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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Notes from the 2013 Salzburg Festival ( 8 ) El Sistema • Simón Bolívar Orchestra

Posted on 5:30 AM by Unknown
El Sistema • Simón Bolívar Orchestra
A Scherzo to Remember

Success in “Mahler 3” (see review), however rare or great, does not spell automatic success in Mahler’s considerably stranger, elusive Seventh Symphony—a work so full of ambiguous atmosphere, point blank banality, and ‘or-is-it’ irony that among all of Mahler’s eleven symphonies it seems to best resist the efforts of audience and
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.7 (Part 2)

Posted on 11:30 PM by Unknown


This continues "Gustav Mahler — Symphony No.7 (Part 1)"
Gustav Mahler in New York (detail, click to see entire picture). Picture courtesy New York Philharmonic Archives
By the time Mahler premiered his Seventh Symphony, his reputation as a conductor well exceeded that of him as a composer. He had quit the Court Opera in the summer of 1907 and traveled to the US where he conducted his first
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Christine Brewer, the Last Rose of Summer

Posted on 10:05 PM by Unknown


Wagner, Wesendonck-Lieder / Britten, Cabaret Songs, C. Brewer, R. Vignoles (live at Wigmore Hall) [MP3]
At the end of my week at Santa Fe Opera was the first of a series of song recitals, presented by the company at the Lensic Center in downtown Santa Fe. Heard on Sunday afternoon, this concert featured soprano Christine Brewer, who was marking the birth anniversaries of Richard Wagner (200)
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Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.7 (Part 1)

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Continued here: "Gustav Mahler — Symphony No.7 (Part 2)"

Mahler’s Seventh Symphony is a forbidding work that can baffle the listener even more than the Third. The author of liner notes to one recording tries to help: “What idea might help comprehend the whole symphony? The same as the Third Symphony, it might be “the World”. But this time the composer has created a world where we would not find
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Notes from the 2013 Salzburg Festival ( 7 ) Mozart-Matinee • Ingo Metzmacher

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Mozart-Matinee • Ingo Metzmacher
Ives Got Something to Remember
Click on excerpt for whole picture. Picture courtesy Salzburg Festival, © Silvia Lelli

The Mozart Matinees at the Salzburg Festival are gladly attended AM-concerts, musical amuse-gueules, easily digestible, and quickening stuff consumed before the concert-activities that follow later that day. Comfortably air-conditioned (not the
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Posted in Charles Ives, Concert Reviews, Igor Stravinsky, Ionarts at Large, ionarts from Salzburg, jfl, Summer Festivals, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | No comments

Monday, August 5, 2013

Notes from the 2013 Salzburg Festival ( 6 ) Lucio Silla • W.A.Mozart

Posted on 4:30 AM by Unknown
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Lucio Silla
Pretty to Die for and Deadly Boring
Pictures above and below courtesy Salzburg Festival, © Matthias Baus
Click on details to see entire picture
The Haus für Mozart was rather sparsely filled on Friday afternoon, August 2nd, to welcome Mark Minkowski and his Musiciens du Louvre for the third performance of Mozart’s early opera, Lucio Silla.

The difficulty of
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Sunday, August 4, 2013

Ionarts in Santa Fe: 'Figaro' Redux

Posted on 11:40 PM by Unknown

(L to R) Keith Jameson (Basilio), Susanne Mentzer (Marcellina), Dale Travis (Bartolo), Daniel Okulitch (Count), Zachary Nelson (Figaro), Lisette Oropesa (Susanna), Susanna Phillips (Countess) in Le Nozze di Figaro, Santa Fe Opera, 2013 (photo by Ken Howard)

The final opera of the season at Santa Fe Opera had to be Mozart, and it had to be the Mozart opera most produced here, Le Nozze di Figaro.
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