Pergolesi Stabat Mater~ Movt. 8 ..
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Mezzo-Soprano K. Rebecca Oehlers is a sought-out soloist and professional ensemble singer specializing in Early, Baroque and New Music. Ms. Oehlers received her music education from the Mannes College of Music, and Temple University in both voice and french horn. She has been a featured soloist several times with the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, Choral Arts Society, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the St. Clement’s Choir of Philadelphia, St. Marks Choir of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Classical Symphony, where she collaborated in a concert of 17th Century Spanish Opera with Early Music Soprano Ellen Hargis and the Harp Consort, under the direction of Andrew Lawrence King. Her discography includes A White Christmas at Longwood Gardens on the DTT Label, Hymns of Heaven and Earth, Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria, and Masses and Motets of Rheinberger and Brahms, on the Dorian Records Label and the much anticipated Vespers with Piffaro and The Crossing due out soon. Rebecca currently sings with The Crossing under the direction of Donald Nally, The Six, and Antioch Chamber Ensemble which is pairing up with Voces8 from the UK this year and will be performing at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in May. Rebecca has most recently given solo recitals in Aachen and Jülich Germany and is currently on the voice faculty at Drexel University.
Influences
Classical Singers: Andreas Scholl, Anne Sofie von Otter, Kathleen Ferrier, Maria Cristina Kiehr
Ensembles: Musica Antiqua Köln, Piffaro, Philadelphia Orchestra
Others: Alison Krauss, Dennis Brain, James Taylor
Composers: JS Bach, Schütz, Schein, Praetorious, Purcell, Hasse, Mahler, Brahms, Schumann, Schubert, Britten, Barber, Ives, Bernstein
The great organists whom I have had the pleasure of working with: Peter Conte, Alan Morisson, Matthew Glandorf, Diane Meredith Belcher, Ken Cowan, John French, John Richardson, Ken Lovett, Rick Alexander, and many, many more.
Philadelphia is one of my biggest influences. A city rich in musical history and very special people with whom I work with often. It is a pleasure to make music with fabulous Philadelphians every day.
Ciao Becky!!! hope that your travel in Germany was good...I stopped singing this summer because I operated my tonsils...but now I am good:) Send you a big kiss and good luck for your performances!!! hugs, Massi
Thank you for including me among your friends. I greatly admire all the interesting and amazing talents you have and I am so honored for this friendship with you.
Ciao Becky!!! How are you? How is your singing going? I'm listening to your new recordings and I like them very much!!!:-) Bravissima...have a nice day and "in bocca al lupo":-) baci Massi:-)
Dear Rebecca, Thanks SO Much. I'm happy for Your Comment. The Stabat Mater Pergolesi: Recent studies, however, have supported other assumptions look under different aspects the genesis of this famous musical work: Meanwhile appears possible that the drafting of the Stabat had begun some time ago, not only in Naples, where the musician lived for some time now, but also concurrently other major works that mark not only his life but also the history of music. For example, it is assumed that the Stabat Mater was started in 1734 during the composition dell'Adriano in Syria (and especially of intermezzi Livietta and Tracollo) and only finished in Pozzuoli in 1736 during the last months of his life, and all together ' another masterpiece of sacred composer, or Salve Regina.
Also because it was Pergolesi himself to trust his old master Francesco Feo, went to find it to make sure of his state of health, which had no time to relax or think to leave because the work was finished, and also in a hurry.
The Lent approached, and deadlines were incumbent. But there was more: the Stabat Mater is always regarded as the spiritual testament of Pergolesi, and a testament not be incomplete. All sustains the song and is appropriate to shine the two female voices, and already is emerging from a climate moving and melancholy, the music comes alive, shape, art becomes very high and seems almost to glimpse the face of the Madonna in tears before the Christ. Hugs! & Grat Day. pietro dattis:reporter www. orchestracantelli. org/
Thanks!!! SO MUCH, Rebecca. You are a Fantastic Person. You touch my Emotion for G.B. Pergolesi, in my Love transfert for Stabat Mater Suprem Opera. To Soon. pietro