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2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig-Mitte with the Mendebrunnen at night (2016)(Photo: Wikimedia - By Ichwarsnur - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0) Come 2025, the Leipzig Gewandhaus will be staging a major international festival in honour of Dimitri Shostakovich marking the 50th anniversary of his deathA frequent visitor to Germany attending Ring cycles here, there and everywhere, Tony Cooper recently enjoyed a short break in Leipzig taking in a concert by the Gewandhausorchester conducted by Alan Gilbert featuring Shostakovich’s 10th symphony whilst also enjoying a rare performance of Thea Musgrave’s opera, Mary, Queen of Scots. With so much musical history and knowledge wrapped up in Leipzig’s cultural portfolio, Tony also took adventurous steps by way of trekking the Leipzig Music Trail stopping off to visit the Bach-Archiv, conveniently situated opposite St Thomas’ Church and the Mendelssohn House Museum not forgetting, of course, the Schumann House while soaking up the city’s illustrious past […]
2023-10-14 18:25:00
New York Philharmonic. Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, conductor; Daniil Trifonov, piano. October 13, 2023.
[…] Clara Schumann gave the premiere performance of the Robert Schumann concerto.Today's Program Notes also describe most concertos written during that time were considered lightweight vehicles for showmanship. The composers listed - Kalkbrenner, Thalberg, Herz, Pixis, and so on - have indeed slipped to the fringe of the repertoire; I didn't know any of them. The Schumann concerto had its origin in 1841 as a one-movement Phantasie for Piano and Orchestra, performed twice at the Leipzig Gewandhaus with Clara Schumann as the soloist, and Felix Mendelssohn as the conductor.De Profundis was written by Serksnyte as her bachelor's graduation work in 1998. She is now teaching at the same Lithuania Academy of Music. In her words as quoted in the Program Notes: "This dramatic music, full of contrasts, reflects a certain worldview of a young person... At a young age life is perceived in an extreme, "severe" way, where euphoria quickly changes […]
2023-09-18 14:36:19
Several Conductors, 2023
[…] ago here. At least as talented as Böhm, his life couldn’t have been more different. Walter was Jewish, for many years he collaborated closely with Mahler and, in 1912, led the posthumous premier performance of the composer’s Ninth Symphony. He was the music director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he conducted most of Wagner’s operas. Walter escaped from Germany in 1933 (at the time he was the principal conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra). After working in Europe, he moved to the US in 1939 and settled in Beverly Hills, the area that hosted a large German expat community. In the US, he worked with many orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Bruno Walter was 85 when he died in 1962. Here Bruno Walter is playing the piano and conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20. […]
2023-09-18 14:34:16
Several Conductors, 2023
[…] ago here. At least as talented as Böhm, his life couldn’t have been more different. Walter was Jewish, for many years he collaborated closely with Mahler and, in 1912, led the posthumous premier performance of the composer’s Ninth Symphony. He was the music director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he conducted most of Wagner’s operas. Walter escaped from Germany in 1933 (at the time he was the principal conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra). After working in Europe, he moved to the US in 1939 and settled in Beverly Hills, the area that hosted a large German expat community. In the US, he worked with many orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Bruno Walter was 85 when he died in 1962. Here Bruno Walter is playing the piano and conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20. […]
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