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2022-04-18 15:44:00
Harrison Birtwistle
Claire Booth (Hanna), Roderick Williams (Alan), Harrison Birtwistle (composer), Baldur Brönnimann (conductor), Omar Ebrahim (Caleb Raven) Curtain calls for Yan Tan Tethera Barbican Hall, London, May, 2014 Birtwistle at 80 Well, damn. Harrison Birtwistle died this morning, age 87, and another giant passes from the music scene. His music isn't performed often in the United States. I've managed to see three of his operas and an assortment of his chamber works, but it's mostly been on visits to London. The Eco Ensemble performed Secret Theatre a few years back and that's it for local performances that I've seen. In 2014, there was a festival in honor of his 80th birthday, where I saw Earth Dances (LSO), the operas Gawain and Yan Tan Tethera, both semi-staged, and Oliver Knussen conducting the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in chamber music (link is to Mark Berry's review). In my last trip before the pandemic, I […]
2022-02-22 18:09:32
The Swiss-born conductor's new role will also see him involved in the Basel Sinfonietta Academy's initiative, which allows young female musicians, conductors, and composers to explore contemporary orchestral music by giving them practical experience. According to the press release, a quest for applicants to serve as assistant to the ensemble's Principal Conductor Baldur Brönnimann […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-12-21 14:42:19
After a vote among the members of the Basel-based orchestra at the beginning of December, Engel was chosen to succeed current principal conductor Baldur Brönnimann. Titus Engel has previously worked with orchestras including Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, SWR Symphony Orchestra, WDR Symphony Orchestra, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, among others. In 2020, Engel was […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2017-07-20 15:12:00
Dusapin Outscape : Berlioz, baroque and Weilerstein
[…] it ends up mush ! Fortunately Weilerstein is a virtuoso, so there was no danger of that happening. Dusapin's Outscape is a joint commission between the BBC, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ,the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, and Stuttgart Opera. Joshua Wielerstein conducted on this occasion. Outscape has also been conducted by Susana Mälkki (Paris), Markus Stenz (Stuttgart) and Cristian Macelaru (Chicago). There's another performance in November in Porto with Baldur Brönnimann and Anssi Kartunnen Before Dusapin, Jean-Féry Rebel Le Chaos from the 1737 ballet Les Elémens". a good choice since this links the French baroque to modern avant garde. As I've written before (please see here), the connections are very strong indeed : music history didn't start and stay in the late 19th century. The baroque spirit, though exuberant and audacious, predicated on the idea that civilization was an improvement on barbarity. […]
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