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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
[…] voice he's boss of ESCHE and, to coin a Tom Wolfe phrase, he's Master of the Universe firmly in control as befitting his godly status. He thirsts for knowledge and power by garnering scientific data (his 'gold' so to speak!) through an elaborate and detailed assortment of experiments surrounding the human condition (mind-boggling!) and its behavioural patterns which resurrected in my thinking the human medical experiments carried out on selected prisoners of the Third Reich. The mighty Rhine is miles away in this production and when one first come across those adorable Rhinemaidens (Woglinde: Evelin Novak; Wellgunde: Natalia Skrycha; Floßhilde: Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein) they're reimagined by Tcherniakov as white-coated lab assistants working as part of the ESCHE research team in the stress lab. Nonetheless, they still get up to their old tricks in teasing Alberich - the role so admirably sung and, indeed, so well-acted by Johannes Martin Kränzle […]
2024-03-12 08:35:00
Lovely Music: Louth CMS annual June celebration features operas by Robert Ashley, Stockhausen’s Stimmung, Linda Catlin Smith & more
[…] Dirt Road by Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith, performed by violinist Larissa O’Grady and the percussionist Caitríona Frost. Catlin Smith describes the work thus, "I imagined the two instruments as two travellers, moving along a simple landscape, with all of its slight or grand changes."Hamza El Din (1929-2006) was Egyptian oud player and composer who moved to California in the early sixties and had a powerful effect on U.S. musicians from the Grateful Dead to Steve Reich. His Escalay (The Waterwheel) will be performed by three exponents of Irish traditional music, Dónal Lunny, Zoë Conway and Inni-k.The festival ends with a very different approach to music for six voices, as New Vocal Soloists of Stuttgart perform Karlheinz Stockhausen’s exuberant 1968 work Stimmung.Full details from Louth Contemporary Music Society's website.
2024-02-18 13:49:41
Royal Festival Hall, LondonBryce Dessner’s ebullient concerto, equal parts rock and Reich, was dazzlingly performed by Alice Sara Ott and the Philharmonia, while Francisco Coll’s glinting, flamenco-tinged piece had its world premiere with the LPO and Javier PerianesNowadays orchestras rely much less than they once did on the tried and trusted concert formula of overture-concerto-symphony. But the Philharmonia’s programme with conductor
2024-02-12 07:56:00
Magnum Opus: Britten Sinfonia's composer development scheme showcases work from 2023 composers David John Roche, Daniel Soley and Crystalla Serghiou
[…] influences to produce immersive works characterized by gradual processes of gestural repetition and timbral experimentation. An orchestra of exceptional quality and vision, the Britten Sinfonia could well be described as a different kind of orchestra, too, as its not defined by the traditional figurehead of a principal conductor but by the dynamic and democratic meeting of the orchestra’s outstanding team of gifted and individual players as well as a broad range of collaborators ranging from Steve Reich, Thomas Adès and Alison Balsom to Pagrav Dance Company, Father John Misty and Anoushka Shankar. Deeply rooted in the East of England, the Britten Sinfonia is the only professional orchestra working throughout the vast region of East Anglia while it also enjoys a national and international reputation as one of today’s finest ensembles. Renowned for its adventurous programming and stunningly high-quality performances and equally for its record of commissioning new music, the Britten Sinfonia quietly […]
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