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German composer, musicologist and conductor
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- composer, musicologist, conductor, music theorist, film score composer
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2020-01-23 16:32:00
[…] an even bigger conman. Schwanda's freed, returning to Dorota with his Dudelsack, while Babinsky carries on scamming.Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer is still in the repertoire and gets done fairly frequently. There was a good production at the Semperoper, Dresden in 2016 (Please read more about that HERE). Weinberg was a close associate of Max Reger, which is why he's an adopted Dresden favourite. There are also several good reecordings. I like the 1948 conducted by Winfried Zillig in Frankfurt in 1948. Performance wise it's more rough and ready than the later Hans Wallberg, though Wallberg has a glamour cast of big name stars - Lucia Popp, Siegfried Jerusalem, Hermann Prey etc. But the livelier approach of Zillig seems to suit the work better. This isn't necessarily a vehicle for elegant operatic display, it's too earthy and too pointedly pungent. I love this opera so much. A few years back I had […]
2016-10-06 01:08:00
[…] certainly worthwhile. I even relish the vaguely jazz elements, which remind us how up to date Weinberger and his audiences were. Read more here about Weinberger and his background with Max Reger - the Deesden connection again (see my article on Dresden and Reger here). Švanda Dudák isn't a "rare" opera, or difficult. Weinberger himself, who committed suicide in 1967, would have been aware of the recording conducted by Winfried Zillig in Frankfurt in 1948, which features a youthful Christa Ludwig as the Queen. It's in German, which works very well, and is very good. Postwar, Zillig conducted a lot of music which had been suppressed under the Reich, and his performances were broadcast on the radio, which was how Europeans then got their music, not from recvordings. . The 2012 Semperoper Dresden production is in Czech, and available on CD. There […]
2012-12-05 17:03:00
Danco/Kolisch/Steuermann/Zillig/Kraus/Stadlen/Varga/Vegh Quartet/Berlin PO/Fricsay (Audite, four CDs)This fascinating anthology brings together recordings of works by Schoenberg, Berg and Webern made between 1949 and 1965 in the studios of RIAS, the west Berlin-based radio station. A number of works included were then being recorded for the first time; what began as an act of restitution, a project to restore the reputations in Germany of three composers whose music had been condemned as "degenerate" by the Nazis, also became an important documentary archive. It brought together singers and instrumentalists who had worked with all three composers with artists from a new postwar generation who were tackling this repertory for the first time.Inevitably it's the links with pre-war Vienna that seem the most potent. Eduard Steuermann, who played in the first performance of Pierrot Lunaire in 1912, plays Schoenberg's works for solo piano with wonderful expressive warmth; Peter Stadlen, a former pupil of Webern (and […]
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