CLASSICAL MUSIC MONDAY: Top 50 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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On 7/22 I'll be on the Diane Rehm show, talking about the future of classical music with some distinguished colleagues.
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"The Mozart Project" offers an interactive overview of the composer's life and work, with scholarly expertise, music and video.
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Stunned by his death in a road accident, colleagues and friends of the LSO’s former principal trumpet, Rod Franks, have been sharing their sorrows and memories. Clive Gillinson, the orchestra’s former cellist and managing dir...
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The conductor Ilan Volkov, music director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, will lead an ad hoc ensemble of classical musicians at an anti-war protest tomorrow in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. The protest, organised by the artist Omer ...
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Over the past two decades, Vijay Iyer has recorded some 18 albums of bold, genre-defying and original music that navigates the fine line between composition and improvisation, between jazz and New Music. Although his restless musical im...
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In 2005 I had the privilege to share a recital program with Jerome Lowenthal and Frederic Rzewski that focused on Beethoven. I played the 32 C minor Variations with an improvised cadenza before the coda; Rzewski played his own Andante Co...
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PROM 2: Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, Qigang Chen, Mussorgsky/Ravel: Haochen Zhang (piano); Alison Balsom (trumpet); China Philharmonic Orchestra, Long Yu (conductor), Royal Albert Hall, London, 19.7.2014 (CC) E...
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By Jacqueline Vanasse: I heard the Ukrainian violinist Valery Solokov in concert only once. It was very long ago, but I remember everything about it. Most of all, I remember his magnificent sound – one of the most beautiful violin sounds...
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Just in: Prom 6 (Tuesday 22 July) We are sorry to announce that Lars Woldt and Teodora Gheorghiu have had to withdraw from the Proms performance of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, owing to illness. We are very grateful to Franz Hawl...
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Images are starting to come in of Rod Franks, the London Symphony Orchestra trumpet player and former principal, who died last night so tragically in a motorway crash in Nottinghamshire. He is pictured with Valery Gergiev, the LSO’...
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Semyon Bychkov has damaged his hip. Vasilt Petrenko takes over. With great regret, Semyon Bychkov is unable to conduct the EUYO this summer. As the result of an inflamed hip he has been advised a 6-week period of complete r...
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Crain’s New York Business has been doing the crunching – and Peter Gelb’s bones can be heard between its teeth. Read here.
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By Gerald Klickstein: “The details are not the details. They make the design.” –Charles Eames, designer For musicians and designers alike, our approach to detail largely determines whether our work soars or flops. Simply put, meticulous ...
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A thorough and extensive piece of journalism by Scott Timberg on the unpromising Salon site details the devastations that has been wrought by streaming services on the incomes of living composers. ‘I used to sell CDs of my music,&#...
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In the aftermath of MH 17, its hard to think of any ally of Vladimir Putin as an ambassador for world peace. On the other hand, because I genuinely believe in freedom of speech, I can't condemn him for having opinions on subj...
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Watch Piotr Beczala here.
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The World Orchestra for Peace, conducted by Vladimir Putin's friend Valerie Gergiev, offer up a vague and incomprehensible concert at the 2014 Proms
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Every Monday morning at 9:15, I join John Birge on Classical MPR to talk about a few of the stories we've been featuring on our website. Here's what we'll be discussing today.
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Isle of Eigg, Hebrides This inaugural event showcased a wide range of music from Jens Lakeman to cellist Olly Coates' Messiaen but the island was the real star Could there be a more magical setting for a music festival? The little Hebrid...
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Artis Wodehouse has been filming the restoration of an 1850s Chickering. American ingenuity added an iron frame to a German design in the middle of the last century, making the concert piano louder, tougher and more even-toned. Take a lo...
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Royal Albert Hall, London The orchestra and increasingly controversial conductor's Mahler lost sight of structural tautness in a quest for emotional vividness Drawing its players from ensembles worldwide, the World Orchestra for Peace wa...
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The Knights The Knights perform music by Gyorgy Ligeti, Bela Bartok, Sufjan Stevens, Ljova, and Igor Stravinsky. Tuesday, July 22 at 7:30 PM Free Historic Naumburg Bandshell, Concert Ground, Central Park, New York, NY ..:: Website SoSI i...
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Statement just in from the London Symphony Orchestra: It is with much sadness that the London Symphony Orchestra announces that LSO Trumpeter Rod Franks died last night after a car accident. Rod had been enjoying a day at the Open...
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt reveals Mozart's Symphonies 39,40 & 41
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Dress rehearsal for Rossini's Otello at Buxton Festival photo Robert Workman Rossini Otello ; Stephen Barlow conducts Northern Chamber Orchestra; Buxton Festival at Buxton Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 20 2014 Star rating:...
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Nicholas Lester & Anne Sophie Duprels Dvorak The Jacobin ; Northern Chamber Orchestra, Conductor Stephen Barlow, Director Stephen Unwin; Buxton Festival at Buxton Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 18 2014 Star rating: 4.5 ...
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Michael Chance as Orfeo, in the Elysian Fields photo Robert Workman Gluck Orfeo ; Michael Chance, Northern Chamber Orchestra, conductor Stuart Stratford, director Stephen Medcalf; Buxton Festival at Buxton Opera House Reviewed by Robert ...
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Ran across this the other day and just wanted to share. This is Giulini through and through.
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Annie Fischer’s complete EMI recordings have been available in various CD reissues over the years, yet never all together until now. Certain items in this 8-disc collection are newly transferred from stereo masters that sound more open, ...
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Try though I may, I’ve yet to find a more satisfying version of this opera on disc, which was recorded in 1952. Other, newer recordings have featured some great singers–Leontyne Price in three, Placido Domingo in a couple, Sutherla...
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There are few things more wonderful in the life of a record collector than a really great recording of a repertory warhorse. It’s not just because greatness provides its own justification. There is always the suspicion, especially ...
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Calisto Is Stylish Baroque Venture"> By Mary Ellyn Hutton CINCINNATI – It was the right place at the right time for 94-year-old Cincinnati Opera’s first Baroque opera, Cavalli’s La Calisto. The new Corbett Theater seats 750 and early-mus...
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Sacred choral music by Poulenc, heard by Howard Smith. 'Harmonia mundi has struck oil ...'
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Victoria, Guerrero, Esquivel: The Cardinall’s Musick/Andrew Carwood (director), York Minster, York 17.7.2014 (JL) Victoria: Missa Salve regina Alma redemptoris mater [a 5] Ne timeas Maria Propers for the Annunciation plainsong Victoria ...
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PROM 1: Elgar: The Kingdom, Op. 51. Erin Wall (soprano) – The Blessed Virgin; Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano) – Mary Magdalene; Andrew Staples (tenor) – St John; Christopher Purves (bas...
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On Monday, July 21st at 8 PM, the last concert of Tanglewood’s 2014 Festival of Contemporary Music is a well-stocked program of orchestral works. The centerpiece is Roger Sessions’s Concerto for Orchestra, a work commissioned by the BSO ...
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These Cambridge grads are bringing classical sounds to the charts. Thomas H Green met them
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The visit from the China Philharmonic to the Proms was full of shrewd choices says Ivan Hewett
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Hearing the China Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall made BBC Prom 2 something unique. Listening as "pure music" is largely irrelevant : its real significance was that it acknowledged where the future of classical music migh...
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From Coppélia and Pygmalion to Mannequin and Buffybot, artists love playing games with lifesize dolls. It's a trail of lust, obsession and beheadings Coppélia is one of the sillier corners of the ballet repertoire. Franz, a handso...
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Holland Park, London The music of Bellini's opera struggles to match the modern context into which it's thrust by Olivia Fuchs Bellini 's opera is set in ancient Gaul during the period of Roman occupation. Designed by Niki Turner , Olivi...
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Soprano Clara Rottsolk, counter tenor Robin Blaze, tenor Arron Sheehan, Maestro Paul Goodwin and composer Caroline Shaw On Saturday evening, July 19, at Sunset Center we enjoyed the opening concert of the 2014 Carmel Bach Festival. Inste...
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Why you should listen to Jean-Philippe Rameau
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The thin end of one wedge is webcasting. I was supposed to be in Verbier now. Long boring story about storms, leaks and missed planes. I was planning to hear a tetralogy of my piano gods, and more, but am running after builders instead. ...
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Two contrasting concertos finally got the fastidious China Philharmonic playing with some passion The China Philharmonic , with its artistic director Long Yu , is the first of a series of orchestras, mostly from the far or Middle East an...
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Milos, the one-named superstar of classical guitar, says the story of the instrument's 20th-century journey is told in the work of two Spanish composers.
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Handel, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Falla, Weill, Britten, Stanford; Rosalind Plowright, Philip Mountford; Buxton Festival at the Pavilion Arts Centre Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 19 2014 Star rating: 4.0 The distinguished mezzo-soprano's r...
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The veteran US conductor tells John Allison why, for his farewell concert with the Tonhalle Orchestra, he has chosen the music closest to his heart
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The music critic and author Watson Lyle provided this short pen portrait of Arnold Bax. It was the result of an ‘interview’ with the composer at this North London house. The two men had been acquaintances for a number of years. The piece...
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The Outhere label’s “Rewind Collection” consists of reissues drawn from various European independent labels. This 2005 Scarlatti recital by pianist Racha Arodaky, for example, originally appeared on Zig-Zag Territories. Arodaky’s unbridl...
