The Rasmus in May, the Backstage Werk in Munich 05.14.2012 rockenAm the Finnish alternative rockers The Rasmus guest at Backstage Werk in Munich. For 17 years the mixed quartet from Helsinki knows the Scandinavian rock scene, and since her international breakthrough album "Dead Letters" from 2003 to The Rasmus in Europe. With its fresh mix of alternative rock lashing, dark sound designs and fantastic melodies have earned them a large, loyal fan base. Even in Germany, celebrated for its dreamy Rasmus rock style that is as successful as its own. With power their upcoming, eighth album is expected, which is scheduled for late spring.
The beginnings of The Rasmus go back to 1995, when the four members of just ten or eleven years old and big fans of funk metal and crossover were. Because of their technical skills, the boys could still land a record deal. And so in 1996 she released her debut album "Peep", which - just like the two following works "Playboys" (1997) and "Hell Of A Tester" (1998) - came into their home to strong reciprocal love. All three CDs conquered the Top 20 in the Finnish charts, extractions with the "Ice" and "Liquid" The Rasmus recorded first single success.
Already with the next album "Into" The Rasmus in 2001 in Finland increased to once and megastars. The album spent several weeks on the top position. A total of four singles on the album stormed the charts to number 2 at least, two actually first on the No. The next step of Lauri Ylonen (vocals), Pauli Antero Rantasalmi (guitar), Eero Aleksi Heinonen (bass) and Aki Markus Hakala (drums), meant inevitably, Europe take for themselves.
This was the 2003s book "Dead Letters": No. 1 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Top 10 in England, France, and all Scandinavian countries. From then on, The Rasmus were among the most promising bands in Scandinavia. The single "In The Shadows" is still regarded as their most successful song, and still runs regularly on every rock radio stations.
With the album "Hide From The Sun" (2005) and emphasizes the gloomy past work, "Black Roses" (2008), it could further expand its achievements. When it finally became a bit quiet around The Rasmus, Lauri Ylonen, first announced last year with an electronically held solo album. Since the autumn, the band is now back in the studio to record the follow up to "Black Roses" record.
Come and visit the The Rasmus concert on 05.14.2012 in the Backstage Werk in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Bricks Are Heavy (1992)
It is vital that a disc into the section of "Classic" is an LP of a timeless popularity. Obviously, Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash or "Euphoria Morning" by Chris Cornell are legendary albums, but there is also room for those who got a lesser extent bring about change. One of these was, no doubt, "Bricks Are Heavy", the third LP from L7 Angelinas that you just show the real skills they bear within them the irreverent and protected wild Donita Sparks.
The legend was born of this LP from 1990, that L7 released a second album - "Smell The Magic" - which led to California to try something more refined, but with the bitter and crushing regustado that had characterized to date. This convinced Butch Vig, who by then was working with "Nevermind" by Nirvana, to produce a third album that would end up planting a precedent within the female punk wave that was beginning to poke his head.
With a perfect blend of punk 80's, 90's grunge and a thin halo of pop tart, L7 manufactured a disc with such memorable songs as 'Shitlist' (known to belong to the soundtrack of "Natural Born Murderers") or 'Scrap', theme based on an alleged skinhead who lived in the garage of Donita. The bass lines echoing beneath a thundering guitars that perfectly wrapped in a mesmerizing vocal Donita Sparks knew to rise to the occasion. There was something very dirty, very sexual charm he knew anyone who listened to the album. Both the semi subtle 'Pretend We're Dead' and in the cyclic 'Diet Pill', that was certainly omnipresent intoxicating effect.
Unfortunately the legend of Sparks, Gardner, Tanaka & Co. finally vanished by 2000. The formula no longer worked, leaving a witness - a reflection of their past LP - "Bricks Are Heavy" - was coming to be remembered as one of our favorite albums of the 90. Sex, drink bitter and dirty spaces came together in an album that will never forget. Donita Thanks!
The legend was born of this LP from 1990, that L7 released a second album - "Smell The Magic" - which led to California to try something more refined, but with the bitter and crushing regustado that had characterized to date. This convinced Butch Vig, who by then was working with "Nevermind" by Nirvana, to produce a third album that would end up planting a precedent within the female punk wave that was beginning to poke his head.
With a perfect blend of punk 80's, 90's grunge and a thin halo of pop tart, L7 manufactured a disc with such memorable songs as 'Shitlist' (known to belong to the soundtrack of "Natural Born Murderers") or 'Scrap', theme based on an alleged skinhead who lived in the garage of Donita. The bass lines echoing beneath a thundering guitars that perfectly wrapped in a mesmerizing vocal Donita Sparks knew to rise to the occasion. There was something very dirty, very sexual charm he knew anyone who listened to the album. Both the semi subtle 'Pretend We're Dead' and in the cyclic 'Diet Pill', that was certainly omnipresent intoxicating effect.
Unfortunately the legend of Sparks, Gardner, Tanaka & Co. finally vanished by 2000. The formula no longer worked, leaving a witness - a reflection of their past LP - "Bricks Are Heavy" - was coming to be remembered as one of our favorite albums of the 90. Sex, drink bitter and dirty spaces came together in an album that will never forget. Donita Thanks!
Monday, February 20, 2012
Chris Cornell tribute to Whitney Houston covers of 'I Will Always Love You'
'I Will Always Love You', despite being a cover of Dolly Parton's original topic will always be remembered as the most representative song of the musical career of this great singer named Whitney Houston. That is why, as we saw last week, artists such as Girls and Jennifer Hudson took to honor the soul diva with different versions of the cut. One of the most recent has made our beloved Chris Cornell, who took advantage of a concert in San Francisco (California) to shake the staff with a disturbing way of interpreting the theme of "The Bodyguard".
The audience could not help applauding several times along the spectacular performance of the leader of Soundgarden. The artist's vocal intensity was totally up to one of those songs that have been marked as one of the great classics of the past two decades. The world of soul greatly missed Whitney, that we really, really safe.
The audience could not help applauding several times along the spectacular performance of the leader of Soundgarden. The artist's vocal intensity was totally up to one of those songs that have been marked as one of the great classics of the past two decades. The world of soul greatly missed Whitney, that we really, really safe.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Stompin 'Souls | Waiting For The Van
Stompin 'Souls | Waiting For The Van
"What if the eardrum itches so correctly? Give it dirty! Give it "And It's Looking A Lot Like Nothing At All", the debut of Sweden Stompin 'Souls ".
What could describe the sound of five Swedes better than this short quote from laut.de. Waiting For The Van is only one song a series of energetic and damn good band's first record. But the successor Silhouettes is really worth. Maybe some of you have recognized Marcus Bergkvist and Emil Nilsson, edit and even known to their friends Stockholm Friska Viljor the drums or the keyboard.
"What if the eardrum itches so correctly? Give it dirty! Give it "And It's Looking A Lot Like Nothing At All", the debut of Sweden Stompin 'Souls ".
What could describe the sound of five Swedes better than this short quote from laut.de. Waiting For The Van is only one song a series of energetic and damn good band's first record. But the successor Silhouettes is really worth. Maybe some of you have recognized Marcus Bergkvist and Emil Nilsson, edit and even known to their friends Stockholm Friska Viljor the drums or the keyboard.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The Duke Spirit live in 59to1
The Duke Spirit are on tour in Germany in March unterwegsThe Duke Spirit, which is a five-piece rock band around the smart power frontwoman Liela Moss. On 12/03/2012 they are in 59to1 in Munich as part of a small tour of Germany in her new album "Bruiser" imagine that they were able to storm the British charts. In this country, The Duke Spirit are still an absolute must, while in the U.S. were already recorded TV appearances on the late-night legend Jay Leno, David Letterman and Jools Holland. Also know to impress her live references, since the quintet has played in the opening act for the White Lies, Incubus, REM, Queens Of The Stone Age, and Snow Patrol.
The current album, "Bruiser" was released in September 2011 and now want The Duke Spirit on the stages of Germany to prove that they, with their characteristic sound concoction of garage, noise, rock and roll, classic rock and blues "for a long impressive Live-Act mature "are (Consequenceofsound.net). "We have our songs on a diet, so they sound more hungry," says the band is looking forward to the upcoming tour to win many new fans.
The Duke Spirit was founded in London in 2003, then as a trio consisting of singer and front woman Liela Moss, guitarist Luke Ford and bassist Toby Butler. Their first single, "Darling You're Mean / Bottom of the Sea" (City Rockers label) released it curiously, without having hitherto ever been on stage. For the first live performances took one look at the drummer Oliver Betts on board and with Dan Higgins also have a second guitarist. The Duke Spirit finally published in 2005, their debut album "Cuts Across the Land".
In February 2008, the second album "Neptune," after its release there was a further reorganization within the band: Dan Higgins left the band to concentrate on his private life and his family, so they hired Marc Sallis a long-time friend of the band of which took over the bass. The former bassist Toby Butler moved to the guitar and so did The Duke Spirit found the occupation with which they are to successfully move today.
The Duke Spirit are out on tour in Germany in March
Come and visit the The Duke Spirit concert on 12.03.2012 in 59to1 in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.
The current album, "Bruiser" was released in September 2011 and now want The Duke Spirit on the stages of Germany to prove that they, with their characteristic sound concoction of garage, noise, rock and roll, classic rock and blues "for a long impressive Live-Act mature "are (Consequenceofsound.net). "We have our songs on a diet, so they sound more hungry," says the band is looking forward to the upcoming tour to win many new fans.
The Duke Spirit was founded in London in 2003, then as a trio consisting of singer and front woman Liela Moss, guitarist Luke Ford and bassist Toby Butler. Their first single, "Darling You're Mean / Bottom of the Sea" (City Rockers label) released it curiously, without having hitherto ever been on stage. For the first live performances took one look at the drummer Oliver Betts on board and with Dan Higgins also have a second guitarist. The Duke Spirit finally published in 2005, their debut album "Cuts Across the Land".
In February 2008, the second album "Neptune," after its release there was a further reorganization within the band: Dan Higgins left the band to concentrate on his private life and his family, so they hired Marc Sallis a long-time friend of the band of which took over the bass. The former bassist Toby Butler moved to the guitar and so did The Duke Spirit found the occupation with which they are to successfully move today.
The Duke Spirit are out on tour in Germany in March
Come and visit the The Duke Spirit concert on 12.03.2012 in 59to1 in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
England's new rap star in the theater Factory Example
Example occurs in February in the Theater Factory in Munich aufIn England, he has won more two # 1 singles and also in the chart landscape of Germany itself, the British rapper Example now been felt, for his song "Changed the Way You Kiss Me" managed in this country after all, on the 8th place In February and March is John Elliott Gleave (see Examples real name) for a total of four concerts in Germany. He has chosen to Cologne, Berlin, Hamburg and Munich, the largest cities in the Republic, and because the ticket sales going so well, his gig in Munich on 25.02.2012 was promptly moved from backstage to a bigger location, namely in the theater factory. So you can see clearly: The newcomer has become more than just a tip.
Example not only for his beats and rhymes perfect timing, but also appears to be generally speaking in the perfect place at the perfect time, because his music will fill a gap caused by the end of Mike Skinner's The Streets project in the hip-hop landscape island was torn. The 29-year-old Londoner Example comes with sophisticated rhyming skills and bold view of the stylistic horizons and is regarded as the new star of British hip-hop, which integrates into his music and dance styles such as DubStep, Grime and House. With the overwhelming success: Do not 'only' with its single releases, but also with his new, third album, "Playing In The Shadows" Example could secure the throne of the British charts.
Elliott John Gleaves lyrical talent was already apparent in early childhood. At ten, he won the national schools competition 'Poet of the Year'. Nevertheless, he went to finishing school, first for the film and studied directing at the Royal Holloway University. The black horse at the time was for him a lucrative side job at garage parties. There he also developed his very own rap style that allows him to find a variety of dance and club beats to always have the right rhyme flow.
Example occurs in February in the Theater Factory in Munich aufEntdeckt it was his first demos and a mixtape on which he instrumental of Lily Allen, the raps Rolling Stones and Britney Spears gave no one less than the British superstar Mike Skinner Example the first record deal at to his label. Here he published his first singles, which received a great deal of attention in the scene. Disbanded in 2007 when Skinner's record label, took advantage of the opportunity to further Example Experience: He was studying a his first stand-up comedy program, and thereby entered into London's Theatreland.
By the way, he turned in 2007 for less than 1,000 pounds sterling a crazy video for his single, "Me + Mandy". At the Video Music Awards, won the award for his clip "Best Low-budget video." The beginning of a meteoric career was made. On the debut album "What We Made" followed in 2010 "Will not Go Quietly" - and thus opened the London scene.
By the end of August 2011 released their third album, "Playing In The Shadows" and its two No. 1 hits include Example definitely the hottest rap artists in England. On the current album, he demonstrates again his enormous stylistic range, as he collaborated with grime, house, DubStep, electro and rap producer. From now on there is for Example only one direction: more and more forward and into the minds of every progressive hip-hop fans.
Visit also the Example concert on 25.02.2012 in the theater factory in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.
Example not only for his beats and rhymes perfect timing, but also appears to be generally speaking in the perfect place at the perfect time, because his music will fill a gap caused by the end of Mike Skinner's The Streets project in the hip-hop landscape island was torn. The 29-year-old Londoner Example comes with sophisticated rhyming skills and bold view of the stylistic horizons and is regarded as the new star of British hip-hop, which integrates into his music and dance styles such as DubStep, Grime and House. With the overwhelming success: Do not 'only' with its single releases, but also with his new, third album, "Playing In The Shadows" Example could secure the throne of the British charts.
Elliott John Gleaves lyrical talent was already apparent in early childhood. At ten, he won the national schools competition 'Poet of the Year'. Nevertheless, he went to finishing school, first for the film and studied directing at the Royal Holloway University. The black horse at the time was for him a lucrative side job at garage parties. There he also developed his very own rap style that allows him to find a variety of dance and club beats to always have the right rhyme flow.
Example occurs in February in the Theater Factory in Munich aufEntdeckt it was his first demos and a mixtape on which he instrumental of Lily Allen, the raps Rolling Stones and Britney Spears gave no one less than the British superstar Mike Skinner Example the first record deal at to his label. Here he published his first singles, which received a great deal of attention in the scene. Disbanded in 2007 when Skinner's record label, took advantage of the opportunity to further Example Experience: He was studying a his first stand-up comedy program, and thereby entered into London's Theatreland.
By the way, he turned in 2007 for less than 1,000 pounds sterling a crazy video for his single, "Me + Mandy". At the Video Music Awards, won the award for his clip "Best Low-budget video." The beginning of a meteoric career was made. On the debut album "What We Made" followed in 2010 "Will not Go Quietly" - and thus opened the London scene.
By the end of August 2011 released their third album, "Playing In The Shadows" and its two No. 1 hits include Example definitely the hottest rap artists in England. On the current album, he demonstrates again his enormous stylistic range, as he collaborated with grime, house, DubStep, electro and rap producer. From now on there is for Example only one direction: more and more forward and into the minds of every progressive hip-hop fans.
Visit also the Example concert on 25.02.2012 in the theater factory in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Achtneun.com reports on the young fashion designer in Munich
Sunday afternoon, minus 15 degrees Celsius, Shred cold. A thousand horses to take me there in front of the door. I thought. Then I Acim Aziz invited for a cup of tea and I paused my plan to test whether they can also suffer a vitamin C-shock. Instead, I took the long, long way in the deep, far west of Munich.
For where the people on huge horses trotting through the 30 mph zone and others lose huge sums of money at the bet which horse ran the fastest five times in a circle, in a nursery row house has a tranquil, the company Brau-Aziz his seat alone company would have been enough to arouse my interest. Click here for the full article.
For where the people on huge horses trotting through the 30 mph zone and others lose huge sums of money at the bet which horse ran the fastest five times in a circle, in a nursery row house has a tranquil, the company Brau-Aziz his seat alone company would have been enough to arouse my interest. Click here for the full article.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Eight nine - a blog, ten questions
We have a new Munich-blog very quickly grew on us. Eight Nine - a new candidate for the blog parade.
First Our blog should in any case ....
The offer ... what is expected
Second Our reader is a mixture of .....
A cultural and ... Monaco Franze interested, an Old School Hip Hop auflegenden Sara Nuru, a tempting bargain-looking elder, a surfing Eisbach Julia Simic and a black Christian Ude with green political interests.
Third The best headline so far ....
"Izapft os!"
4th The previously most viewed blog post ....
"We create the mega-corporations!"
5th If we did not make this blog, we finally have time for ....
Marcelo: ... more sea.
David: ... the replacement of the grease filter his fleece hood.
Fexx: ... my OB-egg figures from the 90s and the Enlightenment, that air traffic controllers are not using trowels on the apron.
6th The motto of the editors .....
When it's angry and hungry, then it makes Wooop Wooop inspires and. And also all have this: YEAH!
7th Online we read else .....
Are you serious?, Amy & Pink, service, Super Paper BKLYN
8th Online you can find us in / on / before .....
in the beer garden / in the first degree / shortly before the appointment of the second
9th Our favorite song of the week:
Schlachthofbronx "carimbó"
popout
10th Munich desperately needs ....
More ... living room, a few offices. And more snow in winter.
First Our blog should in any case ....
The offer ... what is expected
Second Our reader is a mixture of .....
A cultural and ... Monaco Franze interested, an Old School Hip Hop auflegenden Sara Nuru, a tempting bargain-looking elder, a surfing Eisbach Julia Simic and a black Christian Ude with green political interests.
Third The best headline so far ....
"Izapft os!"
4th The previously most viewed blog post ....
"We create the mega-corporations!"
5th If we did not make this blog, we finally have time for ....
Marcelo: ... more sea.
David: ... the replacement of the grease filter his fleece hood.
Fexx: ... my OB-egg figures from the 90s and the Enlightenment, that air traffic controllers are not using trowels on the apron.
6th The motto of the editors .....
When it's angry and hungry, then it makes Wooop Wooop inspires and. And also all have this: YEAH!
7th Online we read else .....
Are you serious?, Amy & Pink, service, Super Paper BKLYN
8th Online you can find us in / on / before .....
in the beer garden / in the first degree / shortly before the appointment of the second
9th Our favorite song of the week:
Schlachthofbronx "carimbó"
popout
10th Munich desperately needs ....
More ... living room, a few offices. And more snow in winter.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Anna Ternheim live in the Muffathalle
Anna Ternheim Anna Ternheim has the enormous talent, the magic and atmosphere of nocturnal rest to turn into touching music. Born in Stockholm, the 31-year-old now lives in the U.S., where they transformed their songs about changing collaborators in new scenes. For her new album "The Night Visitor", the guitarist went with the velvety voice in a creative exchange with the rock musician Matt Sweeney and into the hands of productional folk veteran Dave Ferguson. The result of this most intimate work presents Anna Ternheim of 11 to 21 February as part of their tour of Germany in Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt and Freiburg.
"The day I was born in 1978, there was a power outage. I arrived early at three clock by the light of torches to the world. Therefore, I compose music nightly. This has always been and will probably stay that way forever, "says the Swedish cosmopolitan Anna Ternheim. In fact, she explained, she was always the most creative when dawn the deepest hours of the night. It is the silence and solemn mood of the darkness that pervades their work, and they brought their intense live performances to berückendem life.
Anna Ternheim soon discovered her talent on the acoustic guitar. At the age of ten she took her first lessons and soon realized that their theory behind the music does not mean much. With the intent they tried to not dilute their autodidactic approach by too much background knowledge in order to give their songs as an authentic, personal touch. After an exchange year in the U.S., where she gained as a singer of the band Sova stage experience, she wrote and produced her debut album "Somebody Outside" in an abandoned sawmill on the small island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. For this she received, as well as the successor to "Separation Road", the P3s Prize, the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy.
Since 2009, the ethereal and mysterious-looking singer with amazing voice lives in New York. Here they first produced almost single-handedly her third album, "Leaving on a Mayday". After the subsequent tour, she devoted herself for the first time since the teen years extensively to improve their technical skills on the guitar. Together with Matt Sweeney (Cat Power, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy), she composed the songs for her new album "The Night Visitor," which was recorded last spring in Nashville. The work was produced by longtime Johnny Cash Engineer Dave Ferguson, accompanied her on this journey some of the most legendary musicians of the Nashville music scene. So Anna Ternheim is again succeeded in creating a work of unique, dark charisma that shows what an extraordinary musician and sensitive to her.
"The day I was born in 1978, there was a power outage. I arrived early at three clock by the light of torches to the world. Therefore, I compose music nightly. This has always been and will probably stay that way forever, "says the Swedish cosmopolitan Anna Ternheim. In fact, she explained, she was always the most creative when dawn the deepest hours of the night. It is the silence and solemn mood of the darkness that pervades their work, and they brought their intense live performances to berückendem life.
Anna Ternheim soon discovered her talent on the acoustic guitar. At the age of ten she took her first lessons and soon realized that their theory behind the music does not mean much. With the intent they tried to not dilute their autodidactic approach by too much background knowledge in order to give their songs as an authentic, personal touch. After an exchange year in the U.S., where she gained as a singer of the band Sova stage experience, she wrote and produced her debut album "Somebody Outside" in an abandoned sawmill on the small island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. For this she received, as well as the successor to "Separation Road", the P3s Prize, the Swedish equivalent of the Grammy.
Since 2009, the ethereal and mysterious-looking singer with amazing voice lives in New York. Here they first produced almost single-handedly her third album, "Leaving on a Mayday". After the subsequent tour, she devoted herself for the first time since the teen years extensively to improve their technical skills on the guitar. Together with Matt Sweeney (Cat Power, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy), she composed the songs for her new album "The Night Visitor," which was recorded last spring in Nashville. The work was produced by longtime Johnny Cash Engineer Dave Ferguson, accompanied her on this journey some of the most legendary musicians of the Nashville music scene. So Anna Ternheim is again succeeded in creating a work of unique, dark charisma that shows what an extraordinary musician and sensitive to her.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October live at the Hard Rock Cafe
Justin Furstenfeld played at 26.02. A free concert at the Hard Rock Cafe in Munich Last November, he inspired with his fellow band members of Blue October, the Munich audience in the backstage work (as reported). On 02/26/2012 Justin Furstenfeld comes, the singer and frontman of Blue October, returned to Munich to the Hard Rock Cafe to present first-hand - in a semi-acoustic solo show full of intimate songs. The Hard Rock Cafe Munich is celebrating its 10th concert with this Birthday.
The Texan "Bi-Polar-art-rock" band Blue October thrilled fans worldwide with autobiographical texts goosebumps. The songs of their latest album "Any Man in America" for example, divorce and related Furstenfelds, lost custody battle for his daughter thematize. "Wearing your heart on your sleeve," one says in English, if someone inside out his inmost soul lives outside and everyone can participate in it, as it does Furstenfeld. As a soloist he has granted German and British fans in February, an even more intimate insight into his inner life than usual authentic, pure and semi-acoustic.
In the Munich Hard Rock Cafe Furstenfeld will demonstrate reduced its complex song on the core themes - sometimes with the help of an acoustic guitar, sometimes accompanied by piano music. Personal stories are the framework of these special performances, with which he is on the two previous days in Hamburg and Berlin as a guest. While regular cards available for these two concerts on sale at a price of 20 euros (40 euros, and for special gold tickets that allow a meet and greet with the artist), is the free concert in Munich.
In his free time engaged Furstenfeld way as a prominent sponsor of the Association of Friends for Life eV, and on 26/02/2012 he will meet at the Hard Rock Cafe Munich certainly some new friends. Take part in this unique and intimate concert experience with it! The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.
The Texan "Bi-Polar-art-rock" band Blue October thrilled fans worldwide with autobiographical texts goosebumps. The songs of their latest album "Any Man in America" for example, divorce and related Furstenfelds, lost custody battle for his daughter thematize. "Wearing your heart on your sleeve," one says in English, if someone inside out his inmost soul lives outside and everyone can participate in it, as it does Furstenfeld. As a soloist he has granted German and British fans in February, an even more intimate insight into his inner life than usual authentic, pure and semi-acoustic.
In the Munich Hard Rock Cafe Furstenfeld will demonstrate reduced its complex song on the core themes - sometimes with the help of an acoustic guitar, sometimes accompanied by piano music. Personal stories are the framework of these special performances, with which he is on the two previous days in Hamburg and Berlin as a guest. While regular cards available for these two concerts on sale at a price of 20 euros (40 euros, and for special gold tickets that allow a meet and greet with the artist), is the free concert in Munich.
In his free time engaged Furstenfeld way as a prominent sponsor of the Association of Friends for Life eV, and on 26/02/2012 he will meet at the Hard Rock Cafe Munich certainly some new friends. Take part in this unique and intimate concert experience with it! The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Philarmonia news
Royal Festival Hall, London
It tells a brutal truth about Frederick Delius's lack of box-office clout – and perhaps even about his music, too – that this concert, marking the exact 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, consisted of only two of Delius's own works, bracketed by a pair of the most bankable pieces ever written by Vaughan Williams and Elgar, respectively. So, no rare birthday opportunity to hear a large work such as Paris, Sea Drift or the Mass of Life to mark the big Delius occasion. Not even a collection of Delius's shorter and more established pieces. Instead, the anniversary was celebrated by performances of The Lark Ascending and the Enigma Variations. However well intended, it is hard not to see this as an insult.
Doubly unfortunate, too: first, because the programme did less than justice to Delius's much more delicate art, "a little intangible sometimes but always very beautiful", as Elgar himself put it. And second, because the two performances of his music under Sir Andrew Davis were so fine. Davis has an unequalled sensitivity among modern conductors to the Delius sound world, and also knows how to give these works a momentum they need. Add to that the intensely committed and occasionally rather freewheeling playing of Julian Lloyd Webber, a lifelong Delius advocate, and the result was a truly persuasive case for the composer's Cello Concerto. Brigg Fair, the great achievement of Delius's long interest in English folk music, was even more hauntingly realised by the Philharmonia.
The Lark Ascending – featuring the orchestra's leader, Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay, as soloist – had to battle with a battery of January audience coughing, but Davis ensured the woodwind dialogues were well pointed. He was also never going to conduct a less than compelling performance of the Enigma Variations, which closed the concert with an impact Delius could never match – but never exactly sought, either.
It tells a brutal truth about Frederick Delius's lack of box-office clout – and perhaps even about his music, too – that this concert, marking the exact 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, consisted of only two of Delius's own works, bracketed by a pair of the most bankable pieces ever written by Vaughan Williams and Elgar, respectively. So, no rare birthday opportunity to hear a large work such as Paris, Sea Drift or the Mass of Life to mark the big Delius occasion. Not even a collection of Delius's shorter and more established pieces. Instead, the anniversary was celebrated by performances of The Lark Ascending and the Enigma Variations. However well intended, it is hard not to see this as an insult.
Doubly unfortunate, too: first, because the programme did less than justice to Delius's much more delicate art, "a little intangible sometimes but always very beautiful", as Elgar himself put it. And second, because the two performances of his music under Sir Andrew Davis were so fine. Davis has an unequalled sensitivity among modern conductors to the Delius sound world, and also knows how to give these works a momentum they need. Add to that the intensely committed and occasionally rather freewheeling playing of Julian Lloyd Webber, a lifelong Delius advocate, and the result was a truly persuasive case for the composer's Cello Concerto. Brigg Fair, the great achievement of Delius's long interest in English folk music, was even more hauntingly realised by the Philharmonia.
The Lark Ascending – featuring the orchestra's leader, Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay, as soloist – had to battle with a battery of January audience coughing, but Davis ensured the woodwind dialogues were well pointed. He was also never going to conduct a less than compelling performance of the Enigma Variations, which closed the concert with an impact Delius could never match – but never exactly sought, either.
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