Posts Tagged ‘Riccardo Chailly’
Friday, March 6th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 6, 2015 MUNICH — Julian Rachlin’s ebullient, craggy, not so lyrical reading of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto held listeners in rapt attention Feb. 17 here at the Gasteig. His tone, rich and glowing, illuminated this view of the essentially blissful score (1878), as did the occasional wabi-sabi rasp or squeal, and […]
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Tags: Gasteig, Gewandhaus, Gewandhaus-Orchester, Julian Rachlin, Leipzig, München, MünchenMusik, Munich, Rachmaninoff, Review, Riccardo Chailly, Tchaikovsky
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Monday, December 1st, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Last week at the Philharmonie featured the debut of the young conductor Joshua Weilerstein with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin alongside a guest appearance of Riccardo Chailly with the Berlin Philharmonic. It was an interesting opportunity to consider the qualities that can make or break a leader at the podium. A rumoured candidate […]
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Tags: Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Diana Tishchenko, Joshua Weilerstein, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Riccardo Chailly, Schumann, Tchaikovsky
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Richard Strauss was a man of many masks, from his intimate piano songs to the demonic outpourings of his stage works and tone poems. Following a semi-staging of his second opera, Feuersnot, in Dresden, where it premiered in 1901, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig came to the Saxon capital on June 9 to stake […]
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Tags: Alter Schlachthof, Cameron Carpenter, Dresden, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, J.S. Bach, leonard bernstein, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Strauss, Semperoper, touring organ
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Sunday, December 22nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 22, 2013 MUNICH — Somewhere between the patent introspection of his new Mompou CD* and the tags of his early Stateside career — “big bravura pianist,” “new Horowitz” — lies an accurate description of Arcadi Volodos. It may simply be this: German Romantic, as in Schumann and Brahms, with impressionist […]
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Tags: Alexei Volodin, Antonio Gaudí, Arcadi Volodos, Bell’Arte, Brahms, CD, Jeunes filles au jardin, Kinderszenen, Mompou, München, Munich, Música callada, Piano, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Review, Riccardo Chailly, Scènes d’enfants, Schubert, Schumann, Sony Classical
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark NOTE: BEGINNING THIS WEEK, I’LL BE POSTING MY BLOG ON THURSDAYS AT NOON RATHER THAN WEDNESDAYS. Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and its current music director, Mariss Jansons, stopped by Carnegie Hall last week (2/13 and 14) for a pair of concerts to celebrate the ensemble’s 125th anniversary. They were a great success, […]
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Tags: Bernard Haitink, Boulez, carnegie hall, Furtwängler, james levine, Leonidas Kavakos, Mariss Jansons, metropolitan opera, musical america, Riccardo Chailly, sedgwick clark, Staatskapelle Berlin, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Friday, January 11th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid Journeys have provided powerful inspiration to writers, painters and composers alike, opening eyes to new ways of seeing the world. The broadening of artists’ palettes has sometimes allowed them to capture a landscape more vividly than the natives could themselves. One only has to think of Dvorak’s New World Symphony, Gauguin’s portraits […]
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Tags: Andreas Ottensamer, Berlin Philharmonic, Berlin Times, bruckner, Daishin Kashimoto, Dvorak, Gauguin, Mendelssohn, musical america, Philharmonie, Rebecca Schmid, Riccardo Chailly, Switzerland
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Hillary Hahn’s taste for the unconventional has in recent years taken her career onto a trajectory unlike that of most violin prodigies. Last October, she appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series improvising to traditional American melodies that inspired the works of Charles Ives, donning a fedora for the occasion. She maintains […]
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Tags: Christina Landshamer, concerti, Deutsche Grammophon, Gerschwin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Hauschka, Hélène Grimaud, Hillary Hahn, Mahler, mozart, NPR, Ravel, Riccardo Chailly, Silfra, Tom Brosseau, Yellow Lounge
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Hillary Hahn and Hauschka join Forces on ‘Silfra’; Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig