piano writing becomes far more sophisticated and harmonically complex. Doufexis adapts mercurially to the conflicting challenges of each song; playful and alluring in Clair de […]
2016-01-23 03:30:00
Opera Favourites #3 - Il Cigno di Busseto
[…] Nucci, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Keyes, Elzbieta Ardam, Dimitri Kavrakos, Alan Opie Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Georg Solti Decca 433 669-2 (1991) Giuseppe Verdi Otello Plácido Domingo, Renata Scotto, Sherrill Milnes, Frank Little, Paul Crook, Jean Kraft, Paul Plishka, Malcolm King Ambrosian Opera Chorus & National Philharmonic Orchestra James Levine RCA 74321 39501 2 (1978) Giuseppe Verdi Falstaff Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson, Adrianne Pieczonka, Larissa Diadkova, Stella Doufexis, Dorothea Röschmann, Daniil Shtoda, Anthony Mee, Anatoli Kotscherga, Enrico Facini Rundfunkchor Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker Claudio Abbado DGG 471 194-2 (2001) - Courtesy of Cecco Giuseppe Verdi Falstaff Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Rolando Panerai, Ilva Ligabue, Regina Resnik, Hilde Rössel-Majdan, Graziella Sciutti, Juan Oncina, Murray Dickie, Erich Kunz, Gerhard Stolze Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker Leonard Bernstein CBS M2K 42535 (1966) - Courtesy of Cecco Giuseppe Verdi Falstaff Jean-Philippe Lafont, Anthony Michaels-Moore, […]
2016-01-20 18:42:03
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique CD review - a handsome tribute
York/Doufexis/Berlin PO/Abbado (Berliner Philharmoniker – two CDs and Blu-ray)Claudio Abbado died on 20 January 2014. He had given his last concerts in Lucerne, Switzerland, the previous August, a programme of unfinished symphonies by Schubert and Bruckner with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, which Deutsche Grammophon recorded and released a few months after his death. Three months earlier, Abbado had made what were his final appearances with the Berlin Philharmonic, to which he returned almost annually since stepping down as its music director in 2002. Related: Claudio Abbado obituary Continue reading...
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