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Requiem revival

Saturday, May 6, 2006

Last night: Boston Baroque performing Cherubini’s long-neglected Requiem in C minor, paired with Beethoven’s Eroica.  The Sanctus sounded just like the one from Bach’s Mass in B Minor, while the Lacrimosa was lifted straight from the same section in Mozart’s Requiem.  The pre-concert lecture by NEC musicologist Helen Greenwald acknowledged other echoes but perplexingly not […]

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Recent viewings

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Fidelio at the Met. Karita Mattila sang Leonore’s role gorgeously, and she was impressively spry as Fidelio, too, scampering around the stage with boyish aplomb, scooting up and down ladders, bearing groceries. Apart from the limpid quartet in the opening act and the arpeggiated vocal mountaineering of the ‘Abscheulicher!’ duet in the final act, it […]

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