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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] Cavalli’s L’Egisto (featuring two remarkable and distinctive tenors: the lighter Zachary Wilder—a favorite of Boston audiences—and the darker Marc Mauillon), Lully’s Psyché (which is full of colorful details, including music for giants hammering at anvils, two centuries before Wagner, though of course the percussion here is more modest than the actual anvils in the Ring Cycle), and Rameau’s Zoroastre, featuring astonishingly accomplished performances by Jodie Devos, Véronique Gens (again!), Gwendoline Blondeel, Mathias Vidal, and Tassis Christoyannis. Classic era: From the mid to late 1700s, we got a remarkable collection of arias by “Maestrino” (young master) Mozart, sung enchantingly by Marie-Ève Munger, with an early-instrument ensemble from Montreal; Paisiello’s L’amor vendicato (1786), which demands remarkable virtuosity from one of the two sopranos and from a solo oboist (though this particular oboist is only so-so); and L’Accademia di musica (1799), a richly humorous comic opera by Johann Simon (Giovanni Simone) Mayr, the […]
2023-06-11 22:56:03
New and recent releases of interest. Byrd, Mass for Five Voices and other works; Owain Park leading The Gesualdo Six (Hyperion) Spontini, La Vestale; Marina Rebeka, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Tassis Christoyannis, Aude Extrémo, Nicolas Courjal, David Witczak, Christophe Rousset conducting...
2022-11-10 19:03:08
Devos/Gens/Van Mechelen/Christoyannis/Les Ambassadeurs – La Grande Écurie/Kossenko(Alpha, three CDs)A rare recording of Rameau’s unrevised original, compelling at times but mainly of interest to specialistsR
2022-03-31 14:00:01
Tassis Christoyannis/Véronique Gens/Jeff Cohen(Bru Zane, two CDs)Carefully shaded performances of the Belgian composer’s lesser known songs – and wonderfully comprehensive sleeve notes – help mark the bicentenary of his birth One of this year’s more significant musical anniversaries is the bicentenary of the birth of César Franck. Born in what became the independent country of Belgium, Franck was one of the most influential figures in French music in the second half of the 19th century. Nowadays, outside Belgium and France, even his best known orchestral works, the Symphony in D minor and the Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra, crop up in concerts far less often than they once did, though his organ works at least are still regularly performed. There are parts of his output that remain practically unknown. Later this year, Bru Zane is planning to record Hulda, the grandest of Franck’s four operas, none of which was staged […]
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