This Week’s Review

Kasper Holten’s Thought-Provoking Production of Lohengrin, Excellently Performed at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin

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GermanyGermany Wagner – Lohengrin: Soloists, Chorus and Supplementary Chorus (chorus master: Jeremy Bines) and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin / Donald Runnicles (conductor). Deutsche Oper, Berlin, 10.9.2017. (MB)
Photo credit: Marcus Lieberenz (original 2012 cast).
Deutsche Oper’s Lohengrin (c) Marcus Lieberenz (original 2012 cast)

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Recent Music in Abundance from the Members of Ensemble Musikfabrik

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin [4] – Aperghis, Lim, Schöllhorn, Baltakas, Zorn, Saunders, and Poppe: Members of Ensemble Musikfabrik (Carl Rosman (clarinet), Melvyn Poore (euphonium), Dirk Wietheger (cello), Alban Wesly (bassoon), Marco Blaauw (trumpet), Florentin Ginot (double bass), Hannah Weirich (violin), Ulrich Löffler and Benjamin Kobler (piano), Dirk Rothbrust (percussion), Helen Bledsoe (flute)). Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie, 10.9.2017. (MB)

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Rebecca Saunders and Harrison Birtwistle’s Music of Today Provides Perspectives on Music of the Past

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GermanyGermany Musikfest Berlin [3] – Saunders, Birtwistle, and Dowland: Doniatenne Michel-Dansac (soprano), Andrew Watts (countertenor), Peter Veale (oboe), Mirjam Schröder (harp), Paul Jeukendrup (sound design), Ensemble Musikfabrik, Enno Poppe and Harrison Birtwistle (conductors). Kammermusiksaal, Philharmonie, Berlin, 9.9.2017. (MB)
Musikfest Berlin - photo credit, Kai Bienert.
Musikfest Berlin (c) Kai Bienert

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Haydn and Mahler from Gatti and the Royal Concertgebouw

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom 2017 BBC PROMS 66 – Haydn and Mahler: Chen Reiss (soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Daniele Gatti (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 2.9.2017. (AS)

Soprano Chen Reiss joins the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under conductor Daniele Gatti to perform in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G major, at the BBC Proms 2017. Photo credit - Chris Christodoulou.
Chen Reiss (soprano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Daniele Gatti (conductor)
(c) Chris Christodoulou

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