The Eighth offers perhaps the most fully-realised expression of Bruckner's vision, and when one is fortunate enough to experience a performance as great as the one given by Andris Nelsons and the Berlin Philharmonic, it is impossible to emerge from the concert hall unmoved
Das Gehege, described as a ‘night scene’ for soprano and orchestra, was written initially for the stage, and while its most obvious precursor is Schönberg’s Erwartung, its intoxicating mixture of sensuality and violence has arguably more in common with the final scene of Strauss’ Salome
With reliably taut musical direction from Mazzola and a cast that gained in distinction as the evening progressed, the evening was a rewarding addition to the Deutsche Oper’s recent run of intelligent and provocative new Verdi productions
In the past several years, the Deutsche Oper Berlin and director Christof Loy have been mining the neglected margins of the early-twentieth-century operatic repertoire … and more often than not they’ve managed to strike gold.
Medio siglo de danza con una amplia diversidad de estilos, temática, historias y gestualidad fueron reunidos en esta maravillosa tarde por Volpi con una obra propia y sendas piezas de Pina Bausch, Hans van Manen y Justin Peck.
I have loved every moment of this journey into Cuban music.It has changed me as a musician and as a person - I feel much freer on my instrument and my rhythm is a lot better!I also love the passion and enthusiasm for things which my Cuban friends so freely show, we could do with more of that here in Europe, couldn´t we?!
In both Schönberg’s Central Europe and Ives’ New England one could hear the piano straining to liberate itself from the formal constraints of classical tradition
El compositor británico Alexander Goehr falleció ayer 26 de agosto en Cambridge, en cuya Facultad de Música seguía ocupando el puesto de "Profesor emérito".Goehr fue uno de los fundadores del New Music Manchester Group junto a Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies y el pianista John Ogdon.
Don Giovanni himself, with his top hat and black cloak, cut an undeniably sinister figure and, for a brief moment at the beginning, one wondered if the Victorian trappings of the sets were going to be used to take the story in a Jack the Ripper direction