Posts Tagged ‘Anne-Sophie Mutter’
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 25, 2015 MUNICH — 2014–15 has been a rough transitional season for the Munich Philharmonic. Lorin Maazel’s sudden resignation a year ago forced its managers into much recasting, and some feeble programs. Then, midseason, came worse news. An irksome pact between Munich’s Bürgermeister Dieter Reiter and Bavaria’s Minister-Präsident Horst Seehofer […]
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Tags: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Brahms, Christian Gerhaher, Dieter Reiter, Gasteig, Horst Seehofer, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jörg Brückner, Konzertsaal München, Mariss Jansons, München, Münchner Konzerthaus, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Neues Odeon, News, Ravel, Review, Semyon Bychkov
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Thursday, September 12th, 2013
by Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. Over the summer months, I had the opportunity to speak with a number of young people who are currently working in artist management, as well as others who have moved on to different areas of the classical music business. Having felt for a long time […]
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Tags: Anne-Sophie Mutter, classical music business, Doug Sheldon, Edna Landau, mentor
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Friday, February 8th, 2013
By Rebecca Schmid The Berlin Philharmonic is celebrating the centenary of Lutosławski with several concerts this month. The first of the series on February 7—featuring his Concert for Orchestra—opened appropriately with Anne-Sophie Mutter, who premiered one of his most important works, Chain Two, in 1988. In an interview I conducted two years ago, the violinist […]
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Tags: Anne-Sophie Mutter, Antonin Dvorak, Berlin Philharmonic, Bohumil Kubista, Carl Flesch, Chain Two, Manfred Honeck, Penderecki, Rebecca Schmid, Rihm, Witold Lutoslawski
Posted in Berlin Times | Comments Off on Berlin’s Lutosławski Tribute kicks off with Dvořák
Friday, October 26th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The programming of the Berlin Philharmonic, while reportedly having gravitated away from the players’ specialty in German repertoire since Sir Simon Rattle took the reins a decade ago, not only gives equal weight to post-Romantic repertoire but consistently illuminates connections between works which seem disparate at first glance. Andris Nelsons conducted the […]
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Tags: Andris Nelsons, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Benjmain Britten, Berlin Philharmonic, Christian Tetzlaff, Claude Debussy, Johann Strauß, John Williams, Jörg Widmann, la mer, La valse, Luciano Berio, Maurice Ravel, peter grimes, Rebecca Schmid, Wolfgang Rihm
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
By Alan Gilbert Those of us who were involved in preparing for last year’s production of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre are remembering the great excitement we all felt in this very same rehearsal room as we prepare for our upcoming performances of Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen, but are also amazed at how different […]
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Tags: Alan Gilbert, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Budapest, Daniel Boico, Doug Fitch, Leipzig, Ligeti, Lisa Batiashvili, Macabre, New York, philharmonic, Sebastian Currier
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