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German composer and conductor
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2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] tuneful 16th-century court music in the somewhat quieter scenes in stark contrast to the rowdy and bloodthirstiness in others punctuated by screaming brass and percussion heard against intense haunting string textures witnessing debauchery and the like. There were many! The staging by Ilaria Lanzino truly hit the mark, Annette Braun’s costumes proved an interesting mix of traditional and contemporary styles, Steffo Jennerich lighting invoked the dark and mysterious side to the overall stage action while Dirk Becker’s sets were amazingly constructed by found materials from an appeal for local citizens to offer the production their unwanted furnishings. A massive collection of tables of all shapes and sizes turned up thus forming the basis of the main set unevenly perched on a massive revolving stage. ‘We are keen to deliver sensuous and compelling music-theatre and we want to do it in a responsible, climate-friendly way,’ commented Tobias Wolff, Director of Oper Leipzig. ‘Therefore, […]
2023-07-22 15:31:00
Cuvilliés-TheaterJohann Christian Cannabich: Quintet for two flutes, violin, viola, and cello in F major, op.7 no.1 Mozart: Quartet for oboe, violin, viola, and cello, in F major, KV 370/368b Mozart, arr. Rafaela Seywald: Concert Arias: ‘Ma, che vi fece … Sperai vicino il lido,’ KV 368; ‘Misera, dove son … Ah, non son’ io che parlo,’ KV 369 Mozart: String Quartet no.14 in G major, KV 387 Jasmin Delfs, Talia Or (sopranos) Vera Becker-Öttl, Edoardo Silvi (flutes) Heike Steinbrecher (oboe) Pascal Deuber, Stefan Böhning (horns) Matjaž Bogataj, Immanuel Drißner (violins) Adrian Mustea (viola) Benedikt Don Strohmeier (cello) To the Munich Residenz’s Rococo Cuvilliés-Theater, once simply the Residenztheater, for a fascinating concert entitled ‘Mozart and the Munich Hofkapelle’. It was here, on 29 January 1781, that Idomeneo received its first performance; this programme encircled without including that wonder of the operatic world. First, we heard a quintet for two flutes, violin, from […]
2022-04-08 08:08:43
Radiant Poison - Misha Penton from Misha Penton on Vimeo. Soprano and composer Misha Penton has released a new EP, Radiant Poison. Set in a dream-world of city and ocean-scapes, Radiant Poison is an exploration of our ephemeral, delicate bodies against the sparkling and hidden worlds of natural and urban landscapes. The music is a complex multilayering of contributions (see Misha's note below), to create three tracks Visible Darkness, Shore Pines & Spider Silk and Radiant Poison which are available from Bandcamp, but Misha has also released videos, see her Vimeo channel. Project Notes from Misha: Radiant Poison was created by composing and recording the multi-layers of voice first, focusing on an exploration of the sonority of my poetry. Then, electronic musician Chris Becker lent me beats and atmospheres to play with and his generosity gave me leeway to manipulate his tracks: to weave his sounds in and out of my voice layers—ebbing, flowing, […]
2021-08-30 18:15:30
Iván Fischer Gets Vaccinated While Conducting a Concert
To encourage Hungarian audiences to get vaccinated, Fischer got the vaccine onstage while simultaneously conducting the ensemble. Dr. Dávid Becker, deputy director of the Semmelweis University Heart and Vascular Center, administered the shot. He had previously consulted Fischer about the date of his last vaccination, the type of his first two vaccine shots, and […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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