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2024-01-16 03:44:00
Van Zweden Takes the Fifth
[…] Lyric Opera of Berlioz's Les Troyens. I do remember not really liking anything on the program. The Wagner was stodgy, the Mozart had little sparkle, the Brahms was at best okay. The orchestra's ensemble wasn't great; nothing seemed to hang together.My other experience with van Zweden was reviewing the first two installments of his concert performances, with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, of Wagner's Der Ring des Niebelungen. I though the casting a very mixed bag (Matthias Goerne as Wotan? Petra Lang as Brünnhilde??); I thought the orchestra had a poor sense of style; I thought the conducting off in various ways. I was not at all surprised to learn that he'd never conducted a staged Wagner opera. They lack drama, and I disliked them enough that I declined to review Siegfried and Götterdämmergung. (Those reviews were published in Leitmotiv, the journal of the Northern California Wagner Society; if you'd like copies, let […]
2023-12-01 10:37:00
Monteverdi's first opera, the historically informed Ring Cycle continues, Bruckner's 200th birthday, composer Sven Helbig live - Dresden's 47th music festival
[…] Rózsa's Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Cello and Orchestra Op. 29, violinist Elen Urioste joins Chineke! for Fela Sowándé, Cassie Kinoshi and Max Richter. Jan Vogler joins the Philharmonia Orchestra and Santtu-Matias Rouvali for Anna Clyne's Cello Concerto. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Dresden Philharmonic are performing a group of concerts including music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev Countertenor Xavier Sabata will be joining the saxophone quartet Kebyart for everything from Handel to Gershwin and behond, soprano Simone Kermes joins with Amici Veneziani, baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Markus Hinterhäuser in Schumann. Pianist recitals include Francesco Piemontesi in Beethoven & Debussy, Igor Levitt in Mahler arranged Ronald Stevenson, Hindemith and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony arranged Liszt, Anton Meijas, and Seong-Jin Cho.Composer Sven Helbig will be presenting his radio show, Schöne Töne, live on stage.Full details from the festival's website.
2023-10-19 15:30:12
Shostakovich: Symphonies 2, 3, 12 and 13 album review – Nelsons ends his cycle as convincingly as it began
Goerne/Tanglewood Festival Chorus/Boston SO/Nelsons(Deutsche Grammophon, three CDs)Although for some of these performances revolutionary zeal is replaced by routine, the 13th stands apart
2023-02-21 20:47:00
A Valentine's Celebration. Roderick Williams OBE, baritone; Yiheng Yang, piano. February 19, 2023.
[…] lasted a full two hours. Perhaps the small auditorium helped, but to sing for 2 hours must put quite a strain on the vocal cords. I didn't notice any deterioration in the quality of William's fine baritone voice. Many of the pieces had the piano as an equal partner to the voice, although one couldn't but help but think of "piano accompaniment" as the pieces were being sung. (Same reaction I had with Trifonov accompanying Goerne, even though Trifonov got the top billing.)Williams did put some context into the program as it progressed. I have forgotten most of it. However, he did mention Dichterliebe as Schumann's gift to his new wife, and that the emotions in the different songs run high and low (the term "bipolar" was used). Also, he heard one of the songs (Shaw's?) at a concert and decided he wanted to appropriate it. He gave some context […]
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