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Hungarian-British conductor (1912–1997)
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2023-12-17 11:00:44
Georg Solti made his Met debut conducting Tannhäuser on this date in 1960.
2023-11-27 09:06:00
A remarkable sense of energy & engagement: Wagner's Die Walküre from the London Opera Company at St John's Smith Square
[…] of Siegmund's love for Sieglinde. The final scene with Thorpe's Wotan was touching, yet understated in the right way, till Thorpe finally opened up for a knock-out performance of Wotan's farewell. But of course, this scene is not the end, and as the orchestra took up the narrative the result brought a terrific evening to a magical close.Peter Selwyn's speeds were largely on the faster side, the very opening to Act One far closer to Solti than Goodall. Throughout he had the knack of keeping things moving without ever seeming to hurry his singers. The long scenes unfolded naturally, but without any of that stopping to sniff the flowers that can sometimes mar Wagner performances.Wagner: Die Walküre - Cara McHardy, Philippa Boyle & the Valkyries - Peter Selwyn &The London Opera CompanyThe company is largely the brainchild of the evening's Brünnhilde and Fricka, Cara McHardy and Harriet Williams, but what […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-26 06:14:03
[…] different Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland he developed a style, and an audience to receive it, that went far wider than the merely esoteric atonality of the 1960s. I especially remember his Vintage Alice, a commission from a California winery, which I heard brilliantly performed in Chicago in 1973 by Ralph Shapey’s chamber group (Sessions’s Concertino was on the same program), and I loved its brash, witty approach, with accordion and mandolins. Final Alice, conducted by Solti, was a television spectacular. I don’t know any of his later music, which built on gay activism following the Stonewall riots of 1969 The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-11-19 15:52:28
Saxophone Highlights Next BSO Concerts
[…] with the piece right away. Do you have any connections with the Banks? Yes, I worked with him few years ago in Eugene, Oregon with a chamber orchestra called Oregon Mozart Players. Steven played the Mozart Oboe Concerto, K.314 on soprano sax. He is a really beautiful musician. Do you know the first major symphonic composer to write for the saxophone? (Chant Sacré by Berlioz 1844) Now I do. Thank you! Since winning the George Solti Award, you have become busier and busier, with recent debuts with the NY Phil and San Francisco Symphony. Do you still have time to play the cello? Unfortunately, my cello is more of a furniture piece in the corner of my living room. Well, jokes aside, I do take it out time to time when I am studying. It helps me to think in the perspective of a musician in the orchestra. Do you […]
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