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2024-01-11 04:30:00
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (CD Review)
[…] Gürzenich Orchestra, which was founded in 1827, has been associated with the music of Bruckner for more than a century, the liner notes pointing out that “among all chief conductors after the Second World War, Günter Wand is remembered for having featured Bruckner’s symphonies most prominently; he made them the mainstay of the orchestra’s repertoire during the entire course of his long tenure as General Music Director until 1974… Under Wand’s successors Yuri Ahronovitch and Markus Stenz, the symphonies of Anton Bruckner continued to play a key role in Gürzenich Orchestra concert programmes.”The notes go on to point out that in his first concert as Principal Conductor, Roth led the orchestra in Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, and that he and the orchestra will be marking the Bruckner bicentennial by recording the complete set of symphonies, of which the present recording is apparently the first installment. It’s a good start, as this is a […]
2022-07-23 17:27:20
Stenz, Trpčeski light up 20th-century program with Grant Park Orchestra
The Grant Park Orchestra had a particularly fine outing Friday night […]
2022-05-03 17:54:00
Fin de partie, Opéra national de Paris, 30 April 2022
Palais GarnierHamm – Frode Olsen Clov – Leigh Melrose Nell – Hilary Summers Nagg – Leonardo CortelazziPierre Audi (director)Christof Hetzer (designs)Urs Schönebaum (lighting)Klaus Bertisch (dramaturgy)Orchestra of the Opéra national de ParisMarkus Stenz (conductor)Images: Sébastien Mathé/OnP Modernism’s endgame, modernist opera’s endgame, opera’s endgame: all have been proclaimed time and time again. One might say the same for Romanticism, Classicism, sonata, symphony, and other isms and genres. Whatever the truths of the matter—we can no longer justifiably speak in the singular, if ever we could—this first opera by György Kurtág, first heard in Milan in 2018 and now receiving its French premiere, suggests that twilight, however prolonged, has once again proved as productive, as challenging, as illuminating as first dawn or zenith. The owl of Minerva may or may not be spreading its wings; Kurtág may or may not be almost the last modernist standing; opera may or may not be stronger, more varied, […]
2022-03-22 00:00:00
MSO 100 Years Vol.401 - 04 Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 4 in G major * [55'39]05 - 07 Charles Ives - Orchestral Set No. 1 'Three Places in New England' [22'53] Yvonne Kenny- soprano*, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Markus StenzABC Classics 4766339 [recorded around 2007; digital download released 2016][digital download; flacs, cover scan - no booklet]Recording venue: Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, AustraliaRecording engineer: Jim Atkins; Producers: Stephen Snelleman & Peter TaplinNot a coupling that you often see.Download from Mega
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