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2019-09-09 04:52:00
Opera Phantasies from 150 Years (SACD review)
[…] Moll, and Edda Moser. From the autumn of 1999 to January 2011 Mr. Zedler was engaged at the Mecklenburg State Theatre in Schwerin as soloist and Ballettrepetitor, participating in over seventy productions of opera, operetta, musical, oratorio, and ballet. Since 2011 he has worked at capital Opera, the smallest Opera Berlin, devoting himself to the repertoire of forgotten one-act plays. Mr. Zedler's concert career has taken him along with prominent figures such as singers Agnes Giebel, Ulrich Hielscher, Jean van Ree, and Edda Moser." And since the summer of 2016, again according to the accompanying booklet, "...he has been a solo repetiteur at the Volkstheater Rostock." Volker Reinhold Anyway, as I've said, here they offer five selections: the first is the Fantasia su motivi della Traviata di Giuseppe Verdi (1871) by Italian violinist, composer, and teacher Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897). Being Verdi opera, the music is understandably sentimental, poignant, […]
2019-01-15 00:06:00
Allluring Die Loreley - Max Bruch opera
Max Bruch Die Loreley recorded live in the Prinzregenstheater, Munich in 2014, broadcast by BR Klassik and now released in a 3 CD set by CPO. Stefan Blunier conducts the Münchrener Rundfunkdorhester, with Michaela Kaune, Magdalena Hinterdobler, Thomas Mohr and Jan-Hendrick Rootering heading the cast, with the Prager Philharmonischer Chor. Bruch (1838-1920) may be best known for his Violin Concerto no 1, but this first ever recording of his full opera should broaden interest in his output as a whole. Bruch's Die Loreley is a very early work indeed, written between 1860 and 1863, and shows how the composer responded to the influences around him. The text, by eminent poet Emanuel Giebel (1815-1884) was conceived for Felix Mendelssohn, whose music Giebel loved dearly. he so identified the text with Mendelssohn that he was reluctant to give Bruch permission to use the libretto. But Bruch (in an era before copyright enforcement) was […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2017-05-04 17:02:02
Death of a Klemperer soprano, aged 95
The German soprano Agnes Giebel, whose career began late in 1947, quickly became a fixture with the Philharmonia Orchestra under Otto Klemperer and the Leipzig Thomanerchor with Günter Ramin. Admired as a Bach recitalist, she explored the music of Schoenberg, Hindemith and Henze and continued singing up to 1990. The family today announced news of her death, in Cologne, on April 24.
2016-01-05 01:33:00
Benjamin Appl Eichendorff Lieder Wigmore Hall
[…] Schumann was.Similarly, I suspect that Hans Pfitzner's appreciation of Eichendorff shaped hissettings of the poems. Fortunately, Appl and Johnson did not start their Ppfitzner set with Der Gartner, written before 1896, and published in 1899. Alas, it's leaden its heaviness bearing little relation to the subtle ideas in the poem. Pfitzner is far better suited to poems like In Danzig (form1907) in which Eichedorff describes the city under moonlight. "Dunkle Giebel, hohe Fenster, Türme wie aus Nebel sehn. Bleiche Statuen wie Gespenster Lautlos an den Türen stehn."Pfitzner's murky tone-painting colours the3 scne as if it were a painting from Caspar David Friedrich.so effectively that it captures the discreetly hidden punchline embedded within the text :"Nur des Meeres fernes Rauschen.Wunderbare Einsamkeit!" Typically of Eichendorff this portrait of the city is psychological rather than […]
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