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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 […]
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2023-10-01 23:03:23
Gravity Waves and Curveballs: Sherman Remembered
[caption id="attachment_32597" align="alignleft" width="300"] Gravity abhors straight lines[/caption] We reprint our well-remembered 2016 feature and interview with Russell Sherman. He died last night at 93. Russell Sherman’s eagerly awaited annual faculty recital on April 3rd at Jordan Hall will feature works long connected with him: Schoenberg’s Three Pieces for Piano, Op. 11, Beethoven’s Sonata for Piano No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53 “Waldstein”, Debussy’s Préludes, Book 2, and Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes (12) for Piano, S 139, No. 2 in A Minor: Molto vivace, No. 9 in A-flat Major “Ricordanza”, No. 10 in F Minor: Allegro agitato molto. He tells us he plays them differently each time. He can also imitate other famous pianists. He has lots to say in a free-form interview which follows the break. Youngish concertgoers and musicians who are not yet old will find it very difficult to imagine either the sea change that took place […]
2023-05-22 21:52:00
Every Good Boy Does Fine
Jeremy DenkPhoto by Shervin LainezCourtesy of Jeremy Denk's web siteI read pianist Jeremy Denk's memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story in Music Lessons, recently. I can't remember why I picked it up; I know that I hadn't read any reviews. Whatever, I'm very glad that I did. Denk is an elegant writer with a distinctly Wry voice, and he's written a wonderful book.The book is a memoir about becoming a pianist, about how you learn both the technique of playing and how you become a musician. It's about his teachers and the choices he made and what he learned from each of them, starting with the very basics of playing boring piano exercises. This part of the story will be familiar, in some way, to everyone who has ever studied a musical instrument.But not everyone becomes a good enough player and a good enough musician to become a […]
2022-08-09 09:07:00
Prom 30: Gavin Higgins' Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra with the Tredegar Band and BBC NOW
Prom 30, Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra - The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan BancroftBBC Proms (Photo BBC/Mark Allan)Gavin Higgins: Concerto Grosso for brass band and orchestra, Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique; The Tredegar Band, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ryan Bancroft; BBC Proms at the Royal Albert HallReviewed 8 August 2022 (★★★★½)From Higgins' remarkable use of colour and timbre in his new work for brass band and orchestra to the classical underpinnings of Berlioz' Romantic symphony in a fine prom with Welsh forces.For the BBC National Orchestra of Wales' final BBC Prom at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 8 August 2022, Ryan Bancroft conducted them in two large-scale works. First came the world premiere of Gavin Higgins' Concerto Grosso for Brass Band and Orchestra when the orchestra was joined by the Tredegar Band, then came Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique.Brass bands have not been a regular feature […]
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