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Geistreich, spontan, fantasievoll: Josu de Solaun improvisiert

15/04/2023
Roots; Improvisationen; Josu de Solaun, Klavier; 1 CD Aria Classics 50630178832695; Liveaufnahme 07.2022, Veröffentlichung 14.04.2023 (62') Rezension von Remy Franck

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Nach seiner CD PanDEMiCity veröffentlicht der Pianist Josu de Solaun bei Aria Classics ein weiteres, auf freier Improvisation basierendes Album, das live beim Alicante Jazz Festival aufgenommen wurde. Das Album ist in fünf Blöcke unterteilt und enthält 14 Improvisationen. Read More →

Gimeno mit Puccinis Messe und Orchesterstücken

15/04/2023
Giacomo Puccini: Messa di Gloria +Scherzo für Streicher + Capriccio sinfonico + Cristantemi; Ludovic Tezier, Bariton, Charles Castronovo, Tenor, Orfeo Catala, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno; 1 CD  Harmonia Mundi HMM 905367; Aufnahme 06.2022, Veröffentlichung 14.04.2023 (69'18) - Rezension von Remy Franck

Puccinis Messe ist ein Werk, mit dem es so manche Dirigenten schwer tun: sie machen entweder Oper daraus oder eine heroisch-brillante Vokalmusik, die dem Werk nicht gerecht wird und es unförmig werden lässt. Gustavo Gimeno dirigiert das Werk mit durchaus passender Schlichtheit, sehr geschmeidig, mit warmem, farbigem Klang, der alles Grelle vermeidet und den Lyrismus auskostet, ohne die Messe opernhaft werden zu lassen. Read More →

Böhmisches Flair und Drama

15/04/2023
Bohemia Vitezlav Novak: Klaviertrio Nr. 2 op. 27; Zdenek Fibich: Klaviertrio f-Moll; Bedrich Smetana: Klaviertrio op. 15; Trio Hélios (Camille Fonteneau, Violine, Raphaël Jouan, Violoncello, Alexis Gournel, Klavier); 1 CD Mirare MIR 662; Aufnahme 2022, Veröffentlichung 14.04.2023 (61') Rezension von Remy Franck

Diese Produktion mit drei Trios in der Moll-Tonart enthält viel böhmisches Flair, Drama und melancholische Schwermut. Das Trio Hélios spielt in seinem böhmischen Programm zunächst das Klaviertrio Nr. 2, Quasi una balata, von Vitezlav Novak (1870-1949), das der Komponist als « Frucht des schwärzesten Baudelaire’schen Pessimismus » bezeichnet hat. Read More →

BBC looks for alternatives for proposed cuts to orchestras

14/04/2023

Under the pressure of the musical world and the British politicians, the BBC announced that it will work with union to find alternatives to the announced cuts would have reduced jobs in the BBC in orchestras by 20%. Read More →

Cellist Timothy Hopkins: « It was not a bad idea not to do the same thing as everyone else »

14/04/2023
Timothy Hopkins dares to do what few dare to do. Born in 1995, the German-American cellist plays iconic violin literature – on the cello. And as if this was not enough, he recorded these demanding works, including Paganini's 24th Caprice and Saint-Saëns' Rondo Capriccioso, for his first album. Tabea Sedlak made the following interview with the young musician.

Timothy Hopkins

Timothy Hopkins’ first instrument was the piano, then he discovered the cello. With a musical home, his curiosity and a little bit of luck in his luggage – as he says himself – he made rapid progress: While he was still going to school, he became a junior student, later completing his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Leipzig and Berlin. However, the ambitious young artist’s first career steps fell during the lockdown period of the corona pandemic – and put a « good spanner in the works » for Hopkins, as he tells us in an interview. Read More →

ICMA Gala in Wroclaw is sold out

14/04/2023

NFM Wroclaw

The ICMA Gala Concert taking place at the NFM National Forum of Music Wrocław on 21 April is sold out, an NFM spokesperson said. This means that the artists playing with the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic conducted by Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero will face an audience of 1800, plus the worldwide audience of the planned video live streaming and radio broadcast. Read More →

Eine Komponistin, die es zu beachten gilt

14/04/2023
Music of Trust; Zuzanna Koziej: Mass of Trust + Stabat Mater + Da Pacem, + Trahe me post te + Deus meus + Quae est ista; Aleksandra Turalska, Sopran, NFM Choir, N-Harmony Chamber Orchestra, Agnieszka Frankow-Zelazny; 1 CD CD Accord ACD312; Aufnahme 01 + 07.2022, Veröffentlichung 03-04.2023 (70’46) - Rezension von Guy Engels

Zuzanna Koziej, Jahrgang 1993, hat bereits ein beachtliches Portfolio an Kompositionen aufzuweisen, wobei Vokalmusik – und hier wiederum die Chorliteratur – den Großteil ausmacht. Read More →

Camille Pépin und die Natur

14/04/2023
Camille Pépin: Les eaux célestes + Aux confins de l’orage + Avant les clartés de l’aurore + Laniakea + La source d’Yggdrasil;  Orchestre national de Lyon, Ben Glassberg; 1 CD NoMadMusic NMM 111; Aufnahme 08.2022, Veröffentlichung 14.04.2023 (64'02) - Rezension von Remy Franck

Gewitter haben schon viele Komponisten inspiriert, Beethoven (6. Symphonie), Strauss (Alpen-Symphonie) und Verdi (Rigoletto) mögen die bekanntesten davon sein. Read More →

Schmachtende Liebe

14/04/2023
Cosi amor mi fa languire; Giacomo Carissimi: Semplicetta belta; Luigi Rossi: Furie d'Averno; Giuseppe Tricarico: Su, di sdengo s'armi il petto; Bellerofonte Castaldi: Tasteggio soave; Alessandro Stradella: Dopo incessante corso; Anonymus: Dalle pene amorose; In solitaria parte; Cadute erano alfine; Anne-Sophie Honoré, Julia Wischniewski, Sopran, Andreas Linos, Viola da gamba, Benjamin Narvey, Chitarrone, Sam Crowther, Cembalo & Ltg; 1 CD Evidence EVCD0905; Aufnahme 09.2022 Veröffentlichung 14.04.2023 (73') - Rezension von Remy Franck

‘Così amor mi fai languir’ (So lässt mich die Liebe schmachten) ist ein Programm mit Kantaten des italienischen Barocks, die für diese CD zum ersten Mal aufgenommen wurden. Read More →

Keeping the voice light: the secret of soprano Eleonora Buratto

13/04/2023
Fresh from her personal success as Antonia in Tales of Hoffmann at La Scala, Eleonora Buratto is experiencing a particularly happy moment in her career: the Mantuan soprano, in fact, in recent years has racked up a series of debuts in a very wide repertoire, ranging from Rossini's Otello to Puccini’s Butterfly, passing through that Verdi which, between Ernani and Don Carlo, increasingly appears to be the cornerstone of her current and future career. Nicola Cattò (from ICMA Jury member Musica) met (via Skype) with Eleonora Buratto the day after the end of performances of Offenbach's opera Les Contes d'Hoffmann and just before she left for New York, where she sung Mimì in a series of performances of Bohème: the occasion was (also) to talk about the recording of Rossini's Messa di gloria, conducted by Tony Pappano, which won the ICMA 2023 award in the Choral Music category.

Eleonora Buratto

Next year you will be celebrating 15 years of your career, yet because of the breadth of your repertoire and the prestige of the theatres in which you sing, it seems that many more have passed: is it already time for a first balance sheet?
Is that so? I had not realized that! Actually yes, a first balance sheet is also useful to remind yourself of the milestones you have reached, how you reached them, if there were any mistakes, to understand if you could have done better so as not to repeat, in the future, errors of judgment. Read More →

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