The Wonderful World of Baroque
When one is facing criticism from some hard-for obvious reasons unrelated to the reader, always filled with doubts . Questions like: Does this criticism will be reliable? "The critic is a friend of this or that group? Is the magazine of the criticism is related to certain labels? Have they received something has changed for so satisfactory criticism? How can you read a review totally opposed to this in another trade publication?
not important to highlight that we are faced with a thorny and complex, ever-more difficult to discuss even if we try to reach an agreement, "as the critical label has provided a wholly subjective, a matter which makes it easily" malleable. "
How to know whether to trust a trade publication or other when we meet with so many prestigious? The answer is obvious: patience and empiricism, ie, to weigh which is more accurate in most cases in relation to the tastes of each. "The downside?, Ends up be a bit tired and very expensive, especially the latter.
are hundreds of awards, rates, guidelines ... "live" of criticism and that label is given prime importance in their own stamps, is not uncommon to find these logos marking out the plastic prize in the compact exterior. Are known to all publications and awards offered by
Midem, Gramophone
,
Diapason, BBC Music Magazine
... A well-known event in our country is that of Goldberg Magazine, "whose website is deactivated before the announced temporary suspension of the issue, for economic reasons, which have been discussed and filtering some issues about its critical section and how these granted his "five stars".
But today I have here one of these publications or awards, but I will refer to the Dutch magazine, specialized in ancient music, Prelude
Klassiek Muziek, whose awards Prelude Classical Music Awards are being delivered since 2001. According to its editors, the awards came as a huge island in the ocean to which the Netherlands had plunged the major labels and distributors associated with the
NVPI and already handed out their own awards, the Edison Classical Music Awards
as explained in this brief note
. Keep in mind, then, that these awards do not correspond to the entire record industry because they remove at a stretch the majors, with the rest of stamps have many more opportunities, and the Giants eliminated. Anyway, it is also necessary to indicate that, although working with these large companies, Prelude is also a distributor, and only rewards the discs they displayed on their page, so we can infer that they are playing the same that large, but over in a split "child"-the specter of self-interest to look back.
is very encouraging that someone accommodate those stamps, however small, have no space with the other major record companies, but we should ask ourselves whether we can really consider stamps as Alpha
,
Mirare , Zig-Zag Territoires
, Ricercar, Bis
or Glossa ... small-t when compared to the great yes, but we are not in some way, sinning complacent with these stamps? -. Similarly the question arises: are these awards is not something misleading if we are eliminating the competeción to multinationals, or whatever it is, companies that are home to many of the best teams? I guess for someone who gets an award of its kind-more so if you're starting your career, is a great pride, but also must be aware that not competing against the best from the "first division."
That said, happened to stop here the list of winners and my little analysis of these
Prelude Classical Music Awards 2009 .
The truth is that they are many categories and very well defined-is always welcome, and this compendium have been organized, with an extract of each of the discs, also very interesting.
I think one of the first reactions to these awards is to congratulate, and welcome, by the mere fact that a English-national teams, as Spain became the highest number of winners in this edition. Both seals-Glossa
Enchiriadis ,
Alqhai & Alqhai and Arsis (which in 2008 won the award a seal of the year) - and performers -
The Columbian ,
Form Antiqva , Maria Espada, Carlos Mena, Nuria Rial
and Accademia del Piacere
- have won awards, to a lesser or greater extent.
It is very strange but we have already explained the causes, not found in any disk of Stile Antico and The Tallis Scholars in the Renaissance and many others in the other categories, but it will be necessary to analyze the results. The set
Graindelavoix
is one of the great innovations in music old for the past three years, with the sound as "private" and personal. On this album are more "restrained", but the quality and interpretation of a very little popular repertoire, make this disc an excellent thing. The German team
Stimmwerck is a real revelation personally, as a tenor of what is heard, this is a great set of qualities, seem to work on the joint line as Diabolus in Musica.
The Columbian disc for the label K617 is a real treat for the ears, not to mention Victoria offer a "new", but as I said, there best albums of Renaissance polyphony that the last year.
The disk of the Accademia del Piacere has been a revolution in the English scene, both the proposal and for the good of interpretation-superior in vocal-instrumental and it becomes a very interesting and wonderful album as a gift . That
reward interesting new projects are always very positive as in the case of the last album of all Japanese
Anthonello dedicated in full to the figure of Jacob Van Eyck flutist.
Pierlot and his troops do not go empty handed and wear the sacred baroque prize, thanks to his latest album, his vision OVPP (one voice per part
) of cantatas Bachianas BWV 181, 132 and 4, in which even opt for minimalist theories, get a great result, largely due to the magnificent vocal campus.
The very young brothers from Asturias and the dazzling form Antiqva María Espada are succeeding several months with his proposal for a disc-scarlatianas cantatas admirable and surprising, and are coupled to disk Alqhai and yours, the big players in the music scene " old "in our country.
Nuria Rial, as wonderful as usual, very well around the Austrian set to bring us a beautiful sacred music disc with several teachers and central Italy. A rare album with little pull in Spain but very high quality and beautiful music. Vivaldi
always comes back and this time it comes on the heels of Spinosi and
Matheus Ensemble and a cast soloistic quite enviable, to sign a version of La Fida Ninfa
-probably his best opera of absolute reference.
interesting things I've heard that Purcell Greco-Russian, so the result should be clearly good, the beautiful lament, without being Kermes my cup of tea, it's pretty exciting.
I am pleased that seals the sound quality and aesthetics of
Ramée are also awarded.
's magnificent opus 6 version of Handel, by Poles, could not stay without a prize, especially considering that the version of Antonini and corresponds to 2009-otherwise, this would have been the chosen version, but L'Oiseau Lyre corresponds to Decca ...- and I am pleased to note that a set as he leads Beznosiuk has also been awarded, as this is a band that borders the late Baroque repertoire, as we have shown with their magnificent Avison.
The prestigious "Entertainer of the Year" has been awarded the "pulsista" Eduardo Egüez, thanks to his work dedicated to Weiss and Bach.
"Conjunto of the Year" and has been named the group Gli Incogniti, who heads France's Amandine Beyer
and whose record dedicated to a well-known Vivaldi unprecedented pace that has led them to do so.
Similarly, the "seal of the Year" has been granted, on a shared basis, the British stamps
Obsidian -magnificent work of David Skinner Alamire
- e
Hyphen Press Music -totally unknown to me, .
The album of the year has led baroque cellist Bruno Cocset, which plucks disk model viola alla
bastard which the instrument has been copied image appeared on the cover. An album that features a Bach ever, but looked with other eyes and overflowing musicality that the French wasted. As the disk
debut of the year, I am happy to note that they have been able to appreciate the magnificent work that Scherzi Musicali do with this work of Caccini.
Finally, the prize most obvious, obvious and expected of everyone, for the DVD of the year, since taking into account the disastrous assemblies to which we are subjected by the dictatorship of the stage director, meet so well made products (such as this production lullista) results, albeit insufficient, very rewarding.
Finally, another longer list, from which one can trust or not and we will never know the secrets, but at least rewards young players who dedicate their life to this passionate but difficult world.
