Johannes von Hager News
Austrian composer and organist (1822-1898)
- Austrian Empire, Cisleithania
- composer, musician, jurist, civil servant
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2023-08-30 07:48:00
Salzburg Festival (2) - Il re pastore (concert performance), 19 August 2023
Grosser Saal, MozarteumAlessandro – Daniel BehleAminta - Emőke BaráthElisa – Nikola HillebrandTamiri – Julie RosetAgenore – David FischerSalzburg Mozarteum OrchestraÁdám Fischer (conductor)Images: SF/Marco BorrelliIt is not every day I get to hear a Mozart opera live for the first time. That in itself would be enough to welcome the Salzburg Festival’s concert performances of Il re pastore, part of its venerable Mozart-Matinee series. But this proved an outstanding performance, which would still greatly have impressed, were Mozart’s Salzburg serenata the repertoire work it should be. Quite why Mozart’s ‘early’ operas, with the arguable exception of La finta giardiniera, are so neglected is beyond me, but then so is an operatic world in which Donizetti is wildly more popular than Dallapiccola. The important thing is how many ears will have been opened by this performance, conducted with theatrical flair and palpable belief in every bar by Ádám Fischer. Leading a small yet, […]
2022-04-20 07:55:05
The Saxophone Craze: saxophonist Jonathan Radford and pianist Ashley Fripp launch
Jonathan Radford and Ashley Fripp at Champs Hill Music Room (Photo Patrick Allen) The Saxophone Craze: Homage to Rudy Wiedoeft - Wiedoeft, Schulhoff, Weill; Jonathan Radford, Ashley Fripp; Royal Over-Seas League, London19 April 2022, (★★★★)An homage to a seminal, yet near-forgotten figure and a celebration of how the saxophone went mainstream in the 1920s Saxophonist Jonathan Radford and pianist Ashley Fripp's disc, The Saxophone Craze was issued on Champs Hill Records earlier this month. Radford's debut recording, the disc is a sort of homage to a near forgotten figure, 1920s saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft whose combination of technical virtuosity, salesmanship and sheer joie de vivre (along with his 300 recordings) helped to fuel the saxophone craze that swept America during the 1920s. The decade might have roared but it did so to the sound of the saxophone, thanks to Wiedoeft who effectively transformed it from a novelty instrument to something to be taken seriously. […]
2021-01-15 21:05:40
Previously, the Austrian conductor led the Vienna Volksoper and Salzburg's Mozarteum Orchestra, along with several other orchestras in Mainz, Linz and Cologne. He also taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 1992 to 2004. According to the orchestra’s website, “Leopold Hager not only shaped the then RTL Symphony Orchestra as […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-10-03 23:00:00
Mozart: LUCIO SILLA - Hager
W.A. Mozart LUCIO SILLA Peter Schreier (Lucio Silla), Arleen Augér (Giunia) Julia Varadi (Cecilio), Edith Mathis (Lucio Cinna) Helen Donath (Celia), Werner Krenn (Aufidio) Salzburger Rundfunk - und Mozarteumchor Mozarteum-Ochester Salzburg dir : Leopold Hager BASF 7822472-4 - Four stereo LPs [P] 1975 Individual FLAC files, scans Gramophone, January 1976
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