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Swiss conductor (1906-1999)
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2024-03-08 11:10:00
Pierre Boulez SaalJonathan Harvey: String Quartet no.1 (1977) Cathy Milliken: In Speak for string quartet (2023, world premiere) Toshio Hosokawa: Oreksis for piano quintet (2023, world premiere) Birtwistle: String Quartet: The Tree of Strings (2007)Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan (violins)Ralf Ehlers (viola)Lucas Fels (cello) Tomoki Kitamura (piano) On 7 March 1974, the Arditti Quartet gave its first concert at the Royal Academy of Music, music to honour Krzysztof Penderecki on bestowal of an honorary degree. Fifty years later to the day and several changes of personnel later – Irvine Arditti the one constant – the Quartet celebrated at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal its fiftieth birthday, followed by a reception hosted by the Paul Sacher Stiftung, which also hosts the ensemble’s archive . True to its spirit, here was a mixture of new and newer: two Arditti commissions, Jonathan Harvey’s First String Quartet (the first ever) and Harrison Birtwistle’s The Tree of Strings […]
2023-10-06 14:13:00
Boris Godunov, Hamburg State Opera, 4 October 2023
Images: Brinkhoff/MögenburgBoris Godunov (Alexander Tsymbalyuk)Boris Godunov – Alexander Tsymbalyuk Andrey Schchelkalov – Alexey Bogdanchikov Nikitch (Police Officer) – Hubert Kowalczyk Mityukha – Julian Arsenault Prince Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky – Matthias Klink Pimen – Vitalij Kowaljow Grigory Otrepiev – Dovlet Nurgeldiyev Hostess of the Inn – Marta Swiderska Varlaam – Ryan Speedo Green Missail – Jürgen Sacher Xenia – Olivia Boen Xenia’s Nurse – Renate Spingler Fyodor – Kady Evanyshyn Boyar – Mateusz Lugowski Holy Fool – Florian PanzieriFrank Castorf (director)Wolfgang Gruber (assistant director)Aleksandar Denić (set designs)Adriana Braga Peretzki (costumes)Rainer Casper (lighting)Andreas Deinert, Severin Renke (video, live camera)Maryvonne Riedelsheimer (live editing)Patric Seibert (dramaturgy) Children’s and Youth Choir of the Hamburg State Opera (director: Luiz de Goday)Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera (director: Eberhard Friedrich)Hamburg Philharmonic State OrchestraKent Nagano (conductor) It is, of course, the opera for our time; arguably, it is for many other times too. Boris Godunov, in whatever incarnation – a […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-08-24 13:25:23
Music Remembers Wartime Trauma
[…] before and after these works’ creations. The memorable accounts of what occurred before and during each work’s premieres constitute some of the most riveting aspects of Time’s Echo. Schoenberg’s query to Boston Symphony conductor Serge Koussevitzky about a premiere of A Survivor from Warsaw went unanswered for some seven months, and thus he had no date for an American performance. The New York Times and Newsweek, finally, in 1948, trumpeted the success of “Schoenberg in Albuquerque,” “…as incongruous as a Sacher torte at a rodeo.” Choristers were rounded up from a local farming community 60 miles away, who included cowboys and ranchers. The premiere went triumphantly, with 1,600 enthusiastic people in the audience. (Later receptions in Germany, France, and the U.S. varied considerably. As Eichler summarizes, Theodor Adorno, the often-quoted German-Jewish philosopher-critic (“After Auschwitz there can be no poetry.”), saw A Survivor from Warsaw as "the great exemplar of postwar memorial music—a score akin to Picasso’s Guernica—because it forced […]
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