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Czech conductor (1926-2005)
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2024-03-27 08:09:00
Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] his spear. An eye for detail, too, Tcherniakov also conjured up a grand and magnificent set along with his chums offering more than a hint to DDR architecture featuring simplistic linear-designed contemporary furniture with wallcoverings to match while one wooden-panelled room (the meeting room) displayed a total of six golden-sculpted busts of philosophers considered ancestors and role models of the ESCHE institute. Their names: Albertus Magnus, Pierre-Louis Maupertius, Charles Darwin, Alexander von Humboldt, Gregor Mendel and Gregory Bateson. And with the Humbolt University lying in the shadow of Staatsoper, the red-marbled wallcovering employed in the meeting room equates to that used in the foyer of the university. Die Walküre - Staatsoper Berlin, 2022 (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)From an engineering point of view, the set was cleverly designed swallowing up the length, breadth and depth of Staatsoper's vast stage area either moving on a horizontal level highlighting the multiple-room conurbation […]
2024-03-25 03:30:00
Dvořák: Cello Concerto et al. (CD Review)
[…] It was March 31, 1976. One of my professors, who was going to be unable to attend the Utah Symphony Orchestra concert at which the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) was scheduled to perform the Dvořák, and knowing of my burgeoning passion for classical music, had kindly given my wife and me his tickets. Shortly before the concert, however, Rostropovich fell ill and had to cancel, so another legendary cellist stepped in at the last minute, Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-1976). Although he sounded a bit rusty and fumble-fingered in some of the early passages, his playing in the tender moments of the second movement was beautiful, and seeing his interactions with the concertmaster was like watching chamber musicians playing a duet. Since that night, the Dvořák concerto has retained a special place in my heart. Sadly, that performance turned out to be the final public performance of Maestro Piatigorsky, who passed away […]
2024-03-19 14:26:13
SCRUTINY | Toronto Mendelssohn Singers Offer Intriguing, Emotional Version Of Schubert’s Winterreise
Jean-Sébastien Vallée is a master choral director, and the Mendelssohn Singers were very disciplined in Gregor Meyer's adaptation of Schubert's Winterreise.
2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] unsurpassed roster of world-class performers includes Russian pianist/composer, Daniil Trifonov, Danish violinist/conductor, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and Latvian violinist Baiba Skride. They’ll feature in the extensive chamber-music series while a couple of performances of a brand-new production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District by Leipzig Opera (a work that totally displeased Stalin) will be conducted by Andris Nelsons. However, on my current visit to Leipzig, the Gewandhausorchester conducted by Alan Gilbert and the GewandhausChor under the direction of Gregor Mayer delivered a sensitive and soulful performance of Lera Auerbach’s Symphony No.6 (Vessels of Light) featuring Israeli cellist, Kristina Reiko Cooper, who, incidentally, performed at the work’s première and, indeed, came up with the idea for the work. Singing in Yiddish, the quartet of outstanding vocalists was admirably led by German soprano, Johanna Ihrig, who harbours a strong, richly textured wide-ranging voice, well supported by Nora Steuerwald (contralto), Falk Hoffmann (tenor) and Steven Klose (bass) […]
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