Posts Tagged ‘Herkulessaal’
Friday, October 27th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 27, 2017 MUNICH — Though it will be built on the wrong side of the wrong train station, Munich’s much-debated, much-delayed new concert hall crept toward reality today with the announcement of a winning design. Bregenz-based Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten secured first place in the competition for the venue, now dubbed […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Commentary, Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten, Dieter Reiter, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Horst Seehofer, Konzertsaal München, München, Münchner Konzerthaus, Munich, Neues Odeon, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Saturday, July 29th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 29, 2017 MUNICH — Not every week does the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra devote a whole program to music written since 2000. Guest conductor Matthias Pintscher’s concert July 7 in the Herkulessaal proved an exception. It began spatially, extravagantly, with his own fantasy With Lilies White (2002); progressed to a […]
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Tags: Anna-Maria Palii, Augsburger Domsingknaben, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, György Kurtág, Herkulessaal, Jonathan Harvey, Kritik, Mark Andre, Matthias Pintscher, München, Munich, Petite musique solennelle, Review, Sarah Aristidou, Sheva Tehoval, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Vinzenz Löffel, whence … whither, With Lilies White, woher … wohin
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Thursday, March 9th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 9, 2017 MUNICH — Making a taut and impassioned case for Mahler’s Tenth Symphony (1910) here at the Herkulessaal Feb. 17, Yannick Nézet-Séguin still rather confirmed Leonard Bernstein’s dictum that the composer “had said it all in the Ninth.” Mahler’s inspiration sustained itself, as tidily executed by the Symphonie-Orchester des […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berg, Dem Andenken eines Engels, Herkulessaal, Mahler, München, Munich, Review, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Veronika Eberle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 3, 2016 MUNICH — Visiting orchestras cost more for concertgoers. But why exactly? Several factors govern ticket prices on tours, often mitigating each other, and all have a bearing this month as three orchestras from this city hit the road: — Bavarian State Orchestra (BStO) with Kirill Petrenko, general music […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Berlin, Bonn, Commentary, Daniel Harding, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Kirill Petrenko, KKL, Lucerne, Luxembourg, Luzern, Milan, München, MünchenMusik, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Musikfest Berlin, National Theater, NBS, Paris, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Teatro alla Scala, Valery Gergiev
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Thursday, January 14th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 14, 2016 MUNICH — Framed by an andante Kyrie and a beguiling instrumental Communion marked grave, Cherubini’s 1825 Coronation Mass for Charles X is one handsome piece of music. No, its movements are not exactly symphonic. They sound bonded to the flow of the service, so much so that unset […]
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Tags: Andreas Schablas, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BR Chor, BR Klassik, Cherubini, Herkulessaal, München, Munich, Review, Riccardo Muti, RMM, Schubert, Stellario Fagone, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Friday, June 26th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 26, 2015 MUNICH — It would probably be asking too much for Yannick Nézet-Séguin to stand still while conducting. He likes to throw himself around, as if anything less might diminish the enthusiasm he intends to convey or deprive his musicians of essential signals. Mostly it works. He is after […]
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Tags: A German Requiem, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BR Chor, Brahms, Christiane Karg, Ein deutsches Requiem, Haydn, Herkulessaal, Matthias Goerne, München, Munich, Review, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Trauersinfonie, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Sunday, January 25th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 25, 2015 MUNICH — Although it brings together skilled players, the Münchner Symphoniker has operated as something of a fifth wheel in the musical scene here. That may be about to change. Kevin John Edusei, the orchestra’s new Bielefeld-born chief conductor, 38, revealed impressive capacities as musician and personality in […]
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Tags: Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Attilio Glaser, Elias, Elijah, Herkulessaal, Kammerchor München, Kevin John Edusei, Mendelssohn, München, Münchner Symphoniker, Munich, Review, Sophia Brommer, Ursula Thurmaier
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Thursday, December 11th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 11, 2014 MUNICH — Could leaders here finally be moving ahead with a sorely needed new concert hall? Plans and sketches released this morning indicate progress on what has been an excruciatingly slow drive to supplement, or really supplant, the small Herkulessaal and hideous Gasteig venues. As presented by chief […]
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Tags: Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Konzertsaal München, München, Münchner Konzerthaus, Munich, Neues Odeon, News
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Sunday, November 30th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 30, 2014 MUNICH — Along with the whole U.S., this city was on Krystian Zimerman’s “avoid” list. His Bavaria visits would take in Augsburg, Nuremberg, Regensburg, any place but the capital, following a harsh review of a performance he gave a dozen or more years ago. Somehow Munich’s musical life […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Brahms, Herkulessaal, Krystian Zimerman, Mariss Jansons, München, Munich, Review, Shostakovich, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Monday, November 24th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 24, 2014 MUNICH — It took him 39 years, but Maurizio Pollini has now completed his recorded survey of Beethoven sonatas here in the Herkulessaal, where the project began. The final sessions, for the Opp. 31 and 49 pieces, were held in June this year, and the resulting CD set […]
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Tags: Beethoven, CD, Deutsche Grammophon, Herkulessaal, Maurizio Pollini, München, Munich, News, Piano
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