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2024-02-19 09:17:00
In Relations: exploring links from Meyerbeer, to Loewe, to Mendelssohn, to Schumann, to Emilie Mayer and Frances Allitsen.
[…] by Heine. Heine in his turn was enthusiastic about Loewe's settings of his poetry. And Goethe was most enthusiastic about the poetry of Elisabeth Kuhlmann, but she died at the age of 17. So the disc is one of fascinating cross connections and circles.We begin with Meyerbeer, three songs that you might have a job deciding on the composer. Not quite lieder yet far more than salon musc. The Heine setting, Komm, and the Wilhelm Müller setting Meerestille are both rather charming, the latter also full of character with a more complex piano part, whilst the third song, Suleika is a romantic setting of Marianne von Willemer. All three are engagingly sung by Zalenga, and certainly make me interested to hear more.We then move on to Loewe setting Goethe. Meine Ruh is hin is of course familiar from a far better known setting, but here Loewe is less intense, though the two performers […]
2024-01-17 11:48:00
Antikrist, Deutsche Oper, 13 January 2024
Lucifer, A Voice – Thomas Lehman God’s Voice – Jonas Grundner-Culemann The Echo of the Air of Mystery – Valeriia Savinskaia The Air of Mystery – Irene Roberts The Mouth speaking Great Words – Clemens Bieber Despondency – Maire Therese Carmack The Great Whore – Flurina Stucki The Scarlet Beast – AJ Glueckert The Lie – Kieran Carrel Hatred – Philipp Jekal Dancers – Ashley Wright, Giorgia Bovo, Ana Dordevic, Sakura Inoue, Vasna Felicia Aguilar, Yuri Shimaoka, Joel Donald Small, Shih-Ping Lin, György Jellinek, Miguel Angel ColladoDirector, set designs – Ersan MondtagRevival director – Silke SenseCostumes – Ersan Mondtag, Annika Lu HermannLighting – Rainer CasperChoreography – Rob FordeynDramaturgy – Lara Gebhardt, Carolin Müller-Dohle Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines) Opera-Ballet and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinHermann Bäumer (conductor)ANTIKRIST, Regie: Ersan Mondtag, Premiere 30. Januar 2022 Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Thomas Aurin Rued Langgaard’s ‘church opera’ Antikrist is […]
2023-12-21 04:30:00
Chamber Works by Robert Müller-Hartmann (CD Review)
by Ryan RossRobert Müller-Hartmann: String Quartet No. 2; Three Intermezzi and Scherzo; Two Pieces for Cello and Piano; Violin Sonata. ARC Ensemble. Chandos CHAN 20294.Prior to this disc, almost my only awareness of Robert Müller-Hartmann was his friendship and collaboration with English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. I knew that the former was also a composer, and had interrupted his career to flee Hitler’s Reich along with other Jewish German refugees. But I never had the opportunity to hear any of his music until now. Vaughan Williams much respected his younger contemporary and even went to hear his music performed on multiple occasions. One wonders what he thought, because if the works offered on this splendid recording are any indication, Müller-Hartmann deserves to be remembered as more than the great Englishman’s trusted assistant. I am conscious of starting to sound like a broken record when it comes to Chandos’s tremendous advocacy for neglected composers, but we do […]
2023-12-11 07:57:00
Opera & Democracy: Transatlantic Conversations & Concerts celebrating the centenary of the reopening of the Krolloper in Berlin
[…] artists for an exciting dialogue about opera and democracy, past and present. Opera & Democracy: Transatlantic Conversations & Concerts begins on 20 January 2024 at the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles with an event that mixes conversations with artists and academics, considering the commitment of opera professionals to democratic societies, and a concert featuring Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's 1930 opera Der Jasager and music by Richard Wagner, Lily Reiff, Edmond Dédé.The series is directed by Dr. Kai Hinrich Müller, a 2023 Thomas Mann Fellow. Future events take place at the Bavarian State Opera, Dresden Music Festival, Bauhaus Archive - Berlin, Hamburg State Opera and in New York and Providence Rhode Island.Full details from the Thomas Mann House website.
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