Salonorchester CAPPUCCINO \u2013 Albrecht Winter [violin and leader], Eva Heinig [violin], Anna-Maria W\u00fcnsch [viola], Hartmut Becker [cello], Tobias Lampelzammer [double bass], Thomas Reimann [flute], Klaus-Peter Voss [oboe], Marco Thomas [clarinet], Michael Schlabes [trumpet], Tobias Hasselt [trombone], Horst Singer [piano], Rene Scipio [percussion]<\/p>\n Shostakovich<\/strong> \u2013 Suite from the ballet The Golden Age<\/em>, Op.22a, \u2018Black Eyes\u2019 from the movie New Babylon<\/em>, Op.18; Suite from the movie The Gadfly<\/em>, Op.97a, Song \u2018Peace in the World\u2019 from the movie The Fall of Berlin<\/em>, Op.82; Extracts from the Suite for Hamlet<\/em>, Op.32a<\/p>\n The Shostakovich Festival in Leipzig has tried to cowl all areas of the composer\u2019s creativity, and together with full cycles of the symphonies and string quartets, the Gewandhaus additionally organized late-night recitals of poetry and songs, function movies of his music, an exhibition of artworks dedicated to Shostakovich, and a number of other concert events of music from his movies and theatre compositions. In this live performance, the Salonorchester CAPPUCCINO (within the first of two concert events) provided a blended programme of memorable items which have change into common in Shostakovich\u2019s homeland and amongst aficionados of Russian music.<\/p>\n The programme provided the chance for a pause from the darkly tragic pages of the quartets and symphonies by revealing a distinct joyful and life assertive aspect of Shostakovich. The Salonorchester CAPPUCCINO was fashioned from college students within the heady days of the reunification of Germany, as they write:<\/p>\n \u2018It is rarely the case that there is a very specific birthday for an ensemble like the CAPPUCCINO salon orchestra. April 30, 1989, was directly in the so-called \u201cRed Week\u201d for Leipzig\u2019s universities, which within the former GDR was devoted to the intensive research of Marxism\u2013Leninism. Together with fellow college students from the performing and visible arts, the musicians opened a caf\u00e9 on the college for 3 days as a substitute of philosophical gymnastics workout routines \u2013 with sensational success! For us college students, it was particularly astonishing how effectively our professors knew in regards to the gentle muse and the way a lot enjoyable they’d collaborating on this enterprise.\u2019<\/p>\n The Salonorchester CAPPUCCINO adopts the diminished Parisian line-up of two violins, violoncello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone and piano. Most of the members belong to famend orchestras, such because the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig and the Staatskapelle Halle, or are professors on the Music Academies of Cologne, Bremen and Leipzig.<\/p>\n The choice of items from The Golden Age <\/em>is from the three-act ballet that premiered on the Mariinsky Theatre in 1930. The ballet was carried out eighteen instances and revived solely in 1982. The glowing music is organized as an orchestral suite, string quartet, and the \u2018Polka\u2019 for piano. Of the 4 actions, it was the fantastically scored \u2018Polka\u2019 and \u2018Adagio\u2019 which might be essentially the most evocative in revealing Shostakovich as a grasp of melody. It is his jocularity and weird circus-like music that involves the fore, particularly on the clarinet of Marco Thomas and the violin of Albrecht Winter.<\/p>\n The originality of the composer\u2019s early years continued within the setting of the tragically romantic \u2018Black Eyes\u2019 music from the avant-garde 1929 silent film New Babylon<\/em> (which was accompanied by piano within the cinema). The music is illustrated by humorously witty taking part in by the trombone, clarinet, and violin, depicting an unlikely love match in a vaudeville present. Switching from experiments of the Twenties, three a long time later, in 1955, the movie music for The Gadfly<\/em> reveals a fairly completely different composer. Based on the novel by Ethel Lilian Voynich and directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer, the story depicts the wrestle of Italian patriots resisting the Austrians and has a stupendous love story. The movie music has gained nice recognition, and right here, the violins of Winter, Eva Heinig, and Anna-Maria W\u00fcnsch had been excellent, avoiding overindulging within the attractive \u2018Romanze\u2019 \u2013 the preferred of his movie music. The rating comprises a few of Shostakovich\u2019s most tasty writing, is fantastically orchestrated, and organized by Levon Atovmyan \u2013 a long-standing buddy of the composer.<\/p>\n The \u2019propaganda\u2019 ingredient on this live performance was within the music \u2018Peace in the World\u2019 \u2013 and its title and sentiment are definitely extra praiseworthy than pure propaganda in right now\u2019s difficult world. The music was sung by the baritone of Albrecht Winter to the first-rate accompaniment of the ensemble. The music is a setting of phrases by Yevgeny Dolmatovsky and is from the 1950 film The Fall of Berlin,<\/em> directed by Mikheil Chiarureli.<\/p>\n In the ultimate programmed piece, I might have most well-liked Shostakovich\u2019s music to the Kozintsev 1964 movie of Hamlet<\/em> than the music for Akimov\u2019s 1932 manufacturing of Hamlet <\/em>on the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. Yet, this theatre music is thought for its extrovertly unique rating and brilliantly trendy orchestration. The choice of seven extracts from the suite opened with \u2018Introduction and Night Patrol\u2019, thus guaranteeing a stimulating starting. The \u2018Appearance of the Ghost\u2019 and the \u2018Pantomime\u2019 allowed each division of the orchestra to point out their virtuosity and finally proved a terrific end result. As an encore, the Salon Orchestra carried out Shostakovich\u2019s Waltz No.2 from the \u2018Second Jazz Suite\u2019 from Kubrick\u2019s ultimate movie Eyes Wide Shut <\/em>which immediately grew to become massively common worldwide, and on this event, allowed listeners a extra joyful and life-enhancing aspect to the creativity of Dmitry Shostakovich.<\/p>\n Gregor Tassie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Featured Image: Salonorchester CAPPUCCINO \u00a9 Anne Hornemann<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Germany \u2018Between Variety and Propaganda\u2019 \u2013 Shostakovich Festival Leipzig [9]:\u00a0Salonorchester CAPPUCCINO \/ Albrecht Winter (violin \/ moderator). Mendelssohn Hall, Gewandhaus, Leipzig. 16.5.2025. (GT) Salonorchester CAPPUCCINO \u2013 Albrecht Winter [violin and leader], Eva Heinig [violin], Anna-Maria W\u00fcnsch [viola], Hartmut Becker [cello], Tobias Lampelzammer [double bass], Thomas Reimann [flute], Klaus-Peter Voss [oboe], Marco Thomas [clarinet], Michael […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1762,11667,508,11665,952,721,11668,76,11666,1434],"class_list":{"0":"post-144668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-theatre","8":"tag-concert","9":"tag-entertaining","10":"tag-festival","11":"tag-funloving","12":"tag-heard","13":"tag-international","14":"tag-leipzig","15":"tag-revealed","16":"tag-shostakovich","17":"tag-side"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Germany\"](\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/world-flags\/images\/flags\/24\/de.png\" "\\"Germany\\"\/")
Germany<\/span><\/span><\/span> \u2018Between Variety and Propaganda\u2019 <\/span><\/strong>\u2013 Shostakovich Festival Leipzig [9]:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Salonorchester CAPPUCCINO \/ Albrecht Winter (violin \/ moderator). Mendelssohn Hall, Gewandhaus, Leipzig. 16.5.2025. (GT)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/wKvqt9uiTrGvwiZR5IXt_headersalonorchester-e1749249794630.jpg\")
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