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2024-01-28 09:14:00
From Classical to Romantic: I chat to Michael Sanderling about the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra & Le Piano Symphonique festival
[…] orchestra's quality. As well as the itinerant performances, they did recordings and as a result the orchestra became more flexible. Paradoxically it became more stable because of the recordings so that when they returned to the Kulturpalast the orchestra was in better form.Michael Sanderling next conducts the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra at KKL on 27 March 2024 in Greetings from Prague, a programme of music by Smetana and Dvorak including Dvorak's Biblical Songs with bass Jan Martiník, full details from the orchestra's website.Planet Hugill at Le Piano Symphonique 2024A winter week focusing on the piano yet hosted by an orchestra: intendant Numa Bischof Ullmann introduces Lucerne's Le Piano Symphonique & looks forward to the 2025 festival - interviewHomage to Liszt: pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on astonishing form in Liszt and Brett Dean - concert reviewLiszt Cycle 2: From large-scale Liszt and Wagner to intimate Schumann and Schubert - concert reviewMade in Switzerland: tenor Daniel Behle and pianist […]
2020-09-15 07:37:46
Orchestral showcase: Simon Rattle conducts Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen on LSO Live
[…] [see the review on The Arts Desk], with Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in 2019, which forms the basis for this new set. Evidently, Sellars' production was rather a gritty urban vision, so perhaps Rattle likes his Vixen rather edgy.LSO Live has now issued Simon Rattle's account of Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony Orchestra, and Lucy Crowe as the Vixen, Gerald Finley as the Forester, Hanno Müller-Brachmann as Harašta, Jan Martiník as Badger and Parson, Peter Hoare as Mosquito, Rooster and Schoolmaster, and Sophia Burgos as the Fox. The performances in 2019 were very much events involving the whole LSO community, so that there was the orchestra, the London Symphony Chorus (over 70 non-professional singers) and 25 children from the LSO Discovery Voices some of whom provided solo voices in the work. The recording was made at two live performances, so we get all […]
2020-03-24 16:07:00
Dvořák Requiem, Jakub Hrůša in memoriam Jiří Bělohlávek
Antonín Dvořák Requiem op.89 (1890) with Jakub Hrůša conducting the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. The Requiem was one of the last concerts Jiří Bělohlávek conducted before his death and had beeen planning to record it as part of his outstanding series for Decca, (much of this reviewed by me - please see links below). Hrůša, a close associate of Bělohlávek, conducted the Czech Philharmonic's memorial to Bělohlávek in September 2017 (Dvořák Stabat Mater). The performance of Dvořák Requiem on this recording was made in Spetember 2017 at the start of the Dvořák Festival in Prague, also in honour of Bělohlávek. Although Bělohlávek himself was only able to record the Dvořák Biblical Songs op 99 (with another Bělohlávek regular, Jan Martinik) this recording is effectively a monument to Bělohlávek, and a worthy successor to the rest of the Decca series. Hrůša's Requiem, capturing the full emotional intensity of that memorial concert in […]
2020-03-08 18:24:00
Carmen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 7 March 2020
Images: Monika RittershausMicaëla (Christiana Karg) and chorus members Carmen – Anita Rachvelishvili Don José – Michael Fabiano Escamillo – Lucio Gallo Dancaïro – Jaka Mihelač Remendado – Ziad Nehme Moralès – Adam Kutny Zuniga – Jan Martiník Micaëla – Christiane Karg Frasquita – Alyona Abramova Mercédès – Serena Sáenz Lillas Pastia – Klaus Christian Schreiber Martin Kušej (director) Herbert Stöger (revival director) Jens Kilian (set designs) Heidi Hackl (costumes) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Children's Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (chorus director: Vincenz Weissenburger) Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright) Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Like stagings of any opera – Elektra almost an exception – Carmens vary, though perhaps not so much as they ought. I have seen a few: from those that do not even to try (Francesca Zambello and her donkey, Aletta Collins for the […]
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