Hermann Uhde News
German operatic baritone, born 20 July 1910 in Bremen, Germany and died on stage at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen on 10 October 1965
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- bass-baritone
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- singer, opera singer, music interpreter, vocalist
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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-02-04 15:41:24
First chance in 100 years to hear Joseph Joachim’s Irish Fantasy
Katharina Uhde and her father Michael Uhde have just posted the first modern performance of a lost score by the legendary violinist Joseph Joachim, who died in 1907. The manuscript of this charming piece was found by Katharina in a Polish archive. Robert Eschbach, the Joachim expert, thinks she may be the first since Joachim […]
2017-07-20 14:27:57
Move over, sun, and give me some sky
2016-07-20 14:51:00
Thorns bird
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-06-23 02:10:00
Joachim’s 185th Celebrated at Goethe-Institut
[…] from Berlin to give a new name to the beautiful street Joachimstrasse. One word was sufficient for the reason: “Jew.” The distinguished Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd examined Joachim’s use of the musical cipher F-A-E (“frei aber einsam,” free but lonely), his personal motto, and how its “mirror inversion, Gis [G#]-e-la represented Gisela von Arnim, daughter of Betting von Arnim, with whom he was on close terms between 1852 and 1857.” In her paper, Katherine Uhde described Joachim’s relationship to Gisela as “complex.” Joachim achieved renown for his performances of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for Violin. Austrian/Canadian scholar Walter Kreyszig focused on the 1908 Joachim edition of the works, which he based on careful examination of the autograph owned by the widow of the Thomaskantor Wilhelm Rust. Kreyszig showed how the edition “provides a vivid testimony to Joachim’s profound knowledge of Bach’s solo violin repertory gained from his experience as […]
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