Richard Strauss 150th Birthday Concert:Anja Harteros (soprano), Camilla Nylund (soprano), Christine Goerke (soprano), Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann, (conductor),Semperoper, Dresden, 11.6.2014.(MC)
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Memorable Tribute to Claudio Abbado in Dresden’s Frauenkirche
Dresden Music Festival 2014
Germany Germany Memorial Concert for Claudio Abbado – Mahler, Wagner & Schumann: Waltraud Meier(mezzo-soprano), René Pape (bass), Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Daniele Gatti (conductor), Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany, Monday 9th June 2014
Chailly and Gewandhaus Orchestra Display Adroitness of Touch
Dresden Music Festival 2014
Germany Mozart, Brahms, Richard Strauss: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/Riccardo Chailly, Semperoper, Dresden, 9.6.2014 (MC)
Great Singing in Missa Solemnis but Period Orchestra Lacks Cohesion
Dresden Music Festival 2014 Beethoven: Camilla Nylund (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (mezzo-soprano), Richard Croft (tenor) & Yorck Felix Speer (bass), Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Dresdner Festspielorchester/Ivor Bolton (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden, 8.6.2014. Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123 At last year’s Dresden Music Festival I attended a concert of Baroque music by the Dresdner Festspielorchester under Ivor Bolton at the … Read more
Supercharged Alpensinfonie from Staatkapelle in Dresden
Germany Wolfgang Rihm, Richard Strauss: Anja Harteros (soprano), Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann, (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden, 8.6.2014.
Photo:Nils Foltynowics
Strauss’s Feuersnot: A Strong Performance All Around
Germany Strauss: Feuersnot, Dresdner Festspielorchester, Staatsopernchor Dresden, Kinderchor der Singakademie Dresden, Stefan Klingele (conductor), Residenzschloss, Dresden, 7.6.2014 (JMI)
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Thrilling Strauss Concert from Poschner and Dresdner Philharmonie
Germany Richard Strauss: Undine Röhner-Stolle (oboe), Ralf-Carsten Brömsel (violin), Markus Gundermann (violin), Christina Biwank (viola), Hanno Felthaus (viola), Matthias Bräutigam (cello), Hans-Jörg Pohl (cello), Dresdner Philharmonie/Markus Poschner, Albertinum, Dresden. 7.6.2014 (MC)
Handel’s Alcina, Not Baroque Enough
Germany Handel: Alcina, Staatskapelle Dresden, Rainer Mühlbach (conductor), Dresden Semperoper, 5.6.2014 (JMI)
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