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Mark Albrecht conducts Lise Lindstrom, John Daszak, Katarina Dalayman, Nicholas Brownlee, and Joel Prieto in a live opening night broadcast from Rome
2024-03-03 12:13:00
BPO/Thielemann - Bruckner, 29 February 2024
[…] all. Schumann was more in evidence in the second movement, ‘Andante molto’, though again without edging too close to resemblance. The lack of memorable material was a problem for me, likewise anything approaching the essential simplicity that is the key to so many slow movements, but those who simply like the ‘sound’ will have enjoyed themselves. Thielemann certainly had it flow nicely, permitting plenty of space for detail. Another lovely solo, this time for oboe (Albrecht Meyer) offered contrast. The more turbulent passages received outstanding playing that never fell into exaggeration. Slightly stronger pre-echoes of mature Bruckner characterised the scherzo, albeit with stronger flavours not only of Mendelssohn but also Schubert. The finale struck me as, by some distance, the weakest. ‘Influences’, particularly those of Schubert and Schumann, were stronger; so was a tendency towards aimless meandering. It is doubtless not without interest for those especially interested in Bruckner; that […]
2024-02-02 16:03:00
Written on Skin, Deutsche Oper, 1 February 2024
Images: WRITTEN ON SKIN, Regie: Katie Mitchell, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Premiere: 27. Januar 2024, copyright: Bernd UhligProtector – Mark Stone Agnès – Georgia Jarman First Angel, The Boy – Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Second Angel, Marie – Anna Werle Third Angel, John – Chance Jonas-O’Toole Angel archivists – Leander Gaul, Yasmina Giebeler, Milli Keil, Maximilian ReisingerDirector – Katie MitchellRevival director – Dan AylingDesigns – Vicki MortimerLighting – Jon ClarkDramaturgy – Sebastian Hanusa Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Marc Albrecht (conductor) More than a decade has passed since I first saw George Benjamin’s second opera, Written on Skin, at Covent Garden. The premiere, both of the work and Katie Mitchell’s well-travelled production, took place at Aix in 2012. Now it reaches, for the first time, Berlin in a further revival of Mitchell’s staging for the Deutsche Oper. It is my fourth hearing, since I attended both the Royal Opera’s 2017 revival and, the year […]
2023-12-21 12:00:00
Gerald Fenech is inspired by Eberhard Klotz's organ transcription of Bruckner's Symphony No 8. '... with every new release Albrecht's playing becomes more inspired and imaginatively alive.'
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