Artist: Oliver Zeffman
Album: Live at the V&A, Vol. 2
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 44:54
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 786 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Oliver Zeffman – Le bourgeois gentilhomme: Overture (03:10)
1-02. Oliver Zeffman – Entr’acte (12:14)
1-03. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau I (1947 Version): I. Prologue. The Birth of Apollo (04:42)
1-04. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau II (1947 Version): II. Variation of Apollo (02:54)
1-05. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau II (1947 Version): III. Pas d’action. Apollo and the Muses (04:15)
1-06. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau II (1947 Version): IV. Variation of Calliope (01:26)
1-07. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau II (1947 Version): V. Variation of Polymnia (01:15)
1-08. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau II (1947 Version): Variation of Terpsichore (01:30)
1-09. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau II (1947 Version): VII. Variation of Apollo (02:37)
1-10. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau II (1947 Version): VIII. Pas de deux. Apollo and Terpischore (03:54)
1-11. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau II (1947 Version): IX. Coda. Apollo and the Muses (03:18)
1-12. Oliver Zeffman – Apollo, Tableau II (1947 Version): X. Apotheosis (03:32)

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Those inseparable twins, dress and identity, fell under the spotlight of the V&A’s Fashioning Masculinities. The exhibition’s galleries—Undressed, Overdressed, and Redressed—informed Oliver Zeffman’s choice of music for the first of his Music x Museums concerts. Recorded live in the V&A’s sublime Raphael Court, the performance opens with Lully’s Overture to Le bourgeois gentilhomme, a nod to the periwigged posturing of 17th-century Paris.Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, the American composer’s reimagining of the classical minuet and trio, shows how an old musical fashion can be redressed in elegant new clothing. “It’s so atmospheric, particularly in that breathtakingly beautiful space,” comments Zeffman. The majority of this release is set aside for Stravinsky’s neoclassical ballet Apollo, first performed in 1928 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and representing here the undressed state. “The point of neoclassicism is to strip away the excesses of Romanticism,” notes the conductor. Its score depicts the Greek god Apollo, rationally minded leader of the muses, in music that combines echoes of Lully with the cool, clean lines of modernism. It’s the perfect program for a museum that brings old and new together in spectacular ways.