Posts Tagged ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’
Monday, October 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 16, 2017 GRÜNWALD — In mixing-bowl terms, Berlin’s Armida Quartett and Paris’s Quatuor Modigliani combined rather than blended in a standing-room-only concert Oct. 11 here at the August Everding Saal. That is as required for some recipes, possibly including Mendelssohn’s E-flat String Octet (1825), which received a convulsive, unnuanced performance […]
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Tags: Amaury Coeytaux, Armida Quartett, August Everding Saal, Brahms, CD, François Kieffer, Grünwald, Kritik, Martin Funda, Mendelssohn, Mirare, Modigliani Quartet, Octet, Oktett, Peter-Philipp Staemmler, Quatuor Modigliani, Review, Schumann, Teresa Schwamm, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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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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Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 30, 2017 SALZBURG — Qualitative upticks at the main festival here have heralded Markus Hinterhäuser’s installment as Intendant after a shaky two-summer void. The priority, it appears, is music itself over theater or opera, as might be expected from a boss who is also a professional pianist. Hinterhäuser is retaining […]
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Tags: Aida, Christina Gansch, Daniela Barcellona, Dmitry Belosselsky, Felsenreitschule, Francesco Meli, Giuseppe Verdi, Golda Schultz, Großes Festspielhaus, Jeanine de Bique, Kritik, La clemenza di Tito, Luca Salsi, Marianne Crebassa, MusicAeterna, Netrebko, Perm, Review, Riccardo Muti, Roberto Tagliavini, Russell Thomas, Salzburg, Salzburg Festival, Salzburger Festspiele, Sellars, Shirin Neshat, Teodor Currentzis, Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Willard White, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Sunday, April 30th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 30, 2017 FERRARA — Lanky Teodor Currentzis looms over his MusicAeterna players the way Basil Fawlty loomed over Manuel, and with comparable gestures. It is anyone’s guess how their 13-year relationship has survived, what with labor conditions in Russia, the quirks of period-instrument practice, their joint move from Novosibirsk (in […]
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Tags: Alexander Melnikov, Associazione Ferrara Musica, Beethoven, Ferrara, MusicAeterna, News, Perm, Recensione, Review, Südwest-Rundfunk, SWR, SWR Symphonie-Orchester, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Teodor Currentzis, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Friday, February 24th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 24, 2017 SALZBURG — The gimmicky proposition of Mozart’s Requiem enhanced with equine ballet dominated this year’s Mozartwoche schedule, and no doubt budget. It capped, in a way, five iterations of the festival lavishly managed by Marc Minkowski and his front-office counterpart Matthias Schulz, and it brought in for the […]
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Tags: Académie Équestre Nationale du Domaine de Versailles, András Schiff, Ave verum corpus, Bartabas, Beethoven, Cappella Andrea Barca, Charles Dekeyser, Elisabeth Kulman, Felsenreitschule, Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, Genia Kühmeier, Georg Friedrich Händel, Großes Festspielhaus, Haydn, Leif Ove Andsnes, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Mozarteum, Mozartwoche, Peter Sonn, Piano, Review, Salzburg, Salzburger Bachchor, The Ways of Zion Do Mourn, Thomas Hengelbrock, Vienna Philharmonic, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 30, 2016 MUNICH — As fluent as Valery Gergiev is in Prokofiev, he had precious little to say with a cycle of the symphonies here this month. Fluency meant wise tempos, a feel for the boldness in the scores’ structures, a facility in cuing the two orchestras on duty. It […]
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Tags: Alexandra Conunova, Debussy, Gasteig, Mariinsky Orchestra, Medici TV, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Prokofiev, Review, Valery Gergiev, Vilde Frang, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yu-Chien Tseng
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Monday, February 15th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 15, 2016 SALZBURG — There is a pleasure in arriving in Salzburg with snow on the ground. Or maybe the word is reassurance: the city will be real, not a theme park; the people mostly locals, despite the hollowing out of property ownership here; the profile quiet, even intimate, affording […]
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Tags: András Schiff, Bartabas, Commentary, English Baroque Soloists, Felsenreitschule, Großes Festspielhaus, John Eliot Gardiner, Katia et Marielle Labèque, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi Choir, Mozarteum, Mozarteumorchester, Mozartwoche, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Piano, Review, Salzburg, Sonate écossaise, Variations sérieuses, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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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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Sunday, April 26th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 26, 2015 MUNICH — He will always be attached to Rossini, but Michele Mariotti, 36, can probe and illuminate a vast repertory besides. This much was evident March 23 in a refreshing return engagement with the Münchner Symphoniker. The Pesaro-born maestro’s podium technique and constructive manner recall another Rossinian, the […]
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Tags: Guillaume Tell, Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Mendelssohn, Michele Mariotti, München, Münchner Symphoniker, Munich, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Ray Chen, Review, Rossini, Schubert, 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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