Ján Zimmer News
Slovak composer (1926-1993)
- piano
- opera
- Slovakia
- composer, pianist
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2024-03-29
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2024-03-27 08:09:00
Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] the role so triumphantly and handsomely sung by Austrian heldentenor, Andreas Schager, bored stiff hearing Mime whining on and on about the 'motherly' role he undertook in bringing him up. As befitting his naïveté, Siegfried acts in a juvenile and boorish way sportily turned out as an over-enthusiastic backpacker wearing a light-blue tracksuit. By now, Wotan and Alberich are seen as bad-tempered, crotchety old duffers. Wotan's propped up by a walking-stick, Alberich's struggling on a Zimmer and Mime's not doing so well, either - the trappings of old age! However, with youth on his side, Siegfried's on a high and gets straight down to business forging and shaping Nothung on Mime's makeshift 'smithy' - in this case his writing-desk. He's also found prancing about the place smashing to smithereens such old childhood dream toys as his Lego collection (a scientific conception, mind you!) and practically everything else he could lay […]
2023-11-16 04:30:00
Anna Lapwood: Luna (CD Review)
by Karl NehringJames Newton Howard: Flying (from “Peter Pan”); Olivia Belli: Grain Moon; Chopin: Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2; Kristina Arakelyan: Dreamland; Dario Marianelli; Dawn (from “Pride and Prejudice”); Hans Zimmer: Stay (from “Interstellar”); Bach & Gounod: Ave Maria: Glass: Mad Rush; Ghislaine Reece-Trapp: In Paradisum; Ēriks Ešenvalds & Sara Teasdale: Stars; Kristina Arakelyan: Star Fantasy; Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight; Florence Price: An Elf on a Moonbeam; Ludovico Einaudi: Experience; Debussy: Clair de Lune. Anna Lapwood, organ and conductor; Pembroke College Chapel Choir. Sony Classical 19658831402I have followed the young British musician Anna Lapwood (b. 1995) on Twitter (now known as “X” since its takeover by a notorious right-wing ultrabillionaire) for quite some time. Her posts there show her to be a charming and unpretentious artist, devoted not only to her craft, but also to helping other musicians, especially young musicians, express themselves through music. She is skilled not only as an organist, but as a conductor and broadcaster. Inn […]
2023-10-16 06:30:00
In glorious voice: Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to Wigmore Hall for a programme of art songs by Grieg, Berg, Schubert and Sibelius
[…] more than accompaniment, both brought an expressive range of colour to the quiet music. Schilflied was quietly intimate, Davidsen confiding in us but the screw tightens and we wondered what Lenau's strange poem might mean. Die Nachtigall was glorious. I loved the way that Davidsen coloured the words, and whilst she did not hold back at climaxes there was so much detail in the quieter moments too. Traumgekrönt was quiet, intense and dark, with a highly focused performance, whilst Im Zimmer had a far lighter feel, delightful and less expressionist than the other songs. Liebesode was stark and intense, building slowly through the song till all evaporated on the last word 'Sehnsucht!'. Finally, Sommertage, which plunged us straight in to a vivid yet complex world.After the interval we stayed with German for a group of Schubert songs, keeping to the more well-known items. An die Musik was highly controlled, the emotions very interior, whilst Lachen und Weinen was […]
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