Chekhov's Mistress
Marcus on Golijov
Since this site has become Golijov central, I must tell you that Sir James ”House of Mirth” Marcus has written a review of Golijov’s latest recording, Ainadamar (see my earlier feeble gushing notes). Marcus says:
Yet the pleasures here are hardly limited to musique concrete. “Mariana, tus ojos” begins with a simple bass vamp, which is soon reinforced by percussion, clarinet, and plunger-muted brass straight out of Duke Ellington. Atop this increasingly seductive rumba, Dawn Upshaw’s Margarita weaves in and out of a young female chorus—which happens to be singing the opening ballad from Lorca’s “Mariana Pineda.
Read the rest at WBUR.org.
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