Nicolas Bacri: L’Œuvre pour violon seul; Gauthier Dooghe, Guillaume Barli, Violine; 1 CD Azur Classical 182; Aufnahmen 09.2020, 01.2021, Veröffentlichung 07.2021 (67’08) – Rezension von Alain Steffen
Biber, Westhoff, Telemann, Tartini und Bach waren wohl die ersten Komponisten, die die Violine als Soloinstrument entdeckten und einsetzten. Der Barock wurde dann auch zur Blütezeit dieser Art von Kompositionen, die dann im 19. Jahrhundert quasi ganz verschwanden. Von einigen Ausnahmen abgesehen war er Eugène Ysaÿe, der die Solo-Violine wiederentdeckt hat. Read More →
Ton Koopman is one of the most eminent baroque musicians. His daughter Marieke has a broad activity spectrum with a penchant for jazz. Remy Franck made the following interview with the two.
Marieke, you have a father who is a baroque musician and you had a grandfather who taught you about jazz. How did you feel about jazz compared to baroque? Was jazz, to put it provocatively, a kind of liberation?
Baroque was such a big part of my life when I grew up. It was like breathing air. I was always surrounded by it. But the moment I started singing Baroque I felt something was missing. I couldn’t really understand what, but when I started to listen to jazz, falling in love with the genre, I went deeper into the mechanics and history of jazz and finally understood what was missing. Read More →
For the 80th birthday of the great Italian conductor Riccardo Muti, Warner publishes a celebratory box set that collects his symphonic recordings: an unmissable opportunity for a conversation with the Maestro. Nicola Cattò (Musica) had the opportunity to meet him.
I met Maestro Muti at the end of May at his home in Ravenna: after the long interview, in the afternoon we moved to a charming little theater a few kilometers from the city for the Cherubini Orchestra rehearsals. This is the Teatro Socjale, inaugurated exactly 100 years ago and built at the behest of the local cooperative of farm workers who taxed themselves for this purpose. And Muti (who, during the Ravenna Festival, inaugurated another tiny theater, the one in Marradi, between Emilia and Tuscany) took the opportunity to make a joke (« I used to conduct at the Musikverein, now I conduct at Piangipane! ») and, more seriously, to insist on the importance of revitalizing the many jewels scattered throughout Italy, entrusting their management to young people. Read More →
Karel Husa: Symphonie Nr. 2 (Reflections) + 3 Fresques + Music for Prague 1968; Prague Symphony Orchestra, Tomas Brauner; 1 CD Supraphon SU 94294-2; Aufnahmen 2020/2021, Erscheinungstermin 07.2021 (68'12) – Rezension von Remy Franck
Der amerikanisch-tschechische Komponist Karel Husa (1921-2016), ein Schüler von Arthur Honegger und Nadia Boulanger für Komposition, sowie von André Cluytens, Eugène Bigot und Jean Fournet für Dirigieren, wanderte in den Fünfzigerjahren in die USA aus und wurde 1959 amerikanischer Staatsbürger. Read More →
British opera director Graham Vick, who worked for the world’s major theaters, has died in London. He was 67 years old. For some time, he had health problems so much so that he had to give up directing the Ballo in Maschera that will open the Verdi Festival in Parma, which will be dedicated to him. Read More →
In January 2022 the Philharmonie de Paris is organizing an international instrument-making competition exclusively dedicated to the cello. Programmed at the same time as the 10th String Quartet Biennial, this event follows in the tradition of the many international instrument-making competitions that Paris has hosted. Read More →
The Verbier Festival, which begins on Friday, July 16, with two concerts conducted by Valery Gergiev, suffered an outbreak of Covid in the Festival Academy Orchestra which comprises scholarship musicians between 18 and 28 years old, i.e. mostly not vaccinated young people. Read More →
Das Di Martinelli Manusskript; Gian Carlo Cailo: Sonata 3 A-Dur; Pietro Paolo Cappellini: Sonata 24 B-Dur; N. Goor: Sonata 10 F-Dur; Carlo Ambrogio Lonati: Sonata 8 g-Moll; David Petersen: Sonata 1 D-Dur; Johann Christoph Pez: Sonata 30 g-Moll; Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sonata 20 h-Moll; Johann Heinrich von Weissenburg: Sonata 21 d-Moll; Eva Saladin, Violine, Johannes Keller, Sebastian Wienand, Cembalo, Daniel Rosin, Cello; 1 CD Glossa GCD 922521; Aufnahme 09.2020; Veröffentlichung 06.2021 (69'07) – Rezension von Uwe Krusch
Violinsonaten des späten 17. Jahrhunderts, die nur in einer Handschrift überliefert sind, finden sich im Archiv der katholischen Universität Leuven (in jener Zeit Teil der Spanischen Niederlande). Diese Sammlung vereint 32 Sonaten unterschiedlichster regionaler Herkunft mit Schwerpunkten im flämisch-niederländischen Raum, aus dem süddeutschen-habsburgischen Bereich und aus Italien. Read More →
Unterhaltsames Violinprogramm
Der junge Amerikaner Randall Goosby, ein Schüler von Itzhak Perlman, spielt auf seiner ersten CD mit dem Namen Roots ein buntes Programm mit Musik von schwarzen Komponisten – William Grant Still, Florence Price, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson – von George Gershwin sowie Antonin Dvoraks Sonatina, die dieser nach seiner Rückkehr aus dem Mittleren Westen in New York komponierte. In jugendlich-frischen, mitunter aber auch schmalzigen Interpretationen bietet er so ein unterhaltsames, leichtes Programm für etwas mehr als eine vergnügliche Stunde Musik. – On his first CD, Roots, the young American violinist Randall Goosby, a student of Itzhak Perlman, plays a varied program of music by black composers – William Grant Still, Florence Price, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson -, by George Gershwin as well as Antonin Dvorak’s Sonatina which he composed after his return from the Midwest in New York. In youthful, fresh, but sometimes also schmaltzy interpretations, he thus offers an entertaining, light program for a little more than an enjoyable hour of music. (Decca 4851664) – ♪♪♪♪ Read More →
Grange Park Opera, West Horsley Place, Surrey, has announced the world première of Anthony Bolton opera Litvinenko for the 15 July 2021. The libretto is by Kit Hesketh-Harvey. Read More →
