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German-Dutch composer, producer and director
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2019-01-29 04:58:25
Experimental Italian composer, pianist and music educator Mario Bertoncini has passed away – aged 86. A student of Goffredo Petrassi, Rodolfo Caporali and Gottfried Michael Koenig, Mr Bertoncini was a former recipient of the Santa Cecilia National Academy’s Nicola d’Atri Prize, the Gaudeamus International Composer’s Prize and the European Culture Foundation’s Quodlibet Prize. He held teaching positions on faculty at Pesaro Conservatory, Montreal’s […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2017-01-21 01:00:00
[…] (4.27) Gruppo Nuova Consonanza Direttore: Daniele Paris Venezia: 7-9-1970 TEMPO TOTALE (75.39) ADD Stradivarius - La Nuova Musica - Volume 10 STR 10044 TRACKLIST Gottfried Michael Koenig (* 1926) Kammermusik CD 1 1.+2. Zwei Klavierstücke, 1957 (WDR 1995) 14:13 Jan Marc Reichow, Klavier 3. Suite »Materialien zu einem Ballett«, 1961 (WDR 1961) […]
2012-04-29 19:55:00
This Week in Toronto (April 30 - May 6)
Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy receives its COC premiere (l. to r. Alan Held, Michael Koenig, Gun-Brit Barkmin). Photo: Michael Cooper The classical music scene is incredibly busy this week. The spring season of the Canadian Opera Company continues this week with its second presentation of Alexander Zemlinsky's Eine Florentinische Tragoedie (A Florentine Tragedy). I attended the opening on April 26. The score, with its lush harmonic language highly reminiscent of Richard Strauss (with a dash of Franz Schreker thrown in), is absolutely ravishing in the hands of Sir Andrew Davis leading the COC Orchestra. Together with the strikingly beautiful set from La Monnaie in Brussels, this work deserves to be seen and heard by all opera lovers in Toronto. Paired with it is Puccini's comic Gianni Schicchi, an opera that can appear unfunny, even tedious, in the wrong hands. I can honestly say this production was the funniest […]
2012-04-22 23:59:00
This Week in Toronto (Apr. 23 - 29)
[…] It was an extraordinary performance, not an easy achievement as in the hands of stage director Martin Kusej, the Water Gnome becomes the bad guy. It'll be interesting to see how Held responds to the rather unconventional production here at the COC. You can read about his thoughts on these two productions in the blog on his website - http://www.alanheld.com/index.html The opera also stars German mezzo Gun-Brit Barkmin as Bianca and tenor Michael Koenig as Guido Bardi. The unconventional story of the Zemlinsky opera really requires some homework on the part of the audience, and the COC website has excellent articles on this work, including one on Malfitano's take on these operas. As well, you can get a taste of this work on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb2WRUQxEAI If you are a fan of the post-Romanticism of Schreker, Korngold and Braunfels, you'll love the score! In the […]
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