Posts Tagged ‘Sibelius’
Sunday, January 4th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 4, 2015 BAMBERG — When the Bamberger Symphoniker replaces its Chefdirigent next year, it could do worse than hiring Constantinos Carydis. The intense but discreet Athenian secured creative and technically superb playing in a Nordic and Impressionist program Nov. 29 here at the Joseph-Keilberth-Saal, confirming skills he has shown in […]
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Tags: Bamberg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Commentary, Constantinos Carydis, Daniela Koch, Daphnis et Chloé, Debussy, Jonathan Nott, Joseph Keilberth, Nielsen, Pan og Syrinx, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Ravel, Review, Sibelius, Tapiola
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Friday, May 31st, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 31, 2013 MUNICH — Young Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen waved his arms heartily this week for Kullervo, leading the Munich Philharmonic at the Gasteig concert hall. It wasn’t enough. Sibelius’s impassioned sequence of tone poems (1892) demands wily control of dynamics and balances, and an intermittent spotlight on half-hidden themes. […]
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Tags: Gasteig, Jukka Rasilainen, Kullervo, Monica Groop, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Philharmonischer Chor München, Pietari Inkinen, Review, Sibelius, Ylioppilaskunnan Laulajat
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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark It’s a most improbable New York story: Broadway salutes a theater critic, of all things, by dimming its lights during prime box-office time prior to curtain. How often has that happened? No one would have been more astonished to receive this honor than its recipient, Howard Kissel, theater critic of the New […]
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Tags: Beethoven, carnegie hall, Christine Brewer, Clark, David Merrick, Eric Owens, Howard Kissel, Jeremy Geffen, John Oliver, lincoln center, Maazel, Michelle DeYoung, musical america, New York, philharmonic, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Sibelius, Tanglewood, Woody Allen, Zankel
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Many years ago I was sitting next to the p.r. director of the Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall when a cellphone went off as Simon Rattle conducted. When the piece ended I asked him if that happened in Berlin. “Everywhere,” he said sadly. I left for vacation two days after the cellphone brouhaha at the New […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Berlin, carnegie, Carter Brey, Clark, Herbert von Karajan, Kurt Masur, Mahler, New York, Newark, orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Sibelius, Simon Rattle, Sir Thomas Beecham, symphony, Tony Tommasini, Valery Gergiev
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
by Sedgwick Clark Last weekend I attended the opening concerts of the Bard Music Festival. This year’s subject is “Sibelius and His World.” There were the usual fascinating works being heard for the first time in perhaps a century (and possibly never again) and some thought-provoking panel discussions as befitting the academic environs. Musically, Sibelius’s early […]
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Tags: Bard, bard music festival, Colin, colin davis, Davis, fourth symphony, leon botstein, Leon BotsteinÂ, sedgwick clark, Sibelius, symphony no 1, third symphony, Vaughan Williams
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