We are this week at the Mozart Week Festival in Salzburg. This morning we attended at the Mozarteum concert hall on Schwarz Strasse. the performance of this Masque, an opera in concert form, Acis and Galatea by Handel and reworked by Mozart some 30 years after the death of Handel in March 1789. The idea was to update the work to suit the taste of the time.
26 January 2011 at the Bristol.
Mozarteum, Les Musiciens du Louvre & the Salzburger Bachchor
The players this morning were Les Musiciens du Louvre with Maestro Marc Minkowski and the Salzburger Bachchor, Toby Spence sang the role of Acis, Julia Kleiter sang the role of Galatea and Markus Brutscher was Damon and Mika Kares was Polyphem. All good voices, I really liked the strong voice and good acting of Mika Kares. Toby Spence had a strong clear voice and good diction as this piece was sung in the German version. Truly beautiful music done very well by all.
This evening we are going to hear the Vienna Philarmonic orchestra at the Gross Festspielhaus however there has been a change to the program as maestro Nicolaus Harnoncourt is ill and will not conduct, we do not know who has taken his place for this evening and Gidon Kremer who was to appear also decided to pull out because Hanoncourt will not be there. Obviously Mr. Kremer is more interested in his image than in the public who came to see him play. Obviously another silly prima donna who does not know who butter's his bread. The programme is Alban Berg and Mozart.
The Capucins Monastery and the Salzach river.
Swans on the Salzach river.
We had lunch at Café Bazar, always good, we also met many of the orchestra musicians who had come for a bite to eat.
The players this morning were Les Musiciens du Louvre with Maestro Marc Minkowski and the Salzburger Bachchor, Toby Spence sang the role of Acis, Julia Kleiter sang the role of Galatea and Markus Brutscher was Damon and Mika Kares was Polyphem. All good voices, I really liked the strong voice and good acting of Mika Kares. Toby Spence had a strong clear voice and good diction as this piece was sung in the German version. Truly beautiful music done very well by all.
This evening we are going to hear the Vienna Philarmonic orchestra at the Gross Festspielhaus however there has been a change to the program as maestro Nicolaus Harnoncourt is ill and will not conduct, we do not know who has taken his place for this evening and Gidon Kremer who was to appear also decided to pull out because Hanoncourt will not be there. Obviously Mr. Kremer is more interested in his image than in the public who came to see him play. Obviously another silly prima donna who does not know who butter's his bread. The programme is Alban Berg and Mozart.
We had lunch at Café Bazar, always good, we also met many of the orchestra musicians who had come for a bite to eat.
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