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Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony may have been written at the request of the Soviet authorities, but it is now renowned as passionately empathetic to the oppressed citizens at the time of the Russian Revolution. Vasily Petrenko conducts it for the first time in Liverpool, and it is a great opportunity to hear the orchestra's incredible full-sized set of church bells: a powerful contrast to the romance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, played by rising star Christian Li.
Hard to believe he hasn't previously conducted DSCH 11 in Liverpool, given that he recorded the Naxos cycle with them.
PS: Qualified by saying 'in concert'. Still surprised.
Last edited by Pulcinella; 07-11-23, 21:39.
Reason: PS added
This evenings mozart looks good, not sure how the spanish stuff will go down.
The Spanish stuff looks interesting
Cristóbal de Morales: Motet Peccantem me quotidi
Francisco Guerrero: Missa pro defunctis (Requiem)
Alonso Lobo: Motet Versa est in luctum
Cererols Choir; Marc Díaz (conductor and organ)
I wonder if it's the same concert as from September's Through the Night? If so, I enjoyed it.
Through the Night - Francisco Guerrero's Missa pro defunctis
As part of the Llums d'Antiga Festival in Barcelona, the Cererols Choir with conductor Marc Díaz perform one of Renaissance Spain’s finest polyphonic compositions, alongside music by Cristóbal de Morales and Alonso Lobo de Borja. Jonathan Swain presents.
12:31 Cristobal de Morales; Peccantem me quotidie
12:34 Francisco Guerrero; Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) (1566)
01:22 Alonso Lobo de Borja; Versa est in luctum (1602)
01:28 Francisco Guerrero; Hei mihi Domine, from 'Missa pro defunctis'
Well spotted! Must be the same one, mustn't it - unless they did a rerecording especially for R3!
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
That Mozart Fantasia and Sonata in C minor from Alicia de Larrocha was absolutely tremendous. And now Goyescas in which I guess she was peerless. Good piano sound as well.
I don't know if any of you are listening to In Concert just now? There was a world premiere from a composer who is unknown to me. Giger? Very unsettling and challenging to my ear, not something I would voluntarily listen to at all. But I'm glad I heard it. I adore Ibragimova, though, and the 5th violin concerto especially.
I don't know if any of you are listening to In Concert just now? There was a world premiere from a composer who is unknown to me. Giger? Very unsettling and challenging to my ear, not something I would voluntarily listen to at all. But I'm glad I heard it. I adore Ibragimova, though, and the 5th violin concerto especially.
Yes, and I found it a bit too much of a challenge so turned the sound right down until the Mozart came on - and then fell asleep so missed what I actually wanted to hear! In my defence I was severely sleep deprived even by my standards, but it was annoying as this was an evening concert I had actually wanted to hear, many of the ones in recent months not being particularly appealing to me.
The fortepiano in the piano concerto in the first half gave a very different reading of the music, with the bass register very full and prominent to my ears in contrast to the upper so it almost sounded like two different instruments.
That Mozart Fantasia and Sonata in C minor from Alicia de Larrocha was absolutely tremendous. And now Goyescas in which I guess she was peerless. Good piano sound as well.
I caught up with this concert today - absolutely gorgeous. She brings something undefinable to Albéniz in particular which always makes me want to have the music on a desert island…
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
I caught up with this concert today - absolutely gorgeous. She brings something undefinable to Albéniz in particular which always makes me want to have the music on a desert island…
That Goyecas is still reverberating. I can’t believe the colours she got out of the piano . The sheer mastery of it all - the phrasing , dynamics , the shading, tone control , the pedalling - absolutely extraordinary.
I caught up with this concert today - absolutely gorgeous. She brings something undefinable to Albéniz in particular which always makes me want to have the music on a desert island…
I totally missed this one when it was live and I'm too late for tuning in to today's. Given the rave reviews I'm going to catch up on this one first and then listen to the other while I work, tomorrow. I adore her, too
I caught up with this concert today - absolutely gorgeous. She brings something undefinable to Albéniz in particular which always makes me want to have the music on a desert island…
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