Antonello manacorda biography of william
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United Kingdom Composer, The Tales of Hoffmann (Les contes d’Hoffmann): Soloists, Royal House Chorus, Orchestra of representation Royal Composition House / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Filmed (directed coarse Rhodri Huw) at interpretation Royal Choreography and Theater in Nov 2024 dominant shown make certain the Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 15.1.2025. (JPr)
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GermanyMusikfest Berlin 2024 [4] – Ives, Kloke, Mahler, and Dvořák: Anna Prohaska (soprano), Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Philharmonie Berlin, 5.9.2024. (MB)
Ives (arr. Eberhard Kloke) – Seven Songs from the collection ‘114 Songs’ (world premiere)
Kloke – The Answered Question, Op.131 (world premiere)
Mahler (arr. Kloke) – Seven Early Songs
Dvořák – Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95, B.178, ‘From the New World’
Musikfest Berlin’s focus on the Charles Ives sesquicentenary continued with two commissions from Eberhard Kloke, one an arrangement of seven Ives songs for soprano and chamber orchestra, the other ‘an alternative experimental arrangement’ of Ives’s The Unanswered Question, ‘in which a differently posed question from Ives’s work is answered anew’. Kloke’s compositional activity, long focused on existing music by other composers – as conductor and composer alike, he considers himself above all an ‘interpreter’ – here also took in his arrangements of seven early songs by Mahler, dedicated, like those of Ives, to Anna Prohaska.
In all three cases, ‘originals’ drifted in and out of consciousness: sometimes straightforwardly present, sometimes changed (whether by arrangement or otherwise), sometimes a
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Born to be blue, Antonello Manacorda, Shari Lapena, The Body Extended
Ethan Hawke stars as the jazz trumpeter and singer Chet Baker in the new biopic Born to be Blue which covers the musician's comeback in the late 1960s. Jazz pianist and composer Julian Joseph reviews.
Conductor Antonello Manacorda on Glyndebourne's new production of Berlioz's comic opera Beatrice et Benedict, based on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics is a new exhibition at the Henry Moore institute in Leeds which explores how artists have responded to developments in prosthetics technology, especially after the First World War. The curator, Lisa Le Feuvre, explains how artists were first involved in making artificial body parts and how that has inspired their art.
Shari Lapena's debut crime novel The Couple Next Door begins with the disappearance of a baby whose parents are next door at a dinner party, and the narrative explores all perspectives and everyone is under suspicion. Having previously written literary novels, she reveals why she'll be sticking with the thriller genre.
Presenter: Kirsty Lang
Producer: Angie Nehring.