{"id":6165,"date":"2012-09-15T07:46:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=6165"},"modified":"2012-09-15T07:46:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T11:46:27","slug":"weekend-listening-ears-get-the-candy-from-canadian-opera-companys-semele-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/09\/15\/weekend-listening-ears-get-the-candy-from-canadian-opera-companys-semele-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend listening: Ears get the candy from Canadian Opera Company&#8217;s Semele today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6167\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6167\" style=\"width: 576px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/jane.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6167\" title=\"11-12-07-MC-D-2108\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/jane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/jane.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/jane-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Archibald was a magnificent Semele at the Canadian Opera Company last spring (Michael Cooper photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saturday is one of those days when, for a few hours anyway, you can pretend it&#8217;s 1950 and leave the radio set to CBC Radio 2.<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fun starts at 10 a.m. with wonderful Canadian pianist David Jalbert, currently based in Ottawa and brandishing two fine new albums, one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/2012\/04\/05\/the-long-hard-road-to-capturing-the-genius-of-goldberg-variations-is-paved-with-trial-and-error\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Goldberg Variations<\/em><\/a> and another with his chamber-music mates, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musicaltoronto.org\/2012\/09\/04\/cd-reviews-canadian-trio-triple-forte-and-violinist-aislinn-nosky-show-us-how-its-done\/\" target=\"_blank\">Triple Forte<\/a>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/#\/This-is-My-Music\" target=\"_blank\"><em>This is My Music<\/em><\/a> at 10 a.m. (Eastern).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Last spring&#8217;s Canadian Opera Company production of George Frideric Handel&#8217;s <em>Semele<\/em> &#8212; one of only two operas he wrote in English &#8212; was an embarrassing mishmash of clashing concepts, but it sounded fabulous. The great, shining star of the show was Nova Scotia-born soprano Jane Archibald as Semele. Conductor Rinaldo Alessandrini did a great job of giving the modern-instrument COC Orchestra historically-informed bounce and texture. You&#8217;ll find more info <a href=\"http:\/\/music.cbc.ca\/#\/Saturday-Afternoon-at-the-Opera\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The broadcast starts at 1 p.m. (Eastern).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>LEEDS PIANO COMPETITION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leedspiano.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds International Piano Competition<\/a> is underway and being broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The finalists&#8217; concerts are being made available for re-listening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio3\/programmes\/formats\/performancesandevents\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (There are no Canadians on the list this time.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>ORGAN IN HD VIDEO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medici.tv\/#!\/thierry-escaich-annecy-classic-festival-2012\" target=\"_blank\">a wonderful concert by French organist Thierry Escaich<\/a> from the modest 16th century Franciscan cathedral of Saint-Pierre d&#8217;Annecy that&#8217;s all about the art of the toccata, prelude and fugue. This incredibly talented musician (titular organist at Saint-Etienne-du-Mont in Paris, which was Maurice Durufl\u00e9&#8217;s church) intersperses examples from great composers (including J.S. Bach, of course) with his own improvisations on the versatile 170-year-old instrument.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s streaming on medici.tv, which celebrated a banner summer, claiming 667,000 viewers of its live as well as archive concerts, opera performances and documentaries.<\/p>\n<p>An August 5 performance of <em>Ariadne auf Naxos<\/em> from Salzburg gathered nearly 20,000 live viewers, with another 30,000 watching the opera on demand afterward, according to publicist Louise Barder.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday is one of those days when, for a few hours anyway, you can pretend it&#8217;s 1950 and leave the radio set to CBC Radio 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,76,19,36,42,43,44,47,59,62,63,1],"tags":[303,476,628,678,857,969,1689,1933,2178,2963,3292],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/jane.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-1Br","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6165"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}