Posts Tagged ‘Prokofiev’
Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 30, 2016 MUNICH — As fluent as Valery Gergiev is in Prokofiev, he had precious little to say with a cycle of the symphonies here this month. Fluency meant wise tempos, a feel for the boldness in the scores’ structures, a facility in cuing the two orchestras on duty. It […]
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Tags: Alexandra Conunova, Debussy, Gasteig, Mariinsky Orchestra, Medici TV, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Prokofiev, Review, Valery Gergiev, Vilde Frang, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yu-Chien Tseng
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 22, 2015 MUNICH — At five o’clock last Sunday afternoon, Munich time, three Mariinsky Orchestras began to play. Two of them launched into Pikovaya dama and Die Zauberflöte at the Mariinsky complex in St Petersburg. The third, here at the Gasteig, opened the accompaniment to a witty Shchedrin vocalise. Such […]
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Tags: Alexei Volodin, Aufforderung zum Tanz, Behzod Abduraimov, Commentary, Denis Matsuev, Gasteig, Hartmann, Haydn, Herbert Schuch, Jörg Widmann, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariinsky Theater, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Naughty Limericks, Olli Mustonen, Pelageya Kurennaya, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Reger, Review, Shchedrin, Valery Gergiev, Vier Tondichtungen nach Böcklin, Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Thursday, March 27th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 27, 2014 MUNICH — In eight days in May 2004, as a kind of audition for the post of principal conductor, Valery Gergiev drove the London Symphony Orchestra brilliantly, if roughly, through recorded concerts of all of Prokofiev’s symphonies. Acclaim ensued, he got the job, and two years later the […]
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Tags: Alexander Timchenko, Andrius Zlabys, Dmitri Levkovich, Gasteig, Ilya Bannik, Irina Vasilieva, Le roi des étoiles, Les noces, London Symphony Orchestra, L’oiseau de feu, Marina Radiushina, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Olga Savova, Philips, Prokofiev, Review, Sergei Babayan, Stravinsky, Symphonies d’instruments à vent, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Putin
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The Deutsche Oper’s Tischlerei, a new wing for alternative music theater, hosted the results of Neue Szenen—a competition for composition launched by the Hans Eisler Conservatory—on April 8. Three young composers, Evan Gardner, Stefan Johannes Hanke and Leah Muir, emerged from a pool of 52 applicants with their musical settings of a […]
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Tags: Andrew Watts, Anna Politkowskaja, Annelie Sophie Müller, Baldur Brönimann, barrie kosky, Carsten Sabrowski, Chechnya, Chris Meritt, Christoph Nußbaumeder, Claudio Otelli, Czechoslovakia, Deutsche Oper, Echo Ensemble, Eir Inderhaug, Evan Gardner, Georg Bochow, Hans Eisler Conservatory, Julia Giebel, Katharina Thomas, komische oper, Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti, Manuel Nawri, Michael Höppner, MusicalAmerica.com, Neue Szenen, Peter Corrigan, Prokofiev, Rebecca Schmid, Robert Carsen, Sarah Palin, Stefan Johannes Hanke, Tamara Heimbrock, Tansel Akzeybek, Zoe Kissa
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Friday, April 12th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid If tradition means not preserving the ashes but fanning the flames, in the words of Gustav Mahler, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is celebrating its 125th anniversary with one foot firmly planted in the past and the other striding fearlessly into the future. Between a tour of six continents this season, the orchestra […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Beyond the Score, Bob Zimmerman, Ernst von Siemens Prize, Gramophone, Janine Jansen, Lang Lang, Mahler, Mariss Jansons, musical america, New World Symphony, Prince Willem-Alexander, Princess Máxima, Prokofiev, Queen Beatrix, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Saint-Saens, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Thomas Hampson, Vienna Philharmonic, wagner, Willem Mengelberg
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