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2024-03-15 10:40:00
KammermusiksaalMendelssohn: Psalm 115, ‘Nicht unserm Namen, Herr’, MWV A 9 Fanny Hensel: Hiob Mendelssohn: Ave Maria, op.23 no.2, MWV B 19 Mendelssohn: Hör mein Bitten, MWV B 49 Bach: Cantata, ‘Die Elenden sollen essen’, BWV 75: Sinfonia to the second part Mendelssohn: Psalm 114, ‘Da Israel aus Ägypten zog,’ op.51 Anna Prohaska (soprano)Benjamin Bruns (tenor)Ludwig Mittelhammer (bass)RIAS Chamber ChoirKammerakademie PotsdamJustin Doyle (conductor) A delightful and enlightening concert from the RIAS Chamber Choir, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Justin Doyle, and an excellent trio of vocal soloists: focusing on Mendelssohn, but also including a cantata by his sister Fanny Hensel and a sinfonia by the family’s musical house god, Johann Sebastian Bach. Mendelssohn’s setting of verses from the 115th Psalm was the first of five such large-scale settings he made for soloists, chorus, and orchestra between 1829 and 1844. It revealed almost equally strong influence from Bach and Handel, the latter in particular occasionally Mozartified. […]
2023-12-17 09:39:00
Eugene Onegin, Komische Oper, 15 December 2023
Schillertheater Eugene Onegin – Günter PapendellTatiana – Ruzan Mantashyan Olga – Deniz Uzun Lensky – Gerard Schneider Mme Larina – Stefanie Schaefer Prince Gremin – Tijl Faveyts Filipievna – Margarita Nekrasova M. Triquet – Christoph Späth Zaretsky – Ferhat Baday Captain – Jan-Frank Süße Guillot – Alexander KohlBarrie Kosky (director)Werner Sauer (revival director)Rebecca Ringst (set designs)Klaus Bruns (costumes)Simon Berger (dramaturgy)Franck Evin (lighting) Orchestra and Chorus (chorus director: David Cavelius) of the Komische OperJames Gaffigan (conductor)Images: Iko Freese / drama-berlin.de I first saw Barrie Kosky’s Eugene Onegin, premiered in 2016, in 2019, a few months before the theatres closed. Then it was at the Komische Oper’s permanent home on Behrenstraße. Now, the building having closed for several years for renovation, this latest revival may be seen across town in Charlottenburg’s Schillertheater, conducted by the company’s new music director James Gaffigan. The cast is a mix of old and new, Günter Papendell, Stefanie […]
2021-07-03 05:28:00
Classical Music News of the Week, July 3, 2021
[…] Each interpretation offers a different vision of America during this critical moment, as filtered through the lens of America’s leading compositional voices across a broad spectrum of age, race, gender, and personal experience.Kwon will give two performances per night, the first beginning at 6PM and the second at 7:30, in which she will premiere dozens of new works from the project.For further information, visit https://www.america-beautiful.com/--Andrew Ousley, Unison Media Berkeley Symphony Performs Live at the Bruns AmphitheaterMusic Director Joseph Young returns to the Bay Area to lead Berkeley Symphony in its first live appearance in more than a year with a performance at Orinda’s Bruns Amphitheater on Wednesday, August 4 at 7:30 p.m. The program will feature standards from the classical repertoire alongside contemporary works, with music by Rossini, Bizet, Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Gabriela Lena Frank, Brian Raphael Nabors, and Jessie Montgomery. Single tickets are $50 and can be purchased […]
2021-04-10 05:20:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 10, 2021
[…] museum, provide a stunning backdrop to the Argus Quartet’s performances of works by John Cage, Rolf Wallin, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Paul Wiancko, who joins the quartet as a guest performer for his piece, Vox Petra.Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 7:30pm ETTickets: Free on the 5BMF YouTube channelLearn More: https://5bmf.org/events/noise-silence--Katy Salomon, Morahan Arts and MediaWest Edge Adds Another Live PerformanceWest Edge Opera is adding a Snapshot live performance on Sunday, May 16th, 4pm, at The Bruns Amphitheater. 100 California Shakespeare Theater Way, Orinda CA. Originally, West Edge Opera was to offer only one live performance on Saturday May 15th, and to offer a recording of the program released online for patrons to watch in at home. However, when our box office opened last Thursday, tickets for the Saturday performance were nearly sold out within hours.In response, West Edge Opera has added a live performance to the Snapshot program on Sunday, […]
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