Other voices

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We'll see in April.

Many thanks, Rada!   

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How about this, then?


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A little competition:  Can anyone come up with a collective noun for a gathering of countertenors (as in flock of birds, pride of lions, etc.)? Answers on a postcard, please.  And it goes without saying that suggestions like "hoot" or "screech" will be immediately disqualified  ...  


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Dear  Nath29, Jana, Artemis, Radazenobia

Next year again: "Riccardo Primo" > February 2015,
(elaborate costumes, lights and good bodylanguage with "historical" elegance  )

Händel Festspiele > Germany > Karlsruhe
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Radio · SWR 2 programm, 13.04.2014:
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How about a "starburst of countertenors"?

Saskia,

Thanks so much for the info., Saskia.    I see that in addition to "Riccardo Primo", there will be performances of Handel's "Teseo" with Terry Wey and the ever-delightful Valer. Looks like I shall be seeing a lot of Karlsrühe next year ...

Suzie_g,

I like the "starburst" idea ...  

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Radio "MDR Figaro" and "NDR Kultur"

Friday, 21th March, 20:05

Valer Sabadus

(recording 26.02.2014 · Laeiszhalle Hamburg)
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And on Radio "NDR Kultur":
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Radio ABC Classic FM (Australia, Melbourne)
Broadcast 7:30pm, Wed 19 Mar 2014 · Headline: A STAR FROM THE EAST

Julia Lezhneva · live

ABC Classic FM: ... "LISTEN: Hear Julia Lezhneva live from Melbourne Recital Centre
on 19 March 2014 at 7.30pm or catch up online after."
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Time Europe: Wed 19 Mar 2014 > 9:30 (-10 hours)
Or catch up online after...?   
ENJOY.

Let´s hope that Julia Lezhneva and Philippe Jaroussky will make a lot of more concerts together... — Pleasure! —  
 

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A beautiful concert on Website of "Radio Musiq3":

L`Arpeggiata · Christina Pluhar · Raquel Andueza · Vincenzo Capezzuto

(Recording / Concert: Germany, Rheingau Musik Festival 2013)

Link > Radio RTBF · Musiq3 (Belgium):
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Listen again > „Click“ on the sentence:
Concert 14h 2014-03-21 L'Arpeggiata-Christina Pluhar

Enjoy   

Something about precious Julia !   

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What a lovely review; what a lovely person.

One of the first things I heard on falling in the marmit was the Pergolesi Stabat Mater from Julia and Philippe
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The perfection and purity and all the rest were mindblowing...

My dear friend  Kelalla told me about the summer - "Festspiele" in Salzburg this year - there will be not only "Sonnets" by Dalbavie  with  Philippe  but also "Il Trovatore" by Verdi with M.-N. Lemieux as Azucena!  One more reason to go !  

Please, record today if you can!
"Artaserse" from Amsterdam live!

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Thanks to nightspell for recording!   

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I just love this documentary - and Yurij gets to speak - finally!  

Thanks, Jana.

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Artemis

I thought absolutely the same - finally Yurij  got a word !   
Have you noticed, that Semira and Megabise share the same room ?
Peace!  



Here is a new project of Concerto Köln, Pablo Heras-Casado and Bejun Mehta - "El Maestro Farinelli".   

Händel · Solomon > Concert from March 2014 > Québec · Canada

Radio broadcast on Radio "RTBF · MUSIQ 3"
04 June 2014 · 20:00

Marie Nicole Lemieux and other beautiful artists...
(http://www.violonsduroy.com/en/concerts/v/solomon-140321-20)

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(You will find the tiny botton for "Webradio" > left > in the header · called: "En Direct" )

Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen (Semi-Opera)

Watch live –online– from Graz (Austria)
This Saturday:
June 21 at 19:30

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Live > Radio:

1. Concert:  Valer Sabadus and the excellent ensemble —Concerto Köln—
Today > 27.06.2014 > time: 20:03 > Live from Neuwied (Germany)

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2. Opera: Castor et Pollux (Rameau) · Live on Radio "NDR Kultur" (Germany)
Saturdy > 28.06.2014 > time: 19:00 ... Staatsoper Hannover, Germany

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Radio Klara (Belgium) = Podcast

Concert: L'Arpeggiata · Christina Pluhar · "Teatro d'Amore"
with Vincenzo Capezzuto (alto) and
Reinoud Van Mechelen (tenor)

Recording from 2. May 2014 in Mechelen (Belgium)
(Festival van Vlaanderen · Mechelen:
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Radio Podcast from today:
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Click here:  MA 30/06/14 > on the word:  —Beluister— (= Listen to)
Time > Start    1:07 — 2:30 (= Concert: L'Arpeggiata)

Very nice: —Enjoy—    

People who are new:
CD > "Teatro d'Amore" · Info > L'Arpeggiata:
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300 years —Christoph Willibald Gluck—

5 days: 5 podcasts on Radio SWR 2 (german language)

Topic on SWR2:  "Antiker Schmerz, griechische Thränen"

Day 1 from 30.06.2014: available for 7 days / Gluck in Italie
1 song Philippe: „Sperai vicino il lido“ · „Demofoonte“

Day 2 from 01.07.2014:  available for 7 days / Gluck in Vienna
Day 3 from 02.07.2014:  Gluck in Paris
Day 4 from 03.07.2014:  Fire of the Prometheus, Opera seria...
Day 5 from 04.07.2014:  ... Glucks Amide

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I found on Radio SWR the podcast:

Valer Sabadus and Concerto Köln:
Rheinvokal 2014 > 27.06.2014 > "Delirio amorosa"

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Maybe interesting?

Radio Ö1 (german language), 17. July · 19:30

Topic: "Stimmen hören" (Listen to voices)
"Der Wettstreit der Götter" und Göttinnen "Alter Musik":
Cecilia Bartoli, Julia Lezhneva, Ann Hallenberg — and 7 countertenors
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Livestream Bayerische Staatsoper, Monteverdi, 27. July 2014
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Today — Live from Aix-en-Provence (France)
(Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2014)

Freiburger Barockorchester
> Johann Sebastian Bach

Tuesday > 08 July 2014 > I´m not sure: Start 20:00
Live on „Radio Classique“

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Live from Fribourg (Switzerland)
(Festival International de Musiques Sacrées 2014)

Raquel Andueza (soprano)
Jesús Fernández Baena (theorbo)
"In Paradiso"

Wednesday >  09 July 2014 > I´m not sure: Start 20.00 or 20:30 ...
Live on Radio „Espace 2“

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Live from Aix-en-Provence (France)
(Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2014)

Opera: Ariodante (Händel)
Freiburger Barockorchester · Andrea Marcon

Thursday > 10 July 2014 > I´m not sure: Start 21:00 or later
Live on „Radio Classique“

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My opinion: „Please forgive my loyalty and honesty:
—Scherza infida— sung by Philippe Jaroussky is unique and the Nr. 1 — worldwide“.

Thanks Saskia!!

Thank you, dear Saskia!  

The next year there - "Alcina" by Händel with Patricia Petibon and Philippe Jaroussky as Ruggiero!

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Halleluja!!!  

Thanks for all of this, Saskia!   You must spend hours and hours researching on our behalf!

I should be in the audience for "Ariodante" myself later - "intermittents" (currently serenading the opera-going public with saucepans and vuvuzelas) permitting. It's a Richard Jones production, which probably means acres and acres of really naff wallpaper!   

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Thanks Pilar, JaRoWi and Artemis
Great that you enjoy!   

Artemis — I spend very less time with researching for good music in Radio or TV.
I have not much time. —
But sometimes... I find good news: Throw the lasso and a little bit intuition.   
That´s relaxing!   

That brings the true pleasure...  (> among other good things) :      
To find a new good CD or to discover really good classical music
or to plan the next travel to a really good concert.   

Artemis — enjoy this evening !!!    


( I hope that the Festival d`Aix 2015 will take place in the next year.
There is a great need for action and I understand the demonstrators.
Same big problems in Germany too!   )  

Sunny regards!
 

Today: Concert —Gondola—

Vincenzo Capezzuto and ensemble "Il pomo d'oro"

Today > 13. July 2014 > time 20:03
on Radio "Deutschlandradio Kultur" (Germany)
Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci
Recording from 22.06.2014

Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto für Mandoline C-Dur RV 425
Concerto für Violine g-Moll RV 331

Pietro Baldassarre Galuppi
Concerto für Zink F-Dur

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(Soccer World Cup 2014 — this evening?   — Tip: Germany 2 : Argentina 1     )

I listened to a very nice concert this evening...   


The excellent ensemble "L´ Arpeggiata" / Christina Pluhar
and Nuria Rial (soloist)

"Music Festival Potsdam Sanssouci" · (Germany)
"La dama d'Arago"  · Traditional music from Catalonia from the Middle Ages to today

> The radio-podcast is available to 08 August 2014

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My favorite song > ( jazzy)  >  Start  23:00  — 27:37

Enjoy.

  


"By the way: Good programme on "ARD Radio-Festival"
(from 19. July to 13. September 2014)":
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On stage, Radio and TV:

Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Azucena)   
Anna Netrebko (Leonora)
Plácido Domingo (Il Conte di Luna)
...

Opera: Il Trovatore , Verdi

Live on Radio "Ö1" · 09 August 2014
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9. September 2014
L`Arpeggiata on Radio BR (Germany) · Antonio Bertali and Giovanni Felice Sances, 2014

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What is an echo flute?  (»Fiauti d'Echo")

Ensemble Concerto Köln —

> The brandenburg concerto no 4:
Bach´s discription of the ensemble clearly mention "fiauti d` echo".

Very interesting:
Concerto Köln ordered to build this echo flutes based on old drawings and research material ! It´s a flute with a forte side and an echo side.

Take a look to this flutes and music > new video with english subtitle:
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Concerto Köln · September 2014 · the new CD (for example here):
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Thanks, Saskia!

Here's a couple of interesting productions for anyone who can get to Brussels and/or Amsterdam easily.

La Monnaie (Brussels) will be showing alternating performances of "Tamerlano" and "Alcina".  The productions will then go on to the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam.  The stage director for both productions is Pierre Audi who directed the TCE production of "Orlando Furioso".  Tamerlano will be sung by the wonderful Christophe Dumaux who should be damned good, given the relish with which he seems to play "bad boys"!    The rest of the cast ain't too shabby, either ...


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Booking for both productions opens on 2nd December.

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Italienische Opening Night 2014

12 September 2014
Friday · 19:00 – 22:30
Live from Laeiszhalle Hamburg on Radio "NDR Kultur" (Germany)


Sunny regards  

I just had to post this enchanting little gem!   I was surprised by how well the countertenor voice suits this Rimsky-Korsakov piece.  Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov wrote some beautiful songs and "vocalises";  it would be fantastic if Yurij could record some of them for our greater pleasure since he is uniquely placed among CTs in being able to sing the Russian rep.  I'm glad he seems to have dropped the beard and moustache though - I don't think they did much for him.     What IS it with countertenors and their penchant for facial hair??  


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Artemis

I´m very glad, you are interested in Russian repertoire as well!
This is a song of Lel, a young handsome sheperd (and a shawm- player) with whom is in love Snegurochka, an Ice- girl in old Russian fairy tales. So it is an perfect match!

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The fascial hair....hmmmmm...I guess, at the beginning of their career the CT always are forced to prove their real " masculinity" this way.

Thanks for the background info., Jana!   I didn't know this opera and had to look it up.  Alas, things did not turn out well for poor Snegurochka; this is what happens when mythical creatures make the mistake of falling in love with humans (cf. Rusalka)!  Lel is a "pants rôle" apparently - not the first for Yurij, as he  has also played Ratmir.

Sadly, the Russian rep. (well, much of the vocal repertoire, anyway) is rather neglected in the west.  The Met's  recent production of "Prince Igor", which is standard rep. in Russia, was the first since 1917!  The same goes for Polish music (other than Chopin); there's some fabulous operatic music by Moniuszko, Nowowiejski and Zelenski, for example, which is rarely heard (never mind performed!) outside Poland ...

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You´re welcome, Artemis!

The best Ratmir could be Eric Kurmangaliev- the first  Russian  countertenor, who already died some time ago.....here we still have another  Russian operatic " pants- role" - Wanya from " Iwan Susanin" ( Or " Life for the Zar" ) by Glinka.

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Gosh! He was a real male mezzo (which is what I think Franco Fagioli is, actually)! I think it's great that men are taking on some of the pants rôles previously the preserve of mezzo-sopranos - although I like mezzos a lot and wouldn't want to be without Ann Hallenberg, Sarah Connolly or Alice Coote - so there's room for both.

Thanks, Jana!

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Talking of pants rôles, here's Susan Graham singing what I've come to think of as "The Mezzo's Lament". Alice Coote also complains that she wears the pants so well that nobody wants to see her in a frock - although she did once sing Charlotte in "Werther" when, presumably, pants were not required ...


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Ohhhh...these pants .... poor M-m Graham )))) Indeed, some ladies do it so well that you don´t really want them to  appear in a frock . Alice Coote told once, she war in a hurry to get her plane after performance and kept her " masculine" make-up and suit on - so , as  she arrived, her husband did not recognise her  at the airport.

About Eric Kurmangaliev- yes, he was unique  and never wore a beard to proove his " manhood" - this was  also the reason he haven´t got the first prize at the singing competition in the Netherlands as he was very young - some of the jury members have not believed he is a ...well, boy. He looked that kind of smooth because he was kazakh and they don´t have much fascial hair in general...

Here is a short movie about him in Russian, where we can see also how great dancer he was.
Especially Orlofsky- piece!

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Thanks, Jana.    I wish I spoke Russian  and also that the documentary had shown more clips of him actually performing.  He was certainly very beautiful (and graceful).

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I just wanted to post it, too! Thank you!

Yanochka, add it if you want)

Wanted to post the link to Alessandro by Handel,  but  just saw it has already been posted by Let me above.
I was lucky to attend this performance in Tchaikovsky Concert hall and enjoyed it immensely from first to the last minute!  It was a great event with Max Emmanuel Cencic, Julia Lezhneva, Javier Sabata(counter-tenor, Spain), Juan Sancho (tenor, Spain), Vasili Khoroshev (counter-tenor, Russia), Pavel Kudinov (basso, Russia), ensemble Armonia Atenea, conductor George Petrou.

Edit: Just in case someone has difficulty with the Russian site, this is the direct link to the record of the performance of Alessandro:

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By the way, notes and manuscripts are stored not only in the archives of the Mariinsky Theatre. Places need to know=Места надо знать

Tomorrow evening on Radio "MDR Figaro":
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small tipp > 13. to 16. November > on Radio "WDR 3":
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Radio "Klara", Belgium

Julia Lezhneva · 07 January 2015 (Wednesday) · time: 20:00
Händel, Vivaldi – Telemann, Corelli

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Thanks a lot, Saskia. I saw this lovely lady in "Siroë" at Versailles. Her pleasure in singing and performing was obvious for all the audience to see. She was an absolute joy to listen to - a wonderful production too, with gorgeous costumes - thanks, Max!

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