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German composer, opera singer and librettist (1724-1780)
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Maria Antonia Walpurgis of Bavaria)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-28 23:24:03
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony needs no tribute on its 200th birthday, but is being honored with repeat performances everywhere, including several nearby; on May 12th Lexington Symphony will essay it in a matinee. Retired professors are often the only ones who have time to present research findings at conferences; thus a small cohort of Beethoven experts and their friends (even a few graduate students) gathered on Wednesday in Hillel House at Boston University to honor the forthcoming (on May 7th) bicentennial in “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: a 200-year Perspective.” Organized by the founding co-directors of the Boston University Center for Beethoven Research, Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University) and Lewis Lockwood (Harvard), whose Beethoven’s Lives: The Biographical Tradition Boydell & Brewer recently published, the festival heard from six scholars including one visitor from overseas. Beate Angelika Kraus of the Beethoven Archive in Bonn has just prepared and published, based on dozens of different manuscript […]
2024-02-12 07:28:00
Something a little bit special: David Butt Philip & friends gala for St Paul's Opera in Clapham
Rainelle Krause, David Butt Philip, Alison Langer, St Paul's Opera chorus - St Paul's Church (Photo: Craig Fuller Photography)David Butt Philip & Friends Gala; Rainelle Krause, Alison Langer, David Butt Philip, David Stout, Jo Ramadan, George Ireland; St Paul's Opera at St Paul's Church, ClaphamDavid Butt Philip as Florestan, David Stout as Posa, Rainelle Krause as the Queen of the Night, Alison Langer as Mozart's Countess in vivid gala evening for St Paul's Opera in ClaphamTenor David Butt Philip has been singing Apollo in Richard Strauss' Daphne at the Staatsoper in Berlin and in March he will be singing Florestan in a production of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Bavarian State Opera. Opera goers in the UK will have to wait until the Summer, however, when he will be singing Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci at Opera Holland Park. But on Friday 9 February 2023, opera lovers in Clapham got a real treat as […]
2024-01-21 15:43:00
From large-scale Liszt and Wagner to intimate Schumann and Schubert at Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 - Yoav Levanon, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra - Le Piano Symphonique, Lucerne (Photo: Philipp Schmidli)Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2, Wagner, arr. Michael Sanderling: Götterdämmerung Suite, Schumann: Symphonic Etudes, Op 13, Schubert: Allegro in A minor, D947; Yoav Levanon, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Michael Sanderling, Elisabeth Leonskaja, David Fray; Le Piano Symphonique at KKL, LucerneReviewed 18 January 2024From Lisztian bombast to Wagnerian sorcery with the Lucerne orchestra in fine fettle, then the contrast of mesmerising solo Schumann from Elisabeth Leonskaja and ending with pure friendship as she and David Fray duettedThe history of Liszt's piano concertos is somewhat complex. He began sketching ideas for what would become his first piano concerto in 1830, but it did not come to completion until 1849. In the mean time, he began work on what would become his second piano concerto in 1839/40 but did not complete the final revisions […]
2023-12-18 05:30:00
KN's Favorite Recordings of 2023
by Karl NehringIn looking back over the releases that I reviewed during this past year, it strikes me that there were fewer of the symphonic works that I usually enjoy. I’m not sure whether that is the result of fewer symphony recordings being released or my lack of enthusiasm for reviewing yet another recording of Mahler or Bruckner (I dread 2024, Bruckner’s bicentennial year, which will no doubt herald no end of both rereleases and new recordings of his symphonies – of every edition and her sister by all manner of conductors and orchestras). Whatever the reason, my list of favorites strikes me as a bit unusual this year; however, there’s some darn good music to be found in this list of a dozen of my favorite recordings from 2023, which I present to you just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping. Beethoven: The Late Quartets. Calidore String Quartet. Signum Classics SIGCD733. It […]
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