Very sad to learn that another of our greatest singing actresses, Elisabeth Soderstrom, has followed Behrens to the grave. She had more of an innings than I realised, reaching the relatively grand age of 82, and yet it seems like only yesterday I caught some of her later performances. I came to Strauss's marital semi-comedy Intermezzo through hearing her termagent Christine Storch (aka Pauline Strauss)...
Berlin Philharmonic Led by Sir Simon Rattle, the world’s greatest orchestra, at least by some estimations, returns to Disney Hall with a pair of programs devoted, though not exclusively, to Brahms. The first pairs Arnold Schoenberg’s vivid orchestration of Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 with the Symphony No. 1. The second features Wagner’s Overture to “Die [...]
By Laurie Niles: I realized on Thursday night that despite having listened to recordings of the Alban Berg Violin Concerto countless times, I hadn't come close to understanding it. Seeing a live performance enlightened me; moreover, seeing a live performance with violinist Gil Shaham , conductor Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Disney Hall energized my senses. The evening also included...
The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Christoph Eschenbach, offered a nuanced interpretation of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony at Carnegie Hall on Thursday. Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
Historical headliners, rival queens and a triumphal march. Join Blog Reviewer Paul Williamson to explore some of the historical events which have inspired operas by Handel, Donizetti and Verdi. As well we celebrate the birthday of a gay English composer and a regal Australian soprano. We hear from Warracknabeal's most famous son, and we're hoping Dan Vo will phone in from Brisbane to tell us
Just finished John Tilbury's massive* biography Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) a life unfinished and can recommend it highly, as a scholarly and — discretely — personal account of both the person and the musician. Cardew was very important to me, as a music student, if chiefly as the composer of Autumn '60 and the Octet '61 for Jasper Johns , two kit-like pieces in which the performer has...
Antonio Ghislanzoni (libretto), based on a French scenario by Auguste Mariette, Giuseppe Verdi (composer) Aida / the production I saw was the Metropolitan Opera live HD, in encore on Thursday, November 12, 2009 One of the aspects of Aida that interviewer, singer Renée Fleming suggested several times in the intermissions of Verdi's great opera was that, despite the huge size of the cast, except...
Hans Werner Henze's Phaedra at last comes to London in January, keynote of special immersion weekend in Henze's wonderful, far-ranging music. Devotees booked their tickets a year ago, but you can still get them now from the Barbican. Henze is the greatest living German composer, by miles. He's not given nearly enough recognition in the English-speaking world because in 1968 he put his principle before...
For the second year in a row, here is the complete schedule for the Tanglewood Festival , released one minute after the end of the press embargo. These listings are taken directly from the press release, with only some minor formatting changes made to the original text. The Mahler Symphonyies # 2 and 3 look to be season highlights, but I always have a soft spot for programs like Audra MacDonald's New...
Colm Tóibín The three gossips from The Ghosts of Versailles at the Wexford Opera Festival, Ireland, 2009 ( wexfordopera.com ) Wexford is a small town on the sea in the south-east of Ireland and an unlikely place to host an opera festival . Yet since 1951 in late October the town has organized what has become for many opera-lovers an essential date in the calendar. The reason why it has...
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival starts Friday 20th November. This is Britain's biggest new music festival, and has been going for decades, though some years have been a lot better than others. This is where to go for the hip in new European music. Huddersfield is an industrial city up north, expensive to get to if you live in the south, but BBC Radio3 will be broadcasting some highlights....
By opening the Berlin Philharmonic's three-concert series at Carnegie Hall with Schoenberg's arrangement of Brahms' G minor Piano Quartet Sir Simon Rattle made a definite statement about what was to come and how we should listen to it, but just what this meant was not clear until we heard the performance. Since the arrangement has found a place in the repertory, conductors have succumbed all too easily...
I continue to find iPod shuffling to be one of the more creatively engaging ways to listen. Not only is shuffling fun in a "name that tune" sense, but it can so often spark unexpected connections. As I've written many times before, I think that finding interesting connections is basically what creativity is all about, and inviting random input can be a remarkably effective way to find such...
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