Melanie Kurt News
Austran soprano opera singer (1880-1941)
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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
[…] Grammy Award in the ‘Best Opera Recording’ category. A further opera came along in 2006 with Adriana Mater, the première taking place in Paris at Opéra Bastille and in the same year her oratorio, La passion de Simone, surrounding the life of Simone Weil, received its première in Vienna. A one-person opera, Émilie, written to a libretto by Amin Maalouf, premièred in Lyon in 2010 was conducted by Kazushi Ōno and in 1999, Kurt Masur favoured Saariaho by conducting her composition Oltra mar for choir and orchestra with the New York Philharmonic. From my standpoint, though, she’s relatively unknown but her works speak volumes having been performed all over the show: London (1989), Jakarta (1989), Paris (1989, 1991), Vienna (1993) and, of course, the Salzburg Festival in millennium year. A 15-minute piece, Ciel d’hiver happens to be an arrangement of the second movement of her 2003 symphonic […]
2024-03-15 12:11:22
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonDanielle de Niese took on twinned roles of dancer and singer Anna with great style, the evening introduced by João Barradas’s fiery accordionThe cathedral-like space of Battersea Arts Centre’s Grand Hall, with its high ceilings and distressed walls, is an atmospheric place for the London Philharmonic to decamp to for this performance of The Seven Deadly Sins, the 1933 “sung ballet” that was Kurt Weill and Bertholt Brecht’s last collaboration. That said, prosaically enough it would probably have worked better back home in the Royal Festival Hall. All those unbroken hard surfaces at the BAC make for a cathedral-like acoustic: pitted against a full orchestra, playing with bite and swing for the conductor Edward Gardner, all five singers had to be miked, and the sound system was blunt. Singing the English version by WH Auden and Chester Kallmann, they worked hard but far too much text and nuance […]
2024-01-31 08:20:00
Jedem Krieger sein eigen Heim: Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen and its original political inspiration
Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen: German news photograph from 1926 of the anti-war demonstration that inspired Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht's powerful pieceKurt Weill's piece for unaccompanied four-part male voice ensemble, Zu Potsdam under den Eichen was premiered in Berlin in 1929. Using a text by Brecht, the piece was part of their Berliner Requiem (premiered on Radio Frankfurt in May 1929), but the piece had an independent life, being performed in November 1929 in Berlin by the Schubertchor, conductor Karl Rankl.Brecht's poem directly refers to an historical event, an anti-war demonstration in 1926 by the Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFK), a far-left paramilitary organization affiliated with the Communist Party during the Weimar Republic (see the newspaper photograph above). According to newspaper reports, an artillery helmet, combat weapons and war honours had been placed on a coffin carried as part of the demonstration. The inscription on the coffin, which as can be seen in the photograph, […]
2024-01-28 09:14:00
From Classical to Romantic: I chat to Michael Sanderling about the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra & Le Piano Symphonique festival
[…] though the record company has issued these as well.When it came to Brahms, Michael learned that Warner Classics would be willing to record the symphonies with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra had not recorded them before, and Michael was keen to be the one who led the orchestra in their first recording of them.Michael was originally a cellist as he says he used to have a serious profession! He is the son of conductor Kurt Sanderling and had a twenty year career as a cellist. His two brothers became conductors, and Michael was sure that he would not conduct. His becoming a conductor was not deliberate, he was playing in a conductorless chamber orchestra in 2002 when the leader became sick so he stood in.In 2011 he became chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, starting when the orchestra was leaving its home, the Kulturpalast in Dresden which was […]
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