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Sunday, November 4th, 2012
Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924)
T U R A N D O T – first performance Milano April 1926
Dramma lyrico in three acts; Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after the play by Carlo Gozzi; First performed on 25th April 1929 in Milan; Premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 13th September 2008
Sung In Italian with German sub-titels
Conductor Jesús López Cobos
Orchester der [...] Continue Reading…
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Thursday, September 6th, 2012
Today the 6th of September he died in 1962 in Berlin and thus a special Hanns Eisler celebration week has been planned in his honour.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the composer, the International Hanns Eisler Society (IHEG) is organising the Eisler Days from 6 to 11 September with concerts, historic films, a symposium and a “Long [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Conductor Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are to play a concert for Benedict XVI today – on 11 July, St. Benedict’s Day so the Pope’s name-day – at the Apostolic Palace of Castelgandolfo. The Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo comprise about 55 hectares (11 more than Vatican City) of which 30 make up a garden while 25 are used for [...] Continue Reading…
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Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und Anton Bruckner – OTA Berlin
Almost 60 years after his first concert in Europe, Daniel Barenboim is revisiting Vienna – and as usual with Barenboim – he will do so in style.
Starting yesterday evening Thursday, he will perform all the 9 symphonies of Anton Bruckner with the Staatskapelle Berlin, in the Vienna Musikverein hall. And at the invitation of [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
Concert Review Sunday 13th May 2012
Place Sankt-Georgen-Kirche 23966 Wismar
NDR Sinfonieorchester conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
Program -Schumann’s 3rd Symphony & Brahms 1st Symphony
The ‘Rolls Royce’ is in this case the NDR Sinfonieorchester and the venue the still being renovated huge and captivating space of the Sankt-Georgen-Kirche in the old Hansa city of Wismar in northern Germany – which unbeknown by most – [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Johannes Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” for vocal Solists, mixed Choir and 2 pianos after the original score by Brahms
Musical Direction - Phillip Moll - 2Pianists - Phillip Moll and Philip Mayers
Soprano Marlis Petersen
Bariton Konrad Jarnot
with Rundfunkchor Berlin – Conductor Simon Halsey
Artistic assistance for rehersals from - Davide Camplani und Claudia de Serpa Soares
Staging by Brad Hwang
Lights Jörg Bittner and Thomas Herda
Brahms’ Requiem is [...] Continue Reading…
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
As a first live concert I have attended this year – this was a perfect choice and it is repeated this evening and tomorrow afternoon.
Take my advice- GO! You will not be dissapointed!
It consisted of a very well thought-out program of the Berlin ‘Koncerthausocherster’ and was both diversified and yet culturally -or if you like ‘Polishly’ -linked and called simply ‘Chopiniana’.
The orchestra [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – Det Norske Solistkor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis D-Dur op. 123
Christiane Iven, Sopran
Gerhild Romberger, Alt
Steve Davislim, Tenor
Alfred Reiter, Bass
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
‘Det Norske Solistkor’
Musicial Director and Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann
While it has become popular to play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on January 1st as a way to bring in the new year – last night’s [...] Continue Reading…
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Camille Saint-Saëns – foto Wikipedia
Always with the Christian holiday of the’ birth of Jesus’, there is music which is often only heard once a year and this is unfortunate because along with many great Christmas songs there are classical pieces like Georg Friedrich Handel’s Oratorio Messiah and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio which musically are always welcome.
One not so oft played piece, but more [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Conductor Daniel Barenboim will today receive the first ever ‘Willy-Brandt International Prize’.
The prize is, presented by the Social Democratic Party of Germany /SPD to honour the memory of SPD German politician Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966 and Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 til 1974.
Barenboim leads an Israeli-Arab orchestra – the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra- with which [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Kurt Sanderling, a legend and doyen of German conductors, has died at the age of 98, just one day before his 99th birthday.
His last public concert with “his” orchestra, the ‘Berlin Symphony Orchestra’ had been on 19th May in 2002, when he was 89 whereupon he decided to retire from public life.
This orchestra now is known as the ‘Konzerthausorchester Berlin’ – http://www.konzerthaus.de/konzerthausorchester/portraet.php?id_language=2
In [...] Continue Reading…
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