Saturday, June 21st, 2014
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 21, 2014 SCHWETZINGEN — The right setting makes all the difference. At the palace here, a probing six-week spring music festival mirrors the scale and serenity of its context, courtesy each year of Stuttgart broadcaster SWR. Two days last month afforded a sampling of the extended activities: the melodic Arcadian […]
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Tags: Anna Lucia Richter, Brahms, Christian Tetzlaff, Claudia Rohrbach, Concerto Köln, Francisco Fernández Rueda, Hasse, Holger Falk, Junghänel, Lars Vogt, Leucippo, Mannheim, Marx, Michael Gees, Netta Or, Review, Richard Strauss, Schwetzingen, Schwetzingen Festival, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Südwest-Rundfunk, SWR, Tanja Tetzlaff, Tatjana Gürbaca, Vasily Khoroshev, Virpi Raisanen
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Friday, July 6th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid A timpanist just tall enough to rumble his mallets over the kettle drums stares out from beneath his specs as Lars Vogt slides onto the bench for the opening chords of Grieg’s Piano Concerto. “I like that sound!” says Music Director Donato Cabrera to the young percussionist as he walks out into […]
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Tags: Alasdair Neale, ascap, Berlin, Donato Cabrera, Grieg, John Adams, Lars Vogt, Liam Boisset, Mahler, Michael Tilson Thomas, Midori, Omar Shelly, Philharmonie, Ronald Gallman, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, Shaker Loops, Sir Simon Rattle, Yo-Yo Ma
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