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2023-12-04 15:01:32
Ernst Toch and more, 2023
[…] the pre-WWI Austria and Germany were one space, even more so than they are now. Toch was at his most productive in the 1920s, when he wrote the Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra, Bunte Suite, two short operas, many chamber pieces and piano music. Here’s Bunte Suite, whose sophisticated humor reminds us of the music of another Austrian composer, Ernst Krenek. The Suite is performed by the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Cornelius Meister conducting. You can read about Toch’s life after Hitler assumed power in last year’s post. Jean Sibelius was also born this week, on December 8th of 1865. We have to admit that we’re not big fans of the Finnish composer, but his one-movement Symphony no. 7, is a masterpiece. Even though it’s his shortest, about 23 minutes long depending on performance, it took Sibelius 10 years (from 1914 to 1924) to complete. During that […]
2023-12-04 14:03:00
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Deutsche Oper, 3 December 2023
Hans Sachs – Johan Reuter Veit Pogner – Albert Pesendorfer Kunz Vogelgesang – Gideon Poppe Konrad Nachtigall – Marek Reichert Sixtus Beckmesser – Philipp Jekal Fritz Kothner – Thomas Lehman Balthasar Zorn – Jörg Schörner Ulrich Eißlinger – Patrick Vogel Augustin Moser – Paul Kaufmann Hermann Ortel – Stephen Bronk Hans Schwarz – Tobias Kehrer Hans Foltz – Byung Gil Kim Walther von Stolzing – Magnus Vigilius David – Ya-Chung Huang Eva – Elena Tsallagova Magdalena – Kathrin Göring Night Watchman – Tobias Kehrer Apprentices – Agata Kornaga, Freya Müller, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Yehui Jeong, Oleksandra Diachenko, Natalie Jurk, Jongwoo Hong, Thoma Jaron-Wutz, Leon Juurlink, Kyoungloul Kim, Sotiris Charalampous, Simon GrindbergJossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito (directors)Torsten Köpf (co-set designer)Charlotte Pistorius (co-costume designer)Olaf Freese (lighting) Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines)Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinUlf Schirmer (conductor)Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, premiere am 12.6.2022 in der Deutschen […]
2023-12-04 04:27:31
Ernst Toch - Bunte Suite, op. 48 Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker (Orchestra)Cornelius Meister (Conductor)
2023-08-30 06:28:00
[…] and developments in musical theatre offering a platform to young artists in getting international resonance for their ideas of what contemporary musical theatre should be like. Therefore, a director going places, Schwarz has worked in some prestigious houses over the past few years. For instance, he directed Mozart’s Cosí fan tutte at Theater an der Wien, Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera at Staatstheater Darmstadt, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at Opéra National de Montpellier and York Holler’s Der Meister und Margarita at Oper Köln. Without question, directing Wagner, especially the Ring, poses a tremendous artistic challenge for any director but Schwarz took that task head on conjuring up a good and interesting (but bizarre) production. However, I like directors who push boundaries and as with Frank Castorf’s controversial Ring at Bayreuth staged for Wagner’s bicentennial in 2013, Schwarz surely follows in his wake. Change is necessary, I feel, at Bayreuth to ensure a healthy future […]
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