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2016-12-03 21:13:06
Salzburg fixes end-date for its longterm chief
Helga Rabl-Stadler, 68, has been prolonged as Festival President for three more years, until end-September 2020. But the wording of the announcement suggests it may be her last term. Rabl-Stadler, a member of an influential media family, has been in charge since January 1995. press release: In its meeting today, the Supervisory Board of the Salzburg Festival made an important decision regarding the institution’s future. “Helga Rabl-Stadler will remain Festival President for another three years; her contract was extended until September 30, 2020,” Wilfried Haslauer announced as the legal representative of the Salzburg Festival Fund on December 2, 2016. Raimund Steiner of Egon Zehnder had presented the results of the selection process to the Supervisory Board. “With Helga Rabl-Stadler as President, Markus Hinterhäuser as Artistic Director and the new Business Director Lukas Crepaz, the Festival has an outstanding team leading it into the future,” said Hans Scharfetter, Member […]
2016-01-31 14:08:05
Wigmore Hall, London Husband and wife showcase with a thrown-together feel sees Rattle and Kožená outperformed by their string quartet Simon Rattle’s debut appearance at London’s chamber-music HQ – as pianist, not conductor – was a kind of bring-your-husband-to-work day for mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, who has her own series of concerts there this season. Presumably it was Rattle’s presence that so inflated the ticket prices; but the performance itself took a long while to come anywhere near justifying them.Six other formidable musicians were onstage: a string quartet drawn mainly from Rattle’s Berlin Philharmonic, flautist Kaspar Zehnder, and Andrew Marriner, who will be Rattle’s principal clarinettist when he takes over the LSO. The first half was intriguingly programmed, mostly songs on a Shakespearian theme. Kožená wove gleaming, elastic threads around the muted strings and piano in Chausson’s Chanson Perpétuelle, but was less comfortable sparring with flute, viola and clarinet in Stravinsky’s three […]
2013-05-13 10:39:57
Barbican, LondonFor her Barbican recital, the Czech mezzo Magdalena Kožená chose a programme that played to her strengths, with her musicianship and interpretative skills to the fore. She was accompanied by Malcolm Martineau to his customary standard of excellence.The first half was devoted to Ravel, whose Histoires Naturelles present five anthropomorphic character-studies of birds or insects. Articulating the texts with keen definition, Kožená explored the human traits of each creature in detail, while Martineau played the fiendishly difficult accompaniments with nonchalant ease.Ravel's vividly contrasting Two Hebrew Melodies followed, one a solemn Hebrew setting of Kaddish, the other a Yiddish song referring lightly to life's "eternal enigma". In Kaddish, Kožená produced a grand, purposive tone that confidently scaled the prayer's spiritual heights; her whimsical treatment of the skittish, shoulder-shrugging Yiddish ditty was perfectly judged.Flautist Kaspar Zehnder and cellist Tomáš Jamník joined Kožená and Martineau for the Chansons Madécasses, adding warm yet subtle […]
2012-11-22 13:37:01
[…] days here as a news trainee, to my time as head of news and current affairs, to my time now at the Royal Opera House, that I can't do it on my own. Having the right teams working together, sparking off each other, is key."The BBC said that Hall is already in receipt of a corporation pension after more nearly 30 years' service and will not benefit from any extra pension payments as director general.Egon Zehnder, which was paid about £200,000 for advising the BBC on the disastrous appointment of Entwistle, helped out for free on this occasion.Hall was born in Birkenhead and studied philosophy, politics and economics at Keble College, Oxford. He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1973 and worked on a wide range of TV and radio news programmes, before being made editor of the BBC1 Nine O'Clock News in 1985.Two years later he was […]
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