Posts Tagged ‘Ravel’
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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Sunday, January 4th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 4, 2015 BAMBERG — When the Bamberger Symphoniker replaces its Chefdirigent next year, it could do worse than hiring Constantinos Carydis. The intense but discreet Athenian secured creative and technically superb playing in a Nordic and Impressionist program Nov. 29 here at the Joseph-Keilberth-Saal, confirming skills he has shown in […]
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Tags: Bamberg, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Commentary, Constantinos Carydis, Daniela Koch, Daphnis et Chloé, Debussy, Jonathan Nott, Joseph Keilberth, Nielsen, Pan og Syrinx, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Ravel, Review, Sibelius, Tapiola
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 31, 2014 MUNICH — Lëtzebuerg Stad, a.k.a. Luxembourg-Ville, population 100,000, holds a spiffier position these days in the musical firmament. Its orchestra has graduated from the legendary but somewhat seedy aegis of Radio Luxembourg — once a commercial thorn in the national broadcasting sides of France and Britain — and […]
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Tags: An American in Paris, Beethoven, Gasteig, Gershwin, Hilary Hahn, Joshua Weilerstein, Luxembourg, Ma mère l’Oye, München, MünchenMusik, Munich, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Ravel, Review
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Thursday, January 9th, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 9, 2014 MUNICH — Sullen, virile, often disembodied voices speak bluntly in Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge (1909). They are lost and living British Empire soldiers. Their plights, in six Housman texts, shape the 22-minute song cycle and its mildly chromatic “atmospheric effects,” resulting in music of stimulating directness — […]
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Tags: Britten, Cinq mélodies populaires grecques, Ivor Bolton, Jewish Museum, Julia Rebekka Adler, Julian Shevlin, Künstlerhaus, Lenbachplatz, Mark Padmore, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, On Wenlock Edge, Paul Rivinius, Ravel, Review, Simon Fordham, Sissy Schmidhuber, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Winter Words
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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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Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 16, 2013 MUNICH — Some festivals strive to be on your radar twelve months of the year, with unending publicity. Others revel in a few days. Take the annual Brahms Days in tranquil Tutzing, south of here on Lake Starnberg. Its scale is intimate, its setting gemütlich. Its focus — […]
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Tags: Beethoven, Brahms, Brahms Days, Brahmstage, Evangelische Akademie, Florian Uhlig, Haydn Variations, Joachim Raff, Lake Starnberg, Lena Neudauer, Ravel, Review, Schloß Tutzing, Tutzing
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Friday, June 22nd, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Conducting the Berlin Philharmonic is no small feat for a 37-year-old, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin—returning to the orchestra’s podium for the first time since his 2010 debut—had no intention to the make the event a small affair. The newly minted music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, seen at the Philharmonie on June 16, […]
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Tags: Apollon Musagète, Berio, Berlin Philharmonic, Cathy Berberian, Daphnis et Chloé, Debussy, Diaghilev, Guy Braunstein, Michael Fokine, Nizhinsky, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, philadelphia orchestra, Ravel, Romeo and Juliet, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Walter Seyfarth, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid The theme of this year’s Dresdener Musikfestspiele, “Herz Europas” (the Heart of Europe), inventively returns the East German city to its roots as a thriving cultural hub. While today’s united Germany is roiled by the end of the ‘Merkozy’ era and Eurobond controversy, the emphasis of the festival (May 15-June 3) on […]
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Tags: Academy of Ancient Music, Allen Boxer, Alte Gemälde Galerie, Anja Zügner, Baltic Youth Orchestra, Bartok, Britten, bruckner, Canaletto, Christian Thielemann, Cimarosa, Concentus Musicus Wien, Daniel Liebeskind, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dresden, Dresdener Musikfestspiele, Dresdner Kapellsolisten, Gläsener Manufaktur, Großer Garten, Helmut Branny, Herald Tribune, Honegger, Ian Bostridge, Il Giardino Armonico, Ilhun Jung, Jan Vogler, Kristian Järvi, Marinsky Orchestra, Matthias Henneberg, MDR Symphony Orchestra, mozart, Music Critics Association of North America, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Princess Amalie, Raphael, Ravel, Rossini, Staatskapelle Dresden, Steven Devine, Strauss, Tehila Nini Goldstein, Valery Gergiev, Volkswagon
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Hillary Hahn’s taste for the unconventional has in recent years taken her career onto a trajectory unlike that of most violin prodigies. Last October, she appeared on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series improvising to traditional American melodies that inspired the works of Charles Ives, donning a fedora for the occasion. She maintains […]
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Tags: Christina Landshamer, concerti, Deutsche Grammophon, Gerschwin, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Hauschka, Hélène Grimaud, Hillary Hahn, Mahler, mozart, NPR, Ravel, Riccardo Chailly, Silfra, Tom Brosseau, Yellow Lounge
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Monday, May 7th, 2012
Have you ever wondered what it would take to partner a female ballet dancer? The May 6 matinee at New York City Ballet was an excellent primer for any one considering that question. In each of the four works from the All (Jerome) Robbins program, at the former New York State Theater, the male lead rarely left the side of his female partner.
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Tags: Andantino, Fokine, Frederic Chopin, George Balanchine, In G Major, In the Night, Jerome Robbins, Jock Soto, Maria Kowroski, Massine, Nancy McDill, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater, Petipa, Ravel, Robert Fairchild, Sebastian Marcovici, Sterling Hyltin, The Cage, Tyler Angle, Water Flowing Together
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