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Tally of performances attended in 2020
[…] as one, not four.) Looked at another way, though, I still managed to hear music by a range of composers, from Abrahmsen to Zimmermann, a good number of contemporary composers amongst them. Concert Beethoven 11 Mozart 10 Bach 5 Haydn, Ravel, Stravinsky 3 Berg, Schumann, Bernd Alois Zimmermann 2 Hans Abrahamsen, Georges Aperghis, George Benjamin, Boulez, Brahms, Busoni, Isaac Cooper, Copland, Elgar, Samantha Fernando, Francesco Filidei, Franck, Saed Haddad, Hindemith, Johann Casper Kerll, Janáček, Christian Jost, Lachenmann, Mahler, William Marshall, Georg Muffat, Isabel Mundry, Mussorgsky, Olli Mustonen, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Jean-Féry Rebel, Wolfgang Rihm, Frederic Rzewski, Rebecca Saunders, Schnittke, Schoenberg, Sibelius, Strauss, Wagner, Webern, Jörg Widmann 1 Opera Bizet, Cherubini, Debussy, Beat Furrer, Holst, Humperdinck, Janáček, Mozart, Meyerbeer, Annelies Van Parys, Tom Smail, Wagner 1 Total Beethoven, Mozart 11 Bach 5 Haydn, Ravel, Stravinsky 3 Berg, Janáček, Schumann, Wagner, Bernd Alois Zimmermann 2 Hans Abrahamsen, Georges Aperghis, […]
2020-09-13 14:37:00
Musikfest Berlin (8) - Tetzlaff/Konzerthaus Berlin/Eschenbach - Haydn, Jost, and Beethoven, 6 September 2020
PhilharmonieHaydn: Symphony no.21 in A major, Hob. I:21 Christian Jost: Violin Concerto no.2, ‘Concerto Noir Redux’ (world premiere) Beethoven: Symphony no.8 in F major, op.93 Christian Tetzlaff (violin)Konzerthausorchester Berlin Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) How wonderful to hear Haydn’s Symphony no.21 in the concert hall. I had never done so before, and whilst I should happily be corrected, I doubt many others in the audience had. Christoph Eschenbach led the Konzerthausorchester Berlin in a performance alert to the work’s formal strangeness, albeit with none of the exaggeration and downright grotesquerie that often, regrettably, accompany such exploration. The first movement ‘Adagio’ in particular benefited from simply being permitted to speak, however great the art concealed in that ‘simply’. Gorgeous, warm tone invited us in to contemplate and to experience Haydn’s formal mysteries, mysteries through which certain harmonic progressions and their rhythmic instantiation already seemed to prefigure the Beethoven of the Eighth […]
2020-02-18 16:01:51
Christian Jost’s Egmont has its world premiere in Vienna — the music is pure luxury, but what’s it all about?
The composer brings bittersweet melodies and deft orchestral writing to his new opera
2019-11-29 13:48:00
Die Zauberflöte, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 28 November 2019
Images: Monika RittershausMonastatos (Florian Hoffmann) and Pamina (Serena Sáenz) Sarastro – René Pape Tamino – Julian Prégardien Pamina – Serena Sáenz Papageno – Florian Teichtmeister Papagena – Victoria Randem Queen of the Night – Albina Shagimuratova Speaker, Second Priest – David Oštrek Monostatos – Florian Hoffmann First Lady – Adriane Queiroz Second Lady – Natalia Skrycka Third Lady – Constance Heller First Armoured Man – Jun-Sang Han Second Armoured Man – Frederic Jost First Priest – Andrés Moreno Garcia Three Boys – Members of the Tölz Boys’ Choir Yuval Sharon (director) Mimi Lien, Marc Löhrer (set designs) Walter Van Beriendonck (costumes) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Hannah Wasileski (video) Markus Böhm (sound design) Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Anna Milukova) Staatskapelle Berlin Julien Salemkour (conductor) As operatic hits go, The Magic Flute takes some beating; it does even so far as Mozart is concerned. Unquestionably Mozart’s greatest […]