Kissing her hair: Barbara Hannigan at Park Avenue Armory

By Jacob Slattery, 20 November 2017

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“If I had a time machine, I would introduce the dating app Tinder to fin de siècle Vienna”

Reviewed at Park Avenue Armory, New York City on 16 November 2017

Schoenberg, 4 Lieder, Op.2

Webern, 5 Lieder nach Gedichten von Richard Dehmel

Berg, Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs)

Zemlinsky, Da waren zwei Kinder, Op.7 no. 1

Zemlinsky, Schlaf nur ein, Op.5 no. 1

Zemlinsky, Entbietung

Mahler, 5 Lieder

Mahler, Licht in der Nacht

Wolf, Mignon Lieder (Selection)

Barbara Hannigan, Soprano

Reinbert de Leeuw, Piano

Pulsating new Andriessen at Holland Festival

Jenny Camilleri, 11th June

Louis Andriessen’s new opera is a masterly expedition into the grand and grotesque mind of Athanasius Kircher, polymath and fantastist, but it is hampered by a clumsy libretto.

***11

Via Crucis meditation with De Leeuw and Sellars

Olga de Kort, 17th March

A universal story of sufference and ‘the music of experience’.

****1

Ligeti, Chin and de Vries with Reinbert de Leeuw and Asko|Schönberg

Thea Derks, 14th November

Asko|Schönberg, ensemble in residence at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, opened the first edition of the Young Pianists Festival with a concert featuring two piano concertos, by György Ligeti and Klaas de Vries. The Dutch composer wrote his Second Piano Concerto for Daniël van der Hoeven, who won the Young Pianists Competition three years ago.

****1

Stravinsky's Renard at The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan and the London Sinfonietta

Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, 10th February

Venturing into the Paris of the 1910s and 1920s, the Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival continues its journey through a brambly thicket of 20th-century music. Sunday’s programme focused on the output of Igor Stravinsky, the Russian composer who famously engendered riotous uproar at the Paris Opera House in 1913 with his savage ballet Le sacre du printemps.

*****

Voicing early modernism: The Rest is Noise with Barbara Hannigan

Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade, 24th January

Billed as “The soundtrack of the 20th century”, The Rest is Noise season of 2013 has now commenced at the Southbank Centre. Concert programmes scheduled throughout January have focused on the Second Viennese School and its infamous break with western tonality.

*****

A feast for the ears at the opening night of Haarlem's Koorbiënnale

Renée Reitsma, 24th June

The Koorbiënnale in Haarlem is a biannual festival, organized for the sixth time this year. The opening night consisted of four exciting modern pieces and the world premiere of a new work by the Latvian composer Ēriks Eŝenvalds. The first piece played was Daan Manneke’s Topos for chorus and harmonium. It is a song cycle set to four poems by Arthur Rimbaud.

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Jacob Slattery

Jacob is a musician and raconteur based out of New York City. As a writer, he operates an online arts and culture blog with the goal of providing momentum for community-based arts projects in NYC. As an oboist, Jacob has performed internationally with orchestras from Vienna to Seoul. Born and raised in the lake-ridden, gopher empire of Minnesota, Jacob received a dual-degree in Music Performance and Marketing from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. His blog can be found here.

Kissing her hair: Barbara Hannigan sings the Second Viennese School at Park Avenue Armory