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Czech conductor, actor and composer (1927-2014)
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- classical music, incidental music
- Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia
- actor, composer, conductor, pianist
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Illuminations of the Beyond - Messiaen - Mahler - Silvestrov - Panufnik - Rachmaninov - Glass
Olivier Messiaen Eclairs sur l´Au-Dela... Orchestre de l´Opéra Bastille Myung-Whung Chung DG 1994 Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 6 Kindertotenlieder Rückert-Lieder Christa Ludwig mezzosoprano Berliner Philharmoniker Herbert von Karajan Recorded 1974, 1975 and 1977 DG 1998 Grand Prix du Disque Andrzej Panufnik Sinfonia Sacra Arbor Cosmica Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra New York Chamber Symphony Andrzej Panufnik Nonesuch 1990 Franz Schreker From Eternal Life Irrelohe: Preludes Four little Pieces for orchestraPrelude to a Grand Opera Claudia Barainsky soprano Deutsches SO Berlin Peter Ruzicka Koch 1997 Valentin Silvestrov Metamusik Postludium Alexei Lubimov piano RSO Wien Dennis Russell Davies ECM 2003 Journey to the Stars Movie Music by Blomdahl, Herrmann, Goldsmith, Barron, Waxman, Corigliano, Strauss, Ligeti, North, Williams, Elfman and Bliss […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-11-04 18:02:00
Joseph Haydn: Cello Concerto No.1 in C major – Daniel Müller-Schott, Cameristi della Scala, Wilson Hermanto (HD 1080p)
Accompanied by the chamber orchestra Cameristi della Scala, under the direction of the Indonesian-American conductor Wilson Hermanto, the German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, one of the most sought-after cellists in the world, performs Joseph Haydn's Cello Concerto No.1 in C major. The concert was recorded at Enescu Festival, Bucharest, on September 6, 2019.✻Composed between 1761 and 1765 for Joseph Weigl, a gifted cellist in Haydn's Esterházy orchestra, this concerto was presumed lost until 1961, when it turned up the National Museum in Prague among documents originally from Radenin Castle. High virtuosity is demanded of the cellist, as in the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Symphonies (in which Haydn provided solos especially for Weigl). What Haydn did not provide are authenticated cadenzas for the first and second movements; cellists generally employ either anonymous eighteenth century cadenzas, or those prepared since 1961.The first movement, marked Moderato, begins with a confident, courtly theme with dotted […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-09-14 03:05:50
Salzburg nabs Munich’s best boss
The outgoing Austrian intendant of Bavarian State Opera, Nikolaus Bachler, is to be the next director of Salzburg’s Easter Festival, succeeding Peter Ruzicka. Bachler finishes in Munich in June 2020. His partnership with music director Kirill Petrenko has been an outstanding success.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-06-05 08:54:56
Why is Walter Benjamin starring in another opera?
The German-Jewish philologist and philosopher who committed suicide at Port-Bou on the Franco-Spanish border in September 1940 is the hero of a new opera, Benjamin, which has just opened at Hamburg. Peter Ruzicka’s work is by no means the first on the subject. Two years ago, the philosopher Régis Dubray and composer Michel Tabachnik presented Benjamin, Dernière Nuit in […]
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