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Recent Releases No. 72 (CD Reviews)
by Karl Nehring Mahler: Symphony No. 8. Carolyn Sampson/Jacquelyn Wagner, sopranos; Sasha Cooke/Jess Dandy, altos; Barry Banks, tenor; Julian Orishausen, baritone; Christian Immler, bass; Minnesota Chorale; National Lutheran Choir; Minnesota Boychoir; Angelica Cantanti Youth Choir; Minnesota Symphony; Osmo Vänskä, conductor. BIS-2496 SACD This recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, a work for which to provoke public interest the organizer of the first public performances, an impresario named Emil Gutman dubbed “Symphony of a Thousand,” was made at the occasion of the final concert in the 19-year tenure of Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä (b. 1953) as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. He is now music director laureate, with Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård (b. 1969) succeeding him as music director. At Minnesota, Vänskä has recorded for BIS all of Mahler’s numbered symphonies except for No. 3; the following links will direct you to our reviews of Symphony No.1, Symphony No. 7, and Symphony No. 10. Those reviews were all positive, […]
2024-03-05 21:20:56
INTERVIEW | Composer Detlev Glanert Talks About The TSO’s North American Premiere Of His Cello Concerto
Finnish conductor Osmo Vänskä will lead the TSO in its North American premiere of a cello concerto by noted German composer Detlev Glanert.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 19:16:31
NEP Piques Our Interest
New England Philharmonic’s “New Music New England” [tickets HERE] celebrates our region and features Grammy-winning organ soloist Paul Jacobs Boston on Sunday March 3rd at 3:00 pm at the Boston University Tsai Performance Center. In a concert which also includes, Wang Lu’s Surge (2022), Ives’s Three Places in New England (1935), David Sanford’s Thy Book of Toil (2014), a pair of works by composers we know, Kati Agócs and John Harbison, particularly piqued our interest. John Harbison’s What Do We Make of Bach? for orchestra with organ obligatto premiered in October 2018 with the Minnesota Orchestra, conductor Osmo Vänskä, and organist Paul Jacobs, organist. Agócs summarizes her Perpetual Summer (2010) for BMInt readers below, and our interviews with Perpetual Summer with Harbison and Jacobs follow. [caption id="attachment_27163" align="alignleft" width="232"] Kati Agócs (Samantha West photo)[/caption] “Perpetual Summer is scored for large orchestra. Elegiac, even apocalyptic in tone, the work represents my reaction […]
2023-12-20 18:01:00
[…] a fabulous David Pountney production with great performances from Ailyn Pérez, James Creswell, and Raehann Bryce-Davis.Orfeo at Santa Fe, again, a great Yuval Sharon production with a terrific performance by Rolando Villazon in the title role and everyone else in the production.Pelléas et Melisande in Los Angeles; James Conlon conducted, magnificently, a fine McVicar production, with an explosive Golaud from Kyle Ketelsen and beautifully sung and acted performances by Will Liverman and Sydney Mancasola in the title roles.Osmo Vänskä's Sibelius at the LA Phil.Dalia Stasevska's Sibelius at SFS.Gabriel Kahane's emergency shelter intake form at SFS, on a program where Conrad Tao played Gershwin, brilliantly, as well.Falstaff at Opera San José. Yes, too too many fat jokes, but oh! what a lovely performance.Michel van der Aa's Blank Out, an opera with one character on video and the other live. A beautiful and moving work. I hope to hear more of his music in the future.Adriana Mater at […]
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