Posts Tagged ‘Messiaen’
Saturday, September 23rd, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 23, 2017 BREGENZ — Post is under revision. Photos © Bregenzer Festspiele Related posts: Nitrates In the Canapés Harteros Warms to Tosca Nézet-Séguin: Hit, Miss On Wenlock Edge with MPhil Wagner, Duke of Erl
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Tags: Andrew Foster-Williams, Bregenz, Bregenzer Festspielchor, Bregenzer Festspiele, Es Devlin, Festspielhaus Bregenz, Franck, Georges Bizet, Gérard Korsten, Jordan de Souza, Kasper Holten, Kinderchor der Musik-Mittelschule Bregenz, Lena Belkina, Martin Muehle, Mélissa Petit, Messiaen, Paweł Zalejski, Piotr Szumieł, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Seebühne, Sinfonia concertante, Symphonie-Orchester Vorarlberg, Un sourire, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Symphoniker, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Friday, January 27th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 27, 2017 ZURICH — It was not the most natural of programs. Beethoven’s familiar C-Major Piano Concerto (1795) prepared nobody for Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà … , or Lightning Over the Beyond … , the 65-minute theological ornithological astronomical would-be symphony Messiaen finished in 1991. Wary of the exotic fare ahead, […]
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Tags: Beethoven, CD, Daniil Trifonov, Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà, Ingo Metzmacher, Kairos, Kent Nagano, Lightning Over the Beyond, Messiaen, Review, Tonhalle-Orchester, Vienna Philharmonic, Zurich
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Thursday, November 19th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 19, 2015 MUNICH — Eleven years ago the late Marcello Viotti quit as chief conductor of the Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester because he foresaw existential cuts in its budget. Happily the MRO survived, and today thrives. Tasked with exploring rare repertory, it is artistically the livelier of BR’s two orchestras, forcibly more […]
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Tags: BR Chor, BR Klassik, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Le tombeau resplendissant, Les offrandes oubliées, Lorenzo Viotti, Marcello Viotti, Messiaen, München, Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester, Munich, Poulenc, Review, Sept répons des ténèbres, Simona Brüninghaus, Ulf Schirmer
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Saturday, November 2nd, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 2, 2013 MUNICH — George Benjamin programmed strongly around his own Duet in a welcome conducting engagement Oct. 21 with the Bavarian State Orchestra. Alas, doing so overshadowed the subtle 2008 composition in its local premiere, even with dedicatee Pierre-Laurent Aimard as persuasive soloist. One of only three works published by […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, George Benjamin, Leoš Janáček, Messiaen, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Oiseaux exotiques, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Rapsodie espagnole, Ravel, Review, Sinfonietta
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