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2024-03-28 07:26:00
Without a shadow of doubt, a brilliant programme all round: Sibelius, Prokofiev & Saariaho in Berlin with Jan Lisiecki, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin & Tarmo Peltokoski
[…] I’ve heard DSO on many occasions at the Philharmonie, the last couple of times in 2018 and 2019. Therefore, it was nice to pick up on them again after ‘you know what’. Bravo! Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogRevisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: director Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan - opera reviewYoung Lovers: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton in an entrancing evening at Wigmore Hall - concert reviewLush romanticism was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure - music theatre reviewWriting Italian-influenced music in the depths of Northamptonshire: organist William Whitehead on the music of English Baroque composer George Jeffreys - interviewTwo hundred years of music for the horn: Ben Goldscheider in Beethoven, Bowen, Widmann and Watkins - concert reviewQuite an achievement: North […]
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
[…] in September of this year giving way to Chrisitan Thielemann, who comes from the post of chief conductor of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden while at the same time Elisabeth Sobotka takes up the post of artistic director succeeding Matthias Schulz who moves over to Zürich. However, I was tremendously pleased to attend the première of Tcherniakov’s Ring and I’m pleased as punch to be back at Staatsoper’s inviting and beautiful Palladian-style theatre on Unter den Linden inhaling once more Tcherniakov’s outstanding and thought-provoking Ring cycle. This time round, though, the baton falls to Swiss-born conductor, Philippe Jordan. No stranger to the Ring, he worked as assistant to Jeffrey Tate on his cycle at the Châtelet, Paris and conducted the complete cycle in his home city of Zürich in 2008. Interestingly, Maestro Jordan also acted as an assistant to Daniel Barenboim at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1998 whom he […]
2024-03-26 10:14:00
Young Lovers: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton in an entrancing evening at Wigmore Hall
Joseph Middleton & Louise Alder at Wigmore Hall in 2022Young Lovers: Fauré, Nadia Boulanger & Raoul Pugno, Mahler, Copland, Ned Rorem, Rogers & Hammerstein; Louise Alder, Joseph Middleton; Wigmore HallReviewed 25 March 2024Young love in all its forms in an entrancing recital from this duo partnership which took is from France to settings of a Belgian symbolist to intimate Mahler, then evocations of a New England poet and an American composer in Paris, before ending with a damned good song from musical theatreSoprano Louise Alder and pianist Joseph Middleton returned to Wigmore Hall on Monday 25 March 2024 with Young Lovers, a programme that moved from French song to German, to American, beginning with Fauré and Nadia Boulanger, then Mahler's Rückert Lieder followed by Copland's 12 poems of Emily Dickinson, two songs by Ned Rorem and ending with Hello, Young Lovers from Rogers & Hammerstein's The King and I.We began […]
2024-03-25 23:45:00
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18, 19, 21, and 24 March 2024
Images: Monika RittershausBrünnhilde (Anja Kampe)Wotan/Wanderer – Tomas Konieczny Donner, Gunther – Roman Trekel Froh – Siyabonga Maqungo Loge – Rolando Villazón Fricka – Claudia Mahnke Freia – Anett Fritsch Erda, Rossweisse – Anna Kissjudit Alberich – Johannes Martin Kränzle Mime – Stephan Rügamer Fasolt – Matthew Rose Fafner – Peter Rose Woglinde – Evelin Novak Wellgunde – Natalia Skrycka Flosshilde, Siegrune – Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Siegmund – Robert Watson Sieglinde – Vida Miknevičutė Hunding – René Pape Brünnhilde – Anja Kampe Gerhilde – Clara Nadeshdin Helmwige – Christiane Kohl Waltraute – Michal Doron, Violeta Urmana Schwertleite – Alexandra Ionis Ortlinde, Third Norn – Anna Samuil Grimgerde – Aytaj Shikhalizada Siegfried – Andreas Schager Woodbird – Victoria Randem Hagen – Stephen Milling Gutrune – Mandy Friedrich First Norn – Marina Prudenskaya Second Norn – Kristina StanekDirector – Dmitri TcherniakovRevival directors – Lilli Fischer, Thorsten CölleCostumes – Elena ZaytsevaLighting – Gleb FilshtinskyVideo – […]
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