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2024-03-15 10:40:00
KammermusiksaalMendelssohn: Psalm 115, ‘Nicht unserm Namen, Herr’, MWV A 9 Fanny Hensel: Hiob Mendelssohn: Ave Maria, op.23 no.2, MWV B 19 Mendelssohn: Hör mein Bitten, MWV B 49 Bach: Cantata, ‘Die Elenden sollen essen’, BWV 75: Sinfonia to the second part Mendelssohn: Psalm 114, ‘Da Israel aus Ägypten zog,’ op.51 Anna Prohaska (soprano)Benjamin Bruns (tenor)Ludwig Mittelhammer (bass)RIAS Chamber ChoirKammerakademie PotsdamJustin Doyle (conductor) A delightful and enlightening concert from the RIAS Chamber Choir, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Justin Doyle, and an excellent trio of vocal soloists: focusing on Mendelssohn, but also including a cantata by his sister Fanny Hensel and a sinfonia by the family’s musical house god, Johann Sebastian Bach. Mendelssohn’s setting of verses from the 115th Psalm was the first of five such large-scale settings he made for soloists, chorus, and orchestra between 1829 and 1844. It revealed almost equally strong influence from Bach and Handel, the latter in particular occasionally Mozartified. […]
2021-10-30 08:53:28
Everything is in the music: conductor Antonello Manacorda on returning to La Traviata at Covent Garden, balancing concert work & opera, & music-making being a journey rather than a single event
Antonello Manacorda (Photo Nikolaj Lund) The Italian conductor Antonello Manacorda is currently conducting the current revival of Richard Eyre's production of Verdi's La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, with Lisette Oropesa, Kristina Mkhitaryan, and Anush Hovhannisyan sharing the role of Violetta. Based in Berlin, Antonello will be returning to our shores later this year for a concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (23 November 2021), with further orchestral engagements in the UK planned including with a period instrument ensemble. These neatly sum up the various threads in Antonello's career, opera, symphonic concerts and historically informed performance, as he balances a career in the opera house with being the music director of the Kammerakademie Potsdam. We meet at the Royal Opera House after Antonello has had a long day rehearsing two different casts for La Traviata [which subsequently received strong reviews, see Tim Ashley's review in The Guardian]. He made […]
2021-05-12 00:06:00
Mendelssohn: The Symphonies - Antonello Manacorda
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 11 Synphony No. 4 in Amajor op. 90 "Italian" Kammerakademie Potsdam Antonello Manacorda Sony 2016 Pour commencer, il est sûrement nécessaire de présenter l'orchestre, né vers 2000, qui fait office d'orchestre du Land de Brandebourg. C'est une formation dont les effectifs sont ceux de type Mozart, ce qui donne donc un net allègement par rapport aux grandes formations symphoniques. Elle a bénéficié de la direction d'Andrea Marcon puis de Michaël Sanderling et maintenant Antonello Manacorda. Quant au chef, c'est un violoniste italien qui s'est illustré comme 1er violon du Mahler Chamber Orchestre, donc il peut être considéré comme un disciple d'Abbado (dont l'intgrale Mendelssohn est une référence). Il s'est déjà ilustré avec cet orcheste dans une très belle intégrale Schubert. Nous avons donc ici les 5 symphonies de Mendelssohn mais aucune ouverture. La […]
2021-05-09 00:00:00
Schubert Complete Symphonies - Antonello Manacorda
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) Symphony No. 1 in D major D 82 Symphony No. 10 in D major D 936A - Andante Completed by Brian Newbould Kammerakademie Potsdam Antonello Manacorda Sony 2015 The best of all worlds. Antonello Manacords leads his modern instrument chamber orchestra in HIP influenced playing of precision, speed, energy and lyricism. The weakest link is the Fourth, which remains quite light, but here "weak" still means extraordinary. The Eight has ample drama, and the Ninth, though using a chamber orchestra, has enough scale to satisfy, and matches the great rendition by Thomas Hengelbrock. This is now my go-to complete cycle. (Amazon review) Symphony No. 2 in B flat major D 125 Symphony No. 4 in C minor D 417 "Tragic" Kammerakademie Potsdam Antonello Manacorda Sony 2012 Symphony No. 3 in D major D 200 Symphony […]
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