Smart, stylish Klangforum Wien residency wraps at Prague Spring

Enno Poppe and Klangforum Wien

Juliet Fraser and Enno Poppe

Haas' 11,000 Strings

Evan Hulbert

Por Frank Kuznik, 03 junio 2024

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“rocketing from small murmurs to violent outbursts of sound”

Crítica hecha desde DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Praga el 1 junio 2024

Saariaho, Solar

Sloboda, 60 noch kleinere Orchesterstückchen (World premiere)

Wróblewski, Durée (World premiere)

Indrák, Generated Answers (World premiere)

Hvozdíková, microdot (World premiere)

Klusák, In D: Ozvěny Bukové hory (World premiere)

Saunders, Nether (World premiere)

Juliet Fraser, Soprano

Klangforum Wien

Enno Poppe, Dirección

Markus Wallner, Sound

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Crítica hecha desde DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Praga el 31 mayo 2024

Saunders, Fury II

Poppe, Speicher VI, for large ensemble

Saunders, to an utterance for piano and orchestra

Saunders, Scar

Evan Hulbert, Contrabajo

Joonas Ahonen, Piano

Klangforum Wien

Enno Poppe, Dirección

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Crítica hecha desde Forum Karlín, Praga el 2 junio 2024

Haas, 11,000 Strings

Klangforum Wien

50 Pianists

Ópera bajo la arena: El Público cautivador

Fernando Remiro, 24th February

El estreno mundial de El Público, de Mauricio Sotelo, basada en la fascinante y surrealista obra de Federico García Lorca, mezcla flamenco y tragedia en una gran noche de ópera.

*****

Haas’ 11,000 Strings at Park Avenue Armory

Kurt Gottschalk, 30th September

Like Ligeti before him, Georg Friedrich Haas makes the avant garde approachable as this performance of 11,000 Strings reveals.

***11

Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt: Drei Schwestern von Eötvös in Salzburg

Thomas Schacher, 8th August

Die Hommage an den 2024 verstorbenen ungarischen Komponisten wird zum Großerfolg: Evgeny Titov wartet mit einer schlüssigen Inszenierung auf, und Maxime Pascal steuert mit dem Klangforum Wien viel Atmosphärisches bei.

*****

Miroslav Srnka’s Voice Killer premieres at MusikTheater an der Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 16th June

At MusikTheater an der Wien, Miroslav Srnka’s new opera provess a deeply compelling, meticulously crafted work. It may not uplift, but it sears itself into the memory.

****1

Beat Furrers Musiktheater Begehren am Lucerne Festival

Thomas Schacher, 1st September

Der Mythos von Orpheus und Eurydike wird in Beat Furrers Musiktheaterstück auf eine allgemeine Ebene gehoben. Der Mann und die Frau finden keine gemeinsame Sprache, keinen Ort der Begegnung.

****1

Freitag, der Dreizehnte celebrates Schoenberg at the Reaktor

Chanda VanderHart, 28th April

What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.

****1

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.