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2022-05-19 06:49:56
Classical music meets video art
Micro concerts - an initiative of Kent Nagano in cooperation with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg and Staatsoper Hamburg. Tony Cooper reports A series of micro concerts by the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, conducted by Kent Nagano, explored new ways and methods of listening to music at the time of the world pandemic through video technology. Therefore, in cooperation with a team of international video artists, a cycle of five audio-visual concerts responded to the times of the crisis. Originally streamed by Radio France, the videos have now become available for on-line viewing on the channels of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg and Staatsoper Hamburg. Classical concert music and video art usually have few points of contact as visual broadcasts of orchestral concerts usually opt for a documentary format, the camera following the flow of the music showing performers, instruments and so forth in stark contrast to video technology in pop music which […]
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2021-01-10 10:28:41
Longer lockdown: No opera in German state before Easter
The state of Hesse has ordered theatres to stay shut until April. That means no opera in Darmstadt, Kassel, Wiesbaden, Marburg and Giessen. The situation in Frankfurt is not yet clear. Opera houses had been closed across Germany until the end of January. The Hesse edict is likely to be the first of many extensions […]
2020-02-14 14:49:00
Kammermusiksaal Hermann J. Abs, Bonn String Quartet no.9 in C major, op.59 no.3 String Quartet no.14 in C-sharp minor, op.131 Benjamin Nabarro, Duncan Grant (violins) Simone van der Giessen (viola) Marie Bitlloch (cello) Grave fragility, almost yet not quite without vibrato, characterised the introduction to the first movement of the third RazumovskyQuartet in this performance from the Elias Quartet. Then came the exposition proper, as if a command to ‘snap out’ of such melancholy or worse, to bring us into the present. Its good humour, however, did not betoken any lack of serious. This was cultivated playing, full of life, somewhere between brusque and boisterous. Later on, the infectious mystery of Beethoven’s – and the players’ – trilling prepared us for a recapitulation that had more than a few surprises left to spring. The second movement was eerily founded on a cello pizzicato (Marie Bitlloch) both angry […]
2020-02-14 14:49:00
Kammermusiksaal Hermann J. Abs, Bonn String Quartet no.9 in C major, op.59 no.3 String Quartet no.14 in C-sharp minor, op.131 Benjamin Nabarro, Duncan Grant (violins) Simone van der Giessen (viola) Marie Bitlloch (cello) Grave fragility, almost yet not quite without vibrato, characterised the introduction to the first movement of the third RazumovskyQuartet in this performance from the Elias Quartet. Then came the exposition proper, as if a command to ‘snap out’ of such melancholy or worse, to bring us into the present. Its good humour, however, did not betoken any lack of serious. This was cultivated playing, full of life, somewhere between brusque and boisterous. Later on, the infectious mystery of Beethoven’s – and the players’ – trilling prepared us for a recapitulation that had more than a few surprises left to spring. The second movement was eerily founded on a cello pizzicato (Marie Bitlloch) both angry […]