Posts Tagged ‘Rachmaninoff’
Wednesday, December 30th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 30, 2015 MUNICH — The first-movement cadenza exploded out of its context in Daniil Trifonov’s novel reading here Dec. 14 of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. This meant, among other compromises, a slight suppression of everything that preceded it, including the 130-measure development. Trifonov understated the folksy first subject and sped […]
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Tags: Alla reminiscenza, Andreas Korn, Daniil Trifonov, Gasteig, Le poème de l’extase, Medtner, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Rachmaninoff, Review, Scriabin, Valery Gergiev
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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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Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 31, 2015 MUNICH — Arts projects in Europe with any visual aspect to them nowadays migrate to DVD whether or not there is a need, partly to justify public subsidy through distribution. Many are operas filmed too often, like Nationaltheater Mannheim’s just-released Der Ring des Nibelungen, which joins DVD tetralogies […]
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Tags: Alessandro Corbelli, Alvis Hermanis, Anne Sofie von Otter, Antifonale Ambrosiano, Antonio Pappano, Archiv, Armonia Atenea, Bartoli, Bejun Mehta, Benoît Jacquot, Berlin Philharmonic, Bernadette Manca di Nissa, B’Rock Orchestra Ghent, CD, Daniel Behle, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Die Soldaten, DVD, Edgardo Rocha, Emmanuelle Haïm, Erato, EuroArts, Frédéric Antoun, Georg Friedrich Händel, George Petrou, Gluck, Hippolyte et Aricie, Ingo Metzmacher, Iphigénie en Aulide, Iphigénie en Tauride, Ivan Alexandre, Javier Camarena, Jean-François Lapointe, John Osborn, Kaufmann, Kolokola, Konstantin Wolff, Kristina Hammarström, Laura Aikin, Laurent Alvaro, Le comte Ory, Le Concert d’Astrée, Libreria Musicale Italiana, Liliana Nikiteanu, Lo frate ’nnamorato, London Symphony Orchestra, Luciana d’Intino, Marc Minkowski, Massenet, Michel Plasson, Mikhail Petrenko, Mireille Delunsch, Moshe Leiser, Muhai Tang, Nicolas Testé, Nuccia Focile, Oliver Widmer, Opéra National de Paris, Opernhaus Zürich, Opus Arte, Orlando, Otello, Patrice Caurier, Pergolesi, Peter Kálmán, Pierre Audi, Rachmaninoff, Rameau, Rebeca Olvera, René Jacobs, Review, Riccardo Muti, Roberto de Simone, Rolando Villazón, Rossini, Simon Rattle, Sophie Karthäuser, Sophie Koch, Stéphane Degout, Sunhae Im, Teatro alla Scala, Ugo Guagliardo, Véronique Gens, Vienna Philharmonic, Warner Classics, Werther, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yann Beuron, Zimmermann
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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, December 13th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 13, 2014 MUNICH — Passive accompanist and intent visionary: Gianandrea Noseda managed to be both Nov. 18 in his debut program with the busy Bavarian State Orchestra. For Dvořák’s Violin Concerto (1879) he indulged David Schultheiß in a lyrical reading that generally took its time, ignoring chances in the outer […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, David Schultheiß, Gianandrea Noseda, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Rachmaninoff, Review
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
by Edna Landau To ask a question, please write Ask Edna. This column was prepared with the assistance of Neale Perl, President of the Washington Performing Arts Society, and Ruth Felt, President of San Francisco Performances. Both are valued longtime colleagues, to whom I am very grateful. Dear Edna: I am a pianist and have […]
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