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2014-10-09 19:55:49
Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 6 and 14. Growing up in Moscow, conductor Vladimir Jurowski has a personal connection with the music in these recordings. We get to hear the following works: Dmitri Shostakovich : Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54 Symphony No. 14 in G minor, Op. 135, with Tatiana Monogarova (soprano) and Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), with the London Philharmonic Orchestra , Vladimir Jurowski conducting. The Symphony No. 6 was impacted by the horrors of World War II, and even the movements that try to be cheerful are not successful, as the War memory shines through the music anyway. In Symphony No. 14, we have a dark song-cycle setting of poems by various authors on the subject of death. Jurowski is joined by soloists Tatiana Monogarova (soprano) and Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), who express the haunting sentiment of these songs in their native Russian language. […]
2013-10-13 19:13:00
Britten War Requiem Jurowski Bostridge Goerne LPO
[…] sweetness of timbre. "Was it for this the clay grew tall"? The "Abraham and Isaac" passage in the Offertorium was superbly surreal. One minute, we're in a battlefield and now witness Abraham in biblical times slaying his son and "half the seed of Europe, one by one." Then suddenly, we're transferred to the Sanctus and its ringing bells, suggesting a holy point in the Mass. The soprano, Evelina Dobraceva, substituting for Tatiana Monogarova, sang with great purity. But what sort of "Hosanna" is this? Tiny, tense figures in the orchestra, suggesting unease. Pounding timpani. Goerne sang powerfully, but with restraint and clarity "Mine ancient scars shall not be glorified, nor my titanic tears, the sea, be dried". The baritone part is traditionally taken by a German, for extra-musical reasons, but I think it also works because the singer's accent emphasizes the universal timelessness of the piece. […]
2013-09-19 23:48:00
Battle Plan for Britten's Birthday
[…] as brute. Perhaps he's a thwarted intellectual. This affects the interpretation of Ellen Orfotrd, too: someone from the educated classes who turns inwards in a hardbitten Borough. I'm really looking forward to hearing Vladimir Jurowski conduct the LPO, because he doesn't do lumpen, and might bring out the Russian soul in Peter Grimes. Jurowski also conducts the War Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall on 12/10 with outstanding soloists: Ian Bostridge, Matthias Goerne and Tatiana Monogarova. Aldeburgh still isn't - yet - a tourist trap for the "Britten experience" though the Britten Industry will probably put paid to that, though Britten would roll in his grave at the desecration. But anyone seriously into Britten does need to go there at least once to understand the landscape and the sea. Aldeburgh Music is doing Albert Herring from 19/11. There will be numerous Albert Herrings around the country as it's […]
2013-07-07 17:10:11
Mariss Jansons conducts Brahms and Janacek Live Recording from The KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne, 2012 This DVD brings us two works that really are vastly different. Johannes Brahms wrote his second symphony in 1877, while he spent time on one of Austria’s amazing lakes. This work is a great favorite of mine, and Brahms paints the Austrian countryside with all the power and sensitivity expressed by the orchestral instruments. Almost 50 years later, in 1926, Czech composer Leoš Janáček wrote his Mass in a language last spoken about a thousand years ago. With the ‘Glagolitic Mass’ he wanted to emphasize the common bonds between Europe’s Slavic nations by writing the text in Old Church Slavonic, which used an alphabet called “Glagolitic”. Here are the specifics: Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Janacek: Glagolitic Mass Performed by Tatiana Monogarova (soprano), Marina Prudenskaja (mezzo-soprano), […]
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