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2019-02-17 20:42:00
Berlioz, Haitink, Mahler and other livestreams
[…] Barbican : Bruckner 4 amd Mozart from 10th March. I'll be at the Mahler 4 programme on 12th March, which isn't being broadcast. There are still a few tickets for the repeat on 14th March. Grab them - Anna Lucia Richter the soloist is worth hearingBerlioz Bits - Lélio, Waverley. La Mort de Cléopatra Pascal Rophé, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, live from GlasgowMahler Das Lied von der Erde - Sakari Oramo BBC SO - Elizabeth Kullmann and Stuart Skelton, who should be good. From 22nd February
2017-08-19 03:39:00
[…] sang brightly creating images of light and movement. The BBC Symphony Chorus and the Bach Chorus entered quietly, in hushed reveremce . British choirs are astonishingly good, and we shouldn't take them for granted. "Aufersteh'n, ja aufersteh'n Wirst du, Mein Staub,..." Exceptionally lucid singing. Trumpets called out, as if reaching beyond a horizon. Just as the earthly and heavenly brass united, Elisabeth Kullmann and Elizabeth Watts sang together, the choruses encircling them like a halo of sound, joined later by high winds and strings. Kullmann sang "O Glaube" her voice resolute, "Du wardst nicht umsonst geboren! Hast nicht umsonst gelebt, gelitten!" Being born means struggle, but life is not in vain. This resolution - resurrection - is, it has been reached by inner strength and determination. That's when an orchestra as […]
2014-12-02 01:24:00
Mahler rarities in NYT Xmas gift list
[…] involved with Franz Schreker, Richard Strauss, Fürtwangler and Erich Kleiber. Marston and Obert-Thorn used originals in their own collections and also from a number of extremely scarce discs that were lent from the collections of Raymond J Edwards Jr, Nathan Brown and Charles Niss. The transfer of Mahler's Symphony no 1 ((Mitropoulos, Minnesota Symphony Orchestra), was provided by Charles Martin. Great classics like Bruno Walter's Das Lied von der Erde (Kerstin Thorberg, Charles Kullmann) are on this set, in cleaner sound, but also relative rarities like a 1928 potpourri of Das Lied von der Erde (Dol Dauber Salonorchester, Wien), and Um Mitternacht transcribed for voice and organ, recorded in Central Hall, Westminster, London, in the same year. These ventures may suggest that attitudes to music were different to today. That's why we need to know the archaeology of musical performance. There are no rigid rules. Styles change, […]
2014-01-13 02:16:00
MILESTONE NEW SET Mahler recordings 1903-40
[…] Strauss, Fürtwangler and Erich Kleiber. Marston and Obert-Thorn used originals in their own collections and also from a number of extremely scarce discs that were lent from the collections of Raymond J Edwards Jr, Nathan Brown and Charles Niss. The transfer of Mahler's Symphony no 1 ((Mitropoulos, Minnesota Symphony Orchestra), was provided by Charles Martin. Great classics like Bruno Walter's Das Lied von der Erde (Kerstin Thorberg, Charles Kullmann) are on this set, in cleaner sound, but also relative rarities like a 1928 potpurri of Das Lied von der Erde (Dol Dauber Salonorchester, Wien), and Um Mitternacht transcribed for voice and organ, recorded in Central Hall, Westminster, London in the same year. These ventures may suggest that attitudes to music were different to today. That's why we need to know the archaeology of musical performance. There are no rigid rules. Styles change, […]
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