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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
Wagner: Das Rheingold - Staatsoper Berlin, 2022 (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelungen; Tomasz Konieczny, Rolando Villazón, Johannes Martin Kränzle, Robert Watson, Vida Miknevičiūtė, René Pape, Claudia Mahnke, Anja Kampe, Andreas Schager, Stephan Rügamer, dir: Dmitri Tcherniakov; Staatskapelle Berlin, cond: Phillipe Jordan; Staatsopernchor, dir: Dani Juris, Staatsoper Berlin, Germany Reviewed by Tony Cooper, 26 March 2024True to form, Dmitri Tcherniakov drifts miles away from Wagner’s original intentions but, nonetheless, comes up with an interesting and extremely rewarding productionThe current Ring at Staatsoper Berlin came into being in October 2022 directed by Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov due to be conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Sadly, though, Maestro Barenboim, had to pull out of the production because of severe health issues, a great blow to all but so disappointing for Barenboim in his 80th year. All change, please! Therefore, it’s musical chairs at Staatsoper with Maestro Barenboim, who has held […]
2024-01-29 10:42:00
Stanford, Holst and an RVW premiere: the 17th English Music Festival at Dorchester Abbey
Caricature of Stanford by Spy in Vanity Fair, from 1905, three years after the Clarinet ConcertoThe seventeenth English Music Festival returns to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire from Friday 24 May until Monday 27 May 2024. The festival's opening concert features Martin Yates conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme which includes Stanford's Clarinet Concerto with soloist Michael Collins, Doreen Carwithen's Cotswold Suite, Holst's early Cotswold Symphony and the premiere of a new suite from the music RVW wrote for performances of Shakespeare's Richard II in Stratford in 1912-13.Other events during the weekend include violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Peter Cartwright in Holst, Bliss, Howells, Farrar and Stanford's Violin Sonata, tenor Brian Thorsett and pianist Richard Masters in Finzi, Ireland, USA-based English composer Frank E Tours (1877-1963) and Arthur Somervell's Maud, the Godwine Choir in a mixed programme including Howells, Havergal Brian and Holst's Hymns from the Rig Veda, plus concerts from the Flutes and Frets Duo, pianists […]
2024-01-23 09:06:00
Bliss International Song Series 2024: Schumann & Schubert in Pembroke College's newly refurbished chamber hall
Joseph Middleton & Sarah Connolly at Pembroke College's Bliss International Song Series in 2023 (Photo: Sally March)Pembroke College, Cambridge's Bliss International Song Series, artistic director Joseph Middleton, relaunched last year in the college's newly refurbished 200-seater chamber hall (a former United Reformed Church), complete with new Steinway (previously the song series had been in the Old Library). The series is named for composer Sir Arthur Bliss who studied at the college. So far this season, the series has seen recitals by Sir Simon Keenlyside and Dame Sarah Connolly, and a masterclass from Sir Thomas Allen.On Friday 9 February, baritone Konstantin Krimmel and pianist Joseph Middleton perform Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, then on 5 March tenor Christoph Prégardien and Joseph Middleton present A Heine Songbook with settings of Heine's poetry by Schubert and Schumann including Schumann's Dichterliebe.Founded and Directed by Joseph Middleton, Pembroke Bye-Fellow and College Musician, the series offers a year-round programme of concerts devised […]
2023-12-04 10:18:47
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolThe Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s chief conductor’s wife, Sonya Yoncheva, was an exquisite and ideal soloist for Chausson’s song cycle that was the centrepiece of this focused and appealing concertLove, death, and the ocean: Ernest Chausson’s Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer began its 10-year gestation in the wake of the composer’s visit to Bayreuth for the premiere of Wagner’s Parsifal, but it wears its debt to Tristan und Isolde shimmeringly on its sleeve; a French impressionist spin on that dark and stormy cocktail. Programming the two side by side might have run the risk of anticlimax in every sense, but this concert by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic had the opposite effect, a vivid, focused performance – not to mention a starry soloist – ensuring Chausson’s bittersweet song cycle held its own as a centrepiece.The Wagner came first, the undulating Prelude and ecstatic Liebestod embodying all of Tristan’s […]
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