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German organist and composer, and member of the prominent musical Hasse family
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2024-03-26 04:09:41
This Week in Classical Music: March 25, 2024. Maurizio Pollini, one of the greatest pianists of the last half century, died two days ago, on March 23rd in Milan at the age of 82. His technique was phenomenal, even though he lost some of it in the last years of his life (he performed almost till the very end of his life and probably should’ve stopped earlier). His Chopin was exquisite (no wonder that he won the eponymous competition in 1960), as was the rest of the standard 19th-century piano repertoire, but he also was incomparable as the interpreter of the music of the Second Viennese School, and even more so as the performer of the contemporary music, much of it written by his friends: Luigi Nono, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Maderna, and many other. He will be sorely missed. Speaking of Pierre Boulez: his anniversary is this week […]
2023-12-18 19:35:00
Ascanio in Alba, Oper Frankfurt, 17 December 2023
Bockenheimer DepotVenus – Kateryna Kasper Ascanio – Cecilia Hall Silvia – Karolina Bengtsson Aceste – Andrew Kim Fauno – Anna Nekhames Secretary – Aijan Ryskulova Bodyguard – Stefan Biaesch Silvia’s friends – Valentina Ziegler, Isabel Casás RamaNina Brazier (director)Christoph Fischer (set design)Henriette Hübschmann (costumes)Jonathan Pickers (lighting)Deborah Einspieler (dramaturgy)Vocal Ensemble (recorded)Frankfurt Opera and Museum OrchestraAlden Gatt (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausAceste (Andrew Kim), Silvia (Karolina Bengtsson), Venus (Kateryna Kasper), Ascanio (Cecelia Hall), Fauno (Anna Nekhames) It is not every day I get to hear a Mozart opera live for the first time. And yet, this year 2023, some time after my first year of opera-going, I have done so twice: Il re pastore at this year’s Salzburg Festival, albeit in concert performance, and now Oper Frankfurt’s new Ascanio in Alba, directed by Nina Brazier and conducted by Alden Gatt. Two to go, but another two ticked off the list—not that I ever wish […]
2023-11-21 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech recommends Frieder Bernius' recording of 'L'Olimpiade' by Hasse. 'Frieder Bernius has a convincing way with Hasse.'
2023-11-17 19:46:00
First comes the Overture to Il Ruggiero, Johann Adolph Hasse’s – and Pietro Metastasio’s – final work from Orlando furioso. Originally commanded by Maria Theresa for the marriage of Maria Antonia/Marie Antoinette and the French Dauphin, the work's libretto was not completed in time, so it served instead for the 1771 marriage of the Empress's son Archduke Ferdinand Charles, Governor of the Duchy of Milan, to Maria Beatrice, daughter of Ercole (Hercules) III d’Este, Duke of Modena, and his estranged wife, Maria Teresa, Duchess of Massa and Princess of Carrara in her own right. As heiress to four further Italian territories, Maria Beatrice offered an advantageous match for the Habsburgs, and had originally been intended for one of Ferdinand's elder brothers, Archduke Peter Leopold (now Duke of Tuscany and later Emperor Leopold II). Ferdinand and Maria Beatrice had been engaged since childhood, the treaty thereby concluded recognising Ferdinand as Ercole's […]
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