{"id":4416,"date":"2018-06-10T13:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=4416"},"modified":"2018-06-10T13:22:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T12:22:23","slug":"carly-paoli-and-oliver-poole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=4416","title":{"rendered":"Carly Paoli and Oliver Poole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opus Theatre World Series, Saturday 9 June 2018<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is not often we get a singer as internationally feted as soprano Carly Paoli to give a concert in Hastings, and when she is accompanied by a pianist of the stature of Oliver Poole we were obviously in for a very special evening \u2013 and so it proved to be. Carly Paoli took us on a whirlwind tour of her musical life, dipping into popular film scores, opera, and comic songs, all in the context of her own settings and lyrics.<\/p>\n

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What impressed more than anything was the wide range of styles she is able to adopt, and all equally convincing. She opened with a number of operatic arias \u2013 Gluck\u2019s \u00a0Che faro, <\/em>Mozart\u2019s Non so piu<\/em> and\u00a0 Parto, parto ma tu ben mio<\/em> – before moving to a perfectly modulated reading of Reynaldo Hahn\u2019s Si mes vers avaient des ailes <\/em>and the familiar setting of Ave Maria. <\/em>Every piece was characterised precisely and the text was immaculately clear \u2013 for those of us able to follow, which I suspect was many who were present.<\/p>\n

Oliver Poole, who provided tactful and secure accompaniment throughout, was allowed a couple of moments to explore by himself, providing us with an improvised fantasy at this point on the opening of act two of Carmen<\/em>. It was spellbinding in a way I assume Franz Liszt used to enthral his audiences \u2013 the intensity, power and creativity only outdone by the blur of his fingerings.<\/p>\n

We returned to opera with Rosina\u2019s Una voce poco fa<\/em> but we were now in a lighter mood, a fact taken up by a sentimental Neapolitan song\u00a0 made famous by Tito Schipa \u2013 and incidentally passed on to Carly via her grandfather \u2013 and Mi mancherai <\/em>before the first half concluded with Rusalka\u2019s Song to the Moon.<\/em><\/p>\n

The second half brought us to yet another world and one even closer to her own musical journey.<\/p>\n

In 2016 she sang Musumarra and Black\u2019s setting of Ave Maria<\/em> at the Baths of Caracalla and it became\u00a0the Vatican<\/a>‘<\/span>s official song for the Holy Year of Mercy Jubilee Celebrations, and we heard this, her own setting of A time for mercy <\/em>and her own lyrics entitled Memory of you <\/em>set to James Horner score to Legends of the Fall.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dreams are important to her, as her own first issued cd attests, and the next three songs were given over to them.<\/p>\n

Before we could gently drift off, Oliver gave us a rousing \u2013 and not to say tongue-in-cheek \u2013 fantasy on Happy Birthday <\/em>dedicated to his father\u2019s birthday that very day.<\/p>\n

The closing items were gently sentimental with The cloths of heaven <\/em>and Danny Boy<\/em> before a moving Over the rainbow.<\/em><\/p>\n

Next Saturday brings us Portuguese pianist Pedro Gomes. Be there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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