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2021-08-14 08:16:00
Jakub Józef Orliński sings arias by George Frideric Handel and Henry Purcell, and mélodies by Tadeusz Baird and Paweł Łukaszewski, with Michał Biel (HD 1080p)
On a summer evening at the Theatre de l'Archeveche, countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński performs a concert of arias by Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel and mélodies by Tadeusz Baird and Paweł Łukaszewski. He is accompanied by Michał Biel on piano. 1. George Frideric Handel: Tolomeo, re d'Egitto, HWV 25, Act 3: "Che più si tarda omai" [00:48]* 2. Henry Purcell: Music for a While [08:27] 3. Henry Purcell: If music be the food of love [12:55] Tadeusz Baird: Four Love Sonnets (1956) to texts by Shakespeare 4. No.1, Spójrz, co tu ciche serce wypisało [17:43] 5. No.2, Drwię, mając ciebie, z całej ludzkiej pychy [20:20] 6. No.3, Słodka miłości [22:36] 7. No.4, Jakże podobna zimie jest rozłąka [25:33] 8. Paweł Łukaszewski: Three Songs: No.1, Jesień (Autumn) [29:13] 9. Georg Frideric Handel: Rodelinda, Regina di Longobardi HWV 19, Act 3: "Un zeffiro spiro" [33:06] 10. […]
2021-07-19 13:45:36
Francis Poulenc, guest post, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: July 19, 2021. Francis Poulenc. We’re publishing an entry by a guest contributor, Aleah Fitzwater in which she writes about one of her favorite composers, Francis Poulenc. A flute teacher, Aleah especially likes Poulenc’s Flute Sonata. Here it is, in an excellent performance by Emmanuel Pahud, flute, and Éric Le Sage, piano. The Perplexing Francis Poulenc. Francis Poulenc was born on January 7th of 1899 in Paris. One of France’s most popular composers, he was mainly self-taught. Many listeners feel that as a melodist, he was Faure’s greatest successor. In his music Poulenc was inspired by Stravinsky and Satie, and later by Auric and Milhaud. Style. Poulenc’s style evolved considerably during his career, from very simplistic, direct pieces early on to much more complex compositions written after World War II. According to Seattlechambermusic.org, Poulenc struggled with both manic and depressive states. This may have led […]
2021-06-01 07:05:18
What they did next: music from L'Album des Six alongside song cycles written after the six composers went their separate ways
Les Six - Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc, Tailleferre; Franziska Heinzen, Benjamin Mead; Solo Musica Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 28 May 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A soprano and piano duo look at the composers of Les Six through the mirror of what each got up to laterThe grouping of composers known as Les Six was loose at best, five men and one woman who were roughly of an age and who knew each other and who, in 1920 in Paris, shared something of the era's Avant Garde. Darius Milhaud would later maintain that the grouping of the six was entirely arbitrary, but both Eric Satie and Jean Cocteau seem to have been godfathers, with the amazing melange of the arts, visual, aural and more, which characterised 1920s Paris. All six composers, Georges Auric (1899–1983), Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc […]
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2020-05-20 19:01:15
Chinese Government Bans Knockoffs Of Foreign Buildings
In recent years Chinese developers have been putting up, and opening to buyers and renters, reproductions of such attractions as an English village, a lakeside Austrian town, and a Paris neighborhood complete with Eiffel Tower. The government has now had enough: it has prohibited “plagiarising, imitating, and copycatting” foreign landmarks or historical styles, calling for […]