This recording of Musica Nuptialis celebrates occasional music and does so in a fittingly occasional manner.
Month: September 2005
Lado Ataneli ó Opera Arias
Baritone Lado Ataneliís self-titled debut CD contains an impressive selection of arias intended to showcase the singerís style, range, and versatility.
Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England
In 1728 John Gayís Beggarís Opera was produced in London as a sardonic response to the ongoing craze for Italian opera seria.
MAHLER: Symphony no. 2 ìResurrectionî
Among recent recordings of music by Gustav Mahler, the 2004 release of the composerís Second Symphony conducted by Claudio Abbado stands out as an intense and highly charged performance.
SCHOENBERG: Accentus | Ensemble intercontemporain
Schoenberg, born in Vienna in 1874, is remembered as a composer and a music theorist. He held strong attitudes toward the craft of composition and its pedagogy, which have been received as the beginnings of a theory of music, though Schoenberg denied ever attempting to create a systematic theory.
Tom Sutcliffe – Behind the scenes
Sheridan Morley, impressed with Michael Grandage’s staging of Schiller’s Don Carlos last February, turned to a fellow critic at the Gielgud Theatre and asked if they had known that it was such a terrific piece, adding jocularly that somebody ought to make an opera of it.