Leonard Link (Free subscription) | yesterday
At his "Remnants of Romanticism" concert with the American Symphony Orchestra earlier this month, conductor-musicologist Leon Botstein revived Richard Strauss's early Symphony in F Minor (Op. 12), which was a surprisingly delight with its Mendelssohnian scherzo and echoes of Bruckner...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
David Schneider In September of 2008, we found a safe-house of ruination, and blessed it. My girlfriend and I had wandered over to the Bruckner Bar, Grill & Gallery, which over the past couple of years had become a hub...
Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Bruckner Orchestra Linz with Martin Achrainer as KeplerPhoto: Jack Vartoogian / BAM 2009Philip Glass, not unlike myself, is back in New York this week. He's been at BAM with the U.S premiere of his latest opera Kepler. You guessed it, we’re back in legendary intellectual territory, as far as subject matter goes. And as for the music, it’s quintessential...
Unknowing (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I don’t know what they pay to hear Lior Shambadal and the Berlin Philharmonic—his other gig, but I paid $5 to hear him and the Filarmonica de Bogota, and it was good. We have a good concert hall, and I think the cheapest seats have really good sound, better than the ones last time which [...]
Tonic Blotter (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Despite Bernard Haitink's faithfulness to his own basic interpretive concepts, over time one notices a certain development in his approach to his favorite core repertoire pieces: a certain search for more, a quest to make even more details meaningful within the context of the whole. The Bruckner 9th is one such Haitink staple that seems to have benefited from continuous reflection. Having heard
Entartete Musik (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Freder: You want me like you want the knife.Approaches her.Marie: Off me.Freder: You can smell blood. There's only one way out: marry me.Marie: (laughs): Funny way out.Freder: Opt for bourgeois existence and avoid catastrophe.From Martin Crimp's version of Ferdinand Bruckner's Pains of Youth, now playing at the National Theatre in a remarkable production by Katie Mitchell. Click here for more
Andrew Patner: The View from Here (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Here is my Saturday November 14 Chicago Sun-Times and suntimes.com review of the Thursday night November 12, 2009 Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert with principal conductor Bernard Haitink and CSO principals as soloists. Haydn, Bruckner magic on view as program develops...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Dennis Russell Davies conducted the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in Philip Glass’s Violin Concerto and Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday.
Ionarts (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Sunday afternoon, the Fine Arts Quartet presented a program as part of the National Academy of Sciences concert series. It seemed altogether fitting for a group whose members appeared to wear the same exact black suit, however sharp, and never smiled. The program matched Haydn’s Quartet in B flat (op. 76, no. 4, “Sunrise”) with Bruckner’s Quartet in C minor and Schumann’s...
wellsung.blogspot.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In general, I don't have a ton of interesting things to say about string quartet performances, but feel I should at least give a shout out to the very nice program of Haydn, Bruckner, and Schumann given by the Fine Arts Quartet at the National Academy of Sciences yesterday afternoon. First things first--have you even been to this auditorium (left)?? I don't have the best ear for acoustics--I notice...
mostly opera... (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Renée Fleming and Christoph Eschenbach in CopenhagenRenée Fleming with Orchestre de Paris conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Copenhagen, May 11th, 2009. Program: Capriccio final scene and Bruckner´s 9th symphony. Extras: Zueinigung and Morgen (R. Strauss).Upon reading that at her recent London concert, Renée Fleming was criticized for singing approximately 20 minutes, I was...
Test (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Call it a guilty pleasure if you want, but last week I went back and listened to a collection of remixes of 80s synth pop hits. Apart from the irresistible version of Propaganda's 'Duel' - the group's Claudia Bruckner is...
Cooper Wright Reeds' Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
This upcoming weekend on Sunday I have two concerts! Bruckner Symphony 9 with the William Carragan completion of the 4th movement, and a concert with the Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble playing a bunch of Veteran’s Day related music. Brucker at 4pm, TSWE at 7. That’s going to be a long one! It’s been interesting doing Bruckner [...]
The Classical Beat (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
In today's Washington Post: Slatkin has heart attack on podium, recovering in hospital, by Anne Midgette. A PS on Slatkin: On his blog this fall, Slatkin posted a spoof essay called "Change Is in the Air," proposing various shakeups to conventional orchestra programming: having the players sit with their backs to the audience and cutting superfluous repetitions in musical scores, so that...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Each week, Spotlight focuses on something – props, lighting, makeup, costumes, etc. – that's essential to an arts or feature presentation. In November 2005, when the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento revealed its $34 million restoration of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, parishioners were overjoyed to find the historic stained-glass windows sparkling once again. The Sacramento Choral...
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