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German violinist, conductor and composer
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2020-05-24 20:41:13
Cancelled! — The Case of the Missing Met Opera Season (Part Two): And Now, Back to Our Unscheduled Program
The new production of Wagner’s ‘Der Fliegende Hollaender’ (‘The Flying Dutch
2018-08-20 04:36:00
Bye-Bye Berlin (CD review)
[…] from Berlin in 1933, Isherwood's optical metaphor evokes one of the most striking and characteristic aesthetic principles that influenced all cultural life in 1920s Berlin, that of 'Neue Sachlichkeit,' or 'New Objectivity.' The movement was considered the essence of modernity, as practised and theorized by many artists." The album Bye-Bye Berlin includes seventeen songs, airs, and lieder from the 1920s Berlin era, composed by such notable persons as Kurt Weill, Paul Hindemith, Hanns Eisler, Friedrich Hollaender, Bertolt Brecht, and others. The French singer-songwriter Marion Rampal (no relation to the Jean-Pierre Rampal) does the vocals, accompanied by the Quatuor Manfred, a quartet made up of Marie Bereau, violin; Luigi Vecchioni, violin; Emmanuel Haratyk, viola; and Christian Wolff, cello; and featuring Raphael Imbert on saxophones and bass clarinet. Ms. Rampal is principally a jazz singer, with a wonderful range, and does up the songs in both German and French. Her accompaniment is […]
2018-08-12 23:00:00
Clemens Krauss: The Collection 1929-1954 [CDs 1 - 28]
[…] be heard in a chain of off-the-air Wagner and Strauss releases to be a musical colourist of genius and a matchless chamber musician-like pacer of ‘live’ opera. Try Act III of his first (and last) Bayreuth Die Walkuere where he matches, essentially without rehearsal, every vocal dramatic turn of Hans Hotter’s Wotan – a role that he himself had taught the singer some years earlier. Or, in a 1940s Munich Hollaender, the terrifying way in which he bleaches all colour out of the string tremolando that prepares the way for the most massive-ever brass statement of the Dutchman’s motif. Or the panoply of colours, Debussyan almost, in the forest around Mime’s cave at curtain rise in Siegfried. Before Krauss’s actual arrival in Bayreuth in 1953 – invited by Wieland Wagner to replace a Hans Knappertsbusch disgruntled by a new age of experimental […]
2018-07-16 06:29:34
The cabaret tradition: Melinda Hughes, Jeremy Limb & friends in Weimar and Back
Weill, Hollaender, Spoliansky, Heyman, Hughes & Limb; Melinda Hughes, Jeremy Limb; Nimbus Alliance Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 June 2018 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) Operatic soprano in satirical cabaret mode, Melinda Hughes explores modern mores and contrasts them with Berlin in the Weimar Republic eraMelinda Hughes is an operatic soprano who has built an alternative career as a cabaret artist. In opera her appearances have included the title role in Verdi's Aida with Dorset Opoera. In cabaret she has mined a strong vein of Weimar Republic songs, including a disc devoted mainly to songs by Mischa Spoliansky, combined with her own material written in collaboration with her regular pianist Jeremy Limb. On this new disc, Weimar and Back from Nimbus Alliance, Melinda Hughes and Jeremy Limb (who also did the arrangements) are joined by Paul Cavaciuti & Jamie Fisher (percussion), Robert Rickenberg (double bass), Martin White (Accordion), […]
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