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2021-09-08 14:47:00
Musikfest Berlin (4) - Ensemble Musikfabrik/Cassidy and Poppe, 5 September 2021
PhilharmonieAnn Cleare: mire/…/veins (2013); ore (2016); Fossil Lights (2020-21, world premiere); the physics of fog, swirling (2018-19); on magnetic fields (2011-12) Enno Poppe: Prozession (2015-20) Hannah Weirich (violin) Sara Cubarsi (violin) Michele Marelli (clarinet) Ensemble Musikfabrik Aaron Cassidy, Enno Poppe (conductors) Images: Astrid Ackermann For my final visit to this year’s Musikfest Berlin: two concerts, morning and afternoon, from Ensemble Musikfabrik. The first was devoted to the music of Ann Cleare, the two ensemble pieces conducted at frighteningly short notice by Aaron Cassidy; the second, conducted by the composer, was devoted to Enno Poppe’s Prozession, begun in 2015, then set aside after eight minutes’ worth of music, to be resumed during lockdown and extended to about fifty in total. The morning’s Ann Cleare portrait suggested a communicative interest, variety notwithstanding, in instrumental sound as sculpted material. mire/…/veins for wind quintet imparted, from its muted brass opening, a sense […]
2021-09-03 15:51:00
Musikfest Berlin (2): Stefanovich/MCO/Benjamin - Knussen, Purcell, Stravinsky, and Benjamin, 2 September 2021
Philharmonie Knussen: The Way to Castle Yonder, op.21a Purcell, arr. Benjamin: Three Consorts (German premiere) Stravinsky: Movements Benjamin: Concerto for Orchestra (German premiere) Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite Tamara Stefanovich (piano)Mahler Chamber Orchestra George Benjamin (conductor) Images: Astrid Ackermann In this concert George Benjamin, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and Tamara Stefanovich paid tribute to a number of influences on and/or connections with Benjamin’s music, as well as presenting two new works, which had had their first performances a few days earlier at the Proms. Oliver Knussen, featured both as himself, in The Way to Castle Yonder—as well as in Stefanovich’s solo encore—and as dedicatee of Benjamin’s Concerto for Orchestra would surely have approved of the programming, which also took in Purcell and Stravinsky. I imagine Pierre Boulez, Benjamin’s friend, mentor, and fellow Messiaen pupil, would have done too. Knussen’s ‘pot-pourri’ from his opera Higglety […]
2021-09-01 21:52:00
Musikfest Berlin (1) - Fleming/Concertgebouw/Harding - Stravinsky, Messiaen, and Debussy, 31 August 2021
Philharmonie Stravinsky: Agon Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi Debussy: La Mer Renée Fleming (soprano)Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Daniel Harding (conductor) Image: Astrid Ackermann Size is not everything, yet to hear—and even to see—my largest orchestra for over eighteen months was certainly not nothing. With a string section extending from sixteen first violins to eight double basses, and plentiful wind, percussion, even a mandolin, this was a treat in itself, a sign, dare we hope, of progress in our return to concert life. That the orchestra in question was the Concertgebouw was a distinct advantage too, as was Daniel Harding’s mouth-watering programme of Stravinsky, Messiaen, and Debussy. Harding’s direction of the orchestra in Stravinsky’s Agon was insistent and precise, likewise the Concertgebouw’s response. Manhattan traffic came to Berlin’s Philharmonie for one night only. The three pas-de-quatre, single, double, and triple increased in their menace, […]
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