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2023-06-10 23:49:00
Leipzig Bach Fest No. 27. Organ Concert. Michael Schonheit, conductor and organ.
Gewandhaus, Great Hall, Leipzig, Germany. Parkette Mitte (Seat 14-1, 17 euros).All the artists came out at the conclusion of the concert.Program"O I wretched man, who will redeem me" by Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679-1714)."Arm yourselves, ye heavenly choirs" by Kauffmann."The love of God is poured out" by Kauffmann."Come, Holy Spirit, Lord God" BWV 652 by J. S. Bach (1685-1750).Cantata "Erschallet, ihr Lieder" BWV 172.3 by Bach.Bach Fest has a English version of the website, from which I type the titles in the "Program" section. No idea why the last piece is not translatable by Google Translate. Microsoft translates it as "Do you sing songs?" More along the lines of "Resounding songs."ArtistsCollegium Vocale LeipzigMerseburger HofmusikIsabel Schicketanz - soprano; Britta Schwarz - alto; Tobias Hunger - Tenor I; Christoph Pfaller Tenor II; Tobias Berndt - Bass.Well, it turns out the first ever Leipzig Bach Fest event we attended was not even "Mostly Bach." The […]
2022-04-11 13:12:15
Alcina and Arminio to Kurt Cobain and Kaija Saariaho to Werther and Wozzeck, the Royal Opera House's new season
[…] Warner, with Christian Gerhaher in the title role. Main stage revivals don't really feature any novelties and many are bread-and-butter revivals, but there is plenty of interesting casting. Lise Davidsen and Stefan Winke headlining the revival of Stephen Wadsworth's production Wagner's Tannhauser, Bryn Terfel in Rossini's Barber of Seville, Ermonela Jaho as Liu in Puccini's Turandot, Malin Byström as Salome, Puccini's La Boheme with casts including Juan Diego Florez (the very same), and Danielle de Niese, and Jonas Kauffmann returns to the role of Werther in the production where he created the role in Paris (to great acclaim). The revival of Tosca has a lot of interest, Natalya Romaniw sings the role at Covent Garden for the first time (hurrah!) with casts also including Malin Byström (also in the title role), Gwyn Hughes Jones, Freddie De Tommaso and Erwin Schrott. It is great to see Paula Murrihy back, this time as Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni to Luca Micheletti's […]
2021-01-01 09:24:57
Happy New Year
A Happy New Year from All at Planet Hugill Beethoven: Fidelio - Jonas Kaufmann - Royal Opera (Photo ROH/Bill Cooper) This year we have posted 744 articles, beginning with my preview of the Britten Sinfonia's Spring season and ending with my preview of the English Symphony Orchestra's New Year's Eve concert, and along the way we have managed to produced 145 record reviews. Our top performing articles this year have been my review of Beethoven's Fidelio at Covent Garden with Lise Davidsen and Jonas Kauffmann, my article about the new 2020/21 cohort of young artists at the National Opera Studio, my review of English Touring Opera's staging of Bach's St John Passion, my article about Birmingham Opera Company's plans to stage Wagner's Das Rheingold in a disused metalworks, my article on London Mozart Player's returning to performing in July, and my article on the Rodolfus Foundation's […]
2020-10-06 07:00:39
Illuminating with wit what it is to be an accompanist: Helmut Deutsch's memoirs translated by Richard Stokes
[…] has been made over the years. But if there is enough rehearsal time, I always challenge the singer who says 'I've always sung it like that and cannot now learn it correctly.' I try to arouse his sense of ambition finally to get the passage right after so many years of getting it wrong. Sometimes I'm successful, sometimes not. Of the singers with whom Deutsch has worked, after Hermann Prey the most intriguing is Jonas Kauffmann, who was originally a pupil of Deutsch's and their relationship then developed. The chapter on Kauffmann includes an unfolding of the singer's earlier career, when his talents were not always appreciated. After a 2001 performance of Schumann and Strauss which, having recently listened to the recording Deutsch confirms was a good concert, the intendant of the festival said 'never bring me someone like that singer again'! Many of the chapters are short, admirable in […]
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