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2022-02-15 00:00:00
01. - 03. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major, K.452 [24'37]04. - 05. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Adagio and Rondeau in C major, K.617 [11'21]06. - 08. Ludwig van Beethoven - Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat major, op.16 * [23'24]Stephen Hough- piano, Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet [Michael Hasel- flute, Andreas Wittmann- oboe, Walter Seyfarth- clarinet, · Fergus McWilliam- horn, Henning Trog- bassoon]BIS CD1552 [recorded February 2000 and December 2004*; digital download released 2007][digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]Recording venues: Teldec Studios and Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie* BerlinRecording engineer: Siegbert Ernst; Producer: Robert SuffDownload from Mega.
2020-03-05 10:00:00
[…] 3 into work for piano quartet. A guide to Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' 4) Hummel rewrote Symphony No. 4 for flute, violin, cello and piano. A guide to Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 5) Wagner lent a domestic air to the Symphony No. 9 with his arrangement for piano, soloists and choir. A guide to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 6) Try the String Quartets in Robert Wittmann’s piano duet version. 7) Conductor and pianist Mikhail Pletnev crafted the Violin Concerto for clarinet. Six of the best string quartets about life and death 8) Uri Caine’s version of the Diabelli Variations for jazz piano and orchestra is quirky and fun. Five of the best recordings of Beethoven's piano sonata cycles 9) Four of the Six Waltzes were rescored for two guitars by Alexandre Heeser. […]
2019-05-03 06:20:05
Youthful Verdi revealed: a lithe and impulsive I Lombardi from Heidenheim
[…] and a lither more, intimate sound. It is a movement which takes these operas on their own terms, rather than back-projecting middle-to-late Verdi onto the early works. This is the third of Heidenheim's early Verdi series on Coviello Classics, Marcus Bosch conducts the Cappella Aquileia and Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno, with Leon de la Guardia as Arvino, Pavel Kudinov as Pagano, Anna Werle as Viclinda, Ania Jeruc as Giselda, Daniel Dropulja as Pirro, Christoph Wittmann as the Prior of Milan, Andrew Nolen as Acciano, Marian Talaba as Oronte, and Kate Allen as Sofia.The dramaturgy of I Lombardi is unsatisfactory because Verdi and his librettist Temistocle Solera seem to have been concerned to keep the story highly compressed. The result is an opera which has under two hours of music despite a story which moves across time and distance. In fact, Verdi would return to the themes of I Lombardi […]
2018-07-22 13:47:24
A family in crisis and a study in dementia: radical new version of Verdi's Nabucco from Heidenheim
[…] in the ruins of the Rittersaal in the castle, on Saturday 21 July 2018 rain forced the production to transfer to the theatre at the nearby congress centre. Productions are designed to fit into both locations and tickets are dual numbered! Marijn Simons conducted the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra and the Czech Philharmonic Choir Brno with Antonio Yang as Nabucco, Ira Bertman as Abigaille, Katerina Hebelkova as Fenena, Adrian Dumitru as Ismaele, Randall Jakobsh as Zaccaria, Christoph Wittmann as Abdallo, Eva Bauchmuller as Anna and Andrew Nolen as the High Priest of Baal. Helen Malkowsky directed, with set designs were by Harald B Thor with costumes by Cornelia Kraske and lighting by Hartmut Litzinger. For Malkowsky, Nabucco is about a family in crisis, set in the context of an Orthodox Jewish community under siege from a foreign invader. Costumes were roughly contemporary and Thor's set included three screens at the rear […]
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