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2024-03-28 07:26:00
Without a shadow of doubt, a brilliant programme all round: Sibelius, Prokofiev & Saariaho in Berlin with Jan Lisiecki, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Tarmo Peltokoski
[…] In millennium year, Saariaho (who, sadly, passed away in Paris, June of last year, aged 70) turned to opera and Kent Nagano (a champion of her work) conducted the première of L’amour de loin (Love from a distance) at the 2000 Salzburg Festival. A five-act opera written to a libretto by Amin Maalouf and based on the biography of troubadour, Jaufré Rudel, entitled La vida breve. The opera was recorded by Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Rundfunkchor Berlin in 2011 under the direction of Kent Nagano and awarded the Grammy Award in the ‘Best Opera Recording’ category. A further opera came along in 2006 with Adriana Mater, the première taking place in Paris at Opéra Bastille and in the same year her oratorio, La passion de Simone, surrounding the life of Simone Weil, received its première in Vienna. A one-person opera, Émilie, written to a libretto by Amin Maalouf, […]
2023-10-16 17:31:00
BPO/Hrůša - Dvořák, 13 October 2023
Philharmonie Dvořák: Stabat Mater, op.58Corinne Winters (soprano)Marvic Monreal (mezzo-soprano)David Butt Philip (tenor)Matthew Rose (bass)Rundfunkchor Berlin (chorus director: Gijs Leenaars)Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraJakub Hrůša (conductor) © Bettina Stöß / Berliner PhilharmonikerDvořák’s Stabat Mater is clearly a favourite work for Jakub Hrůša. Six years ago he conducted it in this same hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; in 2023, it was the turn of the Berlin Philharmonic. Hrůša has called the piece a ‘wonderful gift’; he, a fine team of soloists, chorus, and orchestra in turn offered a wonderful gift to the audience with this performance. If the work, like many others, is not without unevenness, much of it has the composer firing on all cylinders. At a time when, even by current standards, our world is overwhelmed with grief, it will surely have spoken clearly and directly to many. It certainly did so to me. A first movement of quite extraordinary power did so […]
2022-05-19 06:49:56
Classical music meets video art
[…] Widmann, Schumann, Beethoven, Bach, Villa-Lobos, Dutilleux and Xenakis. Kent Nagano and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg were joined by such international performers as Klaus Florian Vogt who sang Mahler’s ‘Von der Jugend’ while Katharina Konradi, Jana Kurucová and Georg Nigl interpreted Ligeti’s avant-garde work ‘Nouvelles aventures’. Members of Staatsoper Hamburg comprised Hellen Kwon, Gabriele Rossmanith, Kristina Stanek, Kady Evanyshyn and Bernhard Hansky sang works by Bartók and Schoenberg while invited ensembles - Harvestehuder Kammerchor Hamburg and Rundfunkchor Berlin - were heard in pieces by Brahms and Schoenberg. The micro concerts are available on-line (on demand) to 22 October 2022 via the orchestra's website, their YouTube channel, and the France Musique website. Micro concerts overview Why? (34:14) [YouTube] Visuals: Luis August Krawen Music by Jörg Widmann, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schoenberg, György Ligeti Performers: Kent Nagano, Rupert Burleigh, Bernhard Hansky, Volker Krafft, Katharina Konradi, Jana Kurucová, Georg Nigl, Harvestehuder Kammerchor, […]
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