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2023-06-03 18:29:00
Wigmore Hall Sweelinck: Six Variations on ‘Mein junges Leben hat ein End’ Bach-Brahms: Partita no.2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004: Chaconne Benjamin: Shadowlines: Six Canonic Preludes for Piano Beethoven: Thirty-two Variations on an Original Theme in C minor, WoO 80 Beethoven: Twenty-four Variations on Righini’s arietta, ‘Venni amore’, in D major, WoO 65 Mozart: Piano Sonata in A major, KV 331/300i Beethoven: Six Variations on an Original Theme in D major, op.76 Cédric Tiberghien (piano) What variation there can be in variation, especially in the hands of do discerning a pianist and musician as Cédric Tiberghien. From Sweelinck to Benjamin, every performance a jewel, this was a recital as enjoyable as it was ingenious and instructive. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s Variations on ‘Mein junges Leben hat ein End’ were imbued with an air of melancholy such as is perhaps more likely on the piano than the harpsichord, the gap […]
2021-04-01 10:51:00
[…] baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Jan Lisiecki in a recording released for the Beethoven 250th anniversary in 2020. As for Fidelio, from which extracts appear at various points, this is conducted by Abbado with Nina Stemme as Leonore and Jonas Kaufmann as Florestan, a performance filled with ‘namenlose Freude’. I hope you enjoy the mix of reading and music. https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/immortal/pl.u-yZyVE31CYVPPga IMMORTAL: Playlist CHAPTER 1 24 Variations on ‘Venni amore’ by Righini CHAPTER 2 Marianna Martines: Cantata ‘Il nido degli amore’ - aria ‘Sarà più dolce assai’ CHAPTER 3 Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 1 Eleven Dances WoO 17 No.1 - Walzer CHAPTER 4 Piano Sonata in D, Op. 10 No. 3, 2nd movt Mozart Fantasia in F minor for mechanical organ, 3rd movt CHAPTER 5 Piano Sonata in E flat, Op. 7, 1st movtPiano Sonata in C minor, Op. 13, ‘Pathétique’, 2nd movement Variations for piano […]
2020-03-12 07:26:46
Mozart & more: in 'Arias for Josepha', Sarah Traubel explores the arias written for Mozart's Queen of the Night, Josepha Hofer
Arias for Josepha - Mozart, Jacob Haidel, Vincenzo Righini, Franz Xaver Süßmayr, Peter von Winter, and Benedikt Schack / Franz Xaver Gerl; Sarah Traubel, PKF - Prague Philharmonia, Jochen Rieder; SONY CLASSICAL Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 11 March 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) An enterprising debut recital which explores the music written for Mozart's first Queen of the Night, much of it sung as part of Schikaneder's companyJosepha Hofer née Weber (1758-1819) must have been quite a singer, Mozart wrote the role of the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflote for her, and she seems to have specialised in the high lying roles but her performances also included the Countess on Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and Konstanze in Die Entfuhring aus dem Serail. On this new disc from Sony Classical, Arias for Josepha: Mozart's first Queen of the Night, soprano Sarah Traubel is accompanied by PKF […]
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