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By Saori Kanemaki, 20 August 2014

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“Danach verwandelte sich die Halle vom Konzertsaal zum dance floor, mit Technomusik zum Abtanzen”

Reviewed at Centralstation, Darmstadt on 16 August 2014

Fure, something to hunt

Alessandrini, Nachtgewächse

Blecharz, blacksnowfalls

Lang, Bernhard, Schrift/Bild/Schrift

Cendo, Graphein

Works by Donatoni

Gander, Peter Parker

Poppe, Salz

Works by Estrada

Romitelli, Golfi d'ombra

Tenney, Saxony

Works by Lucier

Works by Ablinger

Works by Korabiewski

Xenakis, Mikka S

Tenney, arbor vitae

Feldman, Piano and String Quartet

Ensemble Dal Niente

Brian Archinal, Percussion

Patrick Stadler, Saxophone

Heloisa Amaral, Keyboard

Vladislav Pessin, Violin

Marino Formenti, Conductor

Liszt under inspection from Marino Formenti at the New York Phil Biennial

Rebecca Lentjes, 4th June

Marino Formenti only briefly introduced his eclectic whirlwind recital, “Liszt Inspections”, before calling out “Good luck!” and diving into one of the most attention-grabbing sequences of music that I’ve ever witnessed.

***11

Mozart, Lachenmann and postmodern Beethoven from Ensemble Resonanz

Zwölftöner, 22nd May

The Ensemble Resonanz is a Hamburg-based contemporary chamber orchestra committed to finding bridges to modernism amid works from centuries past, and to that end this concert featured Helmut Lachenmann set alongside Mozart, and Beethoven’s Six Bagatelles rescored by Manuel Hidalgo.

***11

Text and textures in New York premieres by The Crossing at Zankel Hall

David Wolfson, 24th March

Donald Nally’s much vaunted chamber choir The Crossing give a program of three New York premieres at Zankel Hall.

****1

Concertos – for violin and for orchestra – from the Hallé

Peter Connors, 22nd March

Viktoria Mullova is a superb soloist in Brahms' Violin Concerto, while an orchestra full of soloists play Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with Kahchun Wong presiding.

*****

Guitars, electronics and ancient treatises: the JACK Quartet at 92NY

Kurt Gottschalk, 20th March

At 92NY, the JACK Quartet performs four new works developed in their JACK Studio, including a commissioned premiere from the electrifying Tristan Perich.

****1

Kristiina Poska makes an exciting return to conduct the RSNO

Simon Thompson, 20th March

Kristiina Poska directs the RSNO in gripping Tchaikovsky and Pärt, but words and music only occasionally match in Elena Langer's new song cycle.

***11

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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.

Zwei scharfe und coole Programme nonstop: Das Abschlusskonzert der 47. Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt