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2023-09-18 14:36:19
Several Conductors, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: September 18, 2023. Several conductors. We missed a lot of anniversaries while exploring the music of the transitional period between the Renaissance and early Baroque. Today we’ll get back to a group of conductors. First, Karl Böhm, one of the most successful of them. Böhm was born on August 28th of 1894 in Graz, Austria. His career took off in the 1920s, with some help from Bruno Walter; in 1927 Böhm was appointed the chief musical director in Darmstadt, and in 1931 he took the same position at the prestigious Hamburg Opera. In 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany and Böhm took over the Dresden Semper Opera, after Fritz Busch, the previous director, went into exile. Böhm was a friend of Richard Strauss and conducted several premiers of his operas. In 1938 Böhm appeared at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1943 took over […]
2023-09-18 14:34:16
Several Conductors, 2023
This Week in Classical Music: September 18, 2023. Several conductors. We missed a lot of anniversaries while exploring the music of the transitional period between the Renaissance and early Baroque. Today we’ll get back to a group of conductors. First, Karl Böhm, one of the most successful of them. Böhm was born on August 28th of 1894 in Graz, Austria. His career took off in the 1920s, with some help from Bruno Walter; in 1927 Böhm was appointed the chief musical director in Darmstadt, and in 1931 he took the same position at the prestigious Hamburg Opera. In 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany and Böhm took over the Dresden Semper Opera, after Fritz Busch, the previous director, went into exile. Böhm was a friend of Richard Strauss and conducted several premiers of his operas. In 1938 Böhm appeared at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1943 took over […]
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2019-05-27 19:13:00
The best new classical albums: May 2019
Recording of the MonthGustav Mahler: "Titan", Eine Tondichtung in Symphonieform (Hamburg / Weimar 1893-1894 version)Les Siècles (On period instruments)Conductor: François-Xavier RothRecorded 2018Released on May 10, 2019 by Harmonia mundiForget the Mahler First you know and travel back to the work's second incarnation. This is Titan, a five-movement symphonic poem with a very definite programme, which Mahler later dropped: a man's heroic but ultimately fruitless battle with fate. Playing mainly Austro-German instruments appropriate to the period, Les Siècles make a compelling case for this precursor of Symphony No.1. Beautifully judged, vividly characterised and with a gorgeous range of colours – the later-discarded second movement, "Blumine", is heavenly – this is another triumph for conductor François-Xavier Roth.Source: itunes.apple.comGustav Mahler was not yet thirty years old when he mounted the podium to conduct his "Symphonic Poem" (Sinfonische Dichtung) in the Large Hall of the Redoute (Vigadó) in Budapest on 20 November 1889. The young […]
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Friday, February 5, 2016 You can listen to the Classical Music Almanac Podcast Daily here. Birthdays Ole Bull In 1810 Ole Bull was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull (1787–1838) and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden (1789–1875). His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect. He was also the uncle of Edvard Hagerup Bull, Norwegian judge and politician. His father wished for him to become a minister, but he desired a musical career. At the age of four or five, he could play all of the songs he had heard his mother play on the violin. At age nine, he played first violin in the orchestra of Bergen’s theatre and was a soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. At eighteen, he was sent to the University of Christiania, but failed his examinations. He joined the Musical Lyceum, a […]