Posts Tagged ‘Tchaikovsky’
Friday, April 12th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid If tradition means not preserving the ashes but fanning the flames, in the words of Gustav Mahler, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is celebrating its 125th anniversary with one foot firmly planted in the past and the other striding fearlessly into the future. Between a tour of six continents this season, the orchestra [...]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Beyond the Score, Bob Zimmerman, Ernst von Siemens Prize, Gramophone, Janine Jansen, Lang Lang, Mahler, Mariss Jansons, musical america, New World Symphony, Prince Willem-Alexander, Princess Máxima, Prokofiev, Queen Beatrix, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Saint-Saens, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Thomas Hampson, Vienna Philharmonic, wagner, Willem Mengelberg
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Friday, June 22nd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Conducting the Berlin Philharmonic is no small feat for a 37-year-old, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin—returning to the orchestra’s podium for the first time since his 2010 debut—had no intention to the make the event a small affair. The newly minted music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, seen at the Philharmonie on June 16, [...]
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Tags: Apollon Musagète, Berio, Berlin Philharmonic, Cathy Berberian, Daphnis et Chloé, Debussy, Diaghilev, Guy Braunstein, Michael Fokine, Nizhinsky, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, philadelphia orchestra, Ravel, Romeo and Juliet, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Walter Seyfarth, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic are on a European tour for a couple of weeks, and for a change I didn’t roll my eyes in despair when I saw the list of repertoire. His predecessors as music director, Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel, for all their superb work at building [...]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Beethoven, Berg, Boulez, carnegie hall, Clark, copland, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Juilliard, Kurt Masur, leonard bernstein, Lindberg, Magnus Lindberg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, New York, New York Philharmonic, philadelphia orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
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