Crepuscular Music | Classical Music Performance Reviews
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An Indulgent Operatic Gold Rush: Nadine Sierra’s Gala Season Opening Concert at Wigmore Hall (opens the original)
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Above: Nadine Sierra performs ‘Vissi d’arte’ from Puccini’s Tosca on the Spanish talk show La Revuelta. Credit: YouTube/RTVE MúsicaVeiled threats envelop opera’s lap of luxury. Behind its gilded stairs and crimson velvet the expensive art form masks alarming symptoms: pangs of feverish fermata notes; pulsations raving with love’s seizures. Singers sometimes verge on lyrical delirium.Its sickly visions crept into soprano Nadine Sierra’s lush recital for th
Peeps of Sleeping Memories: Maria Ioudenitch and Roman Borisov at Wigmore Hall (opens the original)
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Above: Ioudenitch playing another Debussy offering, ‘Beau Soir,’ with harpist Héloïse Carlean-Jones at The Curtis Institute of Music in 2015 (Credit: YouTube/Héloïse CJ).Fragments trapped in dissonant alliteration itch for lyrical release. Through iterations of motifs that teem with variations on one letter – D sharp followed by D natural then D flat and finally a double octave – a denial of poetry evolves. What makes for euphony in stanzas forfeits unity in staves.Exhibits o
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