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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-10 22:07:40
This account supplements an earlier review of of the US premiere of Ralf Yusuf Gawlick’s 2022 oratorio, “O Lungo Drom (The Long Road)” at Boston College’s Gasson Hall on Saturday. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-14 15:45:32
A Long Road of Remembrance and Hope
The oratorio O Lungo Drom (The Long Road) is an authentic testimony of the Sinti and Roma people, whose journey since time immemorial has been shrouded by poetic and popular imagination. It finds its voice for the first time here directly through the words of Sinti/Roma poets and writers, set to music by Roma composer Ralf Yusuf Gawlick. This oratorio will receive its joint U.S. premières on April 5th at College of the Holy Cross and the 6th at Boston College, with soprano Clara Meloni, baritone Christoph Filler, cimbalomist László Rácz and the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien, the same cast performing on the world première recording recently released on Decca Eloquence Australia. Harpsichordist Peter Watchorn, a professor at Boston College and co-founder, executive producer and CEO of the record label Musica Omnia (which hosts seven Gawlick recordings), recently spoke with the composer. PW: In the past decade, you have shared your […]
2024-03-08 11:10:00
Pierre Boulez SaalJonathan Harvey: String Quartet no.1 (1977) Cathy Milliken: In Speak for string quartet (2023, world premiere) Toshio Hosokawa: Oreksis for piano quintet (2023, world premiere) Birtwistle: String Quartet: The Tree of Strings (2007)Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan (violins)Ralf Ehlers (viola)Lucas Fels (cello) Tomoki Kitamura (piano) On 7 March 1974, the Arditti Quartet gave its first concert at the Royal Academy of Music, music to honour Krzysztof Penderecki on bestowal of an honorary degree. Fifty years later to the day and several changes of personnel later – Irvine Arditti the one constant – the Quartet celebrated at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal its fiftieth birthday, followed by a reception hosted by the Paul Sacher Stiftung, which also hosts the ensemble’s archive . True to its spirit, here was a mixture of new and newer: two Arditti commissions, Jonathan Harvey’s First String Quartet (the first ever) and Harrison Birtwistle’s The Tree of Strings […]
2024-02-06 08:59:00
Clarity of musical purpose & remarkable intimacy: Regents Opera in Wagner's Siegfried
Wagner: Siegfried - Peter Furlong, Catharine Woodward - Regents Opera (Photo: Steve Gregson)Richard Wagner: Siegfried; Holden Madagame, Peter Furlong, Ralf Lukas, Oliver Gibbs, Craig Lemont Walters, Corinne Hart, Mae Heydorn, Catharine Woodward, director: Caroline Staunton, conductor: Ben Woodward; Regents Opera at the Freemason's HallReviewed by Florence Anna Maunders, 4 February 2024Regents Opera reaches the third instalment of its Ring Cycle with a dramatic, intense and deeply intimate production of SiegfriedThis was the third instalment of Regents Opera's ambitious and successful Ring - performed in the round at the Freemason's Hall (4 February 2024), directed by Caroline Staunton and with a brand new chamber orchestration by conductor Ben Woodward. Das Rheingold and Die Walküre [see Florence's review], the previous two operas in the series impressed enormously, both with their clarity of musical purpose, but also with the remarkable intimacy born from the scant metre or so which separated the singers from the audience, enabling every […]
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