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2021-03-19 13:48:05
Getting to know him properly: Skylla und Charybdis, a disc devoted to the chamber music of cellist and composer Graham Waterhouse
[…] Katharina Sellheim (piano), David Fruhwirth and Namiko Fuse (violin), Konstantin Sellheim (viola), Graham Waterhouse (cello). Waterhouse studied composition at Cambridge with Hugh Wood and Robin Holloway, and cello at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen and with Siegfried Palm. As a performer he has played with Ensemble Modern under Pierre Boulez, MusikFabrik NRW, Philharmonia Orchestra London and Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra under Sergiu Celibidache, and since 2002 he has organized regular chamber concerts at the Gasteig in Munich. In 2011 his string quartet Chinese Whispers was awarded the BCMS Composition Prize of the Birmingham Chamber Music Society. The disc begins with Rhapsodie Macabre, a five-movement work from 2012 for piano and string quartet which Waterhouse refers to as a dialogue piano concerto rather than a piano quintet. The work plunges straight in with plenty of vivid drama. The instrumental writing is quite traditional in feel, yet with some wonderfully […]
2021-03-08 10:02:17
Live-streamed from the Gasteig and Herkulessaal, Munich Rattle gave a glimpse of what may come when he takes the helm in Munich, with these two striking concerts, although Adámek’s new Where Are You disappointed It was confirmed in January that Simon Rattle is to succeed the late Mariss Jansons as chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He will not take up his post until the beginning of the 2023-24 season, but this month Rattle is making his first appearances in Munich since his appointment was announced. He began with two concerts on the same day that were live-streamed as part of Bavarian Radio’s Musica Viva series, one of the longest established new-music events in Europe. In the first programme Messiaen’s monumental Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum, perhaps sounding more confined, less overwhelmingly apocalyptic, as streamed from the Gasteig concert hall than it can in a more cavernous acoustic, was paired […]
2020-09-29 17:08:36
Recorded on September 25th, 2020 at the Philharmonie im Gasteig, in Munich. JANINE JANSEN | MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO IN E MINOR | VALERY GERGIEV & THE MUNICH PHILHARMONIC | 2020 The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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