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Orfeo. (Nigel Roberts; London Baroque; London Cornett and Sackett Ensemble;, Orfeo. (Nigel Roberts; London Baroque; London Cornett and Scbt Ensemble;, Orfeo. (Nigel Roberts; London Baroque; London Cornett and Scutt Ensemble;, or Orfeo. (Nigel Roberts; London Baroque; London Cornett and Skutt Ensemble; ?
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Underworld
Underworld Techno rock group For the Record… Underworld Comes Together “A Very London Sound” Trainspotting Soundtrack Success At the Forefront of Electronica Selected discography Sources For the British ensemble Underworld, merging past and present—as well... Read more |
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concerto
concerto , musical composition usually for an orchestra and a soloist or a group of soloists. In the 16th cent. concertare and concertato implied an ensemble, either vocal or instrumental. At the end of the century concerto referred to music in which two ensembles contested with each other. By... Read more |
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Tafelmusik
Tafelmusik Baroque orchestra "The phenomenal success of Tafelmusik's playing lies in its unique sound, praised for its orthodoxy, polish and exuberance—a sound which has achieved world-class status for this orchestra, regarded by many as one of the best Baroque ensembles on the... Read more |
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Negro Ensemble Company
Negro Ensemble Company (New York). With a substantial financial contribution from the Ford Foundation, the group was organized in 1967 by Robert Hooks, Douglas Turner Ward, and Gerald Krone. Their aim was to establish “a place wherein Black theatrical talent could be continuously... Read more |
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Emerson String Quartet
Emerson String Quartet Chamber music ensemble For the Record… Accomplished.... Read more |
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Gesamtkunstwerk
Gesamtkunstwerk (German: ‘total work of art’). A term used to describe the cooperation of several arts in a single expressive aim. The term was coined by the composer Richard Wagner in his book Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (The Artwork of the Future, 1849), although the idea of uniting... Read more |
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies , 1934-, English composer and conductor, b. Salford. He was co-founder (1967) of the Pierrot Players instrumental ensemble, later reinvented as the Fires of London (1970-87), which he directed and for which he wrote many pieces, e.g., the highly emotional Eight Songs for a... Read more |
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Beth Orton
Beth Orton Singer, songwriter For the Record… Selected discography Sources Beth Orton emerged from the British trip-hop dance scene as a singer/songwriter who directed her talents toward making amplified folk music in a refreshingly different vein. Orton, who lent vocal tracks for the likes... Read more |
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baroque (music)
baroque in music, a style that prevailed from the last decades of the 16th cent. to the first decades of the 18th cent. Its beginnings were in the late 16th-century revolt against polyphony that gave rise to the accompanied recitative and to opera . With opera and recitative came the figured... Read more |
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Orfeo, Sir
Orfeo, Sir, a material romance of the early 14th cent. in about 600 lines (in three varying manuscript versions), identified in... |
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Monteverdi, Claudio
...Italian composer, the first great opera composer. Many of Monteverdi's operas are lost; the surviving ones include L'Orfeo (1607) and L'Incoronazione di Poppea (1642). He wrote much religious music and was the last and greatest master of the... |
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romance
...the 13th cent. onwards. Some of the most distinguished include King Horn, Havelok, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo (see also Breton lays). They usually involve the suspension of the circumstances normally attendant on human actions (often... |
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Poliziano, Angelo
...professor of Greek and Latin at the University of Florence, and wrote poetry in both these languages. His Italian works include Orfeo (1480), the first secular drama in Italian. His philological acumen made him one of the founders of modern textual criticism... |
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Breton lays
Breton lays, in English literature of the Middle English period, are short stories in rhyme like those of Marie de France. English examples include Emaré, Sir Orfeo, and Chaucer's ‘The Franklin's Tale’ (Canterbury Tales 12). |
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Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
...Christoph Willibald von (1714–87) German operatic composer. His early operas were composed in the Italian tradition. In Orfeo ed Euridice (1762), Gluck attempted to reform opera by unifying musical and dramatic components. He turned to the French... |
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Orpheus
...10. 1–85, and especially Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae, iii. 12, so that it appears in the English Sir Orfeo, and in the 14th-cent. King Orfew. Opera has been the genre that has made most use of the Orpheus story in modern times... |
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Ferrier, Kathleen
Ferrier, Kathleen (1912–53) English contralto. She sang the title role in the first performance of Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (1946) at Glyndebourne, England, and was also acclaimed as Orpheus in Christoph Gluck's Orfeo. She died early of cancer. |
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Orfeo ed Euridice
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice). 1...recurs, and other new mus. was added.) Orfeo is now generally sung by mez. but sometimes...Orpheus).2. L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice. Opera in 4 acts by Haydn... |
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Orfeo
Orfeo ♂ (Italian) From Greek Orpheus, borne in classical mythology by a Thracian musician who descends into the Underworld in search... |
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Gluck, Christoph Willibald von
...His ballet Don Juan (1761) and opera Orfeo (1762) embodied these principles which...followed by a slightly rev. Fr. version of Orfeo and 2 years later of Alceste. Jealousy...1755); Il rè pastore (Vienna 1756); Orfeo ed Euridice (Vienna 1762); Telemaco... |
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Musgrave, Thea
...Beauty and the Beast (1968–9); Orfeo, with dancer (see Chamber Music below...str. From One to Another II, 1980); Orfeo I, fl., tape (1975, orch. vers. fl., 15 str., Orfeo II, 1975); Fanfare, brass quintet... |
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Butt, (Dame) Clara (Ellen)
...Sullivan's The Golden Legend). Sang title-role of Gluck's Orfeo in 1892 at Lyceum with conspicuous success but thereafter pursued career on concert platform except for an Orfeo with Beecham at CG, 1920. Toured British Empire in ballad recitals... |
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Kirchner, Volker David
...II, orch. (1983–4); str. qt. (1982–3); pf. sonata (1985–6); Lamemnto e danza d'Orfeo, hn., pf. (1986–7); Orfeo, bar., hn. pf. (1986–7); Und Salome sprach ..., vc. (1987). |
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Monteverdi, Claudio (Giovanni Antonio)
...Peri's Euridice, 1600. His own first opera, La favola d'Orfeo was prod. in 1607, notable in history of mus. because for the...the period. Prin. works:OPERAS & BALLETS: La favola d'Orfeo (1607); Arianna (1608, lost); Il ballo delle Ingrate... |
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arpa doppia
arpa doppia (It. ‘double harp’). Name given in 16th-cent. Italy to both double-strung and triple-strung harp, probably because of increased range and size. Incl. in Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607). |
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Barbirolli, (Sir) John
...9. Cond. opera at CG 1951–4, incl. Aida with Callas, Tristan und Isolde with Sylvia Fisher and Ludwig Suthaus, and Orfeo with Kathleen Ferrier (1953, her last public appearances). Cond. Aida (Rome 1969). Also arr. mus. by Purcell, Corelli... |
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Christie, William (Lincoln)
...Charpentier (Médée and Actéon), Lully (Atys), Rameau (Pygmalion and Les Indes galantes), Handel (Alcina), and Rossi (Orfeo). Prof., Paris Cons. from 1982. London début of Les Arts Florissants, Greenwich 1990. His perfs. of Fr. and It. baroque... |
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MÚSICA Y POESÍA: EL MITO DE ORFEO EN LA POÉTICA DEL RENACIMIENTO ESPAÑOL
In memoriam: Alberto Porqueras Mayo Orfeo es considerado el primer poeta, músico y...discrepancias, pues en las mitologías se dice que Orfeo fue hijo de Eagro, rey de Tracia. Para los españoles...y de Calíope, musa de la poesía. Orfeo nació en Tracia, un siglo antes de la ... |
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An elegant but reticent 'Orfeo'
...08-05-2010 An elegant but reticent 'Orfeo'Byline: ANTHONY TOMMASINISection: ReviewType: NewsThe Salzburg Festival's "Orfeo ed Euridice" was beautifully presented...Dorn's new production of Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" at the Salzburg Festival... |
 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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'ORFEO' TOO HARSH TO CHARM IN L.A.(U)(Review)
...Gluck knew a good wellspring. His ``Orfeo ed Euridice'' written in 1762 sprang...the first great one, Monteverdi's ``Orfeo,'' about 150 years earlier. But though...revolutionary at its premiere, Gluck's ``Orfeo'' has become a problematic work in our... |
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'ORFEO' TOO HARSH TO CHARM IN L.A.
...Willibald Gluck knew a good wellspring. His "Orfeo ed Euridice" written in 1762 sprang from...the first great one, Monteverdi's "Orfeo," about 150 years earlier. But though revolutionary at its premiere, Gluck's "Orfeo" has become a problematic work in our... |
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The heroism of Heurodis: self-mutilation and restoration in Sir...
...the fourteenthcentury anonymous poem Sir Orfeo and its Boethian, Ovidian, and Virgilian...sources is the "happy ending" that reunites Orfeo with Heurodis and returns them safely from...links the loss of Heurodis to the loss of Orfeo's kingdom, the restoration of ... |
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The Metropolitan Opera BROADCAST OF JANUARY 24, 1:00 P.M.: ORFEO ED EURIDICE
...CONTRIBUTIONS FROM LISTENERS WORLDWIDE. ORFEO ED EURIDICE Music by Christoph Willibald...THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance) Orfeo mezzo, STEPHANIE BLYTHE Amor soprano...THE STORY ACT I. The poet and singer Orfeo grieves before the tomb of his young wife... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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Gluck is out of luck with a distant `Orfeo'
ORFEO ED EURIDICE Christoph Willibald Gluck's...that Mark Morris' production of Gluck's "Orfeo ed Euridice" would be another masterpiece...achievements of the post-Balanchine era.But "Orfeo" isn't that, at least not yet. Last... |
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`Orfeo'
...stunning new production of Monteverdi's "Orfeo" Wednesday night. Never has an ovation...strong work during its 27 years, but "Orfeo" moves the company to a new plateau...Glover to oversee the musical end of "Orfeo" and has forged an alliance with Mary... |
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`L'Orfeo':17th-century look with 20th-century appeal
Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" wasn't the first opera, but it was...be an important new production of "L'Orfeo," which opens Tuesday night in Sanders...and Parrott have collaborated on "L'Orfeo" before, in a production in Oslo, Norway... |
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Culture: Orfeo comes back from the underworld; How did a Haydn opera...
...Christopher Morley The answer is Haydn's Orfeo, composed during his first visit to England...gathered together to rehearse the opera Orfeo. Haydn had distributed the parts, and...not even in the form of a rehearsal. Orfeo was, as it were, declared to be contraband... |
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