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German conductor and pianist (1830–1894)
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2024-03-18
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2023-07-08 06:33:30
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2022-04-14 14:14:00
Richard Wagner and the Nationalisation of Feeling, exhibition at Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
[…] mind) misguided production of Die Meistersinger presented quite uncritically, along with an intriguing sound-installation of Kosky’s, ‘Schwarzalbenreich’, in which he makes the case you would expect, yet far more interestingly—and with evident commitment—than the rest of this section. The ‘Epilogue’ again has some excellent exhibits: a Lohengrin chocolate bar, a 1933 Bayreuth playbill for Die Meistersingerand an August 1939 poster for a Berliner Sommer-Festspiele Rienzi. It also, incredibly, claims that when Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow ‘coined the term Nibelungentreue (Nibelung loyalty) in 1909, he was using something that went back all the way to the Ring. Apparently, Bülow and the person who wrote this were both unaware of a certain mediaeval epic. Wagner, you see, was responsible for the First as well as the Second World War. A 1952 edition of Adorno’s Versuch über Wagner is, bafflingly for Adorno at his least fragmentary, translated as ‘Fragments on Wagner’. And […]
2021-12-07 15:49:44
“Burleske” by Richard Strauss is rarely performed. And the reason is that the solo piano part is so fiendishly complex. I listened to this music today, and it was great! The Burleske for piano and orchestra, written when Strauss was 20, opens with a burst of youthful exhilaration and is full of confident high spirits, vigor, and vitality. Its drama and comedy, lyricism, humor, lightness, and delicacy foreshadow Strauss’ operas, while its glittering, masterful orchestration anticipates his symphonic poems. The piano part is brilliantly virtuosic and fiendishly difficult (Bülow, for whom Strauss wrote it, rejected it as unplayable), but Argerich’s
2021-10-30 08:53:28
Everything is in the music: conductor Antonello Manacorda on returning to La Traviata at Covent Garden, balancing concert work & opera, & music-making being a journey rather than a single event
[…] informed about every composer they are playing. Antonello and KAP have made highly regarded recording cycles of complete Schubert symphonies [Amazon] and complete Mendelssohn symphonies [Amazon]. For each composer there is research, work on how did Schubert, for instance, want the symphonies to sound. Going on this journey, trying to understand and to explore, is what interests the orchestra whether the repertoire is early, classical, romantic or modern. Meiningen Court Orchestra with Hans von Bülow conducting, 1882 Antonello was a modern violinist who learned from conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt that every music, every composer has a different, particular sound. Recently Antonello and KAP did a project on the Brahms symphonies, not for performance but simply for the journey. They researched the Meiningen Court Orchestra, with whom Brahms performed the music (and there are photographs of the orchestra from the period), and here the conversation linked to another conductor […]
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