Posts Tagged ‘Tchaikovsky’
Saturday, June 11th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 11, 2016 SEESHAUPT — The men from Lódź, Zagań, Poznań and Warszawa who make up the Meccore Quartet bring phenomenal energy to their work. So goes their reputation, and so it was last Thursday (June 9) here in the Alte Post’s Festsaal on the south shore of Lake Starnberg. Energy, […]
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Tags: Alte Post, Beethoven, Haydn, Jarosław Nadrzycki, Karol Marianowski, Kritik, Lake Starnberg, Meccore Quartet, Michał Bryła, Review, Seeshaupt, Tchaikovsky, Wojciech Koprowski
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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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Saturday, February 14th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 14, 2015 MUNICH — After four straight days on the road, the Russian National Orchestra looked decidedly bushed for its Jan. 26 MünchenMusik concert at the Gasteig: not the smartest way to play this demanding city. The all-Tchaikovsky program emerged tired-sounding, also somewhat stale interpretively, despite conductor Mikhail Pletnev’s manifest […]
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Tags: Alice Sara Ott, Gasteig, Mikhail Pletnev, München, MünchenMusik, Munich, Review, Russian National Orchestra, 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, April 1st, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 1, 2014 MUNICH — In every book on time management, there is a chapter about giving your work to someone else. Delegation, they say, is a virtue: an assistant exercises new authority and the delegator accomplishes other tasks, perhaps in other places. Maybe in another country. Or two. Take Valery […]
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Tags: A kékszakállú herceg vára, Alexei Tanovitski, Bassem Akiki, Béla Bartók, Commentary, Gidon Saks, Iolanta, Mariinsky Theater, Mariusz Treliński, Mikolaj Zalasiński, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Nadja Michael, Polish National Opera, Sergei Skorokhodov, St Petersburg, Stravinsky, Tatiana Monogarova, Tchaikovsky, Teatr Wielki, Valery Gergiev, Warsaw
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
By: James Jorden Our old friend Heather Mac Donald is back, ostensibly to mourn the loss of “Petrarchan intimacy with the past“ in the study of the humanities, but, reliably enough, she can’t help taking a swipe at Regietheater while she’s at it. Now, my contact with academia has been scarce and spotty since I […]
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Tags: Big Macs, cell phones, heather mac donald, kinky sex, mozart, nudity, psychopaths, rough and regie, slobs, sluts, snide put-downs of American capitalism, Tchaikovsky, verdi, wagner
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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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Friday, June 22nd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Conducting the Berlin Philharmonic is no small feat for a 37-year-old, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin—returning to the orchestra’s podium for the first time since his 2010 debut—had no intention to the make the event a small affair. The newly minted music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, seen at the Philharmonie on June 16, […]
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Tags: Apollon Musagète, Berio, Berlin Philharmonic, Cathy Berberian, Daphnis et Chloé, Debussy, Diaghilev, Guy Braunstein, Michael Fokine, Nizhinsky, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, philadelphia orchestra, Ravel, Romeo and Juliet, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Walter Seyfarth, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
by Sedgwick Clark Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic are on a European tour for a couple of weeks, and for a change I didn’t roll my eyes in despair when I saw the list of repertoire. His predecessors as music director, Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel, for all their superb work at building […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Beethoven, Berg, Boulez, carnegie hall, Clark, copland, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Juilliard, Kurt Masur, leonard bernstein, Lindberg, Magnus Lindberg, Mahler, Mendelssohn, New York, New York Philharmonic, philadelphia orchestra, Sedgwick, sedgwick clark, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky
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