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2024-02-19 09:17:00
In Relations: exploring links from Meyerbeer, to Loewe, to Mendelssohn, to Schumann, to Emilie Mayer and Frances Allitsen.
[…] trope, and Uhland's text would also be set by Fanny Mendelssohn and Brahms. Here Mendelssohn emphasises the young nun's innocence, and the song has great charmsMarianne von Willemer returns again with Schumann's setting of her Liebeslied, with Schumann pulling no punches in a touchingly moving setting that does not eschew complexity. The Schumann group continues with Aufträge, and urgent yet characterful setting of Christian L'Egru.Then two Elisabeth Kuhlmann settings, Viel Glück zur Reise, Schwalben, and Die letzen Blumen starben, both from a set of seven Kuhlmann settings written in the 1850s long after her death. Schumann evidently had something of a touching enthusiasm for Kuhlmann's poetry and the songs were designed to showcase her posthumous talents, evidently. Of the two here, the first is full of charm in a very Schumannesque manner, the second lyrically touching.Emilie Mayer was something of the exception to the rule and had a major career as a […]
2023-04-17 04:00:00
Immortal Beloved: Beethoven Arias (Chen Riess, The Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)Cantata for of Emperor Leopold II, WoO 88 - ''Fliesse, Wonne!'Scene ed aria, No, non turbati, WoO 92aAria, WoO 91 No. 2 - ''Soll ein Schuh nicht drücken''Fidelio Op. 72, Act II - ''O wär' ich schon mit dir vereint''Egmont Op. 84 No. 1 - ''Die Trommel gerühret''Leonore Prohaska, WoO 96 - ''Es blüht eine Blume im Garten'' Scene ed aria, Ah! perfido, Op. 65Richard Egarr, The Academy of Ancient Music(Period Instruments) Onxy 4218 (2020)[Flac & Scans]
2023-02-21 20:47:00
A Valentine's Celebration. Roderick Williams OBE, baritone; Yiheng Yang, piano. February 19, 2023.
Town Hall Auditorium, New York. Balcony Left (Row C, $25.75).ProgramRobert Schumann: Widmung Du bist wie eine Blume Dichterliebe Op. 48Roger Quilter: 7 Elizabethan LyricsClara Schumann: Liebst du um SchonheitFanny Mendelssohn: Nahe des GeliebtenJoseph Lang: AbschiedRobert Schuman: Er, der Herrlichste von altenCaroline Shaw: how do I find youSally Beamish: Nightingale (from 4 Hafez Songs)Cheryl Frances Hoad: The Pros and ConsGerald Finzi: I said to LoveBenjamin Britten: Tell me the Truth about LoveCS told me about this concert. Yiheng was on both the 2/18 and 2/19 concerts offered by Peoples' Symphony Concerts.New York City does offer many different venues for music, and this was my first encounter with Town Hall, located on 43rd Street, a couple of blocks from Bryant Park. The auditorium itself felt a bit dated, but still very functional. (Think Count Basie before recent renovations.)It was a rather ambitious program that - with an intermission - lasted a full two […]
2022-01-03 11:46:42
Anglais - Aloha, love! Hawaii auf der Bühne der Komischen Oper
Since 2013, the artistic and general director of the Komische Oper Berlin, Barrie Kosky, has dedicated the last production of the year to a work by Paul Abraham. This year it is Die Blume von Hawaii or The Flower of Hawaii, which, in 1931, helped the composer to achieve final recognition as a master of the operetta genre. After its world premiere in Leipzig, this jazz operetta began its tour de force, and not only in Germany. Abraham incorporated many musical elements of the new jazz genre, as well as indigenous Hawaiian instruments such as the banjo and Hawaiian guitar, known for its distinctive singing tone. The plot is - how could it be otherwise - about love. And not just about one couple, but three. At the end of the 19th century, Hawaii was still an independent kingdom, although there were already very strong American economic interests, especially in […]
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