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ARSC Journal
A Discography of the Choral Symphony by J. F. Weber In previous issues of this Journal (XV:2-3; XVI:l-2), an effort was made to compile parts of a composer discography in depth rather than breadth. This one started in a similar vein with the realization that SO CDs of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony had been released (the total is now over 701). This should have been no surprise, for writers have stated that the playing time of the CD was designed to accommodate this work. After eighteen months' effort, a reasonably complete discography of the work has emerged. The wonder is that it took so long to collect a body of information (especially the full names of the vocalists) that had already been published in various places at various times. The Japanese discographers had made a good start, and some of their data would have been difficult to find otherwise, but quite a few corrections and additions have been made and some recording dates have been obtained that seem to have remained 1.Dlpublished so far. The first point to notice is that six versions of the Ninth didn't appear on the expected single CD. Bl:lhm (118) and Solti (96) exceeded the 75 minutes generally assumed (until recently) to be the maximum CD playing time, but Walter (37), Kegel (126), Mehta (127), and Thomas (130) were not so burdened and have been reissued on single CDs since the first CD release. On the other hand, the rather short Leibowitz (76), Toscanini (11), and Busch (25) versions have recently been issued with fillers. -
The Exhibition FEBRUARY 2015 Der Meister Tön' Und Weisen... Heinz Zednik – 50 Jahre Staatsoper
Der Meister Tön’ und Weisen... Heinz Zednik – 50 Jahre Staatsoper 12.2.–21.9.2015 Lobkowitzplatz 2, 1010 Wien [email protected] T +43 1 525 24 5315 FEBRUARY 2015 The Exhibition In 2015 the music world honours the occasion of two anniversaries of the well-known and popular Austrian tenor Heinz Zednik: he celebrates both his seventy-fifth birthday and five decades as member of the ensemble of the “Haus am Ring”, the Vienna State Opera. On November 5, 1964 the young singer from the Graz Opera gave his first guest performance in Vienna, singing the role of Augustin Moser in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; on September 3, 1965 he appeared for the first time as a full member of the ensemble at the Vienna State Opera – as Count Lerma in Verdi’s Don Carlo. In order to showcase Zednik’s impressive repertory the exhibition focuses both on Zednik’s opera performances in Vienna and beyond – in Milan, Bayreuth and New York – and his work outside the field of opera, which comprises operetta, oratories, lieder and Viennese songs. Markus Vorzellner curated the exhibition; Elisabeth Truxa designed the layout. Der Meister Tön’ und Weisen... Heinz Zednik – 50 Jahre Staatsoper 12.2.–21.9.2015 Lobkowitzplatz 2, 1010 Wien [email protected] T +43 1 525 24 5315 Events RECITAL HEINZ ZEDNIK Piano: Konrad Leitner Wednesday, April 22, 7.30 p.m. Tickets € 22, Verein Freunde der Wiener Staatsoper and Ö1 Club € 19, students € 12 Reservations T +43 1 525 24 3460 „A MUSI, A MUSI“ A viennese evening with Heinz Zednik, Peter Hawlicek (contra guitar) und Roland Sulzer (accordeon) Moderation: Markus Vorzellner Wednesday, September 9, 7.30 p.m Tickets € 22, Verein Freunde der Wiener Staatsoper and Ö1 Club € 19, students € 12 Reservations T +43 1 525 24 3460 „…DASS SICH DIE WELT IN EINEM TAG HERUMDREHT“ After a guided tour through the exhibition by curator Markus Vorzellner you are invited to enjoy his anecdotes of personal encounters with Heinz Zednik, complemented by selected audio-clips. -
Programme 2016
71e CONCOURS DE GENÈVE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COMPETITION PROGRAMME 2016 CONCOURSGENEVE.CH Partenaire principal Croquis du sinistre Quoi qu’il arrive – nous vous aidons rapidement et simplement. mobiliere.ch Agence générale Genève Denis Hostettler Route du Grand-Lancy 6a 1227 Les Acacias T 022 819 05 55 [email protected] SOMMAIRE SUMMARY I. INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION 3 Messages de bienvenue Official messages 3 Comment fonctionne le Jury How the Jury works 10 II. CONCOURS DE CHANT VOICE COMPETITION 11 Programme Programme 12 Prix et récompenses Prizes & awards 15 Candidats Candidates 17 Membres du Jury Jury members 28 Accompagnateurs Accompanists 40 Orchestre et chef Orchestra & conductor 42 III. CONCOURS DE QUATUOR STRING QUARTET À CORDES COMPETITION 45 Programme Programme 46 Prix et récompenses Prizes & awards 48 Candidats Candidates 51 Membres du Jury Jury members 60 Compositeur Composer 71 IV. AUTOUR DU CONCOURS AROUND THE COMPETITION 73 Concert d’ouverture Opening concert 75 Concert vernissage Concert inauguration 76 Pédagogie et médiation Education & mediation 77 V. LAURÉATS PRIZE-WINNERS 85 Programme de soutien Career development programme 86 Coup de Cœur Breguet Coup de Cœur Breguet Prize 89 Tournée des lauréats Laureates tour 91 Festival des lauréats Laureates festival 93 Interview du Quatuor Voce Interview of Quatuor Voce 95 Nouvelles des lauréats News of the laureates 100 VI. SOUTIENS SUPPORTS 107 Amis du concours Friends association 108 Partenaires et soutiens Partners & Supports 111 VII. PRATIQUE PRACTICAL 113 Billetterie, tarifs Tickets, prices 115 Lieux Places 118 Organisation Organization 119 Contacts Contacts 120 — 1 — ALTERNATIVE.CH | CI/UN/CH/F/121215 CI/UN/CH/F/121215 La discipline crée la stabilité. -
Debussy's Pelléas Et Mélisande
Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande - A discographical survey by Ralph Moore Pelléas et Mélisande is a strange, haunting work, typical of the Symbolist movement in that it hints at truths, desires and aspirations just out of reach, yet allied to a longing for transcendence is a tragic, self-destructive element whereby everybody suffers and comes to grief or, as in the case of the lovers, even dies - yet frequent references to fate and Arkel’s ascribing that doleful outcome to ineluctable destiny, rather than human weakness or failing, suggest that they are drawn, powerless, to destruction like moths to the flame. The central enigma of Mélisande’s origin and identity is never revealed; that riddle is reflected in the wispy, amorphous property of the music itself, just as the text, adapted from Maeterlinck’s play, is vague and allusive, rarely open or direct in its expression of the characters’ velleities. The opera was highly innovative and controversial, a gateway to a new style of modern music which discarded and re-invented operatic conventions in a manner which is still arresting and, for some, still unapproachable. It is a work full of light and shade, sunlit clearings in gloomy forest, foetid dungeons and sea-breezes skimming the battlements, sparkling fountains, sunsets and brooding storms - all vividly depicted in the score. Any francophone Francophile will delight in the nuances of the parlando text. There is no ensemble or choral element beyond the brief sailors’ “Hoé! Hisse hoé!” offstage and only once do voices briefly intertwine, at the climax of the lovers' final duet. -
About the Exhibition Tenorissimo! Plácido Domingo in Vienna
Tenorissimo! Plácido Domingo in Vienna May 17th, 2017 - January 8th, 2018 Lobkowitzplatz 2, 1010 Wien [email protected] T +43 1 525 24 5315 About the exhibition An unmistakable dark timbre, highly dramatic expressiveness, an impressive, vast repertoire – all this enraptures the fans of the Spanish crowd-pleaser with waves of enthusiasm. The Theatermuseum celebrates Plácido Domingo on the anniversary of his stage debut: He has been singing at the Vienna State Opera for 50 years. When the Tenor, then still considered as insider tip, made his debut at the State Opera in the title role of Verdi‘s Don Carlo, not only he took stage and cast in storm, but also the hearts of the Viennese audience – a true love relationship, unbroken till today. This performance contributed to an unparalleled career, taking him to the world‘s leading opera houses. Vienna has always been a very special “home port“ for the opera star. Here he performed 30 different roles in 300 shows and was awarded the title Austrian Kammersänger. The exhibition at the Theatermuseum documents the most important appearances of the “Tenorissimo“ in Vienna with original costumes and props, photographs and memorabilia, video and audio samples. The presentation portrays him also as baritone, the role fach on which he concentrated almost exclusively in the past 10 years, and refers to his activities as conductor, taking him regularly to the orchestra pit of the Vienna State Opera since the end of the 1970s. Without hesitation Plácido Domingo can be described as one of the most versatile, curious and longest serving representative of his musical genre. -
The Wagner Society Members Who Were Lucky Enough to Get Tickets Was a Group I Met Who Had Come from Yorkshire
HARMONY No 264 Spring 2019 HARMONY 264: March 2019 CONTENTS 3 From the Chairman Michael Bousfield 4 AGM and “No Wedding for Franz Liszt” Robert Mansell 5 Cover Story: Project Salome Rachel Nicholls 9 Music Club of London Programme: Spring / Summer 2019 Marjorie Wilkins Ann Archbold 18 Music Club of London Christmas Dinner 2018 Katie Barnes 23 Visit to Merchant Taylors’ Hall Sally Ramshaw 25 Dame Gwyneth Jones’ Masterclasses at Villa Wahnfried Roger Lee 28 Sir John Tomlinson’s masterclasses with Opera Prelude Katie Barnes 30 Verdi in London: Midsummer Opera and Fulham Opera Katie Barnes 33 Mastersingers: The Road to Valhalla (1) with Sir John Tomlinson Katie Barnes 37 Mastersingers: The Road to Valhalla (2) with Dame Felicity Palmer 38 Music Club of London Contacts Cover picture: Mastersingers alumna Rachel Nicholls by David Shoukry 2 FROM THE CHAIRMAN We are delighted to present the second issue of our “online” Harmony magazine and I would like to extend a very big thank you to Roger Lee who has produced it, as well as to Ann Archbold who will be editing our Newsletter which is more specifically aimed at members who do not have a computer. The Newsletter package will include the booking forms for the concerts and visits whose details appear on pages 9 to 17. Overseas Tours These have provided a major benefit to many of our members for as long as any us can recall – and it was a source of great disappointment when we had to suspend these. Your committee have been exploring every possible option to offer an alternative and our Club Secretary, Ian Slater, has done a great deal of work in this regard. -
07 – Spinning the Record
VI. THE STEREO ERA In 1954, a timid and uncertain record industry took the plunge to begin investing heav- ily in stereophonic sound. They were not timid and uncertain because they didn’t know if their system would work – as we have seen, they had already been experimenting with and working the kinks out of stereo sound since 1932 – but because they still weren’t sure how to make a home entertainment system that could play a stereo record. Nevertheless, they all had their various equipment in place, and so that year they began tentatively to make recordings using the new medium. RCA started, gingerly, with “alternate” stereo tapes of monophonic recording sessions. Unfortunately, since they were still uncertain how the results would sound on home audio, they often didn’t mark and/or didn’t file the alternate stereo takes properly. As a result, the stereo versions of Charles Munch’s first stereo recordings – Berlioz’ “Roméo et Juliette” and “Symphonie Fanastique” – disappeared while others, such as Fritz Reiner’s first stereo re- cordings (Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra” and the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with Ar- thur Rubinstein) disappeared for 20 years. Oddly enough, their prize possession, Toscanini, was not recorded in stereo until his very last NBC Symphony performance, at which he suf- fered a mental lapse while conducting. None of the performances captured on that date were even worth preserving, let alone issuing, and so posterity lost an opportunity to hear his last half-season with NBC in the excellent sound his artistry deserved. Columbia was even less willing to pursue stereo. -
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Volume 26 Number 2 topical Weill Fall 2008 A supplement to the Kurt Weill Newsletter news & news events The Firebrand Returns Weill’s 1945 operetta with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Edwin Justus Mayer, The Firebrand of Florence, will return to New York on 12 March 2009 for the first time since its ill-fated Broadway run. The Collegiate Chorale has assem- bled an all-star cast for the occasion, including Nathan Gunn (Benvenuto Cellini, the “Firebrand”), Anna Christy (Angela), and Terrence Mann (Duke). Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall provides the venue for a concert performance directed and narrated by Roger Rees; Paul Gemignani conducts. Other Notable Productions Montreal audiences will have the opportunity to see François Girard’s acclaimed Opéra de Lyon 2006 double bill of Der Lindberghflug and Die sieben Todsünden when the production travels to the Montreal High Lights Festival next February after successful tours to the 2006 Edinburgh Festival and to the Anna Christy Nathan Gunn 2008 New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington. Four performances of Girard’s imaginative and luminous staging are scheduled for 18-21 February 2009. Charles Workman plays Lindbergh, and Magdalena Anna Hofmann plays Anna I to seven different Anna IIs (one per sin); Walter Boudreau conducts the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec. HK Gruber will lead the Klangforum Wien and Chorus Sine Nomine in a June 2009 European tour of Die Dreigroschenoper performed in concert. The multi-nation- al cast includes Ian Bostridge (Macheath), Hanna Schwarz (Celia Peachum), Dorothea Röschmann (Polly Peachum), Angelika Kirchschlager (Jenny), Florian Boesch (Tiger Brown), Lydia Teuscher (Lucy), and Christoph Bantzer (Narrator). -
January 19, 2020 Luc De Wit 3:00–4:40 PM
ALBAN BERG wozzeck conductor Opera in three acts Yannick Nézet-Séguin Libretto by the composer, based on the production William Kentridge play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner co-director Sunday, January 19, 2020 Luc De Wit 3:00–4:40 PM projection designer Catherine Meyburgh New Production set designer Sabine Theunissen costume designer Greta Goiris The production of Wozzeck was made possible lighting designer Urs Schönebaum by a generous gift from Robert L. Turner A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; Salzburg Festival; the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto; and Opera Australia general manager Peter Gelb jeanette lerman-neubauer music director Sunday matinee performances at the Met are Yannick Nézet-Séguin sponsored by the Neubauer Family Foundation 2019–20 SEASON The 75th Metropolitan Opera performance of ALBAN BERG’S wozzeck conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin in order of vocal appearance the captain the fool Gerhard Siegel Brenton Ryan wozzeck a soldier Peter Mattei Daniel Clark Smith andres a townsman Andrew Staples Gregory Warren marie marie’s child Elza van den Heever Eliot Flowers margret Tamara Mumford* puppeteers Andrea Fabi the doctor Gwyneth E. Larsen Christian Van Horn ac tors the drum- major Frank Colardo Christopher Ventris Tina Mitchell apprentices Wozzeck is stage piano solo Richard Bernstein presented without Jonathan C. Kelly Miles Mykkanen intermission. Sunday, January 19, 2020, 3:00–4:40PM KEN HOWARD / MET OPERA A scene from Chorus Master Donald Palumbo Berg’s Wozzeck Video Control Kim Gunning Assistant Video Editor Snezana Marovic Musical Preparation Caren Levine*, Jonathan C. Kelly, Patrick Furrer, Bryan Wagorn*, and Zalman Kelber* Assistant Stage Directors Gregory Keller, Sarah Ina Meyers, and J. -
George Frederick Bristow Im Magazin Klassik #7
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David Levi Dirigent
David Levi Dirigent Der in New York aufgewachsene David Levi absolvierte zunächst ein Psychologiestudium an der Harvard University, bevor er Klavier, Dirigieren, Kammermusik und Liedbegleitung an der Manhattan School of Music studierte. 1993 kam David Levi als Assistent von James Conlon an die Oper Köln, wo er u. a. die Neuproduktionen von Dimitri Schostakowitschs Oper „Die Nase“ (Regie: Harry Kupfer) und Stephen Sondheims „Sweeney Todd“ (Regie: Proscenium Artists Management GmbH - Rudolfsplatz 12/8 - A - 1010 Wien Tel:+43 1 9684422 - offi[email protected] - Seite 1 von 4 - Torsten Fischer) leitete. Darüber hinaus dirigierte er Berlioz’„La Damnation de Faust“, „Elektra“ mit Gabriele Schnaut, „Eugen Onegin“, „Otello“, „Hänsel und Gretel“, „Die Zauberflöte“, sowie „La Traviata“. Gemeinsam mit der Regisseurin Corina van Eijk rief David Levi 1989 das Spanga Opera Festival in den Niederlanden ins Leben. Hier dirigierte er u. a. „L’elisir d’amore“, „Rigoletto“, „Les contes d’Hoffmann“, „The Rake’s Progress“ „Ariadne auf Naxos“, „Samson et Dalila“, „Falstaff“, „Aida“ und Puccinis „Trittico“. 2008 erarbeitete er beim Spanga Opera Festival „Donna Giovanna“, ein bei Kritik und Publikum überaus erfolgreiches Projekt über „Don Giovanni“, außerdem im Jahr 2009 Strauss’ „Elektra“ mit einem Orchester von 34 Musikern und im Jahr 2010 seine Version von „Carmen“. David Levi hatte auch die musikalische Leitung der beiden Opern-Filme „Rigoletto“ und „Samson und Dalila“ inne, die von Opera Spanga produziert wurden. Außerdem dirigierte er bei David Moreaus Filmmusik für „Une Vie à t’attendre“ und „Le Héros de la Famille“. Für letzteren war er auch der Gesangslehrer von Emmanuelle Béart und Cathérine Deneuve. An der Metropolitan Opera New York arbeitete er in 1996 als Assistent von James Levine. -
Audiovisual Recording As Registers of Opera Productions1
Comunicação e Sociedade, vol. 31, 2017, pp. 39 – 56 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.31(2017).2603 The world in a bottle and the archeology of staging: audiovisual recording as registers of opera productions1 Mateus Yuri Passos Abstract This work focuses on the use of the audiovisual opera recording as a document to analyze contemporary stagings labeled by the German critics as director’s theater [Regietheater]. In direc- tor’s theater, Wagner’s total artwork project [Gesamtkunstwerk] achieves a turn in meaning, for the three artistic dimensions of opera – word, music and staging – become different texts. In this paper, we discuss the limitations of audiovisual recording as a register of director’s theater opera stagings, as well as filmic resources that allow for a reconstruction of the audiovisual text of such productions with solutions that are often quite distinct from those adopted on the stage. We are in- terested above all in problematizing the equivalence that is sometimes established between a stag- ing and its recording – especially in the contemporary context of productions that frequently suffer considerable changes and are characterized by the unique aspect of each performance, always full of singular events and relatively autonomous regarding the general plan of the director. Thus, we will discuss problems and solutions of video direction of audiovisual recordings of stagings of the operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen [The Ring of Nibelungo], by Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Keywords Opera recording; director’s theater; opera staging; Regietheater; Richard Wagner Resumo Este trabalho se debruça sobre o uso de gravações audiovisuais como documentos para análise de producções de ópera contemporâneas agrupadas pela crítica alemã sob o termo tea- tro de director [Regietheater].