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2021-09-27 22:14:00
Notions of the tragic have changed greatly since the Golden Age of Attic drama and its posthumous codification by Aristotle. Some have claimed that, in Shakespeare’s wake, what we now call tragedy is something entirely different. A (post-)Christian need for redemption as heard, however equivocally, in Honegger’s Third Symphony seems incompatible with tragedy’s iron rule of Fate. Even Wagner, with the exception of Lohengrin, tended to offer redemption rather than catharsis in the ancient sense. Indeed, minor-mode symphonies that do not turn ‘affirmatively’ to the major are rarer than we might expect.Yet those tragic notions, their representation too, have also remained surprisingly close to their source, of which we still speak, in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Would it have seemed strange to ancient writers of tragic drama and verse to speak of symphonies as participating in the tragic and even, in the case of Brahms’s Fourth Symphony, of embodying tragedy […]
2021-03-13 16:19:41
The Hannari Piano Trio with violinist Hanna Ponkala-Nitsch, cellist Larissa Nagel, and pianist Rie Kibayashi took first prize. The trio members come from Finland, Germany, and Japan, and have won a prize package of 1000 Euros. Their supervisors were violinist Tim Vogler and pianist Angelika Merkle. In memoriam of violinist, soloist, and chamber musician, Gustav […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-01-31 14:36:44
[…] Chamber Orchestra/ Maxim EmelyanychevCity Halls: Concert Hall, Glasgow7.30pm Saturday 7 March 2020:Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in D major, Op. 12 No. 1Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A major, Op. 12 No. 2, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 5 in F majorSpohr: Mazurka and Scherzo from Sechs SalonstückeViotti: Serenade in A major for Two ViolinsTamás András (violin), Evgenia Epshtein (violin),Katya Apekisheva (piano)Hollywell Music Room, Oxford3.00pm Saturday 7 March 2020:Rie: Sonata for Violin and Piano in F minorPaganini: CantabileBeethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 8 in G major, Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G majorKreutzer: La MolinaraAnna-Liisa Bezrodny (violin), Charlotte Scott (violin), Diana Ketler (piano)Holywell Music Room, Oxford7.30pm Saturday 7 March 2020:Beethoven: Symphony No 4 in B flat major, Mass in C majorEmily Dorn (Singer), Rachel Frenkel (singer), Luis Gomes (singer), Evan Hughes (singer), Dresden Chamber Choir, BBC Philharmonic/ Omer […]
2017-09-11 10:31:00
Musikfest Berlin (3) – Michel-Dansac/Ensemble Musikfabrik/Poppe - Saunders, Birtwistle, and Dowland, 9 September 2017
Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie Rebecca Saunders: Yes (2016-17, world premiere) Birtwistle: Cortege (2007) Birtwistle: 26 Orpheus Elegies (2003-4) interspersed with: Dowland, arr. Birtwistle: Lachrimae: seaven tears figured in seven passionate pavanes (1604/2009) Doniatenne Michel-Dansac (soprano) Andrew Watts (countertenor) Peter Veale (oboe) Mirjam Schröder (harp) Paul Jeukendrup (sound design) Ensemble Musikfabrik Enno Poppe and Harrison Birtwistle (conductors) Other soloists: Helen Bledsoe (flute, bass flute) Carl Rosman (clarinet, bass clarinet) Alban Wesly (bassoon) Christine Chapman (horn) Marco Blaauw, Nathan Plante (trumpet) Jan Roskilly (trombone, bass trumpet) Melvyn Poore (tuba) Dirk Rothbrust, Rie Watanabe (percussion) Ulrich Löffler, Benjamin Kobler (piano) Krassimir Sterev (accordion) Hannah Weirich, Yoonhee Lee (violin) Axel Porath, Kirstin Maria Pientka, Tim-Erik Winzer (viola) Dirk Wietheger, Andreas Müller (cello) Florentin Ginot (double bass) Images: Kai Bienert Whilst London once again endured that ghastly annual farrago at the Royal […]
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