Posts Tagged ‘Lent’
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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Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 22, 2014 MUNICH — Composer first, virtuoso second. That, increasingly, is history’s view of Marcel Dupré, the long-lived, globe-trotting Frenchman whose suite Le Chemin de la Croix received a fluent and technically assured performance on Palm Sunday (April 13) from Munich organist Helene von Rechenberg. The hour-long score follows the […]
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Tags: Helene von Rechenberg, Le Chemin de la Croix, Lent, Marcel Dupré, Michael Radulescu, München, Munich, Palm Sunday, Paul Claudel, Review, Saint-Sulpice, Tutzing, Via Crucis
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 28, 2013 MUNICH — Bayerischer Rundfunk chose to film Bach’s St Matthew Passion last month in the Herkulessaal, in blue light. Drafted for the mood-enhanced venture were Karina Gauvin, Gerhild Romberger, Maximilian Schmitt and Michael Nagy, the vocal quartet; Julian Prégardien and Karl-Magnus Fredriksson as the Evangelist and Jesus; the […]
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Tags: Arte TV, Bach, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, BR Klassik, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Köln, Gerhild Romberger, Herkulessaal, Jan Freiheit, Julian Prégardien, Karina Gauvin, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, Lent, Matthäus-Passion, Maximilian Schmitt, Mayumi Hirasaki, Michael Nagy, München, Munich, Peter Dijkstra, Regensburger Domspatzen, Review, St Matthew Passion
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