Friday, March 14th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin presented what was announced as a “French evening” on March 12 featuring the German premiere of Dutilleux’s Le temps l’horloge. The RSB has its share of competition between the Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsche-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (another orchestra with broadcast roots), the Staatskapelle and others. But it was a surprise to see […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Baudelaire, Bohuslav Martinu, Claude Debussy, Deutsche Grammophon, Henri Dutilleux, Konzerthaus Berlin, Laura Aikin, Le temps l’horloge, Ludovic Morlot, MusicalAmerica.com, Rebecca Schmid, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on At the Konzerthaus, a German Premiere and a half-empty Hall
Friday, October 26th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The programming of the Berlin Philharmonic, while reportedly having gravitated away from the players’ specialty in German repertoire since Sir Simon Rattle took the reins a decade ago, not only gives equal weight to post-Romantic repertoire but consistently illuminates connections between works which seem disparate at first glance. Andris Nelsons conducted the […]
Read the rest of this article »
Tags: Andris Nelsons, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Benjmain Britten, Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Tetzlaff, Claude Debussy, Johann Strauß, John Williams, Jörg Widmann, la mer, La valse, Luciano Berio, Maurice Ravel, peter grimes, Rebecca Schmid, Wolfgang Rihm
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Rocky Seas, a Waltz and a Violin Concerto