Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Bernard Rands: Canti del Sole



Canti del Sole for tenor and chamber ensemble (1983)

Paul Sperry, tenor
Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group
William Kraft, conductor


KUSC identified this as the première performance of the chamber version of Canti del Sole, recorded live at the Japan America Theater on 13 February 1984. Rands’ own chronology shows that he conducted the first performance with Paul Sperry and UCSD’s modernist chamber ensemble “SONOR” at some point in 1983.

Bernard Rands (accent on his first syllable) was the composer in residence at the University of California, San Diego, at the time of this performance. He is British and his compositional style owes much to Benjamin Britten. He received a Pulitzer Prize for the orchestral version of this work … it bears mentioning, however, that people often nominate themselves for Pulitzers.

Recorded from a broadcast by KUSC-FM Los Angeles on 30 December 1984.


Rands Canti del Sole chamber version
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Eurdice



Orfeo: René Jacobs
Euridice: Marjanne Kweksilber
Amore: Magdalena Falewicz
National Opera of Belgium
Sigiswald Kuijken, conductor


Kuijken recorded this original version (Vienna 1762) with La Petite Bande and the same soloists in 1982. Here he is conducting his country’s national opera orchestra after first instructing its musicians in eighteenth-century techniques. (For an idea of how that was done, listen to the interview with Frans Brüggen from his concert of 1 May 1985.) This live performance was recorded from a broadcast on KUSC-FM Los Angeles in 1984.


Glück Orfeo ed Euridice by S. Kuijken
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