My review of Californian composer Mark Abel’s CD 4.4.2 featuring Canadian mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh is now available at La Scena Musicale.
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Ein Traumspiel
My review of the recent CD release of Aribert Reimanns’s first opera Ein Traumspiel is now on-line at La Scene Musicale. The disk also includes his rather unusual Denn Bleiben ist nirgends.
Sankofa: The Soldier’s Tale Retold
My review of the recording of Art of Time Ensemble’s adaptation of Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale is now on-line at La Scena Musicale. Sankofa is a very moving reframing of the story to relate the experiences of a young man from the Caribbean trying to join the Canadian Army in WW1.
December
The sound track of Essential Opera’s on-line video of Monica Pearce’s COVID era opera December has now been issued as a CD. You can read my review at La Scena Musicale.
Boulanger’s La ville morte
My review of Catapult Opera’s recording of Nadia Boulanger’s La ville morte is now available at La Scena Musicale.
Wallis Giunta sings Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins
My review of the recent CD of Weill works including The Seven Deadly Sins with Wallis Giunta as Anna I and II is now published at La Scena Musicale.
Calamus
Calamus is a work for soprano and cello by Andrew Staniland based on poems from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. My review of the recent CD release is now available at La Scena Musicale.
Catalogue information: Leaf Music VR2025
Invented Folksongs
Invented Folksongs is a set of four pieces by Anna Pidgorna inspired, rather than based on, traditional Ukrainian folk songs collected by her in the field and recorded by her with the Ludivico Ensemble. My review is now available at La Scena Musicale.
Catalogue information: Redshift Records TK557
Dark Tales
Duo Concertante play Alice Ho’s Dark Tales; pieces for violin and piano inspired by Newfoundland ghost stories. Full review at La Scena Musicale.
i love evil
Two hours of soprano Dory Hayley multi tracking with live and recorded electronics in a tribute to Morton Feldman’s Three Voices. Fascinating if not everyone’s cup of tea. Full review at La Scena Musicale.
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