PubliQuartet. Photo: Lara St John
In this latest episode of Lara St John’s superb series The Atterbury House Sessions, PubliQuartet appeared in the Atterbury mansion, bolstered by clean sound and unobtrusive camerawork, against a backdrop of dark wood shelves with candles and flowers.
Jessie Montgomery wrote Voodoo Dolls (2008) for the Jump! Dance Company of Rhode Island, and its frenzied rhythms, combined with slapping the instruments’ wood, make a heady mix. Coming scarcely a week after a quintet version from the Minnesota Orchestra, the quartet offered its own unique sizzling take.
In Jessica Meyer’s ebullient Get into the Now (2018), percussive accents also reign supreme, but here anchoring wiry timbres and an aggressive cello underpinning. Given the composer’s status as a violist, an idyllic viola solo appears, like smoke gently rising. But that didn’t last long, as the musicians plunged into a furious array of hyperventilated runs, fingerboard slaps, and bow and fi
7 pm ET: Lawrence Brownlee presents
The Sitdown with LB. The tenor’s Facebook Live series returns with an unfiltered and honest look inside the opera industry. This week: Management, featuring Matthew Horner (IMG Artists) and Alex Fletcher (Fletcher Artist Management). View here. LIVE 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Donizetti’s
Don Pasquale. Starring Beverly Sills, Alfredo Kraus, Håkan Hagegård, and Gabriel Bacquier, conducted by Nicola Rescigno. Production by John Dexter. From January 11, 1979. View here and for 24 hours.
7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents
Jewish Diaspora. Recorder virtuoso Daphna Mor explores Sephardic song and Jewish liturgical poetry while viola da gamba player Elizabeth Weinfield highlights the contributions of 17th-century converso composer Leonora Duarte. Additional guests to be announced. View here.
2 pm ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester presents
Gilbert conducts Prokofiev. Daniil Trifonov joins Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto under the leadership of Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert who also leads the orchestra in an account of the composer’s
Classical Symphony. View here.
2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House presents
Puccini’s
Il Trittico.
Il Tabarro, set aboard a barge on the Seine, stars Lucio Gallo as Michele, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Giorgetta, and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Luigi.
Suor Angelica has Ermonela Jaho in the title role of the nun whose familial sacrifice is at the heart of the opera.
Wagner’s
Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here.
1 pm ET: Copland House presents
Underscored: Jalbert’s
Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry.
Crossings is built around a folk song from Quebec,
Quand j’ai parti du Canada (When I Left Canada), which is deconstructed, reinterpreted, reassembled, and reordered in inventive and unexpected ways. The program features a complete performance of the work, preceded by an introductory conversation with the composer, and followed by a live Q&A with viewers. Register and view here.