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Eye Bags on WordPress – Elbphilharmonie Opening

2017-01-12, Eye Bags on WordPress

Hengelbrock programmed this evening – and this evening is a big deal far beyond Hamburg or Germany – and he starts with BRITTEN, then has DUTILLEUX (and the piani in the strings are unbelievable there) and then Philippe Jaroussky, from one of the balconies, sings “Dalle più alte sfere”.

This is the most brilliant piece of programming ever – the opening number of the 1589 Medici Intermedi in Florence, where the primadonna of the court descended from the heavens (well, stage heavens cart, but still) as the celestial harmony, singing this very piece that was, then, the latest in vocal development. I have never heard this programmed in a concert out of very, very obscure special events among Early Music nerds, and even then, very rarely. […]

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