Posts Tagged ‘Yannick Nézet-Séguin’
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 9, 2017 MUNICH — Making a taut and impassioned case for Mahler’s Tenth Symphony (1910) here at the Herkulessaal Feb. 17, Yannick Nézet-Séguin still rather confirmed Leonard Bernstein’s dictum that the composer “had said it all in the Ninth.” Mahler’s inspiration sustained itself, as tidily executed by the Symphonie-Orchester des […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berg, Dem Andenken eines Engels, Herkulessaal, Mahler, München, Munich, Review, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Veronika Eberle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Friday, June 26th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 26, 2015 MUNICH — It would probably be asking too much for Yannick Nézet-Séguin to stand still while conducting. He likes to throw himself around, as if anything less might diminish the enthusiasm he intends to convey or deprive his musicians of essential signals. Mostly it works. He is after […]
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Tags: A German Requiem, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, BR Chor, Brahms, Christiane Karg, Ein deutsches Requiem, Haydn, Herkulessaal, Matthias Goerne, München, Munich, Review, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Trauersinfonie, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Thursday, February 21st, 2013
by Sedgwick Clark NOTE: BEGINNING THIS WEEK, I’LL BE POSTING MY BLOG ON THURSDAYS AT NOON RATHER THAN WEDNESDAYS. Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and its current music director, Mariss Jansons, stopped by Carnegie Hall last week (2/13 and 14) for a pair of concerts to celebrate the ensemble’s 125th anniversary. They were a great success, […]
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Tags: Bernard Haitink, Boulez, carnegie hall, Furtwängler, james levine, Leonidas Kavakos, Mariss Jansons, metropolitan opera, musical america, Riccardo Chailly, sedgwick clark, Staatskapelle Berlin, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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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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