2023-04-20 03:49:02
Choral art » This is a very recent choir, gathered around conductor Yves Piller and which gave its first concerts last year. Guillaume Castella, who also works as a music critic at La Liberté, took over as director in January. The vocal ensemble Frequences is giving a new program this weekend in Friborg and in its stronghold of Broc.
Also trained as a musicologist, Guillaume Castella took an interest in forgotten collections of lieder and spiritual songs, intended for an audience that frequented salons in the early days of musical romanticism. The program he has woven, Dans l’ombre de Beethoven, takes stock of what little-known contemporaries such as Franz Xavier Sterkel, Carl F. Zelter, Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Karl von Doblhoff-Dier brought to choral art. . Their inspiration will be compared to that of better identified composers, but not necessarily for their choral production: Meyerbeer (Au tombeau de Beethoven), Rossini, Salieri or even
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