Posts Tagged ‘Schubert’
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 10, 2016 MUNICH — As if to unify its program of late Beethoven and Schubert last week (May 4) at the Court Church of All Saints, the Arcanto Quartet stressed gloom wherever possible. Playing of intensity and integrity supported this approach, and, to be sure, the Heiliger Dankegesang String Quartet, […]
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Tags: Allerheiligen Hofkirche, Antje Weithaas, Arcanto Quartet, Beethoven, Bell’Arte, Court Church of All Saints, Daniel Sepec, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Maximilian Hornung, München, Munich, Review, Schubert, Tabea Zimmermann
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Thursday, January 14th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 14, 2016 MUNICH — Framed by an andante Kyrie and a beguiling instrumental Communion marked grave, Cherubini’s 1825 Coronation Mass for Charles X is one handsome piece of music. No, its movements are not exactly symphonic. They sound bonded to the flow of the service, so much so that unset […]
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Tags: Andreas Schablas, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BR Chor, BR Klassik, Cherubini, Herkulessaal, München, Munich, Review, Riccardo Muti, RMM, Schubert, Stellario Fagone, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Sunday, April 26th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 26, 2015 MUNICH — He will always be attached to Rossini, but Michele Mariotti, 36, can probe and illuminate a vast repertory besides. This much was evident March 23 in a refreshing return engagement with the Münchner Symphoniker. The Pesaro-born maestro’s podium technique and constructive manner recall another Rossinian, the […]
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Tags: Guillaume Tell, Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Mendelssohn, Michele Mariotti, München, Münchner Symphoniker, Munich, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Ray Chen, Review, Rossini, Schubert, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Friday, October 31st, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 31, 2014 SALZBURG — Alexander Pereira is now gone from the main festival here, and two tenuous summers are in the offing before Markus Hinterhäuser replaces him as Intendant in 2017. His exit, under a cloud, ends a budget tempest but threatens reversals of worthy initiatives he took: lengthening the […]
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Tags: Academy of St Martin In the Fields, Alexander Pereira, Bartoli, Beethoven, Brahms, Commentary, Damiano Michieletto, Ensemble Matheus, Enzo Capuano, Felsenreitschule, Fierrabras, Gluck, Haus für Mozart, Haydn, Helga Rabl-Stadler, Ingo Metzmacher, Ivor Bolton, Javier Camarena, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Julia Kleiter, La Cenerentola, Markus Hinterhäuser, Mendelssohn, Michail Lifits, Mozarteum, Mozarteumorchester, Murray Perahia, Nicola Alaimo, Peter Stein, Review, Richard Strauss, Rolando Villazón, Rossini, Salzburg, Salzburg Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Schubert, Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Tomo Keller, Ugo Guagliardo, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vilde Frang, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Friday, January 31st, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 31, 2014 MUNICH — The 11-year-old Arcanto Quartet, heard here last Friday (Jan. 24), is everything a chamber group shouldn’t be for promotional purposes. There are no family ties. Their instruments don’t match. They share no doctrine about period practice. They don’t grind out whole cycles of anyone’s music. Not […]
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Tags: Allerheiligen Hofkirche, Antje Weithaas, Arcanto Quartet, Beethoven, Bell’Arte, Camerata Bern, Court Church of All Saints, Daniel Sepec, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Harmonia Mundi, IRCAM, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Jörg Widmann, München, Munich, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Review, Schubert, Tabea Zimmermann
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Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 22, 2013 MUNICH — Somewhere between the patent introspection of his new Mompou CD* and the tags of his early Stateside career — “big bravura pianist,” “new Horowitz” — lies an accurate description of Arcadi Volodos. It may simply be this: German Romantic, as in Schumann and Brahms, with impressionist […]
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Tags: Alexei Volodin, Antonio Gaudí, Arcadi Volodos, Bell’Arte, Brahms, CD, Jeunes filles au jardin, Kinderszenen, Mompou, München, Munich, Música callada, Piano, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Riccardo Chailly, Scènes d’enfants, Schubert, Schumann, Sony Classical
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Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 9, 2013 MUNICH — With the brightness of his voice working against him at every turn, Pavol Breslik blazed and sweated his way through Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin last Friday (July 5) here at the Prinz-Regenten-Theater. By the end, drowned in Wilhelm Müller’s creek, he had somehow won over the […]
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Tags: Amir Katz, Die schöne Müllerin, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Pavol Breslik, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Schubert, Wilhelm Müller
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 8, 2013 RAVENNA — Sacred music has lent gravitas to Riccardo Muti’s career since the 1960s. Settings of the Ordinary and the burial service by Bach, Mozart, Cherubini, Schubert, Berlioz, Brahms and Verdi have drawn his attention and received, more often than not, a disciplined performance. No, this is not […]
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Tags: Alisa Kolosova, Arturo Toscanini, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BR Chor, Cherubini, Claudio Abbado, Commentary, Giuseppe Verdi, Herbert von Karajan, Michele Pertusi, München, Munich, Orchestra Cherubini, Ravenna, Recensione, Review, Riccardo Muti, Rome Opera, Ruth Ziesak, Saimir Pirgu, Schubert, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
by Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. This column was prepared with the assistance of Neale Perl, President of the Washington Performing Arts Society, and Ruth Felt, President of San Francisco Performances. Both are valued longtime colleagues, to whom I am very grateful. Dear Edna: I am a pianist and have […]
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Tags: Alkan, Armstrong, Benabdallah, Benabdeljalil, career, carnegie, Clementi, concerto, conservatory, edna, Fantaisie, fantasy, Fugue, Gabetta, Impromptus, Kreeger, Landau, Liszt, Mendelssohn, musicalamerica, performer, presenter, programming, Rachmaninoff, repertoire, Schmidt, Schubert, Servais, solo, Sonata, Sorgen, Variations, Weill, Zankel
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