{"id":49092,"date":"2024-10-25T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/955d74eb-ea89-41b7-91b1-9152ea891c7b"},"modified":"2024-10-31T18:11:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T17:11:04","slug":"contemplation-huw-montague-rendall","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/contemplation-huw-montague-rendall\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemplation (Huw Montague Rendall)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 25 October 2024 at 13:16 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html> <head\/> <body> <p><strong>Contemplation<\/strong><br\/> Opera Arias and Lieder by Gounod, Mozart, Rodgers et al<br\/> Huw Montague Rendall (baritone); Orchestra l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Rouen Haute-Normandie\/Ben Glassberg<br\/><em>Warner Classics 2173236378\u00a0\u00a0\u00a072:04 mins\u00a0<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"> <audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/10\/OPERA-Britten-Billy-Budd-Act-2-Look-Through-the-Port-Billy.mp3\"\/> <\/figure> <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Clip: Britten: Billy Budd, Act 2 &#8211; &#8216;Look Through the Port&#8217; (Huw Montague Rendall et al)<\/h6> <p>The first thing one notices in this wide-ranging recital from rising baritone Huw Montague Rendall is his seriousness of purpose: obvious, for instance, in an extract from the title-role of Ambroise Thomas\u2019s still underrated\u00a0<em>Hamlet<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 a work he has already sung on stage.<\/p> <p>He possesses the vocal and dramatic range for the part, as well as varied dynamics: his soft singing is tremendously effective. There\u2019s a similar sensitive appreciation of text as well as of the shaping of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/charles-gounod\">Gounod<\/a>\u2019s line in Valentin\u2019s aria from\u00a0<em>Faust<\/em>, his finely textured tone underlying an appreciable interpretation of a piece sometimes merely delivered in big but bland mode.<\/p> <p>The 17 items on the album run from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/mozart\">Mozart<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/erich-wolfgang-korngold\">Korngold<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/benjamin-britten-composer\">Britten<\/a> to Richard Rodgers, Messager to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/gustav-mahler\">Mahler<\/a> \u2013 in the latter case taking in a complete song-cycle (<em>Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen<\/em>), a performance notable for its subtlety and observation. In Frank\u2019s nostalgic \u2018Mein Sehnen, mein W\u00e4hnen\u2019 from Korngold\u2019s\u00a0<em>Die tote Stadt<\/em>\u00a0the sound is glorious when he opens his voice up, while his final note is sheer magic.<\/p> <p>He is especially eloquent, unsurprisingly, in his native language, as in the protagonist\u2019s contemplative soul-searching before his execution in Britten\u2019s\u00a0<em>Billy Budd<\/em>: but he misses nothing, either, in Mercutio\u2019s delicious Queen Mab scherzo from Gounod\u2019s\u00a0<em>Rom\u00e9o et Juliette<\/em>, in Duparc, in his vital and complex Count in Figaro or in\u00a0<em>Don Giovanni<\/em>\u2019s honeyed Serenade.<\/p> <p>There\u2019s also top-rank work from the orchestra and conductor; a real collaboration has taken place, and the results are quite something.\u00a0<em>George Hall<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00d4 Vin Dissipe la Tristesse - Hamlet - A. Thomas\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aOfqxGoTtH8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> Clip: A Thomas: Hamlet \u2013 \u00d4 Vin Dissipe la Tristesse (Huw Montague Rendall) <\/figcaption> <\/figure> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Friday, 25 October 2024 at 13:16 PM Contemplation Opera Arias and Lieder by Gounod, Mozart, Rodgers et al Huw Montague Rendall (baritone); Orchestra l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Rouen Haute-Normandie\/Ben GlassbergWarner Classics 2173236378\u00a0\u00a0\u00a072:04 mins\u00a0 Clip: Britten: Billy Budd, Act 2 &#8211; &#8216;Look Through the Port&#8217; (Huw Montague Rendall et al) The first thing one notices in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":49093,"template":"","categories":[1,81,19],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/contemplation-huw-montague-rendall.jpg",900,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/contemplation-huw-montague-rendall-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/contemplation-huw-montague-rendall-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/contemplation-huw-montague-rendall-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/contemplation-huw-montague-rendall.jpg",800,800,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/contemplation-huw-montague-rendall.jpg",900,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/contemplation-huw-montague-rendall.jpg",900,900,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Published: Friday, 25 October 2024 at 13:16 PM Contemplation Opera Arias and Lieder by Gounod, Mozart, Rodgers et al Huw Montague Rendall (baritone); Orchestra l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Rouen Haute-Normandie\/Ben GlassbergWarner Classics 2173236378\u00a0\u00a0\u00a072:04 mins\u00a0 Clip: Britten: Billy Budd, Act 2 &#8211; &#8216;Look Through the Port&#8217; (Huw Montague Rendall et al) The first thing one notices in&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/49092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}