In rural New England, music from three centuries played with aplomb

Por Kurt Gottschalk, 21 julio 2019

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“it was complicated in the ways that the varieties of emotions and events in a given day can be”

Crítica hecha desde YellowBarn, Putney el 19 julio 2019

Aho, Quintet for bassoon and string quartet

Henze, Being Beauteous

Fauré, Cuarteto con piano núm. 2 en sol menor, Op.45

Bach, Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem - Cantata, BWV159: Es ist vollbracht

Yen-Chen Wu, Fagot

Jaha Lee, Violín

Mann-Wen Lo, Violín

Sarah Sung, Viola

Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Violonchelo

Rachel Schutz, Soprano

Noë Wan, Arpa

Alexander Kovalev, Violonchelo

Annie Jacobs-Perkins, Violonchelo

Yunwen Chen, Violonchelo

Natasha Brofsky, Violonchelo

Emely Phelps, Piano

Claire Bourg, Violín

Maren Rothfritz, Viola

Sein Lee, Violonchelo

William Sharp, Barítono

Mark Hill, Oboe

Leonard Fu, Violín

Yiliang Jiang, Violín

Maria Lambros, Viola

Michael Kannen, Violonchelo

Stephen Coxe, Clave

Pete Walsh, Contrabajo

Tunes for the Moon at Vermont's Yellow Barn

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th July

On the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, the musicians of Yellow Barn played a wide-ranging program of works inspired by the night sky.

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A smorgasbord of seasonal English music in Washington DC

Cristina Burack, 22nd December

The early music ensemble peppered its diverse program with the rollicking play A Christmas Messe. While not all arrangements worked well, expertise and emotion made for a pleasurably unique performance.

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Opera Lafayette revives an 18th-century comic gem

Zerbinetta, 26th January

Opera Lafayette has uncovered a fascinating work in their revival of Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny’s 1762 comic opera Le roi et le fermier (The King and the Farmer). The Washington, D.C.

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Kurt Weill meets Francis Poulenc in Opera Parallèle's innovative production

Jaime Robles, 25th April

Opera Parallèle combines Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel and Francis Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias in a riotous opera-within-an-opera production.

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Tunes for the Moon at Vermont's Yellow Barn

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th July

On the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, the musicians of Yellow Barn played a wide-ranging program of works inspired by the night sky.

****1

Resonancias entre tiempos: viaje ulterior con Nicolas Altstaedt

Maria Sánchez, 19th April

Entre la variedad estilística y las diversas maneras de hacer, la música del violonchelista alemán desplegó un muestrario de posibilidades instrumentales en la intimidad monástica.

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Kurt Gottschalk

Kurt Gottschalk is a journalist and author based in New York City. His writings on contemporary and classical music, jazz and improvisation have been published in outlets throughout Europe and America and he has two volumes of short fiction to his name. He produced and hosted the Miniature Minotaurs radio programme on WFMU and currently hosts Afternoon New Music on WKCR.