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2024-05-13 07:21:14
Released for the first time, these 1975 BBC studio broadcast performances find pianist Annie Fischer at her communicative best, and on fine pianistic form. The Schumann Sonata No. 1 holds particular value in that Fischer never otherwise recorded the work. It may be simplistic to peg her acknowledged affinity for this composer as “natural”, yet […]
2024-05-06 14:31:07
Brahms, Tchaikovsky, 2024
[…] homosexuality. Given the format of our entries, we can do justice neither to their biographies, nor their music: we've dedicated four entries to Arnold Schoenberg just to go into some detail, and here we have two very prolific composers. So instead, we’ll play their violin concertos, the ones we mentioned above, both featuring female soloists. Here’s Rachel Barton Pine playing Brahms (Chicago Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Carlos Kalmar); and here is the Tchaikovsky; Julia Fischer is the soloist, Yakov Kreizberg leads the Russian National Orchestra). Four composers were born on May 12th: Giovanni Battista Viotti, the famous Italian violinist and composer, in 1755; the Frenchman Jules Massenet, known for his operas Manon and Werther, in 1842; another, musically more adventuresome Frenchman, Gabriel Faure, three years later; and Anatoly Lyadov, the Russian composer known as much for his friendship with Tchaikovsky as for his small scale piano and orchestral pieces. […]
2024-05-01 03:52:00
Staatsoper Hamburg. Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito. April 28, 2024.
Staatsoper Hamburg. Parkette Links (Seat 19-8, 143 Euros).The person in the middle of the front row (of 7) is Adam Fischer. To his left is Sesto, and second to his right is Tito.Story. See previous post.Adam Fischer - Conductor; Tito - Bernard Richter, Sesto - Michele Losier, Annio - Kangmin Justin Kim, Servilia - Katharina Konradi, Vitellia - Tara Erraught, Publio - Han Kim, Berenice - Anna WrobelWe had seen this opera once at the Metropolitan Opera, back in 2012. Reading over that blog entry, the conductor was Harry Bicket, and Sesto's role was sung by Elina Garanca. I don't remember much of it. My remarks in that entry were generally neutral, except I thought the opera was a bit long.Certainly the performance tonight didn't feel long. The performance started quite on time at 6 pm, and ended at 8:30 pm, and there was a 30-minute intermission in between. By opera […]
2024-03-30 12:00:08
Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra inspire with a resounding account of Beethoven’s third symphony, while the Norwegian trumpeter and tenThing Brass Ensemble showcase female composers• As a conductor,
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