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2022-04-03 04:12:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 3, 2022
[…] the heels of a run of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with Deutsche Oper Berlin, star soprano Liv Redpath joins the cast as Radamisto’s wife Zenobia. Bass-baritone Aubrey Allicock returns to the role of the tyrant Tiridate, having performed this role with Juilliard Opera and Juilliard415 at Lincoln Center in 2013. British soprano Ellie Laugharne plays his faithful wife Polissena, pursued by baritone Morgan Pearse as Farasmane. Rounding out this powerhouse of a cast is mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta as Tigrane.This treasure trove of artists includes five Philharmonia debuts. Music Director Richard Egarr will lead the production from the harpsichord, conducting his first opera with Philharmonia.For details, visit https://philharmonia.org/--Jacob Dassa, Philharmonia BaroqueMusic At The Anthology Announces 2022 FestivalFrom May 4-7, 2022 in Brooklyn, Music at the Anthology (MATA) presents the MATA Festival, New York’s most cutting-edge showcase for experimental early career composers and sound artists, for the first time in two years due […]
2022-02-18 07:52:20
[…] Schubert's Die Schone Mullerin, plus a new work by Jonathan Dove, Man, Woman, Child, a duet cycle that is receiving its first performance outside London with Shakira Tsindos mezzo-soprano, Dominic Sedgwick baritone, and Ian Tindale piano. The Leeds Lieder 2022 Young Artists will be taking part in masterclasses and performing in a showcase concert. Late evening recitals include The Revolution Smells of Jasmine, an homage to protest music in the Americas from female artists and composers with Wallis Giunta, mezzo-soprano, Sean Shibe, guitar, and Adam Walker, flute, with music ranging from Ariel Ramirez to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell, plus Abel Meeropol's Strange Fruit. Ruby Hughes, soprano and Joseph Middleton in music by Errollyn Wallen and Mahler, plus Deborah Pritchard's new song cycle, The World. The mental health initiative SongPath will be running a musical walking trail around St Aidan's RSPB Nature Reserve, and Jess Dandy's recital is designed to complement this event. Full […]
2021-08-26 11:34:49
Cadogan Hall; Royal Albert Hall, LondonTwo proms celebrated the rich music of Astor Piazzolla in contrasting but illuminating ways The centenary of Astor Piazzolla’s birth falls this year, an anniversary marked by a pair of Proms, notably different in their approach. At Monday’s Cadogan Hall concert, guitarist Sean Shibe, mezzo Wallis Giunta and flautist Adam Walker placed Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango, for flute and guitar, alongside a scene from his “operita” María de Buenos Aires and songs by fellow Argentinian composer Ariel Ramírez, also born in 1921. Written in 1986, and juxtaposing sensuality with something of the contrapuntal purity of Bach, Histoire du Tango charts the dance’s evolution from its fin-de-siècle origins in the brothels of Buenos Aires via cafes and nightclubs to the bravura “Concert d’aujourd’hui” with which it ends. Walker and Shibe did fine things with it, offsetting beauty with ferocity and combining virtuosity with exquisite tenderness and grace. […]
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