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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-18 16:37:18
Schumann Got It Right the First Time
[…] a hundred years or more. On my own shelves are the Kalmus reprint of the Breitkopf edition in seven volumes of Schumann’s “Complete Works for solo piano...edited according to manuscripts and from her personal recollections by Clara Schumann,” a “second edition,” which has become standard for more than a century and includes the texts of the first editions of Schumann’s lifetime in ossias and smaller type. The Symphonic Etudes on my mother’s piano were a Schirmer edition by Max Vogrich; five extra variations, excluded by Schumann from the initial edition but published separately after his death, were added in this printing as an Appendix. [caption id="attachment_57283" align="alignright" width="612"] The first version of Phantasie[/caption] Many performers today play the second edition (12 etudes, some of which aren’t variations) and add the five posthumously published variations interspersed, making 17 in all, including a rondo Finale. Differences between first and second editions […]
2023-12-04 14:03:00
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Deutsche Oper, 3 December 2023
Hans Sachs – Johan Reuter Veit Pogner – Albert Pesendorfer Kunz Vogelgesang – Gideon Poppe Konrad Nachtigall – Marek Reichert Sixtus Beckmesser – Philipp Jekal Fritz Kothner – Thomas Lehman Balthasar Zorn – Jörg Schörner Ulrich Eißlinger – Patrick Vogel Augustin Moser – Paul Kaufmann Hermann Ortel – Stephen Bronk Hans Schwarz – Tobias Kehrer Hans Foltz – Byung Gil Kim Walther von Stolzing – Magnus Vigilius David – Ya-Chung Huang Eva – Elena Tsallagova Magdalena – Kathrin Göring Night Watchman – Tobias Kehrer Apprentices – Agata Kornaga, Freya Müller, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Yehui Jeong, Oleksandra Diachenko, Natalie Jurk, Jongwoo Hong, Thoma Jaron-Wutz, Leon Juurlink, Kyoungloul Kim, Sotiris Charalampous, Simon GrindbergJossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito (directors)Torsten Köpf (co-set designer)Charlotte Pistorius (co-costume designer)Olaf Freese (lighting) Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines)Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinUlf Schirmer (conductor)Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, premiere am 12.6.2022 in der Deutschen […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2022-10-28 21:03:09
The American classical music publishing house, G. Schirmer... The post Nazi victim composers get publishing deal appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-10-27 18:00:05
G. Schirmer will publish more than 400 pieces by Jewish composers, allowing them to be heard on a wider scale.
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