Archive for May 20th, 2013
Comedy with an edge
A program note for the Folger Theatre’s current production of “Twelfth Night” points out that this is the last of Shakespeare’s “romantic” or “happy” comedies, and that those that followed, like “Measure for Measure” and “All’s Well That Ends Well” are less innocent and more complicated. (To those I would add “Cymbeline,” “The Winter’s Tale” […]
Monday 5/20/13 New York Philharmonic This Week
11:00 PM CONDUCTOR: Masaaki Suzuki SOLOISTS: Sherezade Panthaki, Soprano; Joélle Harvey, Soprano; Iestyn Davies, Countertenor; Nicholas Phan, Tenor; Tyler Duncan, Baritone; Bach Collegium Japan, chorus; Yale Schola Cantorum, chorus BACH: Motet, Singet dem Hern MENDELSSOHN: Magnificat in D major MENDELSSOHN: Christus BACH: Magnificat
Playlist: May/20/13
10:35 PM Manuel de Falla — Nights In the Gardens of Spain Conductor: Daniel BarenboimEnsemble: Orchestre de ParisMartha Argerich, pianoErato, 88255 10:17 PM Franz Joseph Haydn — Notturno No. 7 Key: FEnsemble: Mozzafiato & L’ArchibudelliMichael Niesemann, oboeMarten Root, FluteCBS/Sony, 62878 10:02 PM J. Michael Haydn — Horn Concerto Key: DConductor: Sir Neville MarrinerEnsemble: Academy of […]