Posts Tagged ‘Gasteig’
Tuesday, March 20th, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 20, 2018 MUNICH — Judging from reports around the country here, the Houston Symphony Orchestra today returns to Texas mission-accomplished. The clarity of its tone colors, the exuberance of its brass section, the articulate luster of its strings — all have been remarked upon during an eleven-day tour to busy […]
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Tags: Andrés Orozco Estrada, Bernstein, Gasteig, Hilary Hahn, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Kritik, Megan Conley, München, MünchenMusik, Munich, Review, Serenade, West Side Story
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 21, 2018 MUNICH — Putting box-office steadiness ahead of artistic achievement, the city council here voted this morning to extend by five years Valery Gergiev’s contract as Chefdirigent of the civically run Munich Philharmonic, as requested by the orchestra’s managers. The move doubles the Russian’s tenure, to encompass the seasons […]
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Tags: Commentary, Gasteig, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Valery Gergiev
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Wednesday, January 31st, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 31, 2018 MUNICH — Contrary to a London blog report yesterday, nothing has been “locked down” with regard to a contract extension for Valery Gergiev at the Munich Philharmonic, though things are indeed moving in that direction, for practical more than artistic reasons. What has happened is that Hans-Georg Küppers, […]
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Tags: Andris Nelsons, Dieter Reiter, Gasteig, Hans-Georg Küppers, Kirill Petrenko, Mariss Jansons, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, News, Paul Müller, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski, Vladimir Putin
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Friday, January 12th, 2018
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 12, 2018 MUNICH — Against the medical odds, perhaps, Mariss Jansons turns seventy-five on Sunday, still adored by his favorite orchestra. Bavarian Broadcasting marks the occasion with a 44-minute video portrait, Im Zeichen der Musik, or In the Music’s Character, freely watchable. Last evening here at the Gasteig, a subscription […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Beethoven, BR, BR Chor, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Gasteig, Genia Kühmeier, Gerhild Romberger, Howard Arman, Hummel, Kritik, Luca Pisaroni, Mariss Jansons, Martin Angerer, Maximilian Schmitt, München, Munich, Review, Stravinsky, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphony in Three Movements
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Friday, October 27th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: October 27, 2017 MUNICH — Though it will be built on the wrong side of the wrong train station, Munich’s much-debated, much-delayed new concert hall crept toward reality today with the announcement of a winning design. Bregenz-based Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten secured first place in the competition for the venue, now dubbed […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Commentary, Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten, Dieter Reiter, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Horst Seehofer, Konzertsaal München, München, Münchner Konzerthaus, Munich, Neues Odeon, News, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
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Sunday, September 24th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 24, 2017 MUNICH — He had to abandon his Munich Philharmonic cycle, a cosmic Fifth being one of its relics, but Christian Thielemann’s Dresden cycle* of the numbered Bruckner symphonies has progressed smoothly to near completion, and with video. Oddly parts of it have been filmed here at the Gasteig […]
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Tags: Anton Bruckner, Bell’Arte, Bruch, C Major, Christian Thielemann, Dresden Staatskapelle, DVD, Gasteig, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich Philharmonic, Nikolaj Znaider, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden, Stiftsbasilika St Florian, Valery Gergiev
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 30, 2016 MUNICH — As fluent as Valery Gergiev is in Prokofiev, he had precious little to say with a cycle of the symphonies here this month. Fluency meant wise tempos, a feel for the boldness in the scores’ structures, a facility in cuing the two orchestras on duty. It […]
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Tags: Alexandra Conunova, Debussy, Gasteig, Mariinsky Orchestra, Medici TV, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Prokofiev, Review, Valery Gergiev, Vilde Frang, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yu-Chien Tseng
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: September 3, 2016 MUNICH — Visiting orchestras cost more for concertgoers. But why exactly? Several factors govern ticket prices on tours, often mitigating each other, and all have a bearing this month as three orchestras from this city hit the road: — Bavarian State Orchestra (BStO) with Kirill Petrenko, general music […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Berlin, Bonn, Commentary, Daniel Harding, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Gasteig, Herkulessaal, Kirill Petrenko, KKL, Lucerne, Luxembourg, Luzern, Milan, München, MünchenMusik, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Musikfest Berlin, National Theater, NBS, Paris, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Teatro alla Scala, Valery Gergiev
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Monday, July 18th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 18, 2016 MUNICH — Late to an unprofitable game, the Munich Philharmonic on Friday announced a new recording label of its own, “MPhil,” in partnership with Warner Classics. Its purpose? To broaden the audience. Content will be sourced live, mainly from concerts at the orchestra’s Gasteig home. But archive releases […]
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Tags: Anton Bruckner, CD, Gasteig, Mahler, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich Philharmonic, News, Valery Gergiev, Warner Classics
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2015
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 30, 2015 MUNICH — The first-movement cadenza exploded out of its context in Daniil Trifonov’s novel reading here Dec. 14 of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. This meant, among other compromises, a slight suppression of everything that preceded it, including the 130-measure development. Trifonov understated the folksy first subject and sped […]
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Tags: Alla reminiscenza, Andreas Korn, Daniil Trifonov, Gasteig, Le poème de l’extase, Medtner, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Rachmaninoff, Review, Scriabin, Valery Gergiev
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