Posts Tagged ‘Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra’
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 3, 2013 MUNICH — Mariss Jansons has signed an extension of his contract as Chefdirigent of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and its choral forces, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) announced today here. The added period runs from Sept. 2015 through Aug. 2018. The Riga, Latvia-born conductor, 70, also serves as chief […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, Mariss Jansons, München, Munich, News, Nikolaus Pont, ORF, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Wiener Konzerthaus
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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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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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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 23, 2013 MUNICH — With the city council’s blessing today of Valery Gergiev’s hire as the next Chefdirigent of the Munich Philharmonic, all three of the Bavarian capital’s globally renowned orchestras will be in Soviet-born hands by late 2015. This September, 40-year-old Kirill Petrenko of Omsk, Siberia, finally takes over […]
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Tags: Abendzeitung, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Kirill Petrenko, London Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Valery Gergiev
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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, October 11th, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 11, 2012 MUNICH — Arts groups here present a restrained 2012–13 season facing pros and cons not always aligned with those in America. Funding, for instance, holds steady: city and state (Bavaria) play their part, as do local corporations Siemens, BMW, Audi, Allianz and Linde. Excellent pools of musicians, instrumental […]
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Tags: Alexander Liebreich, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, BR Chor, Brigitte Fassbaender, Christian Thielemann, Commentary, Constantinos Carydis, Cuvilliés Theater, Don Pasquale, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Jenůfa, Kent Nagano, Lorin Maazel, MKO, Münchener Kammerorchester, Münchner Philharmoniker, Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester, Münchner Symphoniker, Munich Philharmonic, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Peter Dijkstra, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Tomáš Hanus, Ulf Schirmer
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