Vorweihnachtliches Feuerwerk

By Benedikt Zacher, 30 November 2014

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“eine faszinierende Klarheit und Transparenz, mit der barocke Koloraturen durch den Saal perlten”

Reviewed at Prinzregententheater, Munich on 29 November 2014

Bach, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens - Cantata, BWV110

Bach, Gloria in excelsis Deo - Cantata, BWV191

Bach, Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal – Cantata, BWV146: Sinfonia

Bach, Magnificat in D major, BWV243

Teresa Wakim, Soprano

Daniel Taylor, Countertenor

Tilman Lichdi, Tenor

Robert Davies, Bass

Jeremy Joseph, Organ

Martin Haselböck, Conductor

William Gaunt, Bass

Miriam Allan, Soprano

Orchester Wiener Akademie

Aurum Vocale

Intoxicating Beethoven from the Brucknerhaus Linz

Laurence Vittes, 15th October

In a program originally scheduled for the Musikverein in Vienna, Martin Haselböck and his Orchester Wiener Akademie played Beethoven and Schubert both familiar and curiously obscure.

*****

Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín

Katherine Syer, 20th September

Music-making in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt/Terezín continues to fascinate, baffle and inspire us.

*****

An homage to the Viennese “Musikanten” tradition

Chanda VanderHart, 19th May

The Singverein and Akademieorchester were joined by Swedish soprano Malin Hartelius and Florian Boesch for Brahms' German Requiem.

***11

John Malkovich crafts a convincing Casanova in The Giacomo Variations in Toronto

Stanley Fefferman, 7th June

The Giacomo Variations takes its time really getting down to business – the business Giacomo Casanova was in – the business of love.It begins with a lot of theatre business. The set, designed by Renate Martin and Andreas Donhauser, consists of three gigantic Marie-Antoinette skirts. Lift one and there’s a bed for romping.

***11

Intoxicating Beethoven from the Brucknerhaus Linz

Laurence Vittes, 15th October

In a program originally scheduled for the Musikverein in Vienna, Martin Haselböck and his Orchester Wiener Akademie played Beethoven and Schubert both familiar and curiously obscure.

*****

Plumbing subterranean depths in Birmingham

Simon Cummings, 21st March

John Malkovich’s provocative new music-theatre work reminds us all of the power of music – in the wrong hands.

****1

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Benedikt Zacher

Benedikt hat in München Musik und Jura studiert und dann an der LSE einen MSc in Global Market Economics erworben. Er spielt nach wie vor regelmäßig und begeistert Kammermusik, vorzugsweise als Geiger oder Bratscher im Streichquartett. Benedikt liebt jede Art klassischer Musik, und zwar besonders Kammermusik mit Streichern, Klavier, gerne auch mit Gesang, Orchesterkonzerte und schließlich die Oper.

Vorweihnachtliches Feuerwerk mit Bachs Kantaten in München