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...next performed the world premiere of conductor James Yannatos' Prieres dans L'Arche, a setting of four poems by Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, scored for a small orchestra and soprano. In each poem an animal characterizes himself in a prayer ending with "Ainsi soit-il." Yannatos does not portray the animals, but the attitudes they represent. The animals' feelings are summarized by their way of saying amen, and the score provides the interpretation which the printed page leaves to the reader. For instance, the cat, aided by a marvellously meowing orchestra, says amen in smug anticipation of God's curse...
...dramatic, the bold musical motives deriving partly from the sounds of the ancient Church Slavonic language ("Glagolitic" is the name given to its written form). From the first brassy fanfare, Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik leads the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus in a rousing performance, with brilliant singing by Soprano Evelyn Lear and Tenor Ernst Haefliger...
MOZART: MASS IN C MINOR (Angel). Written for his bride, who sang the coloratura soprano role in its first performance, this was Mozart's last Mass before the Requiem. Wolfgang Gönnenwein conducts the South German Madrigal Choir and Southwest German Chamber Orchestra in this spacious performance, with Edith Mathis exquisitely singing the eight-minute bel canto solo, Et Incarnatus...
RUSSIAN ART SONGS (Vanguard). The soprano is Russian-born Netania Devrath, whose pure and sunlit voice is best suited to songs of springtime and skylarks by Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff; but also it can be darkened with sorrow, as in Tchaikovsky's laments (Was I Not a Blade of Grass; To Forget So Soon...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will conclude its season at 8:30 p.m. tonight with a concert in Sanders Theatre. The program will include works by Mahler, Mozart, and Verdi, and the world premiere of conductor James D. Yannatos's Prieres dans l'arche, Chloe Owen, soprano, will be the soloist in the Mahler and Yannatos works...