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2024-03-13 08:05:00
Little short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows
[…] struggle to pinpoint the composer.Bellini's Norma (1831) needs no introduction, but the influence of Bellini's endless melody on Wagner should not be underestimated. Here were hear Pollione and Flavio's scene, 'Meco all’altar di Venere…Me protegge, me difende'. Spyres turns in a wonderfully heroic performance, ably supported by Julien Henric.Marschner's operas remain underestimated today, but Hans Heiling (1833) was one of the works that greatly influenced Wagner, not least the psychological complexity of the anti-hero. Here we hear Konrad's 'Gönne mir ein Wort der Liebe', a remarkably piece that really does seem to both look back to Beethoven and look forward to early Wagner. Spyres brings a lovely expansiveness to the lines, a feeling of breadth to the paragraphs that links both to the French works on the disc and to Wagner's own writings.The disc ends with music from three of Wagner's early operas, the works where these influences can be seen at […]
2023-12-04 14:03:00
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Deutsche Oper, 3 December 2023
Hans Sachs – Johan Reuter Veit Pogner – Albert Pesendorfer Kunz Vogelgesang – Gideon Poppe Konrad Nachtigall – Marek Reichert Sixtus Beckmesser – Philipp Jekal Fritz Kothner – Thomas Lehman Balthasar Zorn – Jörg Schörner Ulrich Eißlinger – Patrick Vogel Augustin Moser – Paul Kaufmann Hermann Ortel – Stephen Bronk Hans Schwarz – Tobias Kehrer Hans Foltz – Byung Gil Kim Walther von Stolzing – Magnus Vigilius David – Ya-Chung Huang Eva – Elena Tsallagova Magdalena – Kathrin Göring Night Watchman – Tobias Kehrer Apprentices – Agata Kornaga, Freya Müller, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Yehui Jeong, Oleksandra Diachenko, Natalie Jurk, Jongwoo Hong, Thoma Jaron-Wutz, Leon Juurlink, Kyoungloul Kim, Sotiris Charalampous, Simon GrindbergJossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito (directors)Torsten Köpf (co-set designer)Charlotte Pistorius (co-costume designer)Olaf Freese (lighting) Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines)Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinUlf Schirmer (conductor)Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, premiere am 12.6.2022 in der Deutschen […]
2023-11-11 05:00:00
JC Bach: Six Quintets Op. 11 (Konrad Hünteler, Camerata des 18. Jahrhunderts)
2023-09-18 07:17:00
Ravishing sounds and superb musicality: Linos Piano Trio in Ravel
In Search of Lost Dance - Ravel: Trio, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Le Tombeau de Couperin; Linos Piano Trio; AVIReviewed 18 September 2023Creating a ravishing sound world from the opening notes, the Linos Piano Trio bring historically informed techniques Ravel's music and make sophisticated magic, transforming our view of this musicThe Linos Piano Trio's In Search of Lost Dance on Avi Music (a co-production with SWR2) pairs Ravel's Trio for violin, cello and piano in A minor with the trio's own arrangements of Pavane pour une infante défunte and Le Tombeau de Couperin. The trio, Prach Boondiskulchok (piano), Konrad Elias-Trostmann (violin) and Vladimir Waltham (cello), play on period instruments, an Érard Concert Grand from 1882, a violin by Peter Greiner (2010), after Guarneri del Gesù from 1743, and a cello from Naples ca. 1880. Both string instruments use gut strings with the top one wound.The use of historically informed performance practice […]
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