Dvořák’s Spectre’s Bride exhumed in Berlin

By Hugo Shirley, 28 October 2016

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Reviewed at Konzerthaus: Großer Saal, Berlin on 27 October 2016

Dvořák, The Spectre's Bride (Svatební kosile), Op.69

Berliner Singakademie

Konzerthausorchester Berlin

Achim Zimmermann, Conductor

Martina Rüping, Soprano

Lothar Odinius, Tenor

Philipp Kaven, Bass

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Joana Mallwitz pairs rare Luigi Nono with Mahler's Fourth Symphony at the Konzerthausorchester's Musikfest Berlin programme.

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Batons and broomsticks with Joana Mallwitz in Berlin

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A folk-centred programme delights Berlin's Konzerthaus under the conducting of Joana Mallwitz – with the special participation of soloist Elisabeth Leonskaja.

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The continuation of beautiful friendships in Berlin

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At Berlin's Konzerthaus, Chief Conductor Christoph Eschenbach leads the premiere of Christian Mason's orchestral work An Ocean of Years and reunites with American pianist Tzimon Barto.

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Transparent, alert Mozart from Vikingur Ólafsson in Berlin

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Pablo Heras-Casado a programme featuring a classic combination of Mozart and Schumann.

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Schubert shines in Berlin: Joana Mallwitz at the Konzerthaus

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Hugo Shirley

Hugo Shirley is a Berlin-based writer and musicologist. He has written widely as a critic in the UK, including for The Spectator, the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, and has held editorial posts at both Opera and Gramophone. He was editor of 30-Second Opera (Ivy Press, 2015) and has a PhD in musicology from King's College London, where his thesis focused on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.

Dvořák’s Spectre’s Bride exhumed by the Berliner Singakademie