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Recent Releases, No. 17 (CD reviews)
By Karl W. NehringSongs of Solitude: Hiyoli Togawa, viola. Toshio Hosokawa: Sakura/Solitude; Bach: Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010 – Sarabande; Johanna Doderer: Shadows; José Serebrier: Nostalgia; Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 – Sarabande; Tigran Mansurian: Ode an die Stille; Michiru Oshima: Silence; Bach: Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009 - Sarabande; Kalevi Aho: Am Horizont; John Powell: Perfect Time for a Spring Cleaning; Bach: Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 – Sarabande; Cristina Spinei: Keep Moving; Rhian Samuel: Salve Nos; Bach: Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 – Sarabande; Gabriel Prokofiev: Five Impressions of Self-Isolation (Calling Out/Wine for One/Only Birds in the Sky/How Many Weeks...?/Back to the English Garden); Bach: Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012 – Sarabande; Federico Gardella: Consolation. BIS 2533 SACD.This gorgeous production is generously filled along […]
2019-10-01 07:43:02
Yuval Sharon’s brand-new production of Die Zauberflöte at Staatsoper Berlin marks the first new production of this beloved opera by Mozart at this lovingly-restored baroque theatre on Unter den Linden in a quarter of a century following August Everding’s storybook production which, by the way, is still retained in the company’s repertoire.
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Serena Sáenz Molinero (Pamina) und Tuuli Takala (Königin der Nacht)Staatsoper Berlin (Photo Monika Rittershaus) Mozart Die Zauberflöte; Grigory Shkarupa, Julian Prégardien, Serena Sáenz, Florian Teichtmeister, Nicola Proksch, Staatskapelle Berlin, cond. Alondra de la Parra; Staatsoper Berlin Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 5 July 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Sharon’s fascinating and entertaining production includes marionette theatre and flying singers which takes the audience on a seemingly-magical trip to the dark and forbidding world of Sarastro’s mystical kingdom Mozart: Die Zauberflöte - Julian Prégardien (Tamino), Adriane Queiroz, Cristina Damian, Anja Schlosser Staatsoper Berlin (Photo Monika Rittershaus) Our roving correspondent Tony Cooper experiences a new production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at Staatsoper Berlin (27 September 2019) directed by Yuval Sharon with Grigory Shkarupa, Julian Prégardien, Serena Sáenz, Florian Teichtmeister and Nicola Proksch, conducted by Alondra de la Parra. Yuval Sharon is doing […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-05-18 20:07:40
CMSLC’s Garden Party at Gardner
>Jason Vieaux (file photo) The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s offbeat program on Sunday afternoon was the perfect vehicle for a swanky garden party of the imagination. There were dances by way of de Falla, tangoing Albeniz, galante Bocchherini, blues from Ravel, Paganini’s virtuosoisms for 18 strings, and a Kernis medley, “100 Greatest Dance Hits.” Guitarist Jason Vieux brightened the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s still controversial Calderwood. His sunniness, his spring-sweet fragility, his sparkling and placatory outshoots in Boccherini’s galante Quintet No. 4 in D Major, G448 was reason enough for “leaving” the Calderwood for a garden. The Escher String Quartet of Barnett-Hart, Boyd, LaPointe, and Johansen was another. That Pastorale, the first movement of the Quintet, appeared perfect, too, not so much because of the composer, but because of the string players and Vieux in such genuine tuning with each other. Yes, the cellist faltered a few […]
2014-08-08 07:00:06
Classical music education: WYSO’s Youth Orchestra will perform a FREE concert of music by Antonin Dvorak, Peter Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Manuel DeFalla and more from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday night at Old Sauk Trails Park, thanks to the Gialamas Company.
By Jacob Stockinger All reports say that the 10-day tour to Argentina, completed just last weekend, was a rousing success for both members of the Youth Orchestra (below) of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (WYSO) and for their many South American hosts and audiences. Here is a link to the live real-time blog with the complete set of postings done for the tour: www.wysotour2014.blogspot.com But why take someone else’s word for it? You can hear the musicians for yourself in some of the same music that the young performers played in several different locations in Argentina. They will once again perform, under the baton of UW-Madison School of Music conductor James Smith, on this coming Wednesday night from 7 to 9 p.m. in Old Sauk Trails Park on Madison’s far west side at 1200 John Q. Hammons Drive.. The event actually starts at 5 p.m. […]