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German opera singer (1887-1965)
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- bass-baritone
- Germany
- actor, opera singer, stage actor, film actor
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2019-05-18 15:10:51
Incredibly informative & inspiring: Charlotte Bray discusses her mentor Oliver Knussen in advance of her piece in his memory at the Aldeburgh Festival
[…] well as Oliver Knussen and George Benjamin. She also loves Icelandic music and Nordic music, and mentions Hans Abrahamson. Monday 10 June - Charlotte Bray: Bring me all your dreams, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Aldeburgh Festival Monday 25 November - Charlotte Bray: Here everything shines, Fidelio Trio, Kings Place Saturday 14 December - Charlotte Bray: New work, Natalie Clein, Aurora Orchestra, Kings Place Charlotte Bray on disc Charlotte Bray: Chamber and solo works, Mariani Klavierquartett, Philipp Bohnen (Nimbus Alliance) available on Amazon. Charlotte Bray: At the Speed of Stillness, Fire Burning in Snow, Caught in Treetops, Aldeburgh World Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder, Lucy Schauffer, Alexandra Wood, BCMG, Oliver Knussen (NMC recordings) available on Amazon.
2018-10-17 11:59:00
Purcell Room Charlotte Bray: Invisible Cities(2011); Beyond (2013) Emilie Meyer: Piano Quartet no.2 in G major Bray: Oneiroi (2013); On the Other Shore (2014); Zustände(2016) Philipp Bohnen (violin) Barbara Buntrock (viola) Isang Enders (cello) Gerhard Vielhaber (piano) Huw Watkins (piano) In Aix this summer, I heard – and enthused about – Charlotte Bray’s new work for solo viola, In Black Light. I was therefore very keen to hear a concert back here in London, largely of her music; moreover, I was certainly not disappointed. Invisible Cities, the first piece on the programme, is also for viola, albeit with piano. Barbara Buntrock and Huw Watkins gave a performance full of nervous energy. Its first movement of four, marked ‘vivid, frenetic’, certainly proved vividly variegated, opening with memorable contrast and synthesis – I think – of post-Schoenbergian harmonies with jazzy-Gallic syncopation. ‘Unnerved, intimate’ […]
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2016-05-25 21:19:33
Late result: Berlin Philharmonic win on penalties (again)
The inter-Berlin orchestra championship ended today with a weak victory for the Philharmonic, who seem incapable of scoring a goal in open play. They beat the Deutsche Sinfonie Orchester (DSO) on penalties in the semi-final and the orchestra of Deutsch Oper by the same method in the final. The BPO team seem far too pleased with themselves. Wait til Louis Van Gaalhoven arrives as the new manager. L-r: Amihai Grosz, Gunars Upatnieks, Olaf Ott, Zoltán Almási, Lukas Böhm, Nikolaus Römisch, Philipp Bohnen, Wieland Welzel, Mathis Stier, Tomás Jamnik (Foto: Rosmarie Arndt)
2015-02-21 23:28:04
Lips together, teeth apart
[…] 1915 and for a quarter century thereafter. The opera, which cannot have been inexpensive to stage, racked up well over a thousand performances, mostly in Germany but nine of them at the Metropolitan. Barbara Kemp, making her Met debut, was admired by one reviewer for fainting and rolling down the stairs, “an effect fully the equal of anything Jeritza has done in this line” (to say nothing of Chaliapin), but it is the illustrious Michael Bohnen, making his debut as her unloved husband whom one would like to have heard. He had a major career. Kemp, however, married the composer and gave up the stage. Schillings appears to have been an unpleasant fellow, an academic martinet and anti-democrat who rejoiced in the (electoral) triumph of the Nazis and gleefully did their bidding when they came to power. Happily for him, he died in 1933. On the basis of this score, […]
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