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Italian conductor (1933–2014)
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Commemorations 2024 (Death: Claudio Abbado)
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2024-03-23 15:27:00
R.I.P. Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)
[…] the interval, not only after the Webern, but unforgivably, during the ice, fire, and elements unknown to this universe of the Boulez. I might have thought I could not admire him any more than I did already; now, however, I did. There was so much else, of course, not least the music of Luigi Nono, some of which, quite simply, would not have existed had it not been for his friendship with Pollini (and Claudio Abbado). …sofferte onde serene… I knew it a little from his recording, but to hear it live in London at the Southbank Centre’s courageous ‘Fragments of Venice’ festival in 2007, was truly to hear it for the first time. The last time I did so, at Salzburg in 2019, it was like welcoming an old friend, albeit one who could shock and surprise, as well as seduce, as brilliantly as you could imagine—and then some. […]
2024-02-12 15:35:19
Alban Berg, part II, 2024
[…] teaching jobs. We’ll listen for the first 15 minutes of Act II of Wozzeck. In Scene 1, Marie puts her son to bed, then Vozzeck arrives, gets suspicious of her earrings (they were given to her by the Captain), gives her some money and leaves. In Scene 2, the Doctor and the Captain walk the street; they see Wozzeck, make fun of him and insinuate that Marie isn’t faithful. Wozzeck runs away in despair. Claudio Abbado conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna State Opera (we know the orchestra as the Vienna Philharmonic); Wozzeck is sung by Franz Grundheber, his common-law wife Marie is Hildegard Behrens. Heinz Zednik is the Captain, Aage Haugland is the Doctor. Wozzeck was an atonal opera, but it wasn’t a 12-note composition, the technique which by then was being developed by Schoenberg. Berg was receptive to it and soon moved in a similar direction. […]
2024-02-12 02:59:29
Alban Berg - Wozzeck, Act II, Scene 2Heinz Zednik (Tenor)Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera (Orchestra)Claudio Abbado (Conductor)
2024-02-12 02:55:18
Alban Berg - Wozzeck, Act II, Scene 1Hildegard Behrens (Soprano)Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera (Orchestra)Claudio Abbado (Conductor)
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