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Czech composer
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2024-03-16 09:57:00
From Early Music to contemporary: the Royal Festival Hall organ is 70 and organist James McVinnie is celebrating with a Southbank Centre residency
[…] in her concerto feels very organic, with the orchestral writing coming out of the organ. Nico Muhly's piece for organ and orchestra, Register uses the orchestral wind in a very organ-like way, and the work is something of a philosophical dialogue. James recently gave Register its European premiere with the Helsinki Philharmonic, conductor Pekka Kuusisto at the Helsinki Music Centre on 7 and 8 February 2024 as part of the inauguration of the hall's 124-stop Rieger Organ.James grew up with the idea that there was a lack of concerto repertoire for organs. But more recently composers have been taking up the challenge, for instance Kaija Saariaho wrote Maan varjot (Earth's Shadows) for organ and orchestra in 2013 and things are looking up.In the second half of his year-long residency at the Southbank Centre, James will be exploring more Romantic repertoire as well as focusing on Bach, so that during the year-long […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-10 17:09:52
Texts Meet Tones: Origins and Meanings
[…] steps would encourage us to continue and found a four-day festival some years later. We hope that the Boston Text and Tone Festival in its first iteration, will provide time and space for our visions of community to become real. To this end, we have invited many wonderful artists–from a commissioned poet (Letta Neely) to pianists (Letizia Palimieri and JJ Penna) to singers (Alexis Peart, Felix Gygli, Daon Drisdom, Joanne Evans, James Demler, and Eric Rieger), to Boston-area conservatory students (Sam Crosby-Schmidt with L. Palmieri)–to participate in four consecutive days of music making. Our four concerts include core song repertoire like Schubert’s Winterreise and Fauré’s La bonne chanson as well as works by Shawn Okpebholo, Robert Schumann, Florence Price, Ruth Schonthal, and others to which we are happy to bring more attention. While the last three concerts are in the standard song-duo mold, the first concert features varied pairings of […]
2023-12-29 05:00:00
Bach: Solo Organ Concerti (Anthony Newman)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Six Solo Organ Concerti based on Concerti by Vivaldi & PrinzJohann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar, BWV 592-596Fantasia in G major, BWV 572Anthony Newman, Rieger Organ, Holy Trinity Episcopal ChurchNew York City(Modern Organ)Newport Classic NCD 60071 (1989)[Flac & Scans]
2023-07-26 14:27:00
Munich Opera Festival (5) - Tristan und Isolde, 21 July 2023
NationaltheaterTristan – Stuart Skelton King Marke – René Pape Isolde – Anja Kampe Kurwenal – Wolfgang Koch Melot – Sean Michael Plumb Brangäne – Jamie Barton Shepherd – Jonas Hacker Steersman – Christian Rieger Young Sailor – Liam Bonthrone Krzysztof Warlikowski (director) Malgorzata Szczęśniak (designs) Felice Ross (lighting) Kamil Polak (video) Claude Bardouil (choreography) Miron Hakenbeck, Lukas Leipfinger (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Johannes Knecht) Bavarian State Orchestra Lothar Koenigs (conductor)Images: Wilfried HöslTristan (Stuart Skelton) and Isolde (Anja Kampe) Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Tristan, first seen two years ago, marking an end to Nikolaus Bachler’s intendancy, is on first sight at least, a puzzling affair. There are ideas, certainly, though quite how they connect, let alone cohere, lay largely beyond me. They seemed, moreover, to bear precious relation to this most treacherous of works, perhaps the most resistant of all operas—if one may call it an opera at […]
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