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Austrian conductor, pianist and composer (born 1995)
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2024-03-04 06:00:00
Around five years ago (2003) a young Hilary Hahn made her debut with her new label, Deutsche Grammophon, with exactly these same concertos, and it was no accident that the well-prepared, extraordinarily talented violinist enjoyed a successful result. The same holds true here: this time the label is Decca, and the remarkable violinist is 25-year-old […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-27 22:55:11
[…] These data suggest that not only are classical music audiences often older, but they are also, in large numbers, not returning to the concert hall after Covid. The BSO’s attendance tells a similar story of recovery from Covid; while not providing 2019 data, they have seen a 45% rebound in attendance from 2021 to 2023. Concerts with big-name soloists tend to sell very well, with recent full houses for established stars like Yo-Yo Ma, Hilary Hahn, and Seong-Jin Cho, and emerging performers like Yunchan Lim, who sold out four houses at Symphony Hall this month. The audience is getting younger, lowering to an average age of 50.5—6% below 2019 pre-covid numbers. Orchestras in the U.S. fall into two tiers: “The Big Five” (Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and New York) and everyone else. The “everyone else” orchestras are scrappier, with part-time staff and players who usually teach at nearby colleges and […]
2024-02-13 08:15:00
Pierre Loti's writings inspired Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé and a whole genre of Orientalist operas
Loti (right) with Chrysanthème and Pierre le Cor in Japan, 1885.Pierre Loti has a lot to answer for. Whilst he certainly did not invent Orientalisme, his exotic novels and short stories, inspired by his travels as a French naval office, fed into the Western European fascinating for the perceived exoticism of life in the East, and gave rise to a whole operatic genre. His 1880 book, Le Mariage de Loti (about his romantic liaison with an exotic Tahitian girl), inspired both the 1883 opera Lakmé by Léo Delibes, and an 1898 opera by Reynaldo Hahn, L'île du rêve.His 1887 novel Madame Chrysanthème (about a naval officer temporarily married to a Japanese woman while he was stationed in Nagasaki, Japan) would be one of the inspirations behind André Messager's 1893 opera of the same name, Mascagni's Iris (1898) and Puccini's Madama Butterfly (1904). The fashion for things Japanese, Japonisme, had developed from the mid-1850s with opening up of Japan, […]
2024-01-31 10:23:49
[…] sizeable treasure trove of sonatas for violin and piano by French composers, only four can really be said to have made it into the standard recital canon: one each by Debussy, Fauré (his first), Ravel (his second), and Franck (who was actually Belgian, at least by today’s borders).For our new album, Le Temps retrouvé, we decided to turn the spotlight on some of the undeservedly neglected French gems. There’s the sensuous, dreamy sonata of Reynaldo Hahn, and Fauré’s rarely played second sonata, a powerful piece haunted by shadows of the first world war. But our most immediate and indisputable choice for inclusion on the album, after hearing only the soaring, searching opening bars, was the sole violin sonata by Mel Bonis.
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