Kritiken zu klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballett und Tanz finden | Verklärte Nacht, für Orchester, Op.4

Bei seiner Rückkehr zur Camerata Salzburg begeistert Norrington – sich selbst oft zurücknehmend und genießend – mit Wagner und Schönberg.

Das Konzert markierte die Residenzeröffnung der Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, diesmal noch in der Laeiszhalle, zusammen mit ihrem Partner Christian Tetzlaff. 

Sowohl Mahler als auch Schönberg fanden musikalische Inspiration in der Dichtung, und die Früchte ihrer Arbeit brachten zwei der faszinierendsten Stücke des musikalischen Kanons hervor.

Es war eine reine Freude, das Spiel der Solisten bei ihrem raschen Figurenwerk mitzuverfolgen, zu sehen und zu hören, wie perfekt Solisten und Orchester zusammenspielten.

Soliste dans Mozart et Mendelssohn, premier violon dans Schönberg et Haydn, Christian Tetzlaff force l'admiration au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, à la tête d'un Orchestre de chambre de Paris dynamique.

Roberto Forés Veses dirige l'Orchestre National d'Auvergne dans une Nuit transfigurée de Schönberg toute en tension, après un vif Concerto pour violoncelle n° 2 de Haydn sous l'archet d'Edgar Moreau.

Rafael Payare and the Ulster Orchestra present a programme of music that looks both backwards and forwards from composers who were musical visionaries.

Esa-Pekka Salonen et le Philharmonia Orchestra étaient au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées pour un programme Wagner, Schönberg et Bruckner. Un coup de maître.

In the second of the two concerts this week to open the Philharmonia's season, Salonen excels in the Schoenberg, while leaving space for debate in the Bruckner.

L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, en co-production avec le Festival La Bâtie, explore avec bonheur et conviction une modernité sombre mais aux fulgurances lumineuses, autour du thème de la transe. 

Dame Mitsuko Uchida again brought out her outstanding musicality and special charisma in Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto.

La noche trasfigurada copó la velada gracias a una sección de cuerdas que logró efectuar una interpretación memorable de esta obra maestra, no sin el mérito también del director James Conlon, que ofreció una versión pausada y cuidadosa con la arquitectura armónica de la composición. Al otro lado de la balanza, la Sinfonía lírica de Alexander Zemlinsky, un compositor cuyo nombre aparece habitualmente ensombrecido por el genio de Schönberg.

La temporada de la Sinfónica de Galicia recibía la visita de un jovencísimo director, el finlandés Klaus Mäkelä ante un programa especialmente atractivo: una obra infrecuente de Schumann, con el siempre revelador Javier Perianes en el tercer concierto para piano de Bartok, y una breve y concentrada segunda parte con la Noche transfigurada de Schoenberg.

Hannigan plays with expectations, opening with a single spotlight after a complete stage blackout to dramatic effect, and I am pretty sure she was rocking slippers on stage. 

Sous la double casquette de cheffe-chanteuse, Barbara Hannigan était invitée à reprendre en concert, à la tête de l’Orchestre philharmonique de Radio-France, de larges extraits du programme de son dernier album, Crazy Girl Crazy.

The Venezuelan maestro conducts a programme of early 20th-century works with the BBC Philharmonic .

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker, an ensemble he knows very well, in two Romantic masterpieces that were not always considered as such.

New harp of the Turku Concert Hall had its first outing in a concert with a diverse program featuring a duet with flute and harp and Schoenberg’s sinister Verklärte Nacht.  

Playing in a premier Western venue with violin virtuoso Gil Shaham, the Eastern orchestra seems not quite ready for prime time.

Le Barbican Hall accueillait le BBC Symphony Orchestra et son chef Sakari Oramo pour un programme d'une remarquable cohérence, à de multiples niveaux, et dont la gradation dramatique a conquis l'assemblée.

Soirée contrastée ce jeudi soir, avec l’Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields qui nous proposait le Concerto pour violon de Haydn,  le Concerto pour violon et piano en ré mineur de Mendelssohn et La Nuit transfigurée de Schönberg,  sous la direction de Julia Fischer.

Joyful Haydn and intense Schoenberg from Julia Fischer and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, joined by Oliver Schnyder for some energetic Mendelssohn.

Swedish soprano Miah Persson dominates the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal’s enterprising Romantic Lieder program conducted by Kent Nagano.

The Hebrides Ensemble delight a Queen's Hall audience with novel takes on Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht and Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat.

A stunning collaboration between Hampson and Amsterdam Sinfonietta at Dublin’s National Concert Hall, with works by Schoenberg, Wolf, Schubert and Barber.

Royal Northern Sinfonia play chamber music by Beethoven, Schoenberg, Martinů and Dvořák in a programme travelling from passionate despair to playful high spirits.

The overriding theme of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra’s season finale concert appeared to be night, teaming Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Falla’s Nights in the Gardens of Spain with the raging force and violence of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

When the nights get longer and the temperatures begin to drop, one of the best ways to cozy up is with a good concert of chamber music. I Musici de Montréal and conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni presented “The Night Transfigured”, a program of works inspired by night to warm audiences at Bourgie Hall on Friday evening.

Like most performing arts organizations have already done, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra have realized that classical music is not tremendously popular among young people.

The Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle came to Paris last weekend for an eclectic program: Mozart’s final three symphonies on Saturday night, and the decadence of Schoenberg, Berg and Stravinsky on Sunday afternoon.

A concert programme can resemble a puzzle; searching for links and contrasts often results in a more enjoyable, unified experience. I therefore strove to arrive in sufficient time for a careful reading of the programme notes for this performance by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at Usher Hall, part of the Edinburgh International Festival.