Aix Easter Festival: Janowski conducts Ein Deutsches Requiem

By Mark Valencia, 18 April 2019

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“Munich-born soprano Christina Landshamer projected a bright, sympathetic tone”

Reviewed at Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence on 17 April 2019

Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Op.45

Christina Landshamer, Soprano

Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Baritone

MDR Radio Choir Leipzig

Basel Symphony Orchestra

Marek Janowski, Conductor

A striking Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel

Sarah Batschelet, 19th October

For his new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel, director Olivier Py underscored an emotive kaleidoscope of events with unparalleled creativity and imagination.

****1

A noble case for civil disobedience

Sarah Batschelet, 28th April

Even forty years after its world première in Rotterdam, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s new production of Philip Glass’s three-act opera in Basel has particularly timely relevance.

*****

Sexism and callousness in Theater Basel's Don Giovanni

Sarah Batschelet, 27th January

In Richard Jones' production of Don Giovanni at Theater Basel, it was the singers alone who stole the limelight.

***11

Cerrudo's excellent Sleeping Beauty

Sarah Batschelet, 10th March

The recent première of Alejandro Cerrudo’s “Sleeping Beauty” in Basel made a brilliant case for reinventing an old and magical tale.

*****

Tewja: Emotion in motion

Sarah Batschelet, 20th November

Choreographer Richard Wherlock’s new ballet pays tribute to his Jewish roots, but also marks a first collaboration with composer Olivier Truan, whose contemporary klezmer music springs from the same tradition.

***11

Basel Symphony Orchestra discovers life in Mars

Andrew Larkin, 29th September

Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Basel Symphony Orchestra in idiosyncratic Les Six, and portentous Holst, while Alice Sara Ott provides exuberant Ravel.

***11

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.