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A new, yet familiar piece: Benjamin Zander on his interpretation of Beethoven's Choral Symphony
Benjamin Zander (Photo Paul Marotta) Benjamin Zander's new recording of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (available on Brattle Media) is the result of a lifetime's study of Beethoven's score. But spend any time with Benjamin Zander and you come to realise both how absorbed by the music he is, and how his study of it was not intended to perfect his own interpretation but to divine Beethoven's intentions. I recently met up with Benjamin to talk about the new recording and the ideas which lie behind it, particularly with regard to his interpretation of Beethoven's metronome marks. Yet during our extensive conversation to talk about the new recording, Benjamin repeatedly emphasised that the new recording was not about Benjamin Zander but was about the music and Beethoven's original intentions. So does the world need yet another recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Benjamin feels that it does, and feels very strongly. He […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-11-10 01:17:53
From Lightshow to Enlightenment
[…] all contended yet again, but this time in a concert hall and not on a frozen lake. Teufel adds his thought that the orchestra showed great rhythmical energy and a dense and intense sound in the first movement, Andante. “The perfectly planed accumulation toward the end of the movement lead to an almost violent tone, that provided the perfect musical picture of the imaginary battleground. Principal flute Carlos Aguilar and Ryoei Kawai oboe (Paul Marotta photo) “The Allegro moderato unfolded in a dancelike manner and offered a kaleidoscope of different colors and sounds. The syncopated notes were splendidly articulated, which helped to bring out the cynically grotesque and militaristic character. Great intensity and angelic lyrical lines defined the Adagio. The final movement masterfully brought out the giocoso character through clear articulation and wonderful rhythmical control. What a showpiece for orchestra and conductor this symphony disclosed, from massed tuttis […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-09-16 04:46:44
Huntington Gives Sondheim Color and Light
Adam Chanler-Berat and Jenni Barber in Sunday in the Park with George (Paul Marotta photo) Those familiar with Huntington Theater Company’s 2015 production of A Little Night Music, which missed the timing required to express the wry sardonic humor so central to Sondheim’s narratives, might hesitate before attending the Company’s production of Sunday in the Park with George, running through October 16th. They shouldn’t worry. Huntington’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s tour de force with director Peter DuBois at the helm, constitutes an elegant, beautifully timed and imaginative tribute to the art of making art. Posing questions such as ‘is the artist his art?,’ Sunday appropriates Georges Seurat’s famous pointillist work from 1884 Un dimanche après-midi à l’Île de la Grande Jatte, and in doing so brings into question T.S. Eliot’s adage that “no artist of any art has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2012-07-30 18:05:07
Brilliant Booby and Boor from Rose
Aaron Engebreth sings Dominick Argento’s “A Water Bird Talk” (Paul Marotta photo) A self-proclaimed booby and a supposed boor are the protagonists of the two operas by Dominick Argento presented yesterday afternoon by Monadnock Music at the Colonial Theatre in Keene, New Hampshire. Directed and conducted by Gil Rose, the concert showcased outstanding performances by the orchestra and by singers Aaron Engebreth, the sole part in A Water Bird Talk, and Heather Buck, James Maddalena, and Frank Kelley, in The Boor. The operas are being recorded today in Boston. That is welcome news, but somehow, Boston must be treated to this concert this fall. Although composed about 20 years after The Boor, A Water Bird Talk began the concert. (A good decision, as it turned out.) With an opening that the audience only dimly realized was the beginning of the concert, recorded birds began chirping, à la Robert J. (Lurtsema). […]
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