Harteros and Rieger breeze through a “Solistenabend” of Wolf and Strauss at the Staatsoper The duo toss of three encores before breezing off into the night, sending their audience off to their beds, already completely and utterly satisfied. READ MORE
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky’s recital delights the Staatsoper audience At the cloakroom, it was already clear that this evening was not going to be standard fare at the Staatsoper. Russian was in the air, and Russians had bought their fair share of the tickets to this completely sold out
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Michael Schade and Justus Zeyen in Vienna’s Konzerthaus Michael Schade and Justus Zeyen perform songs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, Josef Marx, Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf in Vienna’s Konzerthaus. READ MORE
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Making it look easy: Simon Keenlyside and Graham Johnson’s Liederabend in Vienna Simon Keenlyside and Graham Johnson’s concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus featured songs by Schoenberg and his pupil Hanns Eisler, as well as Britten, Wolf, Schubert and Brahms. These consummate artists made a difficult program seem easy to
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Hugo Wolf’s complete Italienisches Liederbuch at the Vienna Konzerthaus The evening began on a fun note: Juliane Banse’s voice rang out in a pre-recorded message, reminding the audience that as far as she knew, cell phones and classical music did not generally mix. After a community chuckle, the audience
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Russian songs of fate, love and death at the Staatsoper: Ferruccio Furlanetto and Igor Tchetuev Ferruccio Furlanetto, dressed in black, stands in the curve of the piano behind him, silhouetted again a blood red, velvet curtain. He raises his head at the opening piano tones and begins
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“Music as a memory” Walter Arlen — A lecture recital Walter Arlen, in conversation with Michael Kerbler: Memory of the November 1938 pogroms A joint event with the Austrian Parliament, Barbara Prammer M.A. (President of the National Council), the City of Vienna and exil.arte. The event takes place in cooperation with radio
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Mexican tenor Emilio Pons and American pianist Chanda VanderHart perform Franz Schubert’s Lieder live in recital at DeDoelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This performance was part of a combination of an evening masterclass held by Jard van Nes with other participants of the Mahler and Schubert Masterclass (April 2011 at
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