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Machaut & Dufay - Motets [3CDS]
Guillaume de Machault (1300-1377)Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474)MotetsDavid Cordier, Paul Gerhard Adam, Kai Wessel - altusWilfried Jochens, Gerd Türk, Knut Schoch - tenorEnsemble Helga WeberRecorded in 1990/91Label: IHW 3.108/I-IIIDownload 1fichier pixel workuploadN.B. The original release came with a 180-page bookletDetails: http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/rnr108.htmSome relevant scans includedCourtesy of Thomas Cadfael
2022-05-19 06:49:56
Classical music meets video art
[…] studied applied theatre studies in Gießen and now works as a freelance video artist. In 2020, he was appointed artist-in-residence at the Münchner Kammerspiele. His first collaboration with Georges Delnon and Kent Nagano at Staatsoper Hamburg was Pierrot Lunaire / La Voix Humaine in 2020. Jonas Englert is a German-born video artist. His works form part of the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Ivo Wessel Collection as well as private collections. Furthermore, he has created a host of works for the theatre at such prestigious German theatres as the National Theater Mannheim, State Theater Dresden, Hannover State Theater, Theater Bonn and the Berliner Ensemble. Herr Englert is represented by Gallery Anita Beckers and lives in Frankfurt (Main). Zbig Rybczynski and Dorota Zglobicka are award-winning filmmakers. Zbig Rybczynski has won numerous prestigious awards including an Oscar, Emmy, three MTV […]
2021-04-05 13:54:25
Karajan Part I, 2021
[…] Karajan it was his membership in the Nazi Party. It appears that Karajan joined the Party twice, first, in April of 1933 while in Salzburg, and then two years later when he was living in Aahen. April 1933 was just months after Nazis came to power in Germany – joining the Nazi Party then was early and damning. Moreover, it has been said that during the Nazi period he always opened his concerts with the "Horst-Wessel-Lied," Nazi’s unofficial anthem. We should contrast this with Wilhelm Furtwängler, the leading conductor of the time. Here’s from Wikipedia: “Furtwängler never joined the Nazi Party. He refused to give the Nazi salute, to conduct the Horst-Wessel-Lied, or to sign his letters with "Heil Hitler", even those he wrote to Hitler.” He also refused to participate in many propaganda activities. Moreover, Furtwängler had helped many of his Jewish musicians to escape prosecution. Nevertheless, because Furtwängler […]
2020-07-10 13:35:22
Incidental music to The Ruins of Athens: prime Beethoven linked to a forgetten play
[…] the day, and Beethoven approached him with the idea of writing an opera on the subject of Attila, though nothing came of this. Kotzebue's play The Ruins of Athens is not a subject that lends itself to revival, and though the play was revived in Vienna in 1822 (in revised form), it has not held its place in the repertoire and most of Beethoven's incidental music has largely disappeared. For this new version, Kai Wessel has taken elements of Kotzebue's play and combined it with extracts from Schiller's poem The Beginning of a New Century, keeping the character of Athena awakening, making it a monologue. So we have Wessel's poetic German text spoken by Sidonie von Krosigk, with vocal soloists Valda Wilson (as a Greek woman), and Simon Bailey (as a Greek man and the High Priest), the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno and Cappella Aquileia, conducted by […]
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