Das Bach-Archiv Leipzig stellt neue online-Angebote für einen breiten Interessentenkreis bereit. Mit ‘Bach interaktiv’ beschreitet es neue Wege der digitalen Forschungsvermittlung. Read More →
Ein Hund ist der eigentliche Hauptdarsteller in dieser Aufzeichnung von Offenbachs ‘Orphée aux Enfers’ aus der Brüsseler Monnaie: Zerberus, der alles kommentiert und lenkt. Thomas Stache spielt ihn und in Pausen gibt er mit gekonnt platziertem ‘Wuff, Wuff!’ die Einsätze. Geht es um Rasanz und Spielfreude, dann können seine ‘unverkleideten’ Kollegen durchaus mithalten. Dale Duesing etwa, der als Himmelsvater mit irdischen Gelüsten rasant über die Bühne flitzt. Oder Alexandru Badea als schmachtender Latin-Lover Orphée, der seine Geigen-Soli selbst fiedelt. Und wenn Merkur Franck Cassard als fliegende Klatsch-Spalten-Journaille hereinschwebt und Schmierblätter regnen lässt, dann hält es einen kaum noch im gemütlichen Fernseh-Sessel. Read More →
Martin Luthers Bibelübersetzung ins Deutsche hat nicht nur religionsgeschichtlich Meilensteine gesetzt, sie hat zudem einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur deutschen Sprachgeschichte geleistet, und sie steht letztendlich am Beginn des deutschen Kirchenliedes, wie es heute im Gesangbuch “Gotteslob” zusammengefasst ist. Read More →
The Queen Elisabeth Competition is currently holding a competition for singers from 14 to 31 May. After the first eliminatory rounds, the 12 finalists have been announced. Read More →
Peacefully, in his ninetieth year, conductor Franz-Paul Decker died on Monday, May 19. A native of the Rhineland, he studied composition and conducting at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik and was a graduate of the University of Cologne. He made his conducting début with the Cologne Opera at the young age of 22. Four years later, he was called to Wiesbaden where he undertook the musical direction of both the Wiesbaden Symphony and the Staatsoper. Read More →
The International Chamber Music Competition in Osaka, Japan, has published the results of ots tow major categories. Read More →
The baton used by Maestro Bernard Haitink (85) during his chief-conductorship of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is currently up for auction! The baton was generously donated in support of the fundraising charity project ‘Klassiek Geeft’ (‘El Sistema Holland’), initiated by Dutch Classical Radio (Radio4). The project aims to offer every child at primary school the experience of playing an instrument, in the belief that they can gain huge social benefits by playing in an orchestra or ensemble. Haitink’s custom-made baton measures 35 centimeters in length and is made out of balsa wood. At the moment we post this news, the highest bid was (only) 390 Euros. More information here. Bidding closes on Friday 23 May 2014, 4 p.m.
Sotheby’s has sold the autograph of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony for 1,202,500 GBP (€ 1.475.000) to a private collector. This autograph of 320 pages is a full orchestral score, containing many differences from later sources, notated in black ink on up to twenty-four staves per page, an extensively-worked manuscript, with numerous deletions, corrections, erasures and annotations throughout, including a few bars of new music, alterations to the main themes and many revisions to the orchestration. Read More →
Maestro Chichon, where do you see the DRP currently in Germany’s orchestra landscape?
I see the DRP as one of the leading radio orchestras of Germany and definitely the leading orchestra of the region. The question now of course is how we continue to increase that quality and how we make this orchestra better known throughout Germany. This is something that is presently being discussed in detail and it will be exciting and interesting to see where it will leads us. Read More →