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German composer, organist and music theorist
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2024-03-25 04:00:00
Eine Liederreise: Von Gellert zu Beethoven (Gotthold Schwarz, Michael Schönheit)
Gellert Songs & Odes by:Carl Phiipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)Knut Lambo (1714-1783)Johann Friedrich Doles (1715-1797)Johann Adam Hiller (1728-1804)Johannes Schmidlein (1722-1772)Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817)Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)Gotthold Schwarz, Baritone; Michael Schönheit, Fortepiano(Period Instruments) Carus[Flac & Scans]
2023-07-26 14:27:00
Munich Opera Festival (5) - Tristan und Isolde, 21 July 2023
NationaltheaterTristan – Stuart Skelton King Marke – René Pape Isolde – Anja Kampe Kurwenal – Wolfgang Koch Melot – Sean Michael Plumb Brangäne – Jamie Barton Shepherd – Jonas Hacker Steersman – Christian Rieger Young Sailor – Liam Bonthrone Krzysztof Warlikowski (director) Malgorzata Szczęśniak (designs) Felice Ross (lighting) Kamil Polak (video) Claude Bardouil (choreography) Miron Hakenbeck, Lukas Leipfinger (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Johannes Knecht) Bavarian State Orchestra Lothar Koenigs (conductor)Images: Wilfried HöslTristan (Stuart Skelton) and Isolde (Anja Kampe) Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Tristan, first seen two years ago, marking an end to Nikolaus Bachler’s intendancy, is on first sight at least, a puzzling affair. There are ideas, certainly, though quite how they connect, let alone cohere, lay largely beyond me. They seemed, moreover, to bear precious relation to this most treacherous of works, perhaps the most resistant of all operas—if one may call it an opera at […]
2020-07-11 15:58:00
Pastorals : Beethoven and Knecht
Two pastorals : Beethoven's Symphony no 6 "Pastoral" op 68 and Justin Heinrich Knecht Le Portrait musical de la Nature , with Bernhard Forck conducting the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, part of the ongoing Harmonia Mundi series where Beethoven's music is presented in thoughtful juxtaposition, geared towards listeners already familiar with the basics of Beethoven. This recording examines Beethoven's Symphony no 6 in the context of pastoral traditions in European music, which evolved from the17th century and adapted to the Early Romantic aesthetic. Justin Knecht (1752-1817), a generation older than Beethoven, was an organist and composer who lived all of his life in Baden-Württemberg region. Knecht described Le Portrait musical de la nature as a "Tongemälde der Natur oder Groẞe Symphonie" (a tone painting in the form of a large symphony). In the first Allegretto, Knecht's written description suggests a scene where the sun shines, zephyrs blow, and brooks flow […]
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