James Bailey on Opera Colorado presents beauti…ĭouglas Moore on Opera Colorado presents beauti… James Bailey on English a capella group Voces8… Sharpsandflatirons on Facebook Recent Comments “Scenderò, volerò, griderò” from Ercole su’l Termondonte.“Onde chiare che sussurrate” from Ercole su’l Termodonte.“Gelosia, tu già rendi l’alma mia” from Ottone in Villa.“Veni, veni me sequere fida” from Juditha triumphans.“Armatae face et anguibus” from Juditha triumphans.“Vedro con mio diletto” from Il Giustino. Thomas Dunford, Artistic Director and lute, with Lea Desandre, mezzo soprano Louise Ayrton, violin Augusta McKay Lodge, violin Manami Mizumoto, viola Bruno Philippe, cello Douglas Balliett, double bass and Tom Foster, harpsichord and organ Many of the works on Wednesday’s program can be heard on group’s 2019 CD recording, Vivaldi/Jupiter. An early interest in dance turned more to singing, and her early-music experience included work with William Christie, founder of the superstar group Les Arts Florissants, and studies with Véronique Gens and Paul Agnew, both stars on the French early-music scene. “Some of them are already renowned soloists.”Īs a child, Desandre joined the chorus of the Paris Opéra, where her idol was the great French singer Natalie Dessay. “All of the artists invited to take part in the (Jupiter) project are brilliant masters of their instruments,” he wrote. Once characterized by BBC Magazine as “the Eric Clapton of the Lute,” Dunford decided four years ago to create an ensemble of virtuosos to follow in the footsteps of the early-music pioneers. “He wove a subtle but clear, golden filament of sound.” “The lute is not a loud instrument, but Dunford makes it speak,” he wrote. Woolfe was equally complimentary of the group‘s leader. made a delightful debut in Carnegie Hall’s intimate Weill space.” About mezzo-soprano Desandre, he wrote that her “fast runs emerged with smooth legato flow” and “her clarinet-mellow voice provided the spine of the evening.” In addition to the virtuoso arias that Desandre will sing, the program includes concertos for lute and cello, interspersed between the vocal numbers to give Desandre some much needed breaks between numbers.Ĭontinuing his NYT “Critic’s Pick” review of Jupiter’s Vivaldi, Woolfe wrote, “the young early music ensemble. The group is taking their all-Vivaldi program (listed below) on tour around the United States.
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