Tag: Histoires naturelles

  • PROGRAM NOTES: EMA NIKOLOVSKA

    PROGRAM NOTES: EMA NIKOLOVSKA

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    Mezzo-soprano Eva Nikolovska has curated an intriguing recital program of songs composed in the forty years between 1865 and 1905, a selection that highlights the changing styles of music emanating from three important centres of music-making. From Vienna there are the contrasting voices of the traditionalist Brahms and his aesthetic adversary Hugo Wolf, from France…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: SIR SIMON KEENLYSIDE

    PROGRAM NOTES: SIR SIMON KEENLYSIDE

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    Johannes Brahms Songs from Opp. 6, 72, 86 & 96 It may be surprising to learn that while Brahms is universally revered as a giant of 19th-century instrumental music, he is often listed as one of the lesser composers of 19th-century art song. This may be because the texts he chose to set were for…