When I met Canadian baritone Russell Braun in Salzburg for an early morning coffee in August, he said that one of the biggest challenges of rehearsing the star role in
Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids at this year's Festival was surviving the heat.
Several of these essays discuss individual figures: Jost Hermand elaborates the ideas of the East German composer Ernst Hermann Meyer, Jurgen Thym presents the Italian composer Luca Lombardi as a dialectical product of hybrid influences from both the East and West, and Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich argues that a modernist suspicion of eclecticism and leftist political influences resulted in a mixed reception of
Hans Werner Henze. Critic and publisher Frieder Reininghaus suggests that he himself was similarly harmed by the doctrinaire nature of musical thinking during the Cold War.
On ursday, March 5, guitarist Jamie MacRae will play at Stokesley Methodist Church at 1.30pm, with a programme including works by Bach,
Hans Werner Henze and Granados.
Operatic highlights for me ranged from the pretty and resourceful Handel Acis and Galatea, a MidWales Opera production I caught at Hereford's welcoming Courtyard, to the expressionistic, filmically gripping Boulevard Solitude by
Hans Werner Henze from Welsh National Opera.
THE passions in the
Hans Werner Henze opera are certainly red hot and the story as sensual and sleazy as they come.
Hans Werner Henze's powerful, intoxicating opera is a compelling vision of post-war Europe.
Difficult to believe perhaps, but the piece was first commissioned by
Hans Werner Henze for the Munich Biennale in 1988.
McCredie stutzt sich zunachst auf Hartmanns eigene Worte und Ausfuhrungen des mit Hartmann befreundeten
Hans Werner Henze, erweitert um literaturtheoretische Ansatze, und untersucht anschliessend die Umarbeitung von Urgestalt zur Neubearbeitung anhand der Satze "Toccata variata" und "Adagio".
In 1999 he gave the premiere of a song-cycle written for him by German composer
Hans Werner Henze. In 2001 Bostridge was elected an honorary fellow of his Oxford college and in 2003 was made an honorary doctor of music by St Andrews University.