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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 […]
2021-09-14 19:47:03
Johannes Brahms composed the Fourth Symphony during the summers of 1884–85 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria, his summer retreat in the mountains southwest of Vienna. In September 1885, Brahms wrote to Hans von Bülow, conductor of the Meiningen Orchestra, expressing his hope that von Bülow would perform the new symphony. Conductor von Bülow warmed to the new symphony; after his first rehearsal, von Bülow wrote, “No. 4 gigantic, altogether a law unto itself, quite new, steely individuality. Exudes unparalleled energy from first note to last.” Brahms led von Bülow’s Meiningen Court Orchestra in the premiere of the Fourth Symphony on October 25,
2020-09-11 09:26:27
Late Haydn and Brahms on an Autumn evening in the park: Anthony Friend and the Solem Quartet at Battersea Park bandstand
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet - Solem Quartet, Anthony FriendBandstand Chamber Festival at Battersea Park (Photo William Marsey) Haydn Quartet in E flat, Op. 76, No. 6, Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115; Anthony Friend, Solem Quartet; Bandstand Chamber Festival Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 September 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Two late chamber works in performances which mixed youthful engagement with Autumnal glowWe returned to Battersea Park bandstand for the third of Bandstand Chamber Festival's concerts, when the Solem Quartet (Amy Tress, William Newell, Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress) performed a pair of late works, Haydn's Quartet in E flat, Op. 76, No. 6 and Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115 with clarinettist Anthony Friend (the artistic director of the festival). Haydn's six Opus 76 string quartets, written in 1797-1799 (when he was 65 to 67) and the last complete set of quartets that […]
2019-06-10 15:13:32
Richard Strauss, 2019
June 10, 2019. Richard Strauss. Last week we wrote about George Szell, the famous German conductor. This week we celebrate the birthday of his friend and mentor, the German composer Richard Strauss. Strauss was born on June 11th of 1864 in Munich. Strauss lived a long live and was productive for an extraordinary long time, more than 70 years: his earliest “serious” compositions date from 1877 (just to put it into perspective, Brahms’s Fourth Symphony was premiered in 1884); his Four Last Songs were composed in 1948, when Strauss was 84; by then, Stravinsky and Schoenberg were part of the musical mainstream. Strauss’s father was a virtuoso horn player, the principal horn at the Munich Hofoper; his mother, née Pschorr was from the family of famous Bavarian brewers (Hacker-Pschorr, which belongs for the Pschorr family, is known worldwide for its Oktoberfest beer). Strauss’s father, conservative in his musical tastes, didn’t […]
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