Posts Tagged ‘Jörg Widmann’
Sunday, November 22nd, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 22, 2015 MUNICH — At five o’clock last Sunday afternoon, Munich time, three Mariinsky Orchestras began to play. Two of them launched into Pikovaya dama and Die Zauberflöte at the Mariinsky complex in St Petersburg. The third, here at the Gasteig, opened the accompaniment to a witty Shchedrin vocalise. Such […]
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Tags: Alexei Volodin, Aufforderung zum Tanz, Behzod Abduraimov, Commentary, Denis Matsuev, Gasteig, Hartmann, Haydn, Herbert Schuch, Jörg Widmann, Mariinsky Orchestra, Mariinsky Theater, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Naughty Limericks, Olli Mustonen, Pelageya Kurennaya, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Reger, Review, Shchedrin, Valery Gergiev, Vier Tondichtungen nach Böcklin, Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Friday, January 31st, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 31, 2014 MUNICH — The 11-year-old Arcanto Quartet, heard here last Friday (Jan. 24), is everything a chamber group shouldn’t be for promotional purposes. There are no family ties. Their instruments don’t match. They share no doctrine about period practice. They don’t grind out whole cycles of anyone’s music. Not […]
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Tags: Allerheiligen Hofkirche, Antje Weithaas, Arcanto Quartet, Beethoven, Bell’Arte, Camerata Bern, Court Church of All Saints, Daniel Sepec, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Harmonia Mundi, IRCAM, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Jörg Widmann, München, Munich, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Review, Schubert, Tabea Zimmermann
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Friday, January 24th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid Duos—both literal and metaphoric—are the official theme for this year’s Ultraschall Festival for New Music, taking place in Berlin until Jan.31. The event, hosted by the city’s two main classical radio stations, Kulturradio rbb and Deutschlandradio Kultur, is better known for its wide range of offerings than its tight programming. But the […]
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Tags: Andreas Göbel, Elliott Carter, Heinz Holliger, Holger Groschopp, Jörg Widmann, Klaus Huber, Rebecca Schmid, Ruth Killius, Thomas Zehetmair, Ultraschall Festival, Wolfgang Lischke
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 23, 2012 MUNICH — Scorpion-Man prowls the rubble of an unnamed flattened city at the start of Babylon, Jörg Widmann’s new opera, wailing as he moves. We should care. Seven scenes, a Hanging Garden interlude, and three costly theater hours later, he is back, doing his thing over the same […]
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Tags: András Schiff, Anna Prohaska, Arcanto Quartet, Babylon, Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian-Babylonian March, Bayerische Staatsoper, Carlus Padrissa, Claron McFadden, Commentary, David Schultheiß, Gabriele Schnaut, Jörg Widmann, Jussi Myllys, Kai Wessel, Kent Nagano, München, Munich, Peter Sloterdijk, Review, Rihm, Willard White
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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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