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Date: | Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:47:22 -0500 |
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Copuple of evenings ago here in Munich Gianluigi Gelmetti conducted the
general rehearsal of the world premiere of his very own _Prasanta Atma_.
I attended. The piece runs for about 20 minutes and though not tuneful is
otherwise beguiling for its able and pronounced use of metal idiophones--an
anvil, celesta, tubular bells, cymbals, rubbed metal. Though
modern-sounding it wasn't strident and served well as a sort of bracer
for what was to follow, Rossini's (trop longue) Petite Messe solonnelle
(inspirited by the sound of bells, though not particularly orchestrated
with it). Gelmetti looks like a man who likes his pasta but, for that, is
a very graceful and expressive conductor. His Rossini was splendid--and
exigent of the Munich Philharmonic orchestra, the Philharmonic choir, and
three excellent singers imported from Italy (the fourth, the basso, was
also Italian, but just that.)
Denis Fodor Internet:[log in to unmask]
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