Originally, Christian Thielemann would have Concert with Julia Fischer and the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden in the Isarphilharmonie. Would he have conducted with such composure? This is noticeable with David Afkham at the conductor's podium. In the case of Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" Overture, it seems that he is mainly concerned with softening the sound and paying particular attention to the quiet, feather-light quality. Beautiful: if it arises from such a soft murmur, the gradual compression of this composition is all the stronger....
When he arrived at the Hallesches Tor in the autumn of 1743, at the age of 14, coming from Dessau, his native town, he is said to have answered the question of the guard what he wanted in Berlin: "Learn." In the large, loosely biographically structured exhibition that the Jewish Museum Berlin is currently devoting to the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, the first room is dedicated to this movement from Dessau to Berlin. The curators Inka Bertz and Thomas Lackmann update...
[ad_1] When Max Reinhardt, the co-founder of the Salzburg Festival, filmed "Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1935, he naturally had Felix Mendelssohn's music edited for the soundtrack. Since its composition a hundred years earlier, the music with the famous wedding march had become inextricably linked with Shakespeare's drama, so to speak it had become part of his own. In the meantime it has lost its place in theatrical productions because there are hardly any entire orchestras available and its formal specifications...
