Reviews / Recommendations
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Stockhausen Concert, LA 2013
http://www.sequenza21.com/2013/09/nicholas-isherwood-sings-stockhausen-in-los-angeles/
Concert with STROMA, Wellington 2013
http://middle-c.org/2013/09/stroma-the-elemental-and-the-fabulous/
Leo Kupper, CD 2013
http://classicalmodernmusic.blogspot.de/2013/07/leo-kupper-digital-voices.html
If the women are, in this case, the mainstays of Kupper’s view on the nature’s (and, in general, the world’s) ascendancy on acoustic imagination, male vocalism is the kernel of his finest work herein. “Lumière Sans Ombre” presents a hybridization of melodic percussion and computer-processed samples of Slavic liturgical chants upon which Nicholas Isherwood’s inspired bass voice depicts mesmerizing figurations in an invented language (the latter trait typifying all the songs in this set; Kupper rightly believes that intelligible words can hamper the “expression of the inexpressible” as they “camouflage the real perception of sonorities”).
Although this is the jewel of the cd, pinnacles of veritable grace are also found in “Paroles Sur Lèvres” and “Paroles Sur Langue”.Massimo Ricci, December 26, 2012
Hindemith, Berlin 2012
http://www.der-neue-merker.eu/berlin-staatsoperwerkstatt-lehrstuck-von-paul-hindemith
Brecht, Berlin 2012
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/06/15/feeding-in-the-brechts-soup-kitchen/
Grand Macabre, Vienna 2012:
As Mescalina and Astradamors, Annette Schönmüller and Nicholas Isherwood handled Ligeti’s cruel melismas capably,
“Zwölftöner” in Bachtrak
Überzeugend in der Rolle des Astradamors der britische Bariton Nicholas Isherwood, der erst kürzlich in Hindemiths Lehrstück an der Staatsoper in Berlin zu begeistern wusste.
“The British baritone Nicholas Isherwood, who recently gave an inspired performance of Hindemith’s Lehrstück at the Staatsoper in Berlin, was convincing as Astradamors.”
Udo Pacolt, Der Neue Merker, 4.10.2012
Die Musik des 41-jährigen Franzosen Mark André bewegt sich mit Vorliebe an den Rändern des Klangs und der Wahrnehmung. Sie bezieht ihre Spannung aus der Konzentration auf geräuschreiche, messerscharf konturierte Klanggesten, denen er ein Maximum an Expressivität abpresst. In den Aufnahmen mit dem Ensemble Alternance und dem Bariton Isherwood kommt das Kantige, Abgründige dieser Musik optimal zur Geltung. Die Tontechnik brilliert mit krachenden Harfenklängen, obertonreichem Stimmklang und suggestiver Raumwirkung. (3D Classics, 3D8035)
Monday Evening Concerts, December 2011
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/12/music-review-monday-evening-concerts-kurtags-beckett.html
Nicholas Isherwood's Monday Evening Concerts appearance was named by LA Times critic Mark Swed as one of the 10 best classical music events of 2011:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-1218-year-end-swed-list_pictures,0,6507907.photogallery
MIKADO, Eugene 2011
http://projects.registerguard.com/web/livinglifestyles/25985632-41/opera-mikado-voice-performance-comic.html.csp
