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

Par Kurt Gottschalk, 21 juillet 2019

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

Critique faite à YellowBarn, Putney, le 19 juillet 2019

Aho, Quintet for bassoon and string quartet

Henze, Being Beauteous

Fauré, Quatuor pour piano et cordes no. 2 en sol mineur, Op.45

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

Yen-Chen Wu, Basson

Jaha Lee, Violon

Mann-Wen Lo, Violon

Sarah Sung, Alto

Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Violoncelle

Rachel Schutz, Soprano

Noë Wan, Harpe

Alexander Kovalev, Violoncelle

Annie Jacobs-Perkins, Violoncelle

Yunwen Chen, Violoncelle

Natasha Brofsky, Violoncelle

Emely Phelps, Piano

Claire Bourg, Violon

Maren Rothfritz, Alto

Sein Lee, Violoncelle

William Sharp, Baryton

Mark Hill, Hautbois

Leonard Fu, Violon

Yiliang Jiang, Violon

Maria Lambros, Alto

Michael Kannen, Violoncelle

Stephen Coxe, Clavecin

Pete Walsh, Contrebasse

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

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.

***11

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.

****1

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.

*****

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

Le voyage hongrois de Jonas Kaufmann au TCE

Romain Daroles, 20th April

Malgré le choix étonnant de l'amplification des voix qui restera une énigme pendant toute la soirée, le programme révèle les charmes d'une musique rarement donnée avenue Montaigne.

***11

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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.