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Johnson/Vermeulen/Platz/Walser/La Capella Nacional de Catalunya/Le Concert des Nations/Savall(Alia Vox)While there’s drama and joy, this new recording of Beethoven’s choral masterpiece has interest but not enough insights to make it compellingHaving recorded all the symphonies with the period instruments of Le Concert des Nations,
2022-05-12 14:33:05
Christian Gerhaher/Juliane Banse/Philharmonia Zurich/Heinz Holliger(ECM, two CDs)Holliger’s 2018 opera, depicting episodes from the life of Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau, is superbly presented in this live recording, with Gerhaher leading an impressive cast In both his own music and as a conductor, Heinz Holliger has long been fascinated by the connections between creativity and mental health issues, and drawn to exploring the lives and work of composers and other artists whose lives have been affected by both. The poetry of Hölderlin, the writings of Robert Walser, the paintings of Louis Soutter and the music of Robert Schumann have previously all been the starting points for major Holliger scores, and in 2014 he composed a song cycle for the baritone Christian Gerhaher based on fragments of text by the Austrian Romantic poet Nikolaus Lenau (1802-1850), written during the final six years of his life, which were spent in an asylum. That Lenau song […]
2021-08-10 16:42:49
The Beethovenfest Bonn announced that its opening concert will be broadcast live for the public on August 20, 2021. The performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will feature the VOX BONA Kammerchor der Kreuzkirche Bonn, Le Concert des Nations, conductor Jordi Savall, soprano Sara Gouzy, mezzo soprano Laila Salome Fischer and baritone Manuel Walser. Held in Beethoven's birthplace […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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2019-10-10 17:02:51
How Do You Translate The Life Of A Forgotten, Insane Swiss Novelist Into Dance Theater?
Marina Harss: “The material feels both so deeply literary and, at the same time, so utterly deflating. The subject is a solitary man” — Robert Walser — “whose writings tended to track the minutiae of his solitary life, and who died alone in the snow — this hardly sounds like something to dance about. But […]
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