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2023-09-17 15:59:00
Das Floß der Medusa, Komische Oper, 16 September 2023
Hangar 1, Tempelhof AirportImages: Jaro Suffner La Mort – Gloria Rehm Jean-Charles – Günter Papendell Charon – Idunnu Münch Four Dead – Takshiro Namiki, Taiki Miyashita, Yauci Yanes Ortega, Matthias Spenke, Fermin Basterra Thirteen Dying – Polly Ott, Agnes Dasch, Sarah Papodopoulo, Viola Weimker, Claudia Buhrmann, Orine Nosaki, Wiebke Kretzschmar, Martin Fehr, Christoph Eder, Hartmut Schröder, Martin Netter, Thomas Heiß, Werner Matusch Fourteen Surviving – Angela Postweiler, Uta Krause, Veronika Burger, Claudia van Hasselt, Julia Hebecker, Ulrike Jahn, Hans-Dierer Gilleßen, Michael Schaffrath, Matthias Eger, Laurin Oppermann, Philipp Schreyer, Simon Berg, Enrico Wenzel, Frank SchwemmerTobias Kratzer (director)Rainer Sellmaier (designs)Marguerite Donlon (choreography)Julia Jordà Stoppelhaar (dramaturgy)Lighting – Olaf FreeseSound design – Holger SchwarkChoir Soloists of the Komische Oper (director: David Cavelius)Movement Choir and Children’s Extras of the Komische OperVocalconsort BerlinStaats- und Domchor Berlin (director: Kai-Uew Jirka)Orchestra of the Komische Oper, BerlinTitus Engel (conductor)Henze’s Raft of the Medusa may lay claim to the most […]
2022-12-21 23:00:00
The Annual Christmas post 2022 [24 CDs]
[…] harmonia mundi 19075802592Recorded: March 2017Download 1fichier uptobox zippySimphonies des NoëlsChristmas Concerti of De Lalande,Sammartini, Torelli, Pez,Corelli and CharpentierLes violons du RoyBernard Labadie - directionRecorded December 1992Label: Dorian DOR-90180Download 1fichier uptobox zippyJohann Pachelbel (1653-1706)Orgelwerke undWeihnachtliche ChoralvorspieleGerd Wachowski - organThree organs of St. Jacob, RothenburgPublished in 1987Label: MD+G L 3273Download 1fichier uptobox zippyWeihnachten aus dem Berliner DomWorks of Crüger, Eccard, Praetorius and WalterHanna Herfurtner (soprano), Daniel Jin-Kyu Noack (treble)Jan Kobow, tenorStaats- und Domchor Berlin, Lautten Compagney BerlinKai-Uwe Jirka - directionLabel: Sony 88985315612Recorded: Jan/Feb 2016Download 1fichier uptobox zippyVom Himmel hochImprovisations on Christmas carolsand organ works of Charpentier,Bach, Franck and othersErick Versloot - organBinvignat organ [1784], St Gerlachus, HouthemRecorded August 1998Label: Sunburst SBCD9805Download 1fichier uptobox zippyChristmas ConcertosWorks of Corelli, Tartini, Pez, ManfrediniCollegium AureumFranzjosef Maier - directionPublished in 1989Label: Harmonia Mundi GD77048Download 1fichier uptobox zippyA late romantic Christmas EveWorks of Tchaikovsky, Schönberg, Wagner,Karg-Elert, Waldteufel and othersLe Quatuor RomantiqueElena Fink - sopranoRecorded July 2010Label: Ars Produktion […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-07-03 12:12:46
The musician who saved Elie Wiesel from certain death
[…] case the persecution in the 1950’s as well. When I first travelled to the West, to France in 1967, he took his business card, tore it in halves and instructed me to hand one to a lady working at the Eiffel Tower and the other to a man in a restaurant not far from it. They will know what to do, he added. The Frenchman in the restaurant asked me how I happen to know Jirka, how he was, was there anything he could do for me, would I care to choose from the menu or would I leave it up to him, and soon one plate after another started landing on my table. An hour later I was in panic knowing that all of my money would not be enough. Two hours later it no longer mattered. I probably never ate so much and so well. The gentle, somewhat […]
Kenneth Woods- A View From the Podium
2015-05-07 21:23:29
BREAKING: Vftp 538’s the Berlin Philharmonic. We know for sure that the next Chief Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic will be:….
[…] Could he rule himself in if asked nicely? Nobody seems to be mentioning Zubin Mehta- perhaps because he’s never been a darling of the critics, but the numbers don’t lie- clearly the musicians rate him as one of their most important partners. He’s not young but seems in robust good health. That leaves (in descending order of most gigs) Nelsons, Andris (9) Thielemann, Christian (9) Bychkov, Semyon (6) Dudamel, Gustavo (6) Alan Gilbert (5) Jirka, Kai-Uwe (4) Sokhiev, Tugan (4) Harding, Daniel (4) Chailly, Riccardo (3) Fischer, Iván (3) Nézet-Séguin, Yannick (3) Haïm, Emmanuelle (3) Runnicles, Donald (3) Gergiev, Valery (2) Gläser, Michael (2) Petrenko, Kirill (2) Steffens, Karl-Heinz (2) Zeh, Walter (2) Jansons, Mariss (2) Which of these busy and accomplished maestri will get the job? I I think it all boils down to who has done the most and the best concerts with the orchestra. This […]
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