Page 313 - Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Coverage Book 2023-24

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Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite - Falla: El retablo de maese Pedro &
Harpsichord Concerto

Benjamin Alard (harpsichord), Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Pablo Heras-Casado
All three works on this album date from the 1920s and draw inspiration from earlier periods in
music history. Stravinsky described Pulcinella as 'my discovery of the past, the epiphany through
which the whole of my late work became possible'; Falla's Harpsichord Concerto (written for
Wanda Landowska) and his puppet-opera El retablo de maese Pedro ('Master Peter's Puppet-
Show', based on an episode from Cervantes's Don Quixote) both incorporate elements of Spanish
early music and neo-Classicism.

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Handel: Theodora

Louise Alder (Theodora), Tim Mead (Didymus), Anna Stéphany (Irene), Stuart Jackson
(Septimius), Adam Plachetka (Valens); Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
This studio recording of Handel's oratorio about religious persecution was made in London last
spring, immediately after a concert performance of the work at the Barbican which was praised
in The Guardian for the 'pure, subtle and extremely tasteful' singing of the five soloists, and for
Cohen's 'endlessly energetic' direction from the harpsichord. The Times, meanwhile, singled out
Alder and Mead's 'exquisitely sung' final duet and Stéphany's 'poise and rich colour' as
Theodora's mentor Irene.

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