Magdalena Kožená and friends at Alice Tully Hall

By Edward Sava-Segal, 28 November 2019

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“Kožená seemed to just enjoy the freedom to perform in her own idiom”

Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Alice Tully Hall, New York City on 26 November 2019

Chausson, Chanson perpétuelle, for voice, strings and piano, Op.37

Stravinsky, Three Songs from William Shakespeare

Ravel, Chansons madécasses

Strauss R., Drei Lieder der Ophelia, Op.67

Brahms, Ophelia Lieder (Ophelia Songs)

Brahms, 2 Songs for Alto Voice, Viola and Piano, Op.91

Janáček, Ríkadla (Nursery Rhymes)

Dvořák, Cigánské melodie (Gypsy Songs) on poems by A. Heyduk, Op.55 (arr. Duncan Ward)

Magdalena Kožená, Mezzo-soprano

Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor

Giovanni Guzzo, Violin

Rahel Maria Rilling, Violin

Amihai Grosz, Viola

Dávid Adorján, Cello

Kaspar Zehnder, Flute

Andrew Marriner, Clarinet

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Chanda VanderHart, 17th April

Less a symphony, more a force of nature, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a turbulent, yet spacious reading of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in the Musikverein.

****1

Love is in the hare: a new Cunning Little Vixen opens in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 28th February

The Staatsoper's new production of Janáček's opera buzzes with life thanks to Sir Simon Rattle's conducting and an excellent cast led by Vera-Lotte Boecker and Magdalena Kožená.

****1

Rattle and the LSO sell a travel package to Hungary and Spain

Roy Westbrook, 18th January

Opening her LSO Artist Portrait series, Patricia Kopatchinskaja plays Béla Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto before Rattle and the LSO whisk the audience to Falla’s Andalusia.

****1

Vivid Janáček and flowing Bruckner from Rattle and the BRSO

Roy Westbrook, 12th November

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conclude the UK leg of their European tour at the Barbican, pairing Janáček’s Taras Bulba with Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.

*****

Sir Simon Rattle opens the Bavarian RSO tour on his home turf

Rohan Shotton, 10th November

Sir Simon Rattle returns to Liverpool to conduct his new orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Schumann and Stravinsky.

*****

To the Moon and back: Janáček’s Mr Brouček visits Berlin

Elena Luporini, 16th March

Robert Carsen's new production of Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr Brouček for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden scores a well-deserved success thanks to a stellar – or rather, lunar – conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

*****

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.