Posts Tagged ‘Bach’
Friday, May 19th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 19, 2017 RAVENNA — Sometimes a musician just needs a good partner. Cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne work magically together but have a habit of starting their recitals apart, as if to establish credentials. So it was April 11 here at the Teatro Alighieri, home of the Ravenna […]
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Tags: Alban Gerhardt, Associazione Musicale Angelo Mariani, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Cassadó y Moreu, Debussy, Ravenna, Ravenna Musica, Recensione, Review, Steven Osborne, Teatro Alighieri
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Friday, May 27th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 27, 2016 NUREMBERG — Tired of paying for digitized concert-hall privileges? Here is a sumptuously sung, gloriously gratis (for the moment*) St John Passion from this city’s Lutheran Lorenzkirche, filmed in June 2015 as part of a drawn-out Bavarian Broadcasting project to mark “500 Years of the Reformation”: — Windows— […]
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Tags: Anke Vondung, Bach, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, BR Klassik, CD, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Christina Landshamer, Concerto Köln, DVD, Johannes-Passion, Krešimir Stražanac, Lent, Lorenzkirche, Maximilian Schmitt, News, Nuremberg, Nürnberg, Peter Dijkstra, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Tareq Nazmi, Tilman Lichdi
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Sunday, February 8th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 8, 2015 ERL — Conceivably for the first time someone has conducted Wagner’s Ring and Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium, complete, in the same year. Gustav Kuhn, the someone, brought stylistic fluency to both cycles, apparently unfazed and undiminished by the chasm in between. The Bach opened the Tiroler Festspiele’s winter activities in […]
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Tags: Bach, Chorakademie der Tiroler Festspiele, Christmas Oratorio, Erl, Frederik Baldus, Gustav Kuhn, Martin Mitterrutzner, Orchester der Tiroler Festspiele, Review, Svetlana Kotina, Tiroler Festspiele, Weihnachtsoratorium
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 28, 2013 MUNICH — Bayerischer Rundfunk chose to film Bach’s St Matthew Passion last month in the Herkulessaal, in blue light. Drafted for the mood-enhanced venture were Karina Gauvin, Gerhild Romberger, Maximilian Schmitt and Michael Nagy, the vocal quartet; Julian Prégardien and Karl-Magnus Fredriksson as the Evangelist and Jesus; the […]
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Tags: Arte TV, Bach, Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR Chor, BR Klassik, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Concerto Köln, Gerhild Romberger, Herkulessaal, Jan Freiheit, Julian Prégardien, Karina Gauvin, Karl-Magnus Fredriksson, Lent, Matthäus-Passion, Maximilian Schmitt, Mayumi Hirasaki, Michael Nagy, München, Munich, Peter Dijkstra, Regensburger Domspatzen, Review, St Matthew Passion
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
By Alan Gilbert I’ve recently tried my hand at acrylic painting, and just bought a how-to book that stresses the overriding importance of composition — i.e. form and the use of spatial elements — in a successful work of art. By that measure, I can tell you right now that this blog entry will not […]
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Tags: A Concert for New York, Alan Gilbert, Andrea Bocelli, avery fisher hall, Bach, Berg, Christopher Plummer, Deborah Voigt, Frank Peter Zimmermann, John Corigliano, Lyons
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