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Austrian composer, cellist and pianist (1874-1939)
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- composer, pedagogue, music teacher, cellist, university teacher, pianist
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2024-01-31 12:10:00
Salzburg Mozartwoche (5) - Hagen Quartet, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, 30 January 2024
Grosser Saal, MozarteumHaydn: String Quartet in D minor, op.76 no.2, Hob. III:76, ‘Fifths’ Mozart: String Quartet in D minor, KV 421/417b Beethoven: String Quartet in C-sharp minor, op.131 Lukas Hagen, Rainer Schmidt (violins)Veronika Hagen (viola)Clemens Hagen (cello)Image: Wolfgang Lienbacher Three string quartets in minor keys, two of them in the same minor key, might sound like an overload of misery, or at least darkness, but matters were more mixed in this Hagen Quartet Mozartwoche recital. It was not exactly full of the joys of spring, but then we have some way to go in our Winterreise before we reach such joys. More to the point, we could enjoy a cornucopia of invention from three of the supreme masters of the genre, Mozart rightly at the centre. Haydn was, of course, as close to the inventor of the string quartet as makes little matter, certainly its ‘father’ in a way he was […]
2024-01-28 13:04:00
Salzburg Mozartwoche (1) – Mozart and Salieri, 27 January 2024
Salzburg Marionette TheatreImages: Bernhard MuellerSalieri: Axur, re d’Ormus: Piccolo sinfonia to Act IV; La secchia rapita: ‘Son qual lacera tartana’; Il ricco d’un giorno: ‘Eccomi più che mai – ‘Amor, pietoso Amore’; La grotto di Trofonio: ‘La ra la ra’ Rimsky-Korsakov: Mozart and Salieri Director, designs – Matthias Bundschuh Lighting – Matthias Bundschuh, Alexander Proschek Production manager – Philippe Brunner Isora – Ekaterina Krasko/ Svetlana Schönfeld/Maximilian Kiener Mozart – Konstantin Igl/Ursula Winzer Salieri – Brett Pruunsild/Eva Wiener Blind violinist – Philipp SchmidtStudents from the Mozarteum University SalzburgKai Röhrig (conductor)After a few years concentrating on Mozart alone, Rolando Villázon, Intendant of Salzburg’s Mozartwoche, has turned to Mozart and Salieri. There is so much more, so much more of interest, to Salieri than the preposterous charge that ‘everyone’ knows, but it has been greatly influential, whether we like it or not, and that of course includes its artistic legacy. Most celebrated of all […]
2024-01-25 04:30:00
Recent Releases No. 69 (CD Reviews)
by Karl NehringMozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 25 (orchestra parts transcribed for string quartet and double bass by Ignaz Lachner). Alon Goldstein, piano; Fine Arts Quartet (Ralph Evans, violin I; Efim Boico, violin II; Gil Sharon, viola; Niklas Schmidt, cello); Lizzie Burns, double bass. Naxos 8.574477Pianist Alon Goldstein remarks of these two particular pieces that they are his personal favorites from among all of Mozart’s piano concertos, then goes on to explain about the arrangements in which they appear on this recording: “Rearrangement of music was very common in the 18th and 19th centuries. The composer and conductor Ignaz Lachner rearranged 19 Mozart concertos, including the two featured on this recording for piano and string quartet with double bass, most likely for the simple pleasure of domestic use m—having the opportunity to play these beloved works without the need of a full orchestra.” Surely the vast majority of those reading this review are […]
2024-01-22 07:34:00
Let the dialogue flow: Benjamin Bernheim leads a wonderfully memorable account of Massenet's Werther in Zurich
[…] attitude hardened as he became aware of Werther's persistent regard for Charlotte and the sense that the regard wasn't going to go away. Fierce as necessary, Iversen did not glower, instead he created the feel of a decent man in the wrong situation. And for once we didn't need the epithet 'boring Albert'.Valeriy Murga made Le Bailli a bluff, melancholy man, perhaps more inclined to sit and brood than join his friends. These, Johann and Schmidt (Martin Zysset and Andrew Moore) were the sort of jokesters whose fun had worn out long ago. In Act One they delighted in terrorising the children and in Act Two, the old people in the village. If you had complained, they would have said 'it's only a joke'. Jonas Jud and Flavia Stricker as the Klopstock-obsessed couple made a strong impression. The children were engaging and appealing, solos well taken, part of the drama […]
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