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2022-03-03 16:57:45
A lasting and productive experience of Antonin Dvorak’s American stay was his visit in the summer of 1893 to the Bohemian colony of Spillville, Iowa. It was there that Dvorak wrote much of his “New World” Symphony and the entirety of the quartet, begun three days after his arrival and completed in a mere two weeks. The F-major Quartet reflects, in the words of Dvořák scholar Jaroslav Holeček, “the happy, restful moments and the magic of the beautiful countryside that the composer would walk every day of his stay there, usually beginning shortly after sunrise.” Listen to the performance of
2020-11-25 16:53:27
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Conductor: Christian Thielemann; Director: Vincent Huguet; With: Stephen Gould, Camilla Nylund, Evelyn Herlitzius, Sebastian Holecek, Wolfgang Koch, Nina Stemme, Maria Nazarova.
2020-07-01 16:49:13
Never-before-uploaded 1957 audio recording of legendary violinist Ida Haendel and pianist Alfred Holeček performing Ravel’s ‘Habanera‘. Ida Haendel sadly has passed away today, in Miami – aged 91. IDA HAENDEL & ALFRED HOLEČEK | RAVEL | ‘HABANERA’ | 1957 The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-04-26 09:28:53
A Life on Line: Gluck's Alceste, Cilea's Adriana, Strauss' Frau ohne Schatten (not to mention the young man without clothes)
[…] long) is fertile ground for director and conductors to cut and re-shape. Whilst Warlikowski and designer Malgorzata Szczesniak brought a great deal of visual stimulus to the production with some complex iconography, the story was told pretty straight and, unlike the recent Covent Garden production, the final act was pretty uncut. Johan Botha was the Emperor, Adrianne Pieczonka the Empress, Deborah Polaski the Nurse, Wolfgang Koch was Barak, Elena Pankratova was his wife, with Sebastian Holecek, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Dean Power, Eri Nakamura, Okka von der Damerau. Warlikowski made great use of a scantily clad male dancer for the young man conjured by the nurse, which provided some lovely visual distraction. But it was the conducting of Kirill Petrenko which gripped, and despite the complex iconography I found the performance riveting.On Tuesday we went over to OperaVision where we caught the Italian version of Gluck's Alceste from La Fenice in Venice. […]
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