Tuesday, December 8, 2009
[Anita Rachvelishvili before her admirers] If I were to reduce to a single word Anita Rachvelishvili’s La Scala debut yesterday as Carmen (the HD simulcast of which I saw at Symphony Space), it might be “sovereignty.” She reigned supreme. This Carmen was the center around which all else could only hope to hold and the […]
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Also tagged 2009, anita rachvelishvili, bizet, carmen, december 7, erwin schrott, georges bizet, georgia, georgian, hd, jonas kaufmann, la scala, live broadcast, netrebko, rachvelishvili, simulcast, symphony space
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[program for the New York premiere of Mahler’s 7th, from the Carnegie Hall archives] Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 8 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Daniel Barenboim Thomas Hampson, Baritone MAHLER | Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen & Symphony No. 7 I will never know the Seventh well enough, but strongly suspect that Barenboim could know it […]
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Also tagged boulez, mahler, orchestras, review, reviews, song of the night, staatskapelle berlin, symphonies, Thomas Hampson
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[Sextner Dolomiten in Südtirol, where Mahler completed his Sixth Symphony] Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 8 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Pierre Boulez MAHLER | Symphony No. 6, ‘Tragic’ Of the four concerts in this series I have attended, last night’s account of the Sixth has emerged as the most impressive. A world plunged deep and […]
[the Scherzo from Mahler’s 5th in ms at the Morgan Library] Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 2 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Daniel Barenboim Thomas Quasthoff, Bass-Baritone MAHLER | Rückert Lieder & Symphony No. 5 Daniel Barenboim resumed the podium this afternoon for an indefatigable account of Mahler’s Fifth, following Pierre Boulez’s three-night vigil through the […]
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Also tagged adagietto, boulez, conducting, conductors, lieder, mahler, orchestras, quasthoff, Rückert, staatskapelle, symphonies, weltschmerz
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A compelling essay in the May issue of Opera News by the Washington Post‘s Philip Kennicott persuasively addresses the vexing question of Mahler’s vital yet fraught relationship to opera: […] Opera-lovers tend to think of song and symphony as the rudiments of opera, as if opera were the natural apotheosis of two lesser forms. But […]
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Also tagged berlin, boulez, kennicott, lieder, lincoln center, mahler, michelle deyoung, nyt, oestreich, orchestras, parsifal, reviews, staatskapelle berlin, symphonies, the ring, tommasini, wagner
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Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 8 PM STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN, cond. Daniel Barenboim Thomas Quasthoff, Bass-Baritone MAHLER | Kindertotenlieder & Symphony No. 1 Last night began the Staatskapelle Berlin’s much-anticipated, ten-part Mahler symphonic and song cycle at Carnegie Hall. Three Maestros ‘B’ are here involved or invoked: conducted alternatingly by Boulez and Barenboim (the Staatskapelle’s General […]
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Also tagged berlin, bernstein, boulez, Carnegie Hall, kindertotenlieder, lieder, mahler, mahler 1st, mahler first, quasthoff, staatskapelle berlin, Torsten Schönfeld
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