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2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] found out that Mendelssohn was a very accomplished watercolourist. At the early age of 15, a three-month family trip to Switzerland in 1822 afforded him a wonderful opportunity to devote himself to drawing and he completed more than 40 landscapes. In Mendelssohn’s correspondence it reveals that drawing and painting proved an ideal respite from his compositional duties. On another trip he made to Switzerland in 1838, he wrote to Carl Klingemann (a lifelong friend born in Limmer-an-der-Leine near Hanover, the son of the local cantor and schoolmaster) whom he travelled to Scotland with in 1829: ‘I composed not even a bit of music, but rather drew entire days, until my fingers and eyes ached.’ During his Scottish trip, the 20-year-old composer conceived his third symphony - known as the ‘Scottish’. An emotional and lyrical work, it comprises a grand first movement, a joyous and brief second and a slow movement maintaining an […]
2013-03-07 08:30:00
Humperdinck: rare works
Die Heirat wider Willen EHWV 130 Komische Oper 3 Akte (1902-1905) (Hedwig Humperdinck nach Alexandre Dumas) Emil Duval: Karl Hoppe Gouverneur: Benno Kusche Hausmeister: Karl Mösch Hedwig: Käthe Nentwig Luise Mauclair: Hildegard Limmer Marquis d'Estrée: Walter Praetorius Montfort: Hans Hopf Oberin: Renate Gebel Philipp V: Karl Schmitt-Walter Zofe: Margot Gebner; Herta Maria Krause Chor & Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks München Hans Altmann Live recording: 1949, mono Cantus Classics (2002) 2CDs eac flac cue booklet ____________________ Dornröschen EHWV 121 Märchen in einem Vorspiel und drei Akten (Elisabeth Ebeling & Bertha Lehrmann-Filhés) Dämonia: Brigitte Fassbender (spoken role) Rosa: Christina Landshamer Röschen: Kristiane Kaiser Reinhold: Tobias Haaks Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks Münchner Rundfunkorchester Ulf Schirmer CPO (2010) 2CDs eac flac cue booklet _____________________ "Märchenmusiken" Hänsel und Gretel EHWV 93, Der blaue Vogel, Königskinder EHWV […]
South Florida Classical Review
2012-01-27 17:21:38
The South Beach Chamber Ensemble presents innovative programs, offering contemporary works and rarities from the past. A sparse crowd took the opportunity to hear scores by Franz Limmer and Joaquin... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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