Posts Tagged ‘Schumann’
Monday, October 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 16, 2017 GRÜNWALD — In mixing-bowl terms, Berlin’s Armida Quartett and Paris’s Quatuor Modigliani combined rather than blended in a standing-room-only concert Oct. 11 here at the August Everding Saal. That is as required for some recipes, possibly including Mendelssohn’s E-flat String Octet (1825), which received a convulsive, unnuanced performance […]
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Tags: Amaury Coeytaux, Armida Quartett, August Everding Saal, Brahms, CD, François Kieffer, Grünwald, Kritik, Martin Funda, Mendelssohn, Mirare, Modigliani Quartet, Octet, Oktett, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Quatuor Modigliani, Review, Schumann, Teresa Schwamm, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Monday, March 16th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 16, 2015 MUNICH — Ivo Pogorelich wants to continue to play. He has recital programs planned out till 2020. He keeps several concertos in his repertory, the Chopin F-Minor and Prokofiev Third performed here persuasively in recent seasons. He is “pleased,” he writes, about a new box of his old […]
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Tags: Bell’Arte, Brahms, Dante Sonata, Ivo Pogorelich, Liszt, München, Munich, Paganini Variations, Piano, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Schumann, Stravinsky, Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Last week at the Philharmonie featured the debut of the young conductor Joshua Weilerstein with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin alongside a guest appearance of Riccardo Chailly with the Berlin Philharmonic. It was an interesting opportunity to consider the qualities that can make or break a leader at the podium. A rumoured candidate […]
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Tags: Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Diana Tishchenko, Joshua Weilerstein, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Riccardo Chailly, Schumann, Tchaikovsky
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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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Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 24, 2013 MUNICH — Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra venture six times a year to Lake Starnberg, some 20 miles southwest of here, to play chamber music at the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, or EAT, as its website favicon reads. A mid-season program (Feb. 24) paired quintets by Mozart […]
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Tags: Andreas Marschik, Antonio Spiller, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR, Christa Jardine, Commentary, Dwight Eisenhower, Elly Ney, Erich Ludendorff, Evangelische Akademie, Feldafing, Helmut Veihelmann, Lake Starnberg, Leopold Lercher, Lutheran Church, Nazi Germany, Review, Schumann, Silvia Natiello-Spiller, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Thomas Mann, Tutzing, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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