Giovanni Battista Pergolesi; Missa Romana F-Dur + Dixit Dominus (Psalm 109); Hannah Morrison, David Allsopp, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Barockorchester Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius; # Hänssler Classic HC25045; Aufnahme 04.2024, Veröffentlichung 07.11.2025 (52'35) - Rezension von Norbert Tischer ** (For English, please scroll down)
Zwei Messen und etliche Psalmen hat der 1736 sechsundzwanzigjährig verstorbene Giovanni Battista Pergolesi hinterlassen. Die Missa Romana entstand im Jahr 1734. Sie wurde später als Missa Romana bezeichnet, weil sie in Rom aufgeführt wurde. Read More →
Le Palais des Dégustateurs is releasing a recording of Jean Françaix's L 'Apocalypse selon Saint Jean (The Apocalypse according to Saint John) an immense work, a great spiritual fresco in an inspired interpretation by conductor Jean-Pierre Lo Ré. On this occasion, Rémy Franck spoke to Jacques Françaix, the composer's son, who is dedicated to managing his father's musical heritage, including the creation of a website (www.jeanfrancaix.com).
Jean Françaix
Where do you see your father in today’s musical world?
I have noticed, with some saddened astonishment, that my father’s name is hardly ever mentioned in the French music press as one of the most important French composers of the 20th century.
Yet he was the most widely performed living French composer in the world and, judging by the feedback I get from his publishers and Sacem, the importance of programming his works worldwide has not diminished since. Read More →
Jean Françaix: L'Apocalypse selon Saint-Jean (1939); Tatiana Probst, Sopran, Daïa Durimel, Alt, Patrick Garayt, Tenor, Chœur français d’oratorio, Chœurs Elisabeth Brasseur, Chœur de Cernay la Ville, Choristes de Rambouillet, Guyancourt, Croissy, Orgeval, Paris, Orchestre français d’oratorio, Jean-Pierre Lo Ré; # Le Palais des Dégustateurs PDD044: Live-Aufnahme 05.2024, Veröffentlichung 02.11.2025 (65'30) - Rezension von Remy Franck ** (For English please scroll down)
Gegen Ende seines Lebens betrachtete Jean Françaix (1912-1997) sein einziges Oratorium, L’Apocalypse selon Saint-Jean, als sein bestes Werk, das seine gesamte Kunst zusammenfasste, obwohl er es bereits im Alter von 27 Jahren komponiert hatte! Read More →
Die chinesische Dirigentin und Paukistin Xizi Wang, Görlitz, dirigiert gemeinsam mit Vimbayi Kaziboni - Aura von Hanna Eimermacher. Photo: M. Vogt
Matthias Theodor Vogt berichtet von den Donaueschinger Musiktagen 2025 und behauptet, ganz offensichtlich sei das Konzept von Lydia Rilling aufgegangen, die seit März 2022 die künstlerische Leitung der Donaueschinger Musiktage innehat. Im schwierigen Balanceakt zwischen Kunstanspruch einerseits, Gender- und anderen Ausgleichen andererseits, ist ihr ein mehr als solider Jahrgang geglückt. Read More →
German Polish conductor Mateusz Moleda will conduct the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg at the local Philharmonie, on October 7. Moleda was significantly influenced by his mentor Marek Janowski, for whom he worked as an assistant. In October 2023, he won 1st prize and the orchestra's special prize at the prestigious Sergei Koussevitzky International Conducting Competition. Remy Franck made the following interview with him.
Mateusz Moleda
Mateusz, as a German-Polish conductor you have roots in two important musical countries. Where do you belong to, musically?
The question of my musical identity is a very complex one. I was born and raised in Germany. As a conductor, my years as Marek Janowski’s assistant naturally had a profound influence on me through “his” repertoire – that is, Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner, Wagner, and Strauss. But perhaps that is also precisely why I am extremely happy that some time ago I was able to study Polish music very intensively as part of my PhD at the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Cracow. Read More →
La Fenice, Venezia
(c) Remy Franck
Protests are surging against the nomination of Italian conductor Beatrice Venezi, 35, as Music Director of Venice’s Teatro di La Fenice from October 2026, for a term running until 2030. The woman is a fried of Meloni and belongs to the far-right political wing. Read More →
Boris Papandopulo: Hrvatska misa - Kroatische Messe. Darija Auguštan (Sopran), Sonja Runje (Mezzosopran), Tomislav Mužek (Tenor), Ljubomir Puškaric (Bariton), Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Ivan Repusic; # BR Klassik 900532, Aufnahme 01.02.2025, Veröffentlichung 19.09.2025 (51'55) - Rezension von Guy Engels ** (For English please scroll down)
Gleich bei der Kyrie-Einleitung hört man, dass sich Boris Papandopulo für seine Kroatische Messe am orthodoxen Liturgiegesang orientiert hat, dem Gesang seiner eigenen Wurzeln. Read More →
Advena - Liturgies For A Broken World; Mark Buller: Fruit of Your Heart + Mass in Exile + Requiem in the Light + A Questioning; Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson; # Divine Art DDX21143, Aufnahme 02.-03.2025, Veröffentlichung 29.08.2025 (65'59) - Rezension von Guy Engels** (For English please scroll down)
Advena, der Fremdling in einer zerbrechenden Welt. So sind wohl der Albumtitel und die eingespielten Werke des amerikanischen Komponisten Mark Buller zu verstehen. Read More →
Billy Eidi has recorded an all-Liadov album with Le Palais des Dégustateurs. Remy Franck made the following interview with the French pianist (The French original version is at the end of the English one).
Billy Eidi
Why an all-Lyadov program?
I could answer: ‘out of habit’, at least for the piano. Although I have sometimes, in a program of mélodies, displayed two names, Ravel and Poulenc, Debussy and Roussel, or even a dozen in my Hommage à Cocteau (with the baritone Jean-François Gardeil), none of my piano discs has mixed composers. Monographs, always! Work on a single creator is more concentrated, more ‘one’. Not to mention, forgive me for joking, that in the days of record shops, monographic discs were easier to store in bins! But here’s a more serious reason: simply because Liadov’s music is so worth playing, and listening to, that it would be a shame not to… fill a whole disc with it! Read More →
Just a few days after 1000 rabbis as well as 14000 faculty member sent a letter to Netanyahu, asking him to immediately stop the horror of a war contradicting essential values of Judaism as they understand it, some 1,000 musicians, writers, actors and others had signed a petition demanding Israel stop the war in Gaza. Read More →
