Mark Berry – Page 34 – Seen and Heard International

The Schumann Quartet’s fine Reimann and enthralling Schumann at the Wigmore Hall

22/04/2023 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom R. Schumann and Reimann: Schumann Quartet (Erik Schumann, Ken Schumann [violins], Veit Benedikt Hertenstein [viola], Mark Schumann [cello]), Anna Vinnitskaya (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.4.2023. (MB)

Jurowski and the LPO unite for a typically enterprising programme subtitled ‘War and Peace’

21/04/2023 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Ustvolskaya, Hindemith, and Prokofiev: Gil Shaham (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 19.4.2023. (MB)

Vladimir Jurowski conducts violinist Gil Shaham and the LPO © LPO

Götterdämmerung ends a Berlin Ring which challenged and taught us much, moving us too

13/04/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany Berlin Festtage [4] – Wagner, Götterdämmerung: Soloists, Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin / Thomas Guggeis (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 10.4.2023. (MB)

*Götterdämmerung* (Act III) © Monika Rittershaus

Fine singing, playing and characterisation in Siegfried as Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Ring unfolds further

11/04/202309/04/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany Berlin Festtage [4] – Wagner, Siegfried: Soloists, Staatskapelle Berlin / Thomas Guggeis (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 8.4.2023. (MB)

Stephan Rügamer (Mime) and Michael Volle (The Wanderer) © Monika Rittershaus

Jérémie Rhorer fails to penetrate to the heart of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis

11/04/202308/04/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany Berlin Festtage [3] – Beethoven: Camilla Nylund (soprano), Anna Kissjudit (mezzo-soprano), Saimir Pirgu (tenor), René Pape (bass), Staatsopern Chor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright), Staatskapelle Berlin / Jérémie Rhorer (conductor). Philharmonie, Berlin, 7.4.2023. (MB)

Jérémie Rhorer conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin © Peter Adamik

Die Walküre imaginatively set in a police state and marvellously performed in Berlin

11/04/202308/04/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany Berlin Festtage [2] – Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Staatskapelle Berlin / Thomas Guggeis (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 5.4.2023. (MB)

‘Follow the science’: the start of an intriguing new perspective on the Ring cycle in Berlin

11/04/202305/04/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany Berlin Festtage [1] – Wagner, Das Rheingold: Actors, Soloists, Staatskapelle Berlin / Thomas Guggeis (conductor). Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin, 4.4.2023. (MB)

A welcome post-Covid step back towards operatic ‘normality’ with Der Rosenkavalier in Dresden

05/04/202305/04/2023 by Mark Berry

Germany Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier: Soloists, Children’s Choir of the Semperoper Dresden, Dresden State Opera Chorus (chorus director: André Kellinghaus), Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden / Cornelius Meister (conductor). Semperoper, Dresden, 3.4.2023. (MB)

*Der Rosenkavalier* © Semperoper Dresden/Klaus Gigga

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