Aperghis' Situations in Berlin

By Saori Kanemaki, 27 March 2015

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“atemberaubend sicheres und klangschönes Zusammenspiel”

Reviewed at Philharmonie: Kammermusiksaal, Berlin on 25 March 2015

Aperghis, Situations, for 23 soloists

Klangforum Wien

Emilio Pomàrico, Conductor

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

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

Smart, stylish Klangforum Wien residency wraps at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 1st June

Klangforum Wien finishes a far-reaching excursion into the boldest realms of modern music with a flourish.

****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

Embracing the new at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 21st May

A world première by a Czech composer highlights a strong outing by Klangforum Wien.

****1

“To infinity and beyond! ”Cosmic Mondparsifal

Sam Johnstone, 15th October

After Jonathan Meese's Parsifal staging was rejected by Bayreuth, he channelled his frustrations into an "arch-Parsifal" which shoots the titular hero into space, with a musical re-imagining of Wagner’s score by Austrian composer Bernhard Lang.

*****

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Saori Kanemaki

Saori Kanemaki, geboren in Tokio (Japan), lebt seit 2007 in Deutschland. Von 2008 bis 2014 studierte sie Musikwissenschaft an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Ihr Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Musik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Zur Zeit beschäftigt sie sich mit dem Erwerb ihres PhD mit dem Thema Trans- und Interkulturalität in der Neuen Musik.

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