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2024-02-06 18:50:00
Rusalka, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 4 February 2024
Rusalka – Christiane Karg Prince – Pavel Černoch Foreign Princess – Anna Samuil Vodník – Mika Kares Ježibaba – Anna Kissjudit Gamekeeper – Adam Kutny Kitchen Boy – Clara Nadeshdin Nymphs – Regina Koncz, Rebecka Wallroth, Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Huntsman – Taehan Kim Director – Kornél MundruczóDesigns – Monika PormaleLighting – Felice RossVideo – Rūdolfs BaltiņšChoreography - Candaş BaşDramaturgy – Kata Wéber, Christoph Lang Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinRobin Ticciati (conductor)Images: Gianmarco BresadolaRusalka (Christiane Karg) Director Kornél Mundruczó comes like a breath of fresh air to unsettle our conceptions of Dvořák’s last and, by some way, greatest opera and thus to do precisely what the material demands; or rather, it comes as something bitterly stale, menacing, even poisonous to accomplish what fresh air on its own might not be able. It is certainly refreshing, though it should not be, to have a production that takes class seriously as a form of […]
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] and entertaining programme that opened with JS Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in G minor and Guilmant’s Marche Funèbre et Chant Séraphique, a piece boldly showing off the instrument’s dynamics ranging from the softest and most delicate of sounds to such thrilling, majestic and expressive sounds ending the composition on a high. Trotter also tucked in a rather nice lively piece he commissioned from Jonathan Dove (The Dancing Pipes/1959) while Willan’s Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue and Karg-Elert’s Valse Mignonne added so much to the overall pleasure of the programme which ended with a majestic reading of Mendelssohn’s Overture to St Paul. And for an encore Trotter blazed away at the console ripping through the exciting score of Charles-Marie Widor’s ‘Toccata’ from Organ Symphony, No.5, in F major with no holds barred! A challenging and exciting piece, it ‘blew’ the place apart in an organ recital that will, I’m sure, be long […]
2022-12-21 23:00:00
The Annual Christmas post 2022 [24 CDs]
[…] (soprano), Daniel Jin-Kyu Noack (treble)Jan Kobow, tenorStaats- und Domchor Berlin, Lautten Compagney BerlinKai-Uwe Jirka - directionLabel: Sony 88985315612Recorded: Jan/Feb 2016Download 1fichier uptobox zippyVom Himmel hochImprovisations on Christmas carolsand organ works of Charpentier,Bach, Franck and othersErick Versloot - organBinvignat organ [1784], St Gerlachus, HouthemRecorded August 1998Label: Sunburst SBCD9805Download 1fichier uptobox zippyChristmas ConcertosWorks of Corelli, Tartini, Pez, ManfrediniCollegium AureumFranzjosef Maier - directionPublished in 1989Label: Harmonia Mundi GD77048Download 1fichier uptobox zippyA late romantic Christmas EveWorks of Tchaikovsky, Schönberg, Wagner,Karg-Elert, Waldteufel and othersLe Quatuor RomantiqueElena Fink - sopranoRecorded July 2010Label: Ars Produktion ARS 38 086Download 1fichier uptobox zippyAn English ChristmasCarol Favorites byVaughan Williams, Rutter and BaxPlymouth Festival Chorus & OrchestraBel Canto VoicesPhilip Brunelle - directionLabel: Pro Arte CDD 347Download 1fichier uptobox zippyHenri Carol (1910-1984)Christmas carolsOlivier Vernet - organTamburini organ at St. Charles; Monte-CarloRecorded December 2010Label: Ligia Lidi 0104237-11Download 1fichier uptobox zippyFollow that StarChristmas Ballads from the American songbookand other traditional Christmas carolsVocal ensemble The […]
2022-02-19 16:23:30
Soprano Christiane Karg was born in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria. She studied singing at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Heiner Hopfner and Wolfgang Holzmair, where she was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal. She also studied at the Music Conservatory in Verona. During her studies she made her highly acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival and has been a welcome guest there ever since. She can be heard worldwide with the great roles of her repertoire: in London at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden as Pamina, at the Lyric Opera Chicago and at the Met in New York as Susanna, at La Scala
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