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2024-03-18 12:48:00
KonzerthausMendelssohn: Symphony no.4 in A major, op.90, ‘Italian’ Mendelssohn: Hymne, op.96 Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Denis Uzun (mezzo-soprano)Berlin Radio Chorus (chorus director: Philipp Ahmann)Berlin Radio Symphony OrchestraMartyn Brabbins (conductor) Mendelssohn and Stravinsky might not seem the most obvious bedfellows, but this Berlin Radio Symphony (RSB) concert, originally planned with Andrew Davis but conducted by Martyn Brabbins, offered pause for thought as well as enjoyment. Both composers had fraught relationships either with Wagner or his music—and, by extension, with that strain of musical Romanticism. (Even Liszt, that most generous spirited of composers, could refer dismissively to the ‘opposition’ as ‘leipzigerisch’.) The nature of their (neo)classicism is far from the same, but it offers an interesting perspective, even when the music performed is not so markedly in that mould. One could certainly spill a good deal of ink in discussing the relationship of the two Stravinsky works here […]
2022-02-22 09:00:41
[…] conducted by Michael Hofstetter, with a cast including Romelia Lichtenstein (winner of the 2016 Handel Prize), Robert Sellier and Michael Zehe. The production was planned for 2021 but cancelled, and originally presented in October 2021. The Portuguese orchestra Divino Sospiro makes its festival debut with Mozart's version of Messiah. MDR Radio Choir and Leipzig Baroque Opera present Susanna with a cast including Marie Lys, Ciara Henrick, Benjamin Hulett, and Benjamin Bevan, conducted by Philipp Ahmann. Howard Arman conducts the Staatskapelle Halle in Semele, in a version which re-constructs the performing edition used (cut and sung in German) for the opening concert of the 1922 festival. There are 67 events in total including concerts from Jordi Savall, Philippe Jaroussky, Ragna Schirmer or Romelia Lichtenstein, as well as countertenor Axel Köhler, who continued as Festival director after his retirement from the stage. Full details from the festival website.
2017-12-17 16:48:00
BPO/Thielemann - Beethoven, Missa solemnis, 14 December 2017
Philharmonie Mass in D major, op.123 (Missa solemnis) Luba Orgonášová (soprano) Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano) Daniel Behle (tenor) Franz-Josef Selig (bass) Berlin Radio Choir (chorus master: Philipp Ahmann) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Christian Thielemann (conductor) There are musical works at which, in awe, one strain’s one’s aural neck – and then there is the Missa solemnis (no need, just like the Ninth Symphony, to say whose). It has its detractors; so does Fidelio. However, their accusations, in both cases, seem founded on gross misunderstandings of what Beethoven was doing. Ultimately, they perhaps even add to the works’ stature: almost unquestionably so, I think, in the case of the Missa solemnis. Its extreme difficulty is both the point and not the point. As with all late Beethoven, indeed pretty much all Beethoven, dialectics ensure that difficulty and simplicity, rupture and wholeness, so on and so forth, […]
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