The Easter Festival in Lucerne, in the German-speaking region of Switzerland, started in the 15th century and ran annually for hundreds of years. In the 19th century, as Richard Wagner was living nearby, composing his opera Die Meistersinger, he proposed a summer music festival on the idyllic banks of Lake Lucerne — a dream that…
The audience energy soared Thursday in Symphony Hall for an unannounced event: Nathalie Stutzmann’s longtime record label, Warner Classics, had set up a metallic forest of tall silver and black microphone stands throughout the stage, with wires all over the floor. Audio engineers for the Paris-based music conglomerate were in town to record the Atlanta…
Johannes Brahms’ four symphonies, broad-shouldered and public-pleasing, can feel ubiquitous in the concert hall. Yet the composer’s deepest thoughts and most tender emotions lay in his writing for voice, his settings of poetry to music. And it’s where the composer devoted much of his energy: When you line up his complete scores on a shelf,…
Thursday in Symphony Hall, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra covered a lot of territory but never seemed to find its own place. The star of the evening, Amjad Ali Khan, is the world’s reigning sarod performer. Almost 80 years old, he’s a legend in the Hindustani classical tradition, and it’s said that his ancestors invented the…
Saturday afternoon at Spivey Hall, a powerhouse duo — celebrated German cellist Johannes Moser and celebrated Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin — performed a mostly French program that didn’t fit their style but offered an abundance of, well, powerhouse playing. They were at their virtuosic best in abstract expressionist music that the pianist himself composed in…
Nathalie Stutzmann had a rather spectacular spring and summer, garnering rave reviews for her Mozart at New York’s Metropolitan Opera — Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute — and, in Germany, for Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival. Newspaper and word-of-mouth reviews for her opera conducting ranged from high praise to ecstatic. One friend, an…
Kinnara opened its 15th season Saturday at Emory University’s Glenn Memorial Church by revisiting music performed along its journey to become perhaps Atlanta’s best professional chamber choir. The ensemble came together in New Jersey with graduates from the Westminster Choir College at Rider University and officially relocated to Atlanta in 2019 — although they’re flexible…
Opening its 33rd season, Spivey Hall remains perhaps the best concert venue — and concert series — in the Southeast. At this jewel-box recital hall, all 400 seats of it, the programming can seem relatively independent — or less box-office dependent — and attracts substantive stars from the classical and jazz worlds as well as…
One of Atlanta’s marquee spaces for classical music, Emory University’s Candler Concert Series opened its 53rd season Friday at the Schwartz Center with the Balourdet Quartet and guest violist Jordan Bak performing a three-course meal of filet mignon: masterpiece string quintets by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Dense, rich in protein and brimming with savory flavor,…
Music is the universal language. We love that feel-good cliché — it’s a small world, after all — except when it’s not true. For Thursday’s Atlanta Symphony Orchestra concert, a Czech conductor programmed music from his homeland, including a beloved symphony, a masterpiece concerto and a long-belated local premiere — all music that speaks sharply…
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