Bach \u2013 <\/strong>Stumme Seufzer, stille Klagen<\/em>, BWV199; Ruhet hie, matte T\u00f6ne<\/em>, BWV210 Accompaniment by the harpsichord grounded this compact, late afternoon recital within the Baroque interval, however within the case of the three-song cycle Love & Endings<\/em> by Elena Langer (given its world premiere right here) that was to not create any pastiche however moderately to introduce an arresting, brittle sonority. She defined that, whereas she usually wrote comedian music, the texts of those three songs are rueful or craving within the case of the primary, \u2018The Lover in Winter Plaineth for the Spring\u2019 (setting the well-known mediaeval lyric, \u2018O Western Wind when wilt thou blow\u2019). The latter was launched with Nicholas Daniel\u2019s onomatopoeically shrieking oboe, ending with hole blowing by means of the instrument to proceed seamlessly into the record of disagreeable climatic phenomena in \u2018The life of this world\u2019. The last track was prefaced with a melancholy, meandering prelude for cor anglais, absolutely meant to recall the unhappy pipe track which opens Act III of Tristan und Isolde<\/em>, earlier than giving option to Richard Gowers\u2019s menacing pounding, and infernal dance rhythms on the harpsichord to accompany Anna Dennis\u2019s superbly sustained mournful notes, making a resigned conclusion to the cycle which had elicited crisp alacrity from her within the first two songs. Langer\u2019s pithy settings, considerably like Britten however extra harmonically piquant, held consideration for his or her strong musical model, steadily shifting in texture or expression, however by no means in search of to make results for their very own sake.<\/p>\n Beginning the recital was a pair of Bach cantata arias, which Dennis executed with reassuring vocal magnificence, the sorrow and anxiousness of the primary becalmed by Daniel\u2019s soothing oboe accompaniment, and the \u2018weary notes\u2019 referred to within the second allayed by his dainty obbligato. At the tip had been two of Handel\u2019s Nine German Arias to texts by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, radiantly sustained by Dennis because the phrases communicate of wonderment at God\u2019s creation, seconded by Daniel and Gowers\u2019s sprightly help. In between got here three of Vaughan Williams\u2019s Ten Blake Songs, Dennis\u2019s sympathetic renditions of those beguilingly easy verses aptly supported by Daniel alone (in a pleasant piece of musical family tree, they had been initially written for his instructor, Janet Craxton).<\/p>\n In the center of the recital got here Handel\u2019s C minor Oboe Sonata, wherein Daniel sustained a usually lyrical, vocal tone, the opening Largo<\/em> persevering with the pressure of melancholy with which Langer\u2019s Love & Endings <\/em>had concluded. The intertwined fugal strains of the Allegro<\/em> had been extra pertly delivered by him and Gowers to convey out the counterpoint, earlier than melodic sweetness was restored for the remaining two actions.<\/p>\n Curtis Rogers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] United Kingdom Oxford Lieder Festival 2022 [5] \u2013 Bach, Elena Langer, Handel, Vaughan Williams: Anna Dennis (soprano), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Richard Gowers (harpsichord). Holywell Music Room, Oxford 21.10.2022. (CR) Bach \u2013 Stumme Seufzer, stille Klagen, BWV199; Ruhet hie, matte T\u00f6ne, BWV210Elena Langer \u2013 Love & EndingsHandel \u2013 Oboe Sonata in C minor, HWV366Vaughan Williams […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-theatre"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"United](\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/world-flags\/images\/flags\/24\/gb.png\" "\\"United")
United Kingdom<\/span><\/span><\/span> Oxford Lieder Festival 2022 [5] \u2013 Bach, Elena Langer, Handel, Vaughan Williams: <\/span><\/strong>Anna Dennis (soprano), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Richard Gowers (harpsichord). Holywell Music Room, Oxford 21.10.2022. (CR)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/39_Dennis-250x250.jpg\")
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Elena Langer \u2013 <\/strong>Love & Endings
<\/em>Handel \u2013 <\/strong>Oboe Sonata in C minor, HWV366
Vaughan Williams <\/strong>Ten Blake Songs \u2013 Infant Joy<\/em>; The Piper<\/em>; Eternity
<\/em>Handel \u2013 <\/strong>S\u00fcsse stille, sanfte Quelle<\/em>, HWV205; Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden<\/em>, HWV210<\/p>\n