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Distant Sounds: Schleswig-Holstein/Hamburg
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Das Rheingold, My Fair Lady, Carmen, Tosca, Die Walküre, Orpheus und Eurydike. Theater Lübeck maintains an achievement and reputation above and beyond the confines of this historic Hanseatic city, cemented in 2010 when its particularly resourceful. Fidelio, West Side Story, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Così fan t...
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Distant Sounds: Pelléas et Mélisande – Welsh National Opera – Birmingham Hippodrome, 13 June 2015
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Tuesday, 16 June 2015. Pelléas et Mélisande – Welsh National Opera – Birmingham Hippodrome, 13 June 2015. Jurgita Adomonytė (Mélisande) and Jacques Imbrailo (Pelléas). Pelléas – Jacques Imbrailo. Mélisande – Jurgita Adomonyt ė. Golaud – Christopher Purves. Genevieve – Leah-Marian Jones. Arkel – Scott Wilde. Yniold – Rebecca Bottone. Conductor – Lothar Koenigs. Sets – Johan Engels. With G...
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Distant Sounds: November 2014
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Wednesday, 19 November 2014. Creating a buzz: the ‘three Bs’. I believe in Bach, the Father, Beethoven, the Son, and Brahms, the Holy Ghost of music,’ he wrote. More by chance than by design, those same three composers feature in the first volumes of my Masterpieces of Music series of eBooks. As the basis of his instruction in harmony and counterpoint as well as keyboard-playing. Lat...
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Distant Sounds: Opera in Miniature – Continuum Ensemble – Kings Place, 19 June 2015
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Saturday, 20 June 2015. Opera in Miniature – Continuum Ensemble – Kings Place, 19 June 2015. Performed in English as. Robert – Andrew Rees. Auntie – Martha Jones. Maid – Gemma Summerfield. Doctor – Barnaby Rea. Wise Man – Norbert Meyn. Performed in English as. Emilie – Donna Bateman. Egon – Martin McDougall. Vom Tod im Wald. Jessie – Anna Dennis. Bessie – Martha Jones. Vom Tod im Wald.
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Distant Sounds: Zemlinsky string quartets - Brodsky Quartet - CD review
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Thursday, 11 June 2015. Zemlinsky string quartets - Brodsky Quartet - CD review. A link to a CD review appearing in the June 2015 edition of The Strad. Zemlinsky: Complete
String Quartets. Brodsky Quartet CHANDOS CHAN 10845(2) (TWO DISCS). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The 2016-17 opera season. View my complete profile. Opera in Miniature – Continuum Ensemble – Kings Pl.
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Distant Sounds: Northern Ruhr
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Best known for beer and football, unprepossessing Dortmund can hold its own in the operatic field, too. Theater Dortmund is the kind of place where a Strauss opera, Viennese operetta and West End musical can be in repertoire over the same weekend, yet it also recently mounted the German premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s. Tein on the Beach ,. Plus revivals of Don Giovanni &. Average jour...
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Distant Sounds: Der ferne Klang – Nationaltheater Mannheim – 12 July 2015
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Der ferne Klang – Nationaltheater Mannheim – 12 July 2015. Photos: Hans Jörg Michel. Grete – Astrid Weber. Fritz – Michael Baba. The old Graumann/The Baron – Sung Ha. Graumann’s wife – Petra Welteroth. Innkeeper/Rudolf – Sebastian Pilgrim. A ham actor/The count/Actor – Raymond Ayers. Dr Vigelius, a lawyer – Bartosz Urbanowicz. Mizzi – Tamara Banjesević. Given the...
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Distant Sounds: February 2015
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Monday, 23 February 2015. BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo – Barbican Hall, London – 18 February 2015. Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin. And Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony ‘The Inextinguishable’ were all begun in the fateful year of 1914. Zemlinsky’s Six Maeterlinck Songs. Waves of a more pictorial nature colour Sibelius’s Oceanides. Which had just the right balance between delicacy and bite.
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Distant Sounds: 2015/16 operatic highlights in continental Europe
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Friday, 5 June 2015. 2015/16 operatic highlights in continental Europe. NB: this summary has been compiled in good faith, but please don’t blame me if I’ve inadvertently misplaced any dates or other facts; further confirmation and details can easily be found by googling venues – there are too many to link to from here. Updates since original posting on 5 June in red. Meanwhile, continues...
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Distant Sounds: December 2014
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Monday, 29 December 2014. Roxy und ihr Wunderteam – Theater Dortmund – 21 December 2014. Sam Cheswick, manufacturer of mixed pickles – Hannes Brock. Roxy, his niece – Emily Newton. Bobby, her betrothed – Fritz Steinbacher. Gjurka, team captain – Lucian Krasznec. Hatschek, goalkeeper – Jens Janke. Baron Szatmary – Frank Voß. Aranka von Tötössy – Johanna Schoppa. Ilka – Tina Podstawa.