Eröffnung des Faithfull! Festivals für Neue Musik

By Saori Kanemaki, 18 November 2014

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“Die gewitzte Verfremdung der künstlerischen Darstellung warf Fragen auf”

Reviewed at Berghain, Berlin on 13 November 2014

Kreidler, Nachdruck / Studie über strukturelle Verspätung

Johannes Kreidler, Keyboard

Los Angeles Free Music Society

Savall conducts Beethoven and Haydn at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 3rd April

Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge is paired with Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte, a journey from agony to transcendence in which the agony proves the more honest companion.

***11

Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO

Roy Westbrook, 1st April

From Three Screaming Popes to Pictures at an Exhibition, a pair of works inspired by paintings frame a violin concerto by Béla Bartók at London's Southbank Centre.

****1

Energy, precision and drama from the Philadelphia Orchestra

Susan Stempleski, 31st March

Marin Alsop is joined by pianist Hayato Sumino as she conducts the Philadelphians in an exhilarating program of works by John Adams, Gershwin and Prokofiev.

****1

Evgeny Kissin leaves a trail of happy hearts at the Barbican

Christopher Woodley, 31st March

With a spring in his step, Evgeny Kissin returns to Barbican Hall and gives well-wrought accounts of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Schumann.

****1

Johnston’s Tavener the highlight for the Brighton Philharmonic

Nick Boston, 29th March

Warm Vaughan Williams and energetic Richter and Vivaldi from MacGregor and the BPO strings, with an astonishing performance of Tavener’s The Protecting Veil from Guy Johnston the highlight.

****1

The Fibonacci Quartet give a compelling concert in Sheffield

Phil Parker, 28th March

The Fibonacci Quartet has been accumulating prizes and headlines like they’re going out of fashion, and this Music in the Round concert showed why.

****1

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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.

Das Faithful! II-Festival für Neue Musik eröffnet in Berlin