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2024-01-18 15:56:53
Sol Gabetta/Bertrand ChamayouSony, 2 CDsSoaring through the composer’s cello and piano works, and homages by Holliger, Coll, Rihm and Widmann, Sol Gabetta and Bertrand Chamayou make this a rewarding new recordingThe cellist
2023-12-31 16:56:00
[…] Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, Korngold, Kurtág, Márton Illés, Jolas, Sigurd von Koch, Lachenmann, Edward Lambert, Manoury, Martinů, Messiaen, Mompou, Mussorgsky, Elizabeth Ogonek, Poulenc, Purcell, Rachmaninov, Reger, Reimann, Rossini, Saariaho, Saint-Saëns, Scarlatti, Schmidt, Schoeck, Schnittke, Schoenberg, Schulhoff, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Scriabin, Sweelinck, Tchaikovsky, Telemann, Tippett, Ustolvskaja, Varèse, Vivaldi, Wagner, Weelkes, Weill, Widmann, Wolf, Xenakis, Zimmermann
2023-09-18 08:27:00
'Music lives and grows here' - a new name for Sage Gateshead, but creating music goes on in Gateshead and beyond
[…] the North East and Cumbria this year the charity will give families a voucher to be spent on their concerts, gigs, or classes. The centre is also taking live music to other parts of the region. The Glasshouse and the Royal Northern Sinfonia plan a season of nine concerts in Middlesbrough Town Hall and return to Carlisle for the first time since 2018 with a season of seven concerts.The season in Middlesbrough opens with Jaume Santonja conducting Jörg Widmann, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with cellist Bruno Philippe, and other highlights include Dinis Sousa conducting Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with soloist Sunwook Kim, and Peter Whelan conducting Messiah with the chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia celebrating its 50th birthday, along with soloists Nardus Williams, Jess Dandy, Laurence Kilsby and Ashley Riches.The Carlisle season kicks of with Eduardo Strausser conducting Beethoven and Mozart, then Dinis Sousa conducts a music by Robert and Clara Schumann including pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason in […]
2023-08-30 10:08:00
Musikfest Berlin (1) - Nagy/Concertgebouw/Fischer - Widmann and Mahler, 26 August 2023
PhilharmonieJörg Widmann: Das heiße HerzMahler: Symphony no.7Michael Nagy (baritone)Royal Concertgebouw OrchestraIván Fischer (conductor)Image: © Fabian Schellhorn / Berliner FestspieleMusical life in Berlin has been reignited before the summer festival season elsewhere has ended: first the season opening concert of the Berlin Philharmonic, after which the orchestra tours to a number of venues, Salzburg included, and the following night the opening concert of the 2023 Musikfest Berlin, which takes in ‘home’ and visiting ensembles. That concert fell this year to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Iván Fischer, in music by Jörg Widmann and Mahler, joined in the former by baritone Michael Nagy.Widmann's short song-cycle, Das heiße Herz, originally written in 2013, was orchestrated in 2018, the new version's premiere being given by Christian Gerhaher, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and Jakub Hrůša. Widmann sets five poems, two from Des Knaben Wunderhorn, providing an obvious connection already with Mahler, and one each by Klabund […]
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