The unclassifiable Patricia Kopatchinskaja directs her own arrangement for chamber orchestra of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden quartet.
At 59:00 on this video, she vocalises the song.
Watch here. It’s, er, different
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These were Berthold’s Mediterranean Songs, written for the outstanding English tenor Richard Lewis – a great Mahlerian artist who was unfairly eclipsed by Peter Pears.
This is not a mathematical league table but a general indication of the number of dates artists are getting in this bleak landscape, some by reputation others by their own initiative.
1 Daniel Barenboim
Recitals and orchestra concerts in Berln, Salzburg, Spain and more
2 Renaud Capuçon
Salzburg and all over France and central Europe
3 Paavo Järvi
Has his own festival in Estonia and an orchestra in Zurich, where they are letting audiences in.
4 Valery Gergiev
Runs a massive touring operation, regardless of high Covid numbers in his troupe
5 Igor Levit
Beethoven recitals in Salzburg, Berlin and more
6 Simon Rattle
In Munich, Prague, Birmingham
7 Domingo
Currently on a whistle-stop Italian tour.
8 Pat Kop
Recitals around Switzerland, a Salzburg apparance, recordings
9 Jonas Kaufmann
Recitals and first-call jump-in at major opera houses, top draw in The Met Stars Live.
10 Nicola Benedetti
Apart from solo appearances, she is running ensemble events through her foundation (see below).
The Virtual Mini Sessions, presented by the Benedetti Foundation, were held for the first time throughout July and August, and continue in September presenting short, focused workshops designed to provide in depth and detailed exploration on a wide variety of topics. The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective musicians Tom Poster (piano), Elena Urioste (violin), Savitri Grier (violin), Rosalind Ventris (viola), Laura van der Heijden (cello) and Joseph Conyers (double bass) present the Benedetti Foundation’s first virtual chamber music weekend on 26 and 27 September.
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
There are certain composers whom I need to hear on a regular basis or I suffer withdrawal pangs. Not Mahler, who is so well lodged in memory that I can call any theme to mind without effort. Nor Beethoven, who I’m living with all year after breakfast. But definitely Shostakovich, and not far behind….
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The first concert of live music at Leeds Town Hall will be a programme of Mendelssohn, Schubert and Mozart, performed by the Orchestra of Opera North and tenor Nicholas Watts, at 6.00pm next Friday 28 August.
The concert will last approximately an hour, with no interval, and as part of the safety measures there will be no bars or refreshment stations open in the Town Hall.
Tickets go on sale from Monday.
The Jacksonville Symphony will reopen Jacoby Symphony Hall from September 26.
Seating capacity has been cut from nearly 1,800 to 582. Patrons will be required to wear masks in most parts of the Times-Union Building, including Jacoby Symphony Hall, and there will be no intermissions at any Symphony concert.
The latest plea on behalf of Sigfried Mauser, the Munich concervatory chief who was convicted of sexual assaults on several women, is that he has a heart problem and his life would be at risk if he went to jail.
Mauser, who has been sentenced to 2 years and 9 months, is pulling every legal dodge in the book.
But the fact that he has stayed free and can still afford the priciest lawyers in Germany suggests that powerful friends at the musical summits are working to save him from justice.
Mauser, 65, told BILD magazine: ‘Due to the high level of stress over the years, I am now physically and mentally very weak. I have received no justice in Germany!’
A single case of Covid-19 at the Grafenegg Festival has provokoed widespread testing.
Among thse found positive was the prominent Austrian film director Robert Dornhelm, who is now in hospital.
The festival continues.
Austria is having its highest Covid spike this week since the April peak.
The conductor Randall Fleischer was found dead in bed by his wife at their Sherman Oaks home, outside Los Angeles, yesterday. He was 61 and was in the throes of planning a virtual gala concert.
Fleischer was music director of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra in Ohio for the past 13 years. He also spent 20 weeks a year with the Anchorage Symphony in Alaska.
