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Richard Strauss's Ariadne Auf Naxos
Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos - A survey of the major recordings by Ralph Moore Ariadne auf Naxos is less frequently encountered on stage than Der Rosenkavalier or Salome, but it is something of favourite among those who fancy themselves connoisseurs, insofar as its plot revolves around a conceit typical of Hofmannsthal’s libretti, whereby two worlds clash: the merits of populist entertainment, personified by characters from the burlesque Commedia dell’arte tradition enacting Viennese operetta, are uneasily juxtaposed with the claims of high art to elevate and refine the observer as embodied in the opera seria to be performed by another company of singers, its plot derived from classical myth. The tale of Ariadne’s desertion by Theseus is performed in the second half of the evening and is in effect an opera within an opera. The fun starts when the major-domo conveys the instructions from “the richest man in Vienna” that in order to save time and avoid delaying the fireworks, both entertainments must be performed simultaneously. Both genres are parodied and a further contrast is made between Zerbinetta’s pragmatic attitude towards love and life and Ariadne’s morbid, death-oriented idealism – “Todgeweihtes Herz!”, Tristan und Isolde-style. Strauss’ scoring is interesting and innovative; the orchestra numbers only forty or so players: strings and brass are reduced to chamber-music scale and the orchestration heavily weighted towards woodwind and percussion, with the result that it is far less grand and Romantic in scale than is usual in Strauss and a peculiarly spare ad spiky mood frequently prevails. -
1973 Bach Festival Program
YOUNG ARTISTS' CONCERT ~be jfestibal ~orietp,JJnc. Saturday, March 3, 1973, 8:00 P.M. Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College A Major American Bach Festival- Twenty-seventh Season 1972-73 Winners of the YOUNG ARTISTS' AUDITIONS held January 27, 197-3 The Young Artists in this concert are the winners of the eighth annual auditions held by the Bach Festival Society of Kalamazoo. The main objective of the competi TUESDAY tion is to stimulate the performance of the music of the Baroque period and of the ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT Bach family among young people fifteen to twenty-five years of age. The judges this Pre DEC 12 year were Helen Laird, Adrian Gnam and Eiji Hashimoto of the University of Cin No admission charge cinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Teachers and students are encouraged to Festival 8:00 P.M. plan now for next year's competition. CONCERTO FOR TWO CLAVIERS, NO. I INC MINOR J. S. Bach Programs (BWV 1060) ~RIDAY CHAMBER ARTS ENSEMBLE I Allegro II Adagio Ill Allegro University of Cincinnati Edward Barton and Joan Nottke JAN 26 College-Conservatory of Music and the Western Michigan University Chamber Orchestra 8:00 P.M. Admission $1.00. Tickets availablE!' at the Bach Office, II ARIA: "Stirb in mir" J. S. Bach Room 210 Light Fine Arts Building and at the door. (BWV 169) from Cantata, GOTT SOLL ALLEIN MEIN HERZE HABEN Lorraine Manz, Mezzo-soprano assisted by Mary Shetzer and William McNeil, violins, SATURDAY EIGHTH ANNUAL David Carow, viola, Michael Nelson, cello and Jeffrey Holt, organ Ill PRELUDE AND FUGUE, NO. -
A Culture of Recording: Christopher Raeburn and the Decca Record Company
A Culture of Recording: Christopher Raeburn and the Decca Record Company Sally Elizabeth Drew A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts and Humanities Department of Music This work was supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council September 2018 1 2 Abstract This thesis examines the working culture of the Decca Record Company, and how group interaction and individual agency have made an impact on the production of music recordings. Founded in London in 1929, Decca built a global reputation as a pioneer of sound recording with access to the world’s leading musicians. With its roots in manufacturing and experimental wartime engineering, the company developed a peerless classical music catalogue that showcased technological innovation alongside artistic accomplishment. This investigation focuses specifically on the contribution of the recording producer at Decca in creating this legacy, as can be illustrated by the career of Christopher Raeburn, the company’s most prolific producer and specialist in opera and vocal repertoire. It is the first study to examine Raeburn’s archive, and is supported with unpublished memoirs, private papers and recorded interviews with colleagues, collaborators and artists. Using these sources, the thesis considers the history and functions of the staff producer within Decca’s wider operational structure in parallel with the personal aspirations of the individual in exerting control, choice and authority on the process and product of recording. Having been recruited to Decca by John Culshaw in 1957, Raeburn’s fifty-year career spanned seminal moments of the company’s artistic and commercial lifecycle: from assisting in exploiting the dramatic potential of stereo technology in Culshaw’s Ring during the 1960s to his serving as audio producer for the 1990 The Three Tenors Concert international phenomenon. -
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Paul Meissen
Paul Meissen 19. Oktober 1933 Hamburg First Contact with Karl Richter If I remember rightly, I met Karl Richter for the first time in Hamburg. My studies had led me from Detmold to the State Music Chapel in Karlsruhe, Baden. After 2 1/2 years in Karlsruhe I joined the Philharmonic State Orchestra in Hamburg. I believe it was in 1956 in Hamburg that we performed the Brandenburg Concerts from Johann Sebastian Bach in two concerts. During this time I was also called upon to take part in just this performance with just this Chamber Orchestra; and that was when I met Karl Richter for the first time. This arrangement with Hamburg was, as far as Richter was concerned, supposed to develop further, but it never took place more than this one time. He was certainly disappointed that most of the orchestra members also played in other Chamber Orchestras and he never felt that they afforded him their central point of interest. And I believe I was the only one from this formation that he always called from Hamburg to Munich. Richters Music-making with the Choir The vitality and amplitude of sound of the Chamber Orchestra appealed to me from the very beginning. At a second meeting in Ansbach with the choir, I was fascinated by their liveliness and there was something else too that I had never experienced before, was the way that Richter, as conductor had to slow down the tempi of the choir. Sometimes he had to put the brakes on very hard so that the choir would not whiz off without him. -
Section 2 Stage Works Operas Ballets Teil 2 Bühnenwerke
SECTION 2 STAGE WORKS OPERAS BALLETS TEIL 2 BÜHNENWERKE BALLETTE 267 268 Bergh d’Albert, Eugen (1864–1932) Amram, David (b. 1930) Mister Wu The Final Ingredient Oper in drei Akten. Text von M. Karlev nach dem gleichnamigen Drama Opera in One Act, adapted from the play by Reginald Rose. Libretto by von Harry M. Vernon und Harald Owen. (Deutsch) Arnold Weinstein. (English) Opera in Three Acts. Text by M. Karlev based on the play of the same 12 Solo Voices—SATB Chorus—2.2.2.2—4.2.3.0—Timp—2Perc—Str / name by Harry M. Vernon and Harald Owen. (German) 57' Voices—3.3(III=Ca).2(II=ClEb).B-cl(Cl).3—4.3.3.1—Timp—Perc— C F Peters Corporation Hp/Cel—Str—Off-stage: 1.0.Ca.0.1—0.0.0.0—Perc(Tamb)—2Gtr—Vc / 150' Twelfth Night Heinrichshofen Opera. Text adapted from Shakespeare’s play by Joseph Papp. (English) _________________________________________________________ 13 Solo Voices—SATB Chorus—1.1.1.1—2.1.1.0—Timp—2Perc—Str C F Peters Corporation [Vocal Score/Klavierauszug EP 6691] Alberga, Eleanor (b. 1949) _________________________________________________________ Roald Dahl’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Text by Roald Dahl (English) Becker, John (1886–1961) Narrator(s)—2(II=Picc).2.2(II=B-cl).1.Cbsn—4.2.2.B-tbn.1—5Perc— A Marriage with Space (Stagework No. 3) Hp—Pf—Str / 37' A Drama in colour, light and sound for solo and mass dramatisation, Peters Edition/Hinrichsen [Score/Partitur EP 7566] solo and dance group and orchestra. -
CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN Sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council • 147 West 39Th Street • New York, N.Y
CENTRAL OPERA SERVICE BULLETIN Sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera National Council • 147 West 39th Street • New York, N.Y. 10018 • PE 6-1200 January t 1965 NEW OPERAS AND PREMIERES Two more books by famous American authors are being set to music. Hawthorne's GENTLE BOY has been chosen by Harold Blutnenfeld, artistic director of the St. Louis Opera Theatre, for the story of his opera by the same name. Gale Hoffman is responsible for .the libretto.. Commissioned by the St. Louis New Music Circle, the work will be premiered at the Bicentennial Celebration of the City of St. Louis in 1966. Former compositions of Mr. Blumenfeld in- clude "Elegy for a Nightingale", prize-winning work for chorus and orchestra, "Expansion" for woodwind quintet, "Miniature Overture" (both performed in St. Louis), and a full-length opera "Amphitryon 4". The librettist has written "Blood Moon" with dello Joio and "Medusa" with von Einem. WUTHERING HEIGHTS, the haunting story by Emily Bronte, has inspired yet another composer . (Carlisle Floyd fs version was premiered in Santa Fe in 1958). Richard Barri of New York City informs us that his version of WUTHERING HEIGHTS is conceived in three acts, four scenes, with arias, duets, concerted numbers and accompanied reci- tatives "bolstered with modern harmonization". ******** Denison University will give the first performance of Martin Kalmanoff's VIDEOMANIA, the newest satire on American TV. (One. of the best known operasin this field is Douglas Moore's "Gallantry", a take-off on TV soap-opera and commercials). ******* European premieres of interest include: -Ildebrando Pizetti's CLITENNESTRA at La Scala, Milan, with Floriana Cavalli in the title role. -
Concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Seasons 1946-47 to 2006-07 Last Updated April 2007
Artistic Director NEVILLE CREED President SIR ROGER NORRINGTON Patron HRH PRINCESS ALEXANDRA Concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra For Seasons 1946-47 To 2006-07 Last updated April 2007 From 1946-47 until April 1951, unless stated otherwise, all concerts were given in the Royal Albert Hall. From May 1951 onwards, unless stated otherwise, all concerts were given in The Royal Festival Hall. 1946-47 May 15 Victor De Sabata, The London Philharmonic Orchestra (First Appearance), Isobel Baillie, Eugenia Zareska, Parry Jones, Harold Williams, Beethoven: Symphony 8 ; Symphony 9 (Choral) May 29 Karl Rankl, Members Of The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirsten Flagstad, Joan Cross, Norman Walker Wagner: The Valkyrie Act 3 - Complete; Funeral March And Closing Scene - Gotterdammerung 1947-48 October 12 (Royal Opera House) Ernest Ansermet, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Clara Haskil Haydn: Symphony 92 (Oxford); Mozart: Piano Concerto 9; Vaughan Williams: Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis; Stravinsky: Symphony Of Psalms November 13 Bruno Walter, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Isobel Baillie, Kathleen Ferrier, Heddle Nash, William Parsons Bruckner: Te Deum; Beethoven: Symphony 9 (Choral) December 11 Frederic Jackson, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ceinwen Rowlands, Mary Jarred, Henry Wendon, William Parsons, Handel: Messiah Jackson Conducted Messiah Annually From 1947 To 1964. His Other Performances Have Been Omitted. February 5 Sir Adrian Boult, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Joan Hammond, Mary Chafer, Eugenia Zareska, -
Decca Discography
DECCA DISCOGRAPHY >>V VIENNA, Austria, Germany, Hungary, etc. The Vienna Philharmonic was the jewel in Decca’s crown, particularly from 1956 when the engineers adopted the Sofiensaal as their favoured studio. The contract with the orchestra was secured partly by cultivating various chamber ensembles drawn from its membership. Vienna was favoured for symphonic cycles, particularly in the mid-1960s, and for German opera and operetta, including Strausses of all varieties and Solti’s “Ring” (1958-65), as well as Mackerras’s Janá ček (1976-82). Karajan recorded intermittently for Decca with the VPO from 1959-78. But apart from the New Year concerts, resumed in 2008, recording with the VPO ceased in 1998. Outside the capital there were various sessions in Salzburg from 1984-99. Germany was largely left to Decca’s partner Telefunken, though it was so overshadowed by Deutsche Grammophon and EMI Electrola that few of its products were marketed in the UK, with even those soon relegated to a cheap label. It later signed Harnoncourt and eventually became part of the competition, joining Warner Classics in 1990. Decca did venture to Bayreuth in 1951, ’53 and ’55 but wrecking tactics by Walter Legge blocked the release of several recordings for half a century. The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra’s sessions moved from Geneva to its home town in 1963 and continued there until 1985. The exiled Philharmonia Hungarica recorded in West Germany from 1969-75. There were a few engagements with the Bavarian Radio in Munich from 1977- 82, but the first substantial contract with a German symphony orchestra did not come until 1982. -
The Life of an Artist Maria Bjørnson at Work on Janácek from the House Of
www.thescenographer.com Publisher Harman Publishing Ltd. - 1-5 Lillie Road, London SW6 1TX, UK Editor-in-chief/Art Director Paolo Felici Graphic Design Paolo Biagini - www.studiobiagini.com Contributors Santi Centineo, Martyn Hayes, Cameron Mackintosh, Adam Pollock, David Pountney, Isabella Vesco, Sue Willmington, Francesca Zambello Special Contributors Michael Lee, Olivia Temple (The Maria Bjørnson Archive - Redcase Ltd) Really Useful Group Ltd, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd DISTRIBUTION Europe Central Books - www.centralbooks.com USA - CANADA Disticor Magazine Distribution Services - www.disticor.com Subscriptions [email protected] ©2002 The Scenographer Magazine (All rights reserved) Printed in Great Britain XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX All artistic material published is the sole property of the authors cited. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. C M a o r n l F i a O a r s s T o t t h B m a e j T W ø w g h r N i M M t e o n o n h r g r a a F s L e r k 42 5 2 k c r 4 o i a 2 D S t i f I M b i A n a n s n a H e a h d a a c v 4 T e n a g o a e b i e t r n d a t s m e o u i B t c d l 8 6 h t w P 8 i l f C s 7 j n a o a o P ø e e u r o E n l H Z i V o w r a n a t l a a t i e l f t o n g n i m y o h s s n o n c e c s i e f t b e k s r t n o o A o e y M N i h k a l n t n r l o e l a g h ’ t o s r e P i C n s l i h e a t u D a T g J b e n a a e a t c n d o y á S m c e k s k e t T c o h u e s T s s a b r i y i n b M t u L a t r ’ e i O a t u B o v j e ø r M r t n o O s u a o S r r c n e p i t a o e b c B i e j a r ø l r 2 I n s 0 s s 0 o u n 9 e The Maria Bjørnson Archive is delighted to be involved in this special Tribute A personal tribute from Cameron Mackintosh ccasionally in life a thought comes into one’s head as if by magic and the result Ois something quite extraordinary. -
2019 Richardson Helen 09664
This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ The economics of opera in England 1925-1939 Richardson, Helen Joanna Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works - You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you receive permission from the author. Your fair dealings and other rights are in no way affected by the above. Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 04. Oct. 2021 The Economics of Opera in England: 1925-1939 Helen Richardson King’s College London August 2019 A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Music. -
Der Fliegende Holländer
WAGNER DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER Theo Adam Anja Silja Martti Talvela Gerhard Unger Ernst Kozub Annelies Burmeister BBC Chorus New Philharmonia Orchestra OTTO KLEMPERER THE HOME OF OPERA Klemperer conducts Der fliegende Holländer With The Flying Dutchman was born the modern musical drama. Ernest Newman On 29 July 1839, the small, London-bound merchant vessel Thetis, running before a fierce storm in the Skagerrak, took shelter in a Norwegian fjord. As the anchor was dropped and the sails were furled, the shouts of the crew echoed around the fjord’s granite cliffs filling one of the passengers with what he later described as an indescribable contentment. Strictly speaking, the 26-year-old Richard Wagner, his wife, Minna, and their Newfoundland dog were stowaways, smuggled across the Russian border to the port of Pillau [present-day Baltisyk] under the noses of armed Cossack guards. They had to be smuggled because the passport of the debt-ridden young music director had been confiscated by the Riga authorities. It is a sobering thought that, had the Thetis foundered, the Wagners would not have reached Paris (their eventual destination) and Western music would not have taken the course it did in the wake of Wagner’s revolutionary influence. We have no way of knowing whether the figure of the Flying Dutchman presented itself to Wagner as the Thetis heaved and wallowed off the Norwegian coast. He knew the story, and in later years was unperturbed when connections were made in people’s minds between the legendary Dutchman and the young vagabond Wagner: outcast, world-wanderer, seeker of the love of the ‘infinitely womanly woman’.