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2020-09-10 20:27:38
A student at the Amsterdam Conservatory, Takehiro Konoe is a former major prize winner at the ARD International Violin Competition. He will receive EUR 2500. 2nd and 3rd prizes were awarded to Momoko Aritomi and Emiko Yuasa. The 2020 jury comprised: Jerzy Kosmala, Gareth Lubbe, Alissa Margulis, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg, and VC Artist Diyang Mei. The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2020-09-04 18:47:07
The 2020 Brahms International Viola Competition finalists are: Momoko Aritomi Takehiro Konoe Emiko Yuasa Open to international violists aged between 14 and 40, the 1st prize winner will receive EUR 2500. The 2020 jury comprises: Jerzy Kosmala, Gareth Lubbe, Alissa Margulis, Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg and VC Artist Diyang Mei. The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2019-11-18 07:43:13
From complex Renaissance harmonies to contemporary improvisation, O/Modernt's exploration of Labyrinths in Wimbledon culminated in a terrific account of Strauss' Metamorphosen
[…] opened up as when we came to 'scattering the proud'. This was a performance which would have made any chapel choir justly proud, but I felt that in concert we could have had even more drama, particularly in the quieter moments.The music continued seamlessly on from the Byrd, merging into Locatelli's brilliant caprice from Hugo Ticciati, full of ridiculous string crossings. Ticciati emphasised the harmonic basis of the music by adding a drone from Gareth Lubbe, who besides being the violist of the group specialises in overtone singing and here used this skill to create an otherworldly sense to the music, though occasionally it was Lubbe's overtones which dominated over Locatelli's decorative harmonic labyrinth.Gesualdo's Io parto e non più dissi (from his sixth book of madrigals published in 1611), is complex and intense with the amazing harmonic shifts creating a real sense of a labyrinth that it is not possible […]
2019-10-07 15:36:00
Tristan und Isolde, Oper Leipzig, 5 October 2019
Leipzig Opera House Tristan (Daniel Kirch) and Isolde (Meagan Miller)Images: Tom Schulze Tristan – Daniel Kirch Isolde – Meagan Miller King Marke – Sebastian Pilgrim Kurwenal – Jukka Rasilainen Melot – Matthias Stier Brangäne – Barbara Koselj Shepherd – Martin Petzold Steersman – Franz Xaver Schlecht Young Sailor – Alvaro Zambrano Enrico Lübbe (director) Torsten Buß (co-director) Étienne Pluss (set designs) Linda Redlin (costumes) fettFilm (video) Olaf Freese (lighting) Nele Winter (dramaturgy) Leipzig Opera Chorus (chorus director: Thomas Eitler-de Lint) Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Ulf Schirmer (conductor) Sailors and Kurwenal (Jukka Rasilainen) Leipzig’s relationship with its greatest son has never been easy, nor should it have been. Wagner, in all his glorious and inglorious contradictions, is too complicated, problematical, and interesting to be reduced to mere hero-worship; or, as Theodor Adorno put it, ‘progress and reaction in […]
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