"One is battered to the ground and then raised on angels’ wings to the highest heights," Mahler wrote after hearing his Resurrection Symphony for the first time. And in many ways this was exactly the kind of performance Gilbert Kaplan gave us on Tuesday evening. This was a performance that was often shattering, with some of the widest dynamic extremes I have ever encountered in this work. Whether it was the way Mr Kaplan succeeded in getting the Philharmonia strings to hum like birds at Fig.5, with breathtaking clarity given to the pp – ppp marking, or the fff opening of the fifth movement which was given unusual terror, Mr Kaplan’s fidelity to the score was absolutely convincing.
It was certainly an uncommonly good performance, dramatically and starkly conceived as a single arc in its expressive range. And although this was not a first performance of the new critical edition of the score (due to be published at the end of ) nor was it simply Mahler as we are used to hearing it. Mr Kaplan had spent some time correcting parts in the Philharmonia’s scores but it sounded very far from being a mere hybrid. Part of Mr Kaplan’s genius is that any perform
Cardiff Singer History
Ym mis Gorffennaf , cynhaliwyd y gystadleuaeth ddwyflynyddol, a drefnir gan BBC Cymru Wales, am y tro cyntaf i ddathlu agoriad Neuadd Dewi Sant yng Nghaerdydd. Erbyn hyn, ystyrir mai'r digwyddiad yw'r gystadleuaeth operatig bwysicaf yn y byd.
Roedd 18 o gantorion yn y flwyddyn gyntaf, a phob un wedi'i enwebu gan ei sefydliad darlledu lleol. Ar y noson gyntaf un roedd Katrina Mattila, y soprano o'r Ffindir, yn cystadlu. Aeth ymlaen i ennill y gystadleuaeth ac mae hi bellach yn gantores enwog iawn. Roedd Syr Geraint Evans yn aelod nodedig o’r panel o 7 o feirniaid. Bu ar banel y beirniaid ar gyfer y tair cystadlaeth gyntaf.
Cafodd y gystadleuaeth ei hehangu – fe wnaeth 24 cystadleuydd gymryd rhan a’r enillydd oedd David Malis, y bariton o America. Y flwyddyn hon, cafodd y gystadleuaeth ddwyflynyddol ei chynnal ym mis Mehefin am y tro cyntaf, ac fel hynny y mae wedi bod ers hynny.
Codwyd nifer y cystadleuwyr i 25 ac enillydd y gystadleuaeth oedd Valeria Esposito, y soprano o'r Eidal. Roedd Soile Isokoski (y Ffindir) ac Iris Vermillion (yr Almaen) yn gystadleuwyr nodedig y flwyddyn honno. Maent ill dwy wedi cael gyrfaoedd llewyrc
Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3
Rued Langgaard
Rued Langgaard is an outsider in Danish music. His Late Romantic and Symbolist background and his passionate views on art and the role of the artist brought him into conflict with the sober, anti-Romantic view of art that reigned supreme in Denmark in the inter-war years. Langgaard did not shrink from the visionary and experimental, the eccentric and extreme, and his music ventured into areas where the outlooks, musical styles and qualitative norms of the twentieth century break down.
Rued Langgaard was born in , the son of a highly respected Copenhagen piano teacher, Siegfried Langgaard, who was also active as a composer and was greatly preoccupied with musical/philosophical speculations along Theosophical lines. Langgaard’s mother was a pianist too, and he had his basic musical education from his parents. In , at the age of 11, he made his debut as an organ improviser in Copenhagen, and when he was 14 his first major orchestral and choral work was performed. But the young composer got off to a bad start, since the reviewers gave it the thumbs-down; and in fact Langgaard never succeeded in being properly accepted either by the press or
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