Vögel

Maurice Maeterlinck completed his play The Blue Bird ("L’Oiseau bleu") in 1908. Several of his previous works had proved popular as operatic subjects (Pelléas et Mélisande and Ariane et Barbe-Bleue) so it's no wonder that composers jumped at the opportunity to set his latest creation to music.French composer Albert Wolff based an opera on the story, which premiered at the New York Met but subsequently fell into oblivion. Prior to that, in 1912, Max Reinhardt adapted it as a Christmas play and staged a production in Berlin, inviting no less a person than Engelbert Humperdinck to write the incidental music for it. The music was never published, but Steffen Tast eventually located the score and salvaged it for us all to enjoy. A sweet story and newly discovered music by Humperdinck that's sweeter still? Truly a recipe for a fairy-tale ending!

Maurice Maeterlinck completed his play The Blue Bird ("L’Oiseau bleu") in 1908. Several of his previous works had proved popular as operatic subjects (Pelléas et Mélisande and Ariane et Barbe-Bleue) so it's no wonder that composers jumped at the opportunity to set his latest creation to music.French composer Albert Wolff based an opera on the story, which premiered at the New York Met but subsequently fell into oblivion. Prior to that, in 1912, Max Reinhardt adapted it as a Christmas play and staged a production in Berlin, inviting no less a person than Engelbert Humperdinck to write the incidental music for it. The music was never published, but Steffen Tast eventually located the score and salvaged it for us all to enjoy. A sweet story and newly discovered music by Humperdinck that's sweeter still? Truly a recipe for a fairy-tale ending!

Op donderdagavond 2 augustus zijn Wilbert Magré, Wim Magré en Erica Vogel te gast bij het programma Aan Tafel Met op LocoFM. Bert Michelsen gaat met ze in gesprek over hun nieuwe CD “Prelude” die binnenkort uitkomt. Ook zal er worden gesproken over de zomertour die inmiddels al in volle gang is. Kaarten voor de zomertour zijn via de website van Wilbert ook te verkrijgen met korting.

“it is a very rare thing to hear complex music being played in such a relaxed and soulful manner” (jazzthing, Götz Bühler)
„Some say that music has reached its limits, that everything we hear is repetition, at best a re-organisation of everything that once was. ‘Intensivstation’, beg to differ. And rightly so!“ (Wolf Kampmann)

Brahms Reimagined: Why another recording of the Brahms Sonatas?