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German composer (1895–1963)
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Paul Hindemith)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-12 18:22:30
Celebrating Lutheran Master’s 339th Birthday
[…] quickly branched out into other musical media, and Wessler (who serves as artistic director of the BBB) attempts to program as wide a variety of instrumentalists as possible. In 2024 violist Maren Rothfritz returns, having last performed at the Bach Birthday in 2022, when her performance of three Bach cello suites was received with great acclaim. This year her innovative 2:55 program features a single Bach cello suite—no. 6 in D Major—interspersed with movements from Hindemith’s Sonata for Viola, Op. 33, No. 4: an unexpected but delightful pairing that illuminates both pieces. Two pieces of new music round out the program: ko’u inoa (my name is) by the Hawaiian composer Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti, and Grimalkin (2023) by Will Stackpole, the latter written especially for Rothfritz and inspired by the Bach/Hindemith pairing. Until recently, Bach on piano has not typically been a BBB feature, as Boston audiences typically prefer historically-informed performances […]
2024-01-17 11:48:00
Antikrist, Deutsche Oper, 13 January 2024
[…] to connect them, and much the same is done with or to Strauss. Some might call it a collage effect; I could not help but think Langgaard would have been unlikely to survive a Turnitin inspection. There are, to be fair, more promising, even modernistic passages, especially when he writes purely orchestrally. (It is, by the way, difficult to discern much sympathy for the human voice.) Hints – again, arguably more than that – of Hindemith seem more amenable to something approaching sustained musical development, but ultimately they do not lead anywhere. Maybe that is the point, although I fear I may be clutching at straws. What I can say is that the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, conducted by Hermann Bäumer, played with evident conviction and even pleasure, making as strong a case for the score as is likely to be heard. The chorus, as ever well trained by […]
2024-01-17 04:30:00
Mikyung Sung: The Colburn Sessions
by Bill Heck Bottesini: Tarantella, Capriccio di Bravura, Elegy No. 1 in D Major; Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs; Hindemith: Sonata for Double Bass and Piano; Montag: Sonata in E Minor for Double Bass and Piano; Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 2 in D Major; Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 19 (third movement); Franck: Sonata in A major for Violin and Piano. Jaemin Shin, Mikyung Sung. Modus Vivendi Media MVM2301 When I first happened upon this album, I was dumbfounded. So far as I can tell, it should be physically impossible to play a double bass in the manner that Ms. Sung does. Flying through endless quick series of notes with on the nose intonation along the extended neck with thick strings of this instrument: how in the world does she do that?But, of course, there is more to this two CD set than mere technical brilliance, so […]
2023-12-31 16:56:00
Since I am busy at work on my new book project, a two-volume study of the complete operas of Mozart in their eighteenth-century political and intellectual context, it seems fitting to have heard more music by Mozart than by any other composer this year. (For 'rules' on counting, please see my previous post.) Beyond my top four, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, and Strauss, I heard a good range of music from Alkan to Zimmermann and beyond.19 Mozart 12 Wagner 8 Beethoven, Strauss 7 Brahms, Schumann 6 Bach 5 Schubert, Byrd 4 Mahler, Prokofiev 3 Benjamin, Chopin, Ligeti, Liszt, Ravel 2 Berg, Bizet, Debussy, Dvořák, Handel, Haydn, Henze, Knussen, Puccini, Schoenberg 1 Alkan, Dieter Ammann, CPE Bach, Johann Christoph Bach, JCF Bach, Bartók, Beethoven, Berberian, Berio, Boismortier, Boulez, Busoni, Cage, Chausson, Cherubini, Unsuk Chin, Coleridge-Taylor, Crumb, Duparc, Elgar, Fauré, Francesco Filidei, Grisey, Saed Haddad, Hartmann, Hindemith, Holliger, Humperdinck, Ibert, Janáček, Korngold, […]
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