For all my anticipation seeing Simon Rattle onstage with the Philadelphia Orchestra last night at Carnegie Hall, it was soprano Barbara Hannigan who unapologetically stole the show. Hannigan, who hails from Canada, is one of today's most sought-after contemporary musicians, with over 70 world premieres to her credit. She is also one of today's most charismatic singers, known for writhing about the stage like a woman possessed.
Hannigan's calling card is Mysteries of the Macabre, a three-part aria taken from Gyorgy Ligeti's absurdist opera Le grande macabre. Hannigan, portraying the Chief of the Secret Political Police, wore a black wig, lycra dress and thigh-high boots with four-inch heels, which she used at one point to kick Rattle off the podium. Rattle, who seemed thoroughly entranced by Hannigan's antics, playfully returned the favor.
Prior to the Ligeti, Hannigan sang Three Fragments from Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck. If anything, her appearance was even more frightening: with her hair flying in all directions from her lean and hungry face, she looked like some sort of desperate street urchin, ready to start frothing at the mouth. It was impossible to take your eyes off of her, which almost made you overlook her clear, exacting voice.
Not to be overlooked, the Philadelphia Orchestra played with passion and ardor, serving as a potent reminder of this formidable ensemble's chops. Anton Webern's Passacaglia, Op. 1, offered both brutal intensity and passionate lyricism, with the Philadelphia bass players overpowering the hall.
Rattle closed out the night with Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, a well-worn chestnut which—even after all these years—seems to bring him great joy. Conducting without a score, he exhorted the players to dig deep, bringing out all of Beethoven's fury and ecstasy. In this music at least, Rattle is still the same wide-eyed boy he's always been—only more so.
More pics at the photo page.
About time the Rattles start studying unknown master repertoire. They, the master conductors and soloists sit in golden chairs made by the central repertoire still cahing taxes on these chesnuts.
Hannigan proves to be more far more… today.
Haitink keeps on bragging about Mahler and Bruckner. Rattle without score of the Pastorale. Jezus, what else. Gergiev though still needs his Tsjaikovsky scores.
Incredible. Abbaddo, Bernstein, Barenboim all play from the heart. They were pianists. Afvantage. Eschenbach even conducts , as Abbado did , every Mahler from heart.
The real drama is the music industry killing his own masters like Wetz. Watch Wetz, post brucknerian on youtube.
Tens of master scores ae left in dust.
Our “great” musiciancs despise them. Managers only need a star and a well known piece.
How many youtube listeners on youtube unsung masterworks are shocked of the absence of many of the scores.
The labels CPO recordings hardly reach the big stages.
Art, paintings, sculptures of fin de siecle and great art are worshipped around the world.
Here, Rattle snd.. the new generation again seem to be ashamed to play a 1 hour Wetz masterly conceived symphony.
A 3000 very thin pages 2 volume french edition exists with all piano music known.
A young pianist, recording all Lyapounovs piano works carries this large double volume everywhere around. Finally. Challenges, new unheard work… surprising audiences… all this absent. The Pastorale. My God. What a let off.
No. I see no new generation studying again what should be studied. Conservatories sufficated them with the ever present all time great classics.
Simon, Papano, Tzeguin, Petrenko.. Managers.
Do a Trummp but on youtube and what you will discover on unsung nasterworks and KuhlauDelfing2 will open your eyes.
Or listen to CPO and hear those wonderful little known german gem orchestras recording the neglected gold.
Step out of your private jet. Stop cashing. Start making fresh new music again.
There is far more than the 3 Bs or Mozart…
Even Ferdinand Ries, Beethovens secretary , will surprise you, how bold he was.
Stop this more than a century turnkng merry go round. Step off,
Rattle, same old wide eyed boy. But a boy who stopped studying…
like soccerplayers… We don’t need those Beeyhoven, Mozart, contempories…
Classical music , and I followed it for 40 years, is dead.
I cannot attend concerts, and glad I am.
And I found the 3000 pages. Of which perhaps 10% is played.
Anton Rubinsteins piano concertos, never heard off. Aso. An immense world to discover.
And what is a masterpiece and which not. Subjective…
Relistening 100 times a beautiful Onslow symphony will make you want to hear it in concert.
No. Finished. The attitude like in the pictural art is totally absent.
It is as if we watch and listen to Rembrand, Da Vinci, Van Gogh and some other gems. And this year after year.
Wile in the pictural art new or discovered masterpieces raise like mushrooms out of the ground in exhibitions.
Poor Rattle.
About time the Rattles start studying unknown master repertoire. They, the master conductors and soloists sit in golden chairs made by the central repertoire still cahing taxes on these chesnuts.
Hannigan proves to be more far more… today.
Haitink keeps on bragging about Mahler and Bruckner. Rattle without score of the Pastorale. Jezus, what else. Gergiev though still needs his Tsjaikovsky scores.
Incredible. Abbaddo, Bernstein, Barenboim all play from the heart. They were pianists. Afvantage. Eschenbach even conducts , as Abbado did , every Mahler from heart.
The real drama is the music industry killing his own masters like Wetz. Watch Wetz, post brucknerian on youtube.
Tens of master scores ae left in dust.
Our “great” musiciancs despise them. Managers only need a star and a well known piece.
How many youtube listeners on youtube unsung masterworks are shocked of the absence of many of the scores.
The labels CPO recordings hardly reach the big stages.
Art, paintings, sculptures of fin de siecle and great art are worshipped around the world.
Here, Rattle snd.. the new generation again seem to be ashamed to play a 1 hour Wetz masterly conceived symphony.
A 3000 very thin pages 2 volume french edition exists with all piano music known.
A young pianist, recording all Lyapounovs piano works carries this large double volume everywhere around. Finally. Challenges, new unheard work… surprising audiences… all this absent. The Pastorale. My God. What a let off.
No. I see no new generation studying again what should be studied. Conservatories sufficated them with the ever present all time great classics.
Simon, Papano, Tzeguin, Petrenko.. Managers.
Do a Trummp but on youtube and what you will discover on unsung nasterworks and KuhlauDelfing2 will open your eyes.
Or listen to CPO and hear those wonderful little known german gem orchestras recording the neglected gold.
Step out of your private jet. Stop cashing. Start making fresh new music again.
There is far more than the 3 Bs or Mozart…
Even Ferdinand Ries, Beethovens secretary , will surprise you, how bold he was.
Stop this more than a century turnkng merry go round. Step off,
Rattle, same old wide eyed boy. But a boy who stopped studying…
like soccerplayers… We don’t need those Beeyhoven, Mozart, contempories…
Classical music , and I followed it for 40 years, is dead.
I cannot attend concerts, and glad I am.
And I found the 3000 pages. Of which perhaps 10% is played.
Anton Rubinsteins piano concertos, never heard off. Aso. An immense world to discover.
And what is a masterpiece and which not. Subjective…
Relistening 100 times a beautiful Onslow symphony will make you want to hear it in concert.
No. Finished. The attitude like in the pictural art is totally absent.
It is as if we watch and listen to Rembrand, Da Vinci, Van Gogh and some other gems. And this year after year.
Wile in the pictural art new or discovered masterpieces raise like mushrooms out of the ground in exhibitions.
Poor Rattle.
About time the Rattles start studying unknown master repertoire. They, the master conductors and soloists sit in golden chairs made by the central repertoire still cahing taxes on these chesnuts.
Hannigan proves to be more far more… today.
Haitink keeps on bragging about Mahler and Bruckner. Rattle without score of the Pastorale. Jezus, what else. Gergiev though still needs his Tsjaikovsky scores.
Incredible. Abbaddo, Bernstein, Barenboim all play from the heart. They were pianists. Afvantage. Eschenbach even conducts , as Abbado did , every Mahler from heart.
The real drama is the music industry killing his own masters like Wetz. Watch Wetz, post brucknerian on youtube.
Tens of master scores ae left in dust.
Our “great” musiciancs despise them. Managers only need a star and a well known piece.
How many youtube listeners on youtube unsung masterworks are shocked of the absence of many of the scores.
The labels CPO recordings hardly reach the big stages.
Art, paintings, sculptures of fin de siecle and great art are worshipped around the world.
Here, Rattle snd.. the new generation again seem to be ashamed to play a 1 hour Wetz masterly conceived symphony.
A 3000 very thin pages 2 volume french edition exists with all piano music known.
A young pianist, recording all Lyapounovs piano works carries this large double volume everywhere around. Finally. Challenges, new unheard work… surprising audiences… all this absent. The Pastorale. My God. What a let off.
No. I see no new generation studying again what should be studied. Conservatories sufficated them with the ever present all time great classics.
Simon, Papano, Tzeguin, Petrenko.. Managers.
Do a Trummp but on youtube and what you will discover on unsung nasterworks and KuhlauDelfing2 will open your eyes.
Or listen to CPO and hear those wonderful little known german gem orchestras recording the neglected gold.
Step out of your private jet. Stop cashing. Start making fresh new music again.
There is far more than the 3 Bs or Mozart…
Even Ferdinand Ries, Beethovens secretary , will surprise you, how bold he was.
Stop this more than a century turnkng merry go round. Step off,
Rattle, same old wide eyed boy. But a boy who stopped studying…
like soccerplayers… We don’t need those Beeyhoven, Mozart, contempories…
Classical music , and I followed it for 40 years, is dead.
I cannot attend concerts, and glad I am.
And I found the 3000 pages. Of which perhaps 10% is played.
Anton Rubinsteins piano concertos, never heard off. Aso. An immense world to discover.
And what is a masterpiece and which not. Subjective…
Relistening 100 times a beautiful Onslow symphony will make you want to hear it in concert.
No. Finished. The attitude like in the pictural art is totally absent.
It is as if we watch and listen to Rembrand, Da Vinci, Van Gogh and some other gems. And this year after year.
Wile in the pictural art new or discovered masterpieces raise like mushrooms out of the ground in exhibitions.
Poor Rattle.
About time the Rattles start studying unknown master repertoire. They, the master conductors and soloists sit in golden chairs made by the central repertoire still cahing taxes on these chesnuts.
Hannigan proves to be more far more… today.
Haitink keeps on bragging about Mahler and Bruckner. Rattle without score of the Pastorale. Jezus, what else. Gergiev though still needs his Tsjaikovsky scores.
Incredible. Abbaddo, Bernstein, Barenboim all play from the heart. They were pianists. Afvantage. Eschenbach even conducts , as Abbado did , every Mahler from heart.
The real drama is the music industry killing his own masters like Wetz. Watch Wetz, post brucknerian on youtube.
Tens of master scores ae left in dust.
Our “great” musiciancs despise them. Managers only need a star and a well known piece.
How many youtube listeners on youtube unsung masterworks are shocked of the absence of many of the scores.
The labels CPO recordings hardly reach the big stages.
Art, paintings, sculptures of fin de siecle and great art are worshipped around the world.
Here, Rattle snd.. the new generation again seem to be ashamed to play a 1 hour Wetz masterly conceived symphony.
A 3000 very thin pages 2 volume french edition exists with all piano music known.
A young pianist, recording all Lyapounovs piano works carries this large double volume everywhere around. Finally. Challenges, new unheard work… surprising audiences… all this absent. The Pastorale. My God. What a let off.
No. I see no new generation studying again what should be studied. Conservatories sufficated them with the ever present all time great classics.
Simon, Papano, Tzeguin, Petrenko.. Managers.
Do a Trummp but on youtube and what you will discover on unsung nasterworks and KuhlauDelfing2 will open your eyes.
Or listen to CPO and hear those wonderful little known german gem orchestras recording the neglected gold.
Step out of your private jet. Stop cashing. Start making fresh new music again.
There is far more than the 3 Bs or Mozart…
Even Ferdinand Ries, Beethovens secretary , will surprise you, how bold he was.
Stop this more than a century turnkng merry go round. Step off,
Rattle, same old wide eyed boy. But a boy who stopped studying…
like soccerplayers… We don’t need those Beeyhoven, Mozart, contempories…
Classical music , and I followed it for 40 years, is dead.
I cannot attend concerts, and glad I am.
And I found the 3000 pages. Of which perhaps 10% is played.
Anton Rubinsteins piano concertos, never heard off. Aso. An immense world to discover.
And what is a masterpiece and which not. Subjective…
Relistening 100 times a beautiful Onslow symphony will make you want to hear it in concert.
No. Finished. The attitude like in the pictural art is totally absent.
It is as if we watch and listen to Rembrand, Da Vinci, Van Gogh and some other gems. And this year after year.
Wile in the pictural art new or discovered masterpieces raise like mushrooms out of the ground in exhibitions.
Poor Rattle.
About time the Rattles start studying unknown master repertoire. They, the master conductors and soloists sit in golden chairs made by the central repertoire still cahing taxes on these chesnuts.
Hannigan proves to be more far more… today.
Haitink keeps on bragging about Mahler and Bruckner. Rattle without score of the Pastorale. Jezus, what else. Gergiev though still needs his Tsjaikovsky scores.
Incredible. Abbaddo, Bernstein, Barenboim all play from the heart. They were pianists. Afvantage. Eschenbach even conducts , as Abbado did , every Mahler from heart.
The real drama is the music industry killing his own masters like Wetz. Watch Wetz, post brucknerian on youtube.
Tens of master scores ae left in dust.
Our “great” musiciancs despise them. Managers only need a star and a well known piece.
How many youtube listeners on youtube unsung masterworks are shocked of the absence of many of the scores.
The labels CPO recordings hardly reach the big stages.
Art, paintings, sculptures of fin de siecle and great art are worshipped around the world.
Here, Rattle snd.. the new generation again seem to be ashamed to play a 1 hour Wetz masterly conceived symphony.
A 3000 very thin pages 2 volume french edition exists with all piano music known.
A young pianist, recording all Lyapounovs piano works carries this large double volume everywhere around. Finally. Challenges, new unheard work… surprising audiences… all this absent. The Pastorale. My God. What a let off.
No. I see no new generation studying again what should be studied. Conservatories sufficated them with the ever present all time great classics.
Simon, Papano, Tzeguin, Petrenko.. Managers.
Do a Trummp but on youtube and what you will discover on unsung nasterworks and KuhlauDelfing2 will open your eyes.
Or listen to CPO and hear those wonderful little known german gem orchestras recording the neglected gold.
Step out of your private jet. Stop cashing. Start making fresh new music again.
There is far more than the 3 Bs or Mozart…
Even Ferdinand Ries, Beethovens secretary , will surprise you, how bold he was.
Stop this more than a century turnkng merry go round. Step off,
Rattle, same old wide eyed boy. But a boy who stopped studying…
like soccerplayers… We don’t need those Beeyhoven, Mozart, contempories…
Classical music , and I followed it for 40 years, is dead.
I cannot attend concerts, and glad I am.
And I found the 3000 pages. Of which perhaps 10% is played.
Anton Rubinsteins piano concertos, never heard off. Aso. An immense world to discover.
And what is a masterpiece and which not. Subjective…
Relistening 100 times a beautiful Onslow symphony will make you want to hear it in concert.
No. Finished. The attitude like in the pictural art is totally absent.
It is as if we watch and listen to Rembrand, Da Vinci, Van Gogh and some other gems. And this year after year.
Wile in the pictural art new or discovered masterpieces raise like mushrooms out of the ground in exhibitions.
Poor Rattle.
About time the Rattles start studying unknown master repertoire. They, the master conductors and soloists sit in golden chairs made by the central repertoire still cahing taxes on these chesnuts.
Hannigan proves to be more far more… today.
Haitink keeps on bragging about Mahler and Bruckner. Rattle without score of the Pastorale. Jezus, what else. Gergiev though still needs his Tsjaikovsky scores.
Incredible. Abbaddo, Bernstein, Barenboim all play from the heart. They were pianists. Afvantage. Eschenbach even conducts , as Abbado did , every Mahler from heart.
The real drama is the music industry killing his own masters like Wetz. Watch Wetz, post brucknerian on youtube.
Tens of master scores ae left in dust.
Our “great” musiciancs despise them. Managers only need a star and a well known piece.
How many youtube listeners on youtube unsung masterworks are shocked of the absence of many of the scores.
The labels CPO recordings hardly reach the big stages.
Art, paintings, sculptures of fin de siecle and great art are worshipped around the world.
Here, Rattle snd.. the new generation again seem to be ashamed to play a 1 hour Wetz masterly conceived symphony.
A 3000 very thin pages 2 volume french edition exists with all piano music known.
A young pianist, recording all Lyapounovs piano works carries this large double volume everywhere around. Finally. Challenges, new unheard work… surprising audiences… all this absent. The Pastorale. My God. What a let off.
No. I see no new generation studying again what should be studied. Conservatories sufficated them with the ever present all time great classics.
Simon, Papano, Tzeguin, Petrenko.. Managers.
Do a Trummp but on youtube and what you will discover on unsung nasterworks and KuhlauDelfing2 will open your eyes.
Or listen to CPO and hear those wonderful little known german gem orchestras recording the neglected gold.
Step out of your private jet. Stop cashing. Start making fresh new music again.
There is far more than the 3 Bs or Mozart…
Even Ferdinand Ries, Beethovens secretary , will surprise you, how bold he was.
Stop this more than a century turnkng merry go round. Step off,
Rattle, same old wide eyed boy. But a boy who stopped studying…
like soccerplayers… We don’t need those Beeyhoven, Mozart, contempories…
Classical music , and I followed it for 40 years, is dead.
I cannot attend concerts, and glad I am.
And I found the 3000 pages. Of which perhaps 10% is played.
Anton Rubinsteins piano concertos, never heard off. Aso. An immense world to discover.
And what is a masterpiece and which not. Subjective…
Relistening 100 times a beautiful Onslow symphony will make you want to hear it in concert.
No. Finished. The attitude like in the pictural art is totally absent.
It is as if we watch and listen to Rembrand, Da Vinci, Van Gogh and some other gems. And this year after year.
Wile in the pictural art new or discovered masterpieces raise like mushrooms out of the ground in exhibitions.
Poor Rattle.
Thank you for writing this beautiful piece on Kit Gill! And thank you all who posted it & have been writing tributes to her as well!
Thank you for writing this beautiful piece on Kit Gill! And thank you all who posted it & have been writing tributes to her as well!
Thank you for writing this beautiful piece on Kit Gill! And thank you all who posted it & have been writing tributes to her as well!
Thank you for writing this beautiful piece on Kit Gill! And thank you all who posted it & have been writing tributes to her as well!
Thank you for writing this beautiful piece on Kit Gill! And thank you all who posted it & have been writing tributes to her as well!
Thank you for writing this beautiful piece on Kit Gill! And thank you all who posted it & have been writing tributes to her as well!