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2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig-Mitte with the Mendebrunnen at night (2016)(Photo: Wikimedia - By Ichwarsnur - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0) Come 2025, the Leipzig Gewandhaus will be staging a major international festival in honour of Dimitri Shostakovich marking the 50th anniversary of his deathA frequent visitor to Germany attending Ring cycles here, there and everywhere, Tony Cooper recently enjoyed a short break in Leipzig taking in a concert by the Gewandhausorchester conducted by Alan Gilbert featuring Shostakovich’s 10th symphony whilst also enjoying a rare performance of Thea Musgrave’s opera, Mary, Queen of Scots. With so much musical history and knowledge wrapped up in Leipzig’s cultural portfolio, Tony also took adventurous steps by way of trekking the Leipzig Music Trail stopping off to visit the Bach-Archiv, conveniently situated opposite St Thomas’ Church and the Mendelssohn House Museum not forgetting, of course, the Schumann House while soaking up the city’s illustrious […]
2023-12-25 04:30:00
Our Favorite Christmas Recordings (CD Reviews)
[…] a true Christmas classic. According to the Craft website,” this deluxe CD release of A Charlie Brown Christmas features a brand-new Stereo Mix of the classic album remastered from the original three-track and two-track sources, as well as thirteen unreleased outtakes, highlights taken from five sessions of recording material. Amazing in their own right these unheard versions give insight into how this iconic score took shape. The package also features new liner notes from Peanuts historian, Derrick Bang.” For many homes, including mine, Christmas is just not Christmas without frequent playing of this soundtrack, a true Christmas classic.Bill Heck's Christmas FavoritesWhat would the holiday season be without Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet? Surely even Ebenezer Scrooge had a soft spot for this lovely, imaginative music and, at least for many of us if not for poor Ebeneezer, the warm memories that it can evoke. Antal Dorati/London Symphony Orchestra. Mercury Living Presence 475 6623. […]
2023-12-07 15:00:06
Not with a Bang
When the Staatskapelle Berlin announced a two-night engagement at Carnegie Hall performing all four Brahms symphonies, I immediately made a note in my calendar to attend. I also wondered who would be the conductor when the announced Daniel Barenboim inevitably withdrew.
2023-11-13 04:30:00
Tubin: Kratt - Suite from the Ballet; Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra; Tubin; Music for Strings; Lutoslawski: Musique Funèbre (CD Review)
by Karl NehringEstonian Festival Orchestra; Paavo Järvi, conductor. Alpha Classics ALPHA 1006With apologies to Alpha Classics, I still can’t help but think of this as a Telarc release; it just looks, feels, and sounds like the kind of the kind of recording that the Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi (b. 1962) used to release on the late, lamented Cleveland-based audiophile label back when he was at the helm of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra from 2001-2011. He released a boatload of recordings with the CSO on Telarc, and most of them were excellent. Since then, he has made a number of fine recordings with other orchestras for other labels, including a number of notable recordings of symphonies by Beethoven and Bruckner for RCA. But here we have him presenting some music by some lesser-known composers: two pieces by the Estonian composer Eduard Tubin (1905-1982) along with one each by the Polish composers […]
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