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A Life On-Line: Spring is in the air! NCEM, Leeds Lieder, Wigmore Hall, Jayson Gillham, Juliana Koch
[…] tonal yet not quite 12-tone. Full of perky rhythms, the work hinted both at French wind music and at the expressionist late style of Paul Hindemith. Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949) studied in Athens and in Berlin, where he took part in masterclasses with Arnold Schoenberg and his Concertino was written in 1939 when he was living in Greece. The programme ended with Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin in a new version for oboe and piano by Christian Schmitt and Laurent Riou (the one an oboist and the other a composer). Ravel wrote the work for piano solo during World War I with each movement dedicated to a friend who had died in the war. Later Ravel would arrange four of the six movements for orchestra. This new version returned to the original suite, and gave us all six movement imaginatively reconceived for oboe and piano. In the 'Prélude' Koch combined lovely […]
2019-11-14 15:01:00
Philharmonie Violin Concerto no.3 in B minor, op.61 Symphony no.3 in C minor, op.78, ‘Organ’ Lisa Batiashvili (violin) Christian Schmitt (organ) Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim (conductor) In preparation for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s new production of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila, directed by Damián Szifron and conducted by Daniel Barenboim, of which more in due course, Berlin is hearing more of the composer’s œuvre than might generally be expected. I shall be reporting not only from the opera but also from a chamber concert at the Apollo Saal for piano and harmonium. In the meantime, here were two orchestral works, also conducted by Barenboim. For the first—to my mind, the most successful—of the works, the Third Violin Concerto, Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin were joined by Lisa Batiashvili, whose performance proved to be nothing less than outstanding. A heightened sense of expectancy from orchestra—not least […]
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2017-07-17 12:27:23
The French oboist, Théophile Hartz, principal oboe of the Malmö opera, yesterday won the principal oboe audition of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Hartz, 30, studied with Jean Louis Capezzali, Jérome Guichard, Thomas Indermühle and Christian Schmitt. He will now be in need of a Hebrew teacher.
2016-12-24 01:00:00
[…] cue, log, scans] Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) Piano Quintet op. 81 String Quartet op. 51 Takács Quartet Andreas Haefliger piano Decca 466 197-2 (1999) [flac, cue, log, scans] Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Fantasy and Fugue on the chorale "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam" Julius Reubke (1834-1856) Der 94ste Psalm. Sonata for the organ Max Reger (1873-1916) Fantasy on the Chorale "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" Christian Schmitt Goll organ at the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Luzern, 2000 Ars Musici/Primavera AMP 5109-2 (2001) [flac, cue, log, scans] Max Reger (1873-1916) Fantasy and Fugue on B-A-C-H Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor Fantasy on the chorale "Wie schön leucht' uns der Morgenstern" Twelve pieces for the organ: Kyrie, Gloria, Benedictus Arvid Gast Steinmeyer organ at Christuskirche Mannheim, 1911 Motette CD 11511 (1991) [flac, cue, log, scans] Max […]
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