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2019-10-01 07:43:02
Yuval Sharon’s brand-new production of Die Zauberflöte at Staatsoper Berlin marks the first new production of this beloved opera by Mozart at this lovingly-restored baroque theatre on Unter den Linden in a quarter of a century following August Everding’s storybook production which, by the way, is still retained in the company’s repertoire.
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Serena Sáenz Molinero (Pamina) und Tuuli Takala (Königin der Nacht)Staatsoper Berlin (Photo Monika Rittershaus) Mozart Die Zauberflöte; Grigory Shkarupa, Julian Prégardien, Serena Sáenz, Florian Teichtmeister, Nicola Proksch, Staatskapelle Berlin, cond. Alondra de la Parra; Staatsoper Berlin Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 5 July 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Sharon’s fascinating and entertaining production includes marionette theatre and flying singers which takes the audience on a seemingly-magical trip to the dark and forbidding world of Sarastro’s mystical kingdom Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Julian Prégardien (Tamino), Adriane Queiroz, Cristina Damian, Anja Schlosser Staatsoper Berlin (Photo Monika Rittershaus) Our roving correspondent Tony Cooper experiences a new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Staatsoper Berlin (27 September 2019) directed by Yuval Sharon with Grigory Shkarupa, Julian Prégardien, Serena Sáenz, Florian Teichtmeister and Nicola Proksch, conducted by Alondra de la Parra. Yuval Sharon is […]
2019-09-06 11:39:41
In our October 2019 podcast, we discuss the news that Jules Buckley has been taken on the role of creative artist in association at the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the family of a girl chorister has sued Berlin Cathedral Choir after it rejected her application for an audition. Plus, we introduce our October issue, in which we talk to husband-and-wife team mezzo Magdalena Kožená and maestro Simon Rattle about their recording of works for voice and piano. […]
2018-10-09 06:30:41
Blowing the gloom away: Parry's Songs of Farewell from New College, Oxford
Parry Songs of Farewell, Mendelssohn Sechs Sprüche; Choir of New College, Oxford; novum Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 October 2018 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) Quinney and his young singers bring a beautiful clarity to Parry's elegiac workThis new disc of Hubert Parry's Songs of Farewell from Robert Quinney and the Choir of New College, Oxford, on its novum label, is based on Robert Quinney's new edition of the Songs of Farewell for Oxford University Press. The disc also includes Parry's Toccata and Fugue 'The Wanderer' , an early version of 'There is an old belief' from Songs of Farewell, and Parry's large scale anthem Hear my words, my people. But there is a surprise too, Mendelssohn's Sechs Sprüche, representing the European music which so influenced Parry. Parry's Songs of Farewell is an elegiac work, full of thoughts of death and the transience of life, pregnant with […]
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2016-04-16 05:33:04
Doubling Down on Cecilia
Nicholas White, Cecilia’s conductor (file photo) Most appealing German music spanning two centuries made up the Boston Cecilia’s spring concert, April 9th at All Saints Church Brookline. The Saturday evening offering largely consisted of music for double choir in a creatively conceived and thoroughly laudable undertaking; would that more concerts had such coherent programming. Director Nicolas White’s notes were not only informative but orienting. The most ambitious work, one of Bach’s motets for double choir, Singet dem Herrn (Sing to the Lord, S.225), began the concert. Composed for a festive occasion in Leipzig c. 1727, possibly a royal birthday, it demands much of the singers. The exuberant first movement sustained a lively buoyancy with clear, somewhat exaggerated accents on “Singet”. The second, contrasting movement alternates phrases from a German hymn in one chorus with commentary in the other. The third, an aria, dances with lively rhythm and antiphonal writing, […]