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2024-03-11 00:00:00
[…] celesteDebussyPagodesEmanuel Ax pianoMahlerSymphony No. 3Petra Lang mezzoWomen of the Westminster Symphonic ChoirThe American Boychoir MahlerSymphony No. 2 "Resurrection"Miah Persson sopranoLilli Paasikivi mezzosopranoNew York Choral ArtistsJoseph Flummerfelt directorMahlerBlumineSymphony No. 1LyadovThe Enchanted LakeShostakovichSymphony No. 10LindbergFeriaProkofievSymphony No. 5LindbergEXPOPiano Concerto No. 2Al largoYefim Bronfman pianoHaydnSymphony No. 88SchubertSix Orchestrated SongsRavelMa Mere l´oyeLa ValseAnne Sophie von Otter mezzosopranoCurrierTime MachinesBrucknerSymphony No. 2Anne-Sophie Mutter violinBeethovenViolin ConcertoStravinskySymphony in three movementsRavelDaphnis et Chloé suite no. 2Frank Peter Zimmermann violinBeethovenOverture The Creatures of PrometheusMozartSymphony No. 38 "Praga"ZemlinskyLyric SymphonyThomas Hampson baritonHillevi Martinpelto sopranoBarberEssay No.1CoriglianoOne Sweet MorningDvorakSymphony No. 7Stephanie Blythe mezzosopranoMozartPiano Concerto No. 25 BrucknerSymphony No. 3Emmanuel Ax pianoBrahmsSymphony No. 4MozartSymphony No. 31 "Paris"Lei Liang VergeDalbavie MelodiaShepherd These Particular CircumstancesMuhly Detailed InstructionsPintscher Songs from Solomon’s GardenTakemitsu Requiem for StringsStuckySymphonyRouseProspero´s RoomIvesSymphony No. 4MendelssohnElijahGerald FinleyTwyla RobinsonAlice CooteAllan ClaytonJennifer JohnsonBenjamin P. WenzelbergNew York Choral ArtistsLigetiLe Grand MacabreMark SchowalterBarbara HanniganEric OwensJennifer BlackRenée TatumWilbur PauleyAntony Roth CostanzoLindbergSouvenir (in memoriam Gerard Grisey)GriseyQuatre chants pour franchir le seuilMathesonTrue SouthYim neverthesamerivertwiceAndersonThe Comedy of […]
2024-03-07 09:28:01
[…] and he didn’t know how much music he had left in him. The epilogue, the last 20 bars, is the most serene and profound music he ever wrote. It’s Britten’s requiem for not only himself, but for his life partner, Peter Pears,” says Leo Hussain, conducting this production for Welsh National Opera – the first time the company have staged the work.Mark Le Brocq sings Aschenbach, the role Britten wrote for Pears. The libretto adapts Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella and tells of an ageing writer suffering from creative block who goes south to Venice in search of inspiration. There he encounters and is transfixed by a beautiful young Polish boy, Tadzio. Venice meanwhile is in the grip of cholera and the city empties around Aschenbach as tourists flee the infected city. “It’s an exploration of the idea of beauty and passion and the intellectual versus the physical side of beauty […]
2024-03-06 12:30:00
Hercules, Komische Oper, 3 March 2024
[…] has fared better since its modern stage revival in Cambridge in 1925. Handel never intended it to be staged, though the librettist (William Congreve) and original composer (John Eccles) had. It perhaps comes closest to Hercules, whose first staging was also in 1925 – the very beginning of the modern Handel revival – though in Münster. Whilst perhaps not the most compelling, dramatically, of all Handel’s works, Hercules, to a libretto by the Anglican clergyman Thomas Broughton, is certainly not the least either. This new production from Berlin’s Komische Oper affords a valuable opportunity, certain shortcomings notwithstanding, for news audience to see and hear it for themselves—many doubtless for the first time, the present writer included. In a programme interview, Kosky tells how and why he has long found Handel’s oratorios, to which he reasonably assimilates Hercules, more compelling than his operas. Me too, though we seem to stand nowadays […]
2024-03-02 14:00:46
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Thomas Schippers conducts Carlo Bergonzi, Leontyne Price, Cornell MacNeil, and Giorgio Tozzi in a broadcast from 1962
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