Posts Tagged ‘Christian Thielemann’
Sunday, September 24th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 24, 2017 MUNICH — He had to abandon his Munich Philharmonic cycle, a cosmic Fifth being one of its relics, but Christian Thielemann’s Dresden cycle* of the numbered Bruckner symphonies has progressed smoothly to near completion, and with video. Oddly parts of it have been filmed here at the Gasteig […]
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Tags: Anton Bruckner, Bell’Arte, Bruch, C Major, Christian Thielemann, Dresden Staatskapelle, DVD, Gasteig, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich Philharmonic, Nikolaj Znaider, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Stiftsbasilika St Florian, Valery Gergiev
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Thursday, July 6th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 6, 2017 MUNICH — Under the incongruous stewardship of Valery Gergiev, the Munich Philharmonic intends to stress its Bruckner credentials the next three Septembers with filmed visits to the Stiftsbasilika St Florian. There, where the composer worked and rests, just south of Linz, the MPhil will record for DVD his […]
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Tags: Anton Bruckner, Christian Thielemann, Ferdinand Löwe, Hermann Levi, Kaim-Orchester, Linz, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich Philharmonic, News, Sergiu Celibidache, Stiftsbasilika St Florian, Valery Gergiev
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Friday, August 19th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 19, 2016 BAYREUTH — Clouds over Europe’s festivals this summer are as figurative as they are literal. The trouble is not lower standards or Regietheater, or even money, but has to do with Europe itself and macabre shifts that are gradually threatening the way of life accepted since 1945. Last […]
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Tags: Bayreuth, Bayreuther Festspiele, BR Klassik, Bühnenweihfestspiel, Christian Thielemann, Claudia Mahnke, Deutsche Grammophon, DVD, Elena Pankratova, Georg Zeppenfeld, Gerd Grochowski, Hartmut Haenchen, Iain Paterson, Klaus Florian Vogt, Kritik, Petra Lang, Review, Ryan McKinny, Stephen Gould, Tristan und Isolde, Uwe Eric Laufenberg
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2015
By: Frank Cadenhead The Austrian newspaper, Der Kurier, let drop a great deal of information about what to expect in the future for the Bayreuth Festival. The new Ring in 2020, to the surprise of many, will not be conducted by the new Music Director of the festival, Christian Thielemann, but rather the Boston Symphony’s […]
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Tags: Alvis Hermanis, Andreas Schager, Andris Nelsons, anna netrebko, barrie kosky, bayreuth festival, Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann, Christine Goerke, Dimitri Tcherniakov, Frank Castorf, Grace Bumbry, Kirill Petrenko, Klaus Florian Vogt, Michael Volle, richard wagner, Roberto Alagna, Simon Rattle, Tobias Kratzer, Uwe Eric Laufenberg, Wieland Wagner
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Friday, May 1st, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Republished: May 4, 2015 MUNICH — Word around town has it that Christian Thielemann holds the biggest committed block of votes heading into next Monday’s Berlin Philharmonic election. The rest, so the scuttlebutt goes, divide widely, in part reflecting the musicians’ open-nomination process. That this Chefdirigent transition is much discussed up here […]
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Tags: Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Mariss Jansons, Simon Rattle, Vladimir Jurowski
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Thursday, June 12th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 12, 2014 MUNICH — Lorin Maazel, 84, has quit the post of Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic, according to a statement this morning by this city’s Kulturreferat, the government entity responsible for the orchestra. Reasons of health were cited. The news follows several weeks of concert cancellations by the American […]
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Tags: Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Valery Gergiev
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 9, 2014 MUNICH — Not a week goes by here now without media mention of Valery Gergiev. The musical friend of Vladimir Putin and, more to the point, high-profile employee-to-be of the City of Munich inspires comment even in modest suburban newspapers. Many want his alarmingly long contract (2015–20) shredded. […]
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Tags: Astana Opera, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Green Party, Hans-Georg Küppers, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariinsky Theater, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Paul Müller, Pink List, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Putin
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Sunday, October 6th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 6, 2013 MUNICH — The 1909 candy-box essays by Schönberg and Webern, Fünf Orchesterstücke and Sechs Stücke, can pass by gratuitously in uncommitted hands. Not so yesterday (Oct. 5) in a Munich Philharmonic program pairing them with Beethoven concertos. Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen, calm and assured, drew incisive, expressive […]
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Tags: Beethoven, Christian Thielemann, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Fünf Orchesterstücke, Gasteig, Leif Ove Andsnes, Lorin Maazel, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Review, Schönberg, Sechs Stücke, Webern
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Sunday, February 17th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 17, 2013 MUNICH — There is a genteel inscrutability about Herbert Blomstedt. Authoritative, tall and silver-haired, he has never cut the profile of a star. But the gaze is probing. Musicians play well for him perhaps out of a sense of being acutely monitored. Two years ago Bayerischer Rundfunk hired […]
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Tags: Anton Bruckner, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Christian Thielemann, Henrik Wiese, Herbert Blomstedt, Lorin Maazel, München, Munich, Nielsen, Review, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Friday, February 1st, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 1, 2013 MUNICH — In a statement issued today here, Lorin Maazel shed light on the brevity of his tenure as Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic: “I congratulate Valery Gergiev on his appointment as principal conductor … starting the 2015–16 season. I am honored to have been serving as the […]
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Tags: Christian Thielemann, Lorin Maazel, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Valery Gergiev
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