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From Classical to Romantic: I chat to Michael Sanderling about the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra & Le Piano Symphonique festival
Wagner: Götterdämmerung suite - Michael Sanderling, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra - Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne 2024 (Photo: Philipp Schmidli)Michael Sanderling is the current chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, responsible not only for the orchestra's regular season at KKL Lucerne but for conducting the orchestra in concerts at the orchestra's Le Piano Symphonique festival. [see my interview with the festival's intendant, Numa Bischof Ullman]. This year, the orchestra was accompanying the Liszt cycle (the two piano concertos and Totentanz with pianist Yoav Levanon) and Grieg's Piano Concerto (with pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja), but alongside the performance of Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 the orchestra was also playing Michael Sanderling's suite from Wagner's Gotterdammerung.My chat with Michael Sanderling too place at a busy time, fitted in amongst his conducting and rehearsal commitments during the festival, as well as the planning for the recording sessions the following week.Michael comments that if you have […]
2023-06-10 23:49:00
Leipzig Bach Fest No. 27. Organ Concert. Michael Schonheit, conductor and organ.
Gewandhaus, Great Hall, Leipzig, Germany. Parkette Mitte (Seat 14-1, 17 euros).All the artists came out at the conclusion of the concert.Program"O I wretched man, who will redeem me" by Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679-1714)."Arm yourselves, ye heavenly choirs" by Kauffmann."The love of God is poured out" by Kauffmann."Come, Holy Spirit, Lord God" BWV 652 by J. S. Bach (1685-1750).Cantata "Erschallet, ihr Lieder" BWV 172.3 by Bach.Bach Fest has a English version of the website, from which I type the titles in the "Program" section. No idea why the last piece is not translatable by Google Translate. Microsoft translates it as "Do you sing songs?" More along the lines of "Resounding songs."ArtistsCollegium Vocale LeipzigMerseburger HofmusikIsabel Schicketanz - soprano; Britta Schwarz - alto; Tobias Hunger - Tenor I; Christoph Pfaller Tenor II; Tobias Berndt - Bass.Well, it turns out the first ever Leipzig Bach Fest event we attended was not even "Mostly Bach." […]
2023-06-10 00:01:00
Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini. Omer Meir Wellber, conductor; Jan Vogler, violoncello. June 8, 2023.
Kulturpalast, Dresden, Germany. 1. Rang links, J (Seat 1-10, 55 euros).ProgramOverture to Macbeth by Verdi (1813-1901).Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major by Shostakovich (1906-1975).Overture to Lohengrin by Wagner (1813-1883).Symphony No. 6 in E minor op. 74 Pathetique by Tchaikovsky (1840-1893).Vogel and Wellber after the performance of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto.We are stopping for a couple of days in Dresden during our trip in Europe, and thus able to attend this concert. The pieces are familiar to various extent, and this would be my first encounter with all the performers (I thought, wrongly, that I had heard Vogler before).While one could point out miscues here and there - one violinist clearly jumped the gun at one point - this was overall a very enjoyable concert.For the two overtures, both reflecting the less well-known styles of the respective composers, the orchestra did an excellent job of bringing out the nuances of […]
2021-07-09 12:07:08
Rebecca Saunders to be composer-in-residence with Dresden Philharmonie for 2021/22
Rebecca Saunders (Photo Astrid Ackermann) The British-born Berlin-based composer Rebecca Saunders has been announced as the Dresden Philharmonie's composer-in-residence for the 2021/22 season which also includes premieres from Salvatore Sciarrino, Brett Dean and Christfried Schmidt, alongside performances of RVW, Elgar, and Ethel Smyth. Saunders, who was awarded the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2019, will see performances of two of her larger works as part of the orchestra's season at Dresden's Kulturpalast, To an Utterance for piano and orchestra and Still for violin and orchestra. The soloist in To an Utterance will be pianist Nicolas Hodges who gives the work's delayed premiere at the Lucerne Festival this year [see my interview with Nicolas], whilst the title Still comes from the eponymous short story by Samuel Beckett. The orchestra's recently announced 2021/22 season will also include the premiere of Piogge diverse (Types of Rain), written in 2020 by Salvatore […]
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