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Salzburg Mozartwoche (1) – Mozart and Salieri, 27 January 2024
Salzburg Marionette TheatreImages: Bernhard MuellerSalieri: Axur, re d’Ormus: Piccolo sinfonia to Act IV; La secchia rapita: ‘Son qual lacera tartana’; Il ricco d’un giorno: ‘Eccomi più che Mai – ‘Amor, pietoso Amore’; La grotto di Trofonio: ‘La ra la ra’ Rimsky-Korsakov: Mozart and Salieri Director, designs – Matthias Bundschuh Lighting – Matthias Bundschuh, Alexander Proschek Production manager – Philippe Brunner Isora – Ekaterina Krasko/ Svetlana Schönfeld/Maximilian Kiener Mozart – Konstantin Igl/Ursula Winzer Salieri – Brett Pruunsild/Eva Wiener Blind violinist – Philipp SchmidtStudents from the Mozarteum University SalzburgKai Röhrig (conductor)After a few years concentrating on Mozart alone, Rolando Villázon, Intendant of Salzburg’s Mozartwoche, has turned to Mozart and Salieri. There is so much more, so much more of interest, to Salieri than the preposterous charge that ‘everyone’ knows, but it has been greatly influential, whether we like it or not, and that of course includes its artistic legacy. Most celebrated of […]
2023-12-08 11:33:00
Dichterliebe Reimagined: Koen van Stade & Neal Peres Da Costa bring creative freedom & musical rhetoric to bear on Schumann's song cycle
Schumann: Dichterliebe;Koen van Stade, Neal Peres Da Costa; Deux-EllesReviewed 8 December 2023Two performer scholars come together for an interpretation led by surviving evidence of early recordings and treatises to magical and compelling effectWhen Julius Stockhausen and Johannes Brahms gave the first public performance of Schumann's Dichterliebe in 1861 (21 years after it was first written) what did it actually sound like? What did Schumann expect it to sound like. That 1861 performance has some currency, after all Brahms had known Robert Schumann well whilst Clara Schumann was still alive and in fact performed Dichterliebe with Stockhausen in 1862. In fact, the bass Robert Blass (1867-1930) studied with Stockhausen and recorded two songs, 'Im wunderschönen Monat Mai' and 'Ich grolle nicht' in 1903, and mezzo-soprano Therese Behr-Schnabel (1876-1959), also a Stockhausen pupil, recorded 'Ich grolle nicht' in 1904.Whilst orchestras and instrumentalists have mined early recordings for information about performance practice in late 19th […]
2023-10-24 07:15:00
Long may they continue! Kronos Quartet's celebratory 50th anniversary concert at the Barbican
Kronos Quartet - Barbican Centre, 21 October 2023 (Photo: Mark Allan)Severiano Briseño, George Crumb, Gabriella Smith, Peni Candra Rini, Philip Glass, Zachary James Watkins, Antonio Haskell , Dumisani Maraire Mai Nozipo, Jlin, Terry Riley, Alfred Schnittke, Steve Reich; Kronos Quartet, Yahael Camara Onono, Peni Candra Rini; Barbican CentreReviewed by Florence Anna Maunders, 21 October 2023An incredible evening celebrating a half-century of trailblazing music makingReturning to the Barbican on 21 October 2023 as a part of their continent-spanning 50th anniversary tour, the Kronos Quartet (David Harrington, violin, John Sherba, violin, Hank Dutt, viola, Paul Wiancko, cello) brought an extended programme of greatest hits from their extensive back catalogue as well as (of course, this is the Kronos Quartet) brand new music being premiered for the first time.These four string players are genuine superstars of the contemporary classical scene, recognised as instrumental in the development of the string quartet across the last fifty years, both in their programming and commitment to new music, but also […]
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