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2018-11-11 21:40:00
Germans and Britons - Leipzig honours the End of the First World War
What real heroes did when it rained in the Somme (For my piece on Vladimir Jurowski's inspired Eternal Flame concert for ASrmistice day, please read here) From Leipzig Peterskirche, the Gedenkkonzert 100 Jahre Ende ertsen Weltkreig ( Memorial Concert marking 100 years after the End of the First World War) - Max Reger, Rudi Stephan, Walter aunfels, Gustav Holst, Ernest Farrar and Samuel Barber. Alexander Shelley conducts the MDR-Rundfunkchor und MDR-Sinfonieorchester, broadcast via BR Klassik. It's worth watching as well as listening, as the Peterskirche was bombed during the Second World War, remaining a ruin for many years. Appropriately the concert began with Max Reger's Totenfeier, a section from his incomplete Lateinisches Requiem Op. 145a. The word "Requiem" repeats, weaving through the orchestration like an unbreakable thread, epressing the idea of a funeral procession Rudi Stephan's Musik für Orkester in einem Satz (1910) followed. Stephan was killed in […]
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2016-02-10 18:48:20
Thielemann becomes patron of a tuba contest
He succeeds the late Kurt Masur as head of a horn and tuba contest in Markneukirchen. Markneukirchen/Berlin (MH) – Der Dirigent Christian Thielemann (56) wird neuer Schirmherr des Internationalen Instrumentalwettbewerbs Markneukirchen. Das teilten die Veranstalter am Mittwoch mit. Thielemann ist Nachfolger des im Dezember 2015 verstorbenen Kurt Masur, der das Amt seit 2005 innehatte. Als weitere Schirmherrin stand für dieses Jahr bereits die sächsische Kunstministerin Eva-Maria Stange fest. Der Wettbewerb findet vom 19. bis 28. Mai in den Fächern Horn und Tuba statt.
2015-12-16 20:51:00
Robert Schumann Das Paradies und die Peri (Op 59 1843) in a recent performance from Paris on BBC Radio 3 (starts around 12 mins) . This is an excellent oerformance, as clear and lucid as the diamonds and star-studded Heavens that light up the imagery in Thomas Moore's saga Lalla Rookh (1817) upon whi8ch Schumann based his oratorio. Jérémie Rohrer, who conducts the Orchestra Nationale de France (ONF) is one of the young generation of French conductors whose background in baroque provides strong foundations for their approach to other repertoire :lucidity, intelligence, and an absence of self-indulgent waffle. In other words, respect for the composer and the period, whatever instruments might be employed. These values are important in Die Paradies und das Peri because they highlight the clarity of Schumann's conception. Rohrer is definitely worth listening to, even if you're used to Gardiner and Harnoncourt. […]
2013-08-03 18:46:00
Coleridge-Taylor Hiawatha Three Choirs Festival
The Song of Hiawatha, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor at Gloucester Cathedral, highlight of this year's Three Choirs Festival. The Three Choirs Festival is the world's oldest music festival. For over three hundred years, the choirs of the cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester have been coming together to sing. In many ways, British music was defined by the Three Choirs Festival well into the mid 20th century: it is the epicentre of a grand tradition. Hearing Coleridge-Taylor's Hiawatha here was significant, because the Festival was instrumental in bringing the composer to prominence. While still a student, Coleridge-Taylor came to the attention of Alfred Jaeger and Edward Elgar. The Three Choirs Festival gave him his first big commission in 1897. Hiawatha's Wedding Feast followed soon after, then the full Song of Hiawatha. By the age of 25, Coleridge-Taylor was a resounding success. Coleridge-Taylor is sometimes called "The Black Mahler" but […]
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