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2023-09-01 13:00:59
CD Review | Debussy: C’est l’extase/La Mer (Alpha, 2023)
Debussy: C’est l’extase/La Mer Vannina Santoni, soprano; Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Mikko Franck, conductor Alpha, 2023 Soprano Vannina Santoni joins Mikko Franck and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra for an album dedicated to the works of Debussy. One of the recording’s most notable characteristics is its exceptionally high quality, which emphasizes the truly remarkable [...]
2022-01-20 15:00:01
Julien Behr/Vannina Santoni/Alexandre Duhamel/Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth(Harmonia Mundi)Period instruments and French voices add an extra dimension to François-Xavier Roth’s recording “Pelléas is a one-off”, says François-Xavier Roth in the sleeve notes to his new recording, “The first exemplar of what opera was to become in the 20th and 21st centuries and of what it can no longer be”. As one of the turning points in the evolution of opera, Debussy’s masterpiece is already very well represented on disc, but Roth’s performance, which stems from a production at Opéra de Lille last year, differs from all its predecessors by having the period instruments of Les Siècles in the pit. In an opera whose drama depends so much on the minutest nuances of the word-setting and the web of orchestral motifs underpinning it, the use of gut strings and turn-of-the-20th-century woodwind and brass adds an extra dimension to the expressive palette. The gains are […]
2021-12-11 09:31:24
Being able to see Brahms as he was at the time: I chat to Jérémie Rhorer about recording historically informed Brahms with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie
[…] more massive. This can be traced in clear historical lines, witness the French fondness for a certain type of bassoon, which Verdi favoured as well. And similarly Verdi preferred the elegance which came from the use of lower pitch (Jérémie's performances of La Traviata were at a lower pitch than is usual nowadays), whereas the German school favoured the brilliance that came from using a higher pitch. Verdi: La Traviata - Vannina Santoni as Violetta at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in 2018, conductor Jérémie Rhorer (Photo Vincent Pontet) One of the composers that Jérémie does plan to explore is Anton Bruckner. At the beginning of the project, Jérémie felt that you could establish clear lines which run between Mozart and Brahms, between Gluck and Wagner, and he was more dubious about how the music of Mahler and of Bruckner fitted into this. As we have seen, he […]
2018-05-30 07:13:58
Focus on Gounod - Palazzetto Bru Zane's Sixth Paris Festival
Charles Gounod in 1859, the year of the premiere of Faust. Charles Gounod is the focus of Palazzetto Bru Zane's Sixth Paris Festival which runs from 1st to 29 June 2018. Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques with soloists Véronique Gens, Jean-François Borras, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Andrew Foster-Williams, Juliette Mars, Ingrid Perruche, and Jérôme Boutillier are giving a concert performance of Gounod's 1859 version of Faust, this is the original version with spoken dialogue (and no ballet) which was premiered at the Théâtre-Lyrique, having been rejected by the Paris Opera as not sufficiently 'showy'. By the time the work did reach the Paris Opera, it had sung recitatives, a ballet and more, becoming a full grand opera.Another rarity is Gounod's opera La nonne sanglante which is being staged at the Opera Comique by David Bobée with Laurent Equilbey conducting Accentus Choir and Insula Orchestra, with soloists Michael Spyres, Vannina Santoni, Marion […]
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