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Austrian musician
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2024-04-01 08:07:00
Moving intimacy and sense of communication: Bach's St Matthew Passion from the Academy of Ancient Music, music director Laurence Cummings and just eight singers
[…] no-one pushed the more dramatic moments into operatic. At times trenchant, intimate at others, Mulroy made the whole breaking of bread sequence into something dignified, yet personal and ultimately moving. In part two, there were moments when Mulroy positively spat out the words, and as the drama progressed, Mulroy brought out a sense of inner power to his narration.Mulroy was wonderfully intense in his account of the recitative 'O Schmerz! Hier zittert das gequälte Herz' and full of character yet intimate in the aria, 'So schlafen unsre Sünden ein' and having the chorale sung by just four singers makes a lot more sense of the work's chorale-based arias.George Humphreys made a dignified Christus, there was an innate nobility to his strength and whilst commanding he was also upright, imbuing his tone with darker colours as the drama progressed allied to a moving dignity and a sense […]
2024-02-12 07:38:00
Personal choice: Love's Lasting Power, debut disc of Schubert lieder from duo Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale on Delphian
[…] two performers are adept at suggesting the complexities that lie beneath, so though emotion in Wiedersehn is rather civilised, there is a hint of vulnerability too, whilst the lyric beauty in Heimliches Lieben hides more complex yearning. Versunken is a complete whirl as the two plunge you straight in, yet this is followed by the touching vulnerability of Erster Verlust, then the youthful naivety in Amalia. Both Lambertine and Die Liebe hat gelogen have a rather touching quality, whilst there is an impetuosity and urgency to An mein Herz. Der Jüngling an der Quelle is similarly touching, with a nice clarity and vivid piano. However, drama really comes to the fore in Der Zwerg where Burns' story telling is complemented by the dark drama in Tindale's piano. We return to lyric melancholy in Hippolits Lied, then Du liebst mich nicht combines intimacy with urgent intensity.It is easy to not take Viola, with its little refrain, seriously, it is frankly such an odd song. But clearly meant something to Schubert […]
2023-10-14 18:25:00
New York Philharmonic. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor; Daniil Trifonov, piano. October 13, 2023.
[…] and the New Jersey Symphony in 2020. She didn't marry Robert until 1939, so was still Clara Wieck. The Program Notes also mentions her influence by Liszt and Chopin. Perhaps that just the development of classical music during that time period? Also, Clara Schumann gave the premiere performance of the Robert Schumann concerto.Today's Program Notes also describe most concertos written during that time were considered lightweight vehicles for showmanship. The composers listed - Kalkbrenner, Thalberg, Herz, Pixis, and so on - have indeed slipped to the fringe of the repertoire; I didn't know any of them. The Schumann concerto had its origin in 1841 as a one-movement Phantasie for Piano and Orchestra, performed twice at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Clara Schumann as the soloist, and Felix Mendelssohn as the conductor.De Profundis was written by Serksnyte as her bachelor's graduation work in 1998. She is now teaching at the same Lithuania […]
2023-08-30 10:08:00
Musikfest Berlin (1) - Nagy/Concertgebouw/Fischer - Widmann and Mahler, 26 August 2023
PhilharmonieJörg Widmann: Das heiße HerzMahler: Symphony no.7Michael Nagy (baritone)Royal Concertgebouw OrchestraIván Fischer (conductor)Image: © Fabian Schellhorn / Berliner FestspieleMusical life in Berlin has been reignited before the summer festival season elsewhere has ended: first the season opening concert of the Berlin Philharmonic, after which the orchestra tours to a number of venues, Salzburg included, and the following night the opening concert of the 2023 Musikfest Berlin, which takes in ‘home’ and visiting ensembles. That concert fell this year to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Iván Fischer, in music by Jörg Widmann and Mahler, joined in the former by baritone Michael Nagy.Widmann's short song-cycle, Das heiße Herz, originally written in 2013, was orchestrated in 2018, the new version's premiere being given by Christian Gerhaher, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and Jakub Hrůša. Widmann sets five poems, two from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, providing an obvious connection already with Mahler, and one each by Klabund […]
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