Showing posts with label Gabriel Fauré. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gabriel Fauré. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Lenten concert of rarely performed sacred music at the Ayala Museum


The Cultural Arts Events Organizers presents a Lenten concert De Profundis, an evening of rarely performed sacred music happening on April 13, 2019, 7:00 PM at the Ayala Museum. 

The concert marks the Philippine premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131, one of his earliest cantatas and with text from Psalm 130, De Profundis, hence the concert's title (which translates to English as "out of the depths").

Also included in the program are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Laudate Dominum from Vesperae solennes de confessore, KV 339 and Gabriel Fauré's Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 which will be performed unabridged.

Leading the performers are soprano Stefanie Quintin andtheritone Cipriano "Zip" de Guzman, Jr. Both of them made waves last year with Quintin winning the Second Prize in the Professional Category at the 2nd ASEAN Vocal Competition in Singapore and De Guzman bagging the First Prize in the Open Category at the 17th Roma International Music Competition Grand Prize Virtuoso in Rome, Italy.

Joining them is the newly formed vocal ensemble PASIPO. Dedicated towards the art of virtuosic chamber music, the group will have its debut performance on this night. The ensemble is made up of Elle Tuason, Angelo Benipayo, Jasmin Salvo, Jane Wee, Leo Angelo Lanuza, Jan Briane Astom, John Philip Bautista, Airo Saret, and Carlo Miguel Bunyi. The multi-awarded Gabriel Paguirigan will be the evening's collaborating pianist.

Tickets are available at TicketWorld outlets, or through calling CAEO at 782-7164, (0918) 347-3027 or (0920) 954-0053.

Friday, January 18, 2019

RAd’s Playlist: Yuja Wang | Ravel


A performance of Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, M. 83 is on the horizon by the end of the month and that’s reason enough to put this jazz influenced piano concerto in heavy rotation once again. The cracking whip at the start of this piece always bring a smile to my face (when done right).



This piece was performed most recently by pianist Monique Duphil at the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra’s season opener that I sadly missed. Now, the Manila Symphony Orchestra is giving me another chance to have a go with this at their upcoming season finale concert with Victor Asuncion as the featured soloist.



The recording that I’m putting for a spin in preparation for the upcoming concert is Yuja Wang’s album of the two Ravel Piano Concertos with Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under the baton of Lionel Bringuier. These pair of concertos (the other being the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major, M .82) couldn’t be more different. But it’s worth hearing them one after the other to grasp how great Ravel’s orchestration is and to explore fully the light and shade and the range of emotions and moods in these two works.