May 18, 2024 | Bruckner 200 (born September 4, 1824), Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Vito Žuraj (Slovenian composer, born 1979) Saturday, May 18, 2024 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin In response to a Berlin Philharmonic commission, Vito Žuraj has composed Anemoi, for large orchestra, descriptive of Greek wind-gods in the most...
May 18, 2024 | Bruckner 200 (born September 4, 1824), Recording Reviews
The latest instalment of François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester’s Bruckner cycle is perhaps a surprise, a Ninth Symphony – the one Bruckner left unfinished at his death – that is all over in fifty-three minutes, comparable, more or less, in...
May 17, 2024 | Bruckner 200 (born September 4, 1824), Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Note the title doesn’t include the word “Opera”. That’s because there’s none included. So, Sir Antonio Pappano’s Santa Cecilia versions of, say, Madama Butterfly, Turandot and William Tell must be collected separately. Otherwise the...
May 3, 2024 | Bruckner 200 (born September 4, 1824), Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
MDG, in association with Denon, releases this very special Bruckner Eighth Symphony, recorded on January 21, 2016, in the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre. The playing and the recorded sound are both superb, and with the quietest of audiences only asserting itself at the...
Apr 29, 2024 | Bruckner 200 (born September 4, 1824), Videos
Numerous differences throughout between the revision (whether Haas or Nowak) and this original – such as the latter’s loud ending to the first movement and the multitude of cymbal clashes at the slow movement’s...
Apr 28, 2024 | Bruckner 200 (born September 4, 1824), Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
https://www.diapasonmag.fr/critiques/a-la-philharmonie-de-paris-lemouvant-bruckner-du-veteran-herbert-blomstedt-47256.html (an English translation by Google is available)
