Posts Tagged ‘Bayerischer Rundfunk’
Friday, January 12th, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 12, 2018 MUNICH — Against the medical odds, perhaps, Mariss Jansons turns seventy-five on Sunday, still adored by his favorite orchestra. Bavarian Broadcasting marks the occasion with a 44-minute video portrait, Im Zeichen der Musik, or In the Music’s Character, freely watchable. Last evening here at the Gasteig, a subscription […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Beethoven, BR, BR Chor, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Gasteig, Genia Kühmeier, Gerhild Romberger, Howard Arman, Hummel, Kritik, Luca Pisaroni, Mariss Jansons, Martin Angerer, Maximilian Schmitt, München, Munich, Review, Stravinsky, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphony in Three Movements
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Monday, October 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 16, 2017 MUNICH — Sony has released a remarkable recording of Brahms’s Magelone-Romanzen, Op. 33, complete with Zwischentexte prepared by German author Martin Walser. Christian Gerhaher sings the fifteen songs and recites two of the other three poems (the 1st, 16th and 17th) from Ludwig Tieck’s 1797 narrative not set […]
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Tags: Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Klassik, Brahms, CD, Christian Gerhaher, Commentary, Die schöne Magelone, Gerold Huber, Kritik, Magelone-Romanzen, Martin Walser, Review, Sony Classical, Tieck
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 17, 2016 MUNICH — Bayerischer Rundfunk confirmed on Thursday it will video-stream the premiere of Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s new staging of Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival. — when: 9:57 a.m. EDT on July 25, 2016 — where: www.br-klassik.de/concert Laufenberg is reportedly intent on exploring the religious aspect of Wagner’s 1881 […]
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Tags: Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bayreuth, Bayreuther Festspiele, BR Klassik, Bühnenweihfestspiel, Elena Pankratova, Georg Zeppenfeld, Gerd Grochowski, Hartmut Haenchen, Klaus Florian Vogt, News, Ryan McKinny, Uwe Eric Laufenberg
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Friday, May 27th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 27, 2016 NUREMBERG — Tired of paying for digitized concert-hall privileges? Here is a sumptuously sung, gloriously gratis (for the moment*) St John Passion from this city’s Lutheran Lorenzkirche, filmed in June 2015 as part of a drawn-out Bavarian Broadcasting project to mark “500 Years of the Reformation”: — Windows— […]
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Tags: Anke Vondung, Bach, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, BR Klassik, CD, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Christina Landshamer, Concerto Köln, DVD, Johannes-Passion, Krešimir Stražanac, Lent, Lorenzkirche, Maximilian Schmitt, News, Nuremberg, Nürnberg, Peter Dijkstra, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Tareq Nazmi, Tilman Lichdi
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Friday, March 18th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 18, 2016 MUNICH — It would be a novelty to hear Le vin herbé the way composer Frank Martin conceived it. The 1940 secular chamber oratorio reportedly soars when realized in concert by twelve French-singing voices, double string trio, double bass and piano — its lean forces yet complex harmony […]
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Tags: Andreas Burkhart, Barbara Fleckenstein, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, BR Klassik, CD, Frank Martin, Howard Arman, Johanna Winkel, Johannes-Passion, Le vin herbé, Marcel Reijans, München, Munich, Peter Dijkstra, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Tareq Nazmi
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Friday, April 17th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 17, 2015 MUNICH — Although no news release hailed its arrival, a revamped website was launched today for the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. It is faster, navigationally flatter, and better geared to mobile platforms than the old pages, criticized here. To enable the advance, domains have been set up liberating […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, BR Klassik, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Commentary, Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Monday, February 10th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 10, 2014 MUNICH — Creative exhaustion appears to have arrived for a whimsical, multi-year promotional campaign here. Its subject: the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Its budget and goals: inscrutable. The thing would never have seen the light of day in the U.S., if only for legal reasons, and its existence […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Klassik, Brahms, Bureau Mirko Borsche, Commentary, Herbert Blomstedt, Mariss Jansons, München, Munich, Nikolaus Pont, Peter Meisel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Saturday, November 2nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 2, 2013 MUNICH — Can music be sincere and ironic at the same time? Ask Peter Dijkstra, the artistic leader of the BR Chor who last weekend (Oct. 26) led Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle as billed. Solemnly. The result sounded not much like Rossini. Nobody smiled, and the musicians looked […]
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Tags: Andreas Groethuysen, Anke Vondung, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Eric Cutler, Giuseppe Verdi, Max Hanft, Michael Volle, München, Munich, Pater noster, Peter Dijkstra, Petite messe solennelle, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Regula Mühlemann, Review, Rossini, Yaara Tal
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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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