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2023-06-10 23:49:00
Leipzig Bach Fest No. 27. Organ Concert. Michael Schonheit, conductor and organ.
Gewandhaus, Great Hall, Leipzig, Germany. Parkette Mitte (Seat 14-1, 17 euros).All the artists came out at the conclusion of the concert.Program"O I wretched man, who will redeem me" by Georg Friedrich Kauffmann (1679-1714)."Arm yourselves, ye heavenly choirs" by Kauffmann."The love of God is poured out" by Kauffmann."Come, Holy Spirit, Lord God" BWV 652 by J. S. Bach (1685-1750).Cantata "Erschallet, ihr Lieder" BWV 172.3 by Bach.Bach Fest has a English version of the website, from which I type the titles in the "Program" section. No idea why the last piece is not translatable by Google Translate. Microsoft translates it as "Do you sing songs?" More along the lines of "Resounding songs."ArtistsCollegium Vocale LeipzigMerseburger HofmusikIsabel Schicketanz - soprano; Britta Schwarz - alto; Tobias Hunger - Tenor I; Christoph Pfaller Tenor II; Tobias Berndt - Bass.Well, it turns out the first ever Leipzig Bach Fest event we attended was not even "Mostly Bach." The […]
2020-04-03 08:08:39
A new recording of Handel's first version of Messiah (Dublin 1742) with a largely German speaking cast
Handel Messiah; Dorothee Mields, Benno Schachtner, Benedikt Kristjansson, Tobias Berndt, Gaechinger Cantorei, Hans-Christoph Rademann; Accentus Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 1 April 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The quirky first, Dublin version of Handel's masterpiece from a German choir with a long history of performing Baroque musicAnyone with a moderately long memory will associate the name of the Gaechinger Cantorey with the conductor Helmut Rilling who directed the choir (then called the Gächinger Kantorei) for several decades and developed an impressive pedigree in Baroque music albeit in a style which was larger scale and less attuned to period practice than is the case nowadays. Founded in 1954 by Rilling, since the 2013 the ensemble has been directed by Hans-Christoph Rademann and the choir was refounded and re-named as a smaller ensemble with a period instrument orchestra, rather more in the contemporary historically informed style. Whilst Bach remains the ensemble's […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-02-17 12:11:00
The best new classical albums: February 2019
[…] and especially its second movement, the famous Arietta – as a last farewell. The set of Bagatelles was composed only months after Beethoven had completed his monumental Ninth Symphony. It became the last work for piano to be published in his lifetime, and together the six brief pieces form a distillate of a lifetime of writing for and playing the piano.Source: naxosdirect.com Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantatas BWV 33, 17, 99Julia Sophie Wagner, sopranoStefan Kahle, altoWolframm Lattke, tenorTobias Berndt, bassSächsisches BarockorchesterThomanerchor LeipzigThomaskantor: Gotthold SchwarzRecorded 2018 at St Thomas Church, LeipzigReleased on January 1, 2019 by Accentus Music"Dealing with the Bach cantatas is a lifelong and wonderful task and challenge. Despite decades of experience with the works, new aspects are being discovered every day", says Gotthold Schwarz, 17th Thomaskantor after Johann Sebastian Bach. The cantatas on this first recording of the Thomanerchor Leipzig under the musical direction of Schwarz, speak about the human certainty of being […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-12-17 07:08:00
Claude Debussy: Poèmes – Stella Doufexis, Daniel Heide (Audio video)
[…] Weimar and soon concentrated singlemindedly on work with singers – attending master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Christa Ludwig – and chamber-music performance.Numerous lieder recitals and chamber concerts in many German cities, in Austria, Switzerland, France, Scotland, Italy, Spain, Greece, the Czech Republic and Iceland are proof of his intensive concert activities.In addition to his regular work with such singers as Stella Doufexis, Ingeborg Danz, Melanie Diener, Britta Schwarz, Roman Trekel, Andrè Schuen and Tobias Berndt he has played lieder recitals with Christoph Pregardien, Simone Kermes, Luca Pisaroni, Johannes Weisser, Ruth Ziesak, Anna Lucia Richter, Norma Nahoun, Sybilla Rubens and Lothar Odinius.He has also played sonata-recitals and chamber music with Tabea Zimmermann, Antje Weithaas, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt, Barbara Buntrock, Pauline Sachse, Benoit Fromanger, Julian Steckel, Isand Enders, Alexander Kniazev and Konstanze von Gutzeit. As an orchestral musician he performed with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Dresden Philhamonic, Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, and […]