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2018-12-12 04:24:28
The Vienna State Opera, better known as one of the foremost museums of opera, staged a world premiere–the first in eight years–on Saturday, December 8. The Tyrolian Johannes Maria Staud, steadfast contributor to Wien Modern and collaborator with the Klangforum Wien, had been asked to write the work and turned to German poet and essayist […]
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2016-11-10 18:18:40
Rattle assistant, 26, makes Vienna debut
The young British conductor Duncan Ward is taking over Sunday’s Wien Modern concert at short notice with the Vienna radio symphony orchestra. Works include Luigi Dallapiccola Three questions with two answers, Georges Lentz’s Jerusalem (after Blake), Friedrich Cerha’s Nacht, and the finale of Mahler’s tenth symphony. Appointed by Rattle as Conducting Scholar of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchester-Akademie, Duncan has been making debuts this season with major orchs in Munich, Stockholm, Leipzig and Lucerne.
2014-12-02 11:48:47
Forbes has just published an article about Claudio Abbado’s recording legacy and what they and others (Michael Haefliger and Alex Ross) consider to be his best. The late Abbado was one of the world’s most important musical figures of the last decades, not only, of course, due to his musical ability and artistic qualities, but also due to the number of prestigious institutions he was associated with. These include the Berlin Philharmonic, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, the London Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, La Scala, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Vienna State Opera, the Wien Modern Festival, the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, the European Union Youth Orchestra, and the Orchestra Mozart. His abundant recording legacy is a consequence of his brilliant career and includes some masterpieces. Read Forbes assessment here . Do you agree?
2014-11-10 16:47:44
A selection of the best concerts to go to in Vienna and Lisbon on the week starting on 10 November 2014. Vienna Konzerthaus, 10 and 11 Nov (Wien Modern): Arditti Quartet (G. F. Haas). Konzerthaus, 11 and 12 Nov : Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Daniil Trifonov/G. Noseda (Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov). Musikverein, 13 Nov : Emerson Quartet (Haydn, Ravel, Beethoven). Musikverein, 14, 15 and 16 Nov : Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt (Haydn, Beethoven). Musikverein, 15 and 16 Nov : Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Ph. Jordan/Th. Hampson (Schubert, Wolf, Bruckner). For opera see here and here . Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation, 11 Nov : Kronos Quartet. Gulbenkian Foundation, 13 and 14 Nov : Gulbenkian Orchestra/Susanna Mälkki/Karita Mattila (Verdi, R. Strauss, Weber, Dvorák, etc.). Gulbenkian Foundation, 16 Nov : Mitsuko Uchida, piano (Schubert, Beethoven).