CLASSICAL MUSIC SUNDAY: Top 50 Breaking News, Headlines & Stories Worthy to Read/Watch & Share
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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 ongoing controversy about Isaac Stern has sparked a fascinating conversation about great violinists who, for one reason or other, never became world famous. The name that shot to the top of the pile was the Latvian violinist, Philipp...
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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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Another priceless new video from a lunch to remember. Plenty of singing and a personal memory of Chaliapin in the nude. Click on ‘Post’ if video fails to pop up. Post by Meloclassic.
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The composer Bernd Redmann has been announced this weekend as the new chief of Munich’s Hochschule für Musik und Theater. He’ll have to start getting used to wearing a tie. Redmann succeeds Siegfried Mauser who, after ...
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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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A School of Music that has lagged in recent years behind the best now has a feather to put in its cap. Hilda Huang, 18, an American scholarship student at Yale, took first prize at the prestigious Leipzig contest. Second was Schaghajegh ...
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A statement from the musicians union president Tino Gagliardi has been sent our way. Published in an old-school workers’ journal, it amounts to an attack on Peter Gelb’s policy of promoting new operas – which Mr Gagliar...
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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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I came across a lovely piece in a rural newspaper about a conductor, Vartan Melkonian, who works with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Vartan grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, as a street kid, the orphaned child of refugees who escaped genoci...
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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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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...
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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro, Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Dan Ettinger (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 17.7.2014 (JMI) Cast: Figaro: Erwin Schrott Susanna: Hanna-Elisabeth Müller Countess: Véronique Gen...
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Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito, Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Adam Fischer (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 16.7.2014 (JMI) Cast: Tito: Toby Spence Sesto: Tara Erraught Vitellia: Kristina Opolais Annio: Ange...
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Debussy and Ravel wrote nothing for organ, and with good reason. Their music, which depends almost entirely on color, texture, and rhythm, and in any event tends to avoid counterpoint, is completely unsuited to the instrument. Gunnar Ide...
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Deutsche Grammophon's Strauss opera compilation, sampled by Robert Anderson. '... a hugely enjoyable set ...'
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Gioachimo Rossini, Otello (concert performance sung in Italian with English surtitles): Soloists, Northern Chamber Orchestra. Buxton Festival Chorus / Stephen Barlow (conductor), Opera House, Buxton, 17.7.2014. (RJF) Cast Otello, Sara...
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François Couperin, Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Benda, and Takemitsu:Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord). Wigmore Hall, London, 15.7.2014 (MB) François Couperin – Quatrième livre de pièces de clavecin: 26th ordre Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I:...
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[flag code="us" size="24" text="yes"] Aspen Music Festival (5): Soloists, Aspen Chamber Symphony and Festival Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan and James Gaffigan (conductors). 13.7.2014 (HS) Chamber Symphony, July 11 Benedict Music Tent Nich...
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Glyndebourne, East Sussex; Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London Glyndebourne's impeccable new Traviata is a palpable hit. And at Covent Garden the passion is all porcine Family tensions, like death and taxes, are unavoidable. Howeve...
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La Nuova Musica/Bates (Harmonia Mundi) This inspired coupling brings together three of the most powerful small-scale early oratorios: Charpentier's Le Reniement de Saint Pierre, telling of St Peter's denial of Christ, lasts less than 15 ...
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Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge/Williams (Signum) You will certainly get your money's worth with this recording: 20 pieces from the 16th century to today, all drawing upon the idea of the love song in liturgy, specifically from the won...
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Karen Cargill (mezzo soprano), Simon Lepper (piano) (Linn) Gustav Mahler was none too liberated when it came to encouraging, or rather discouraging, his wife Alma with her own compositions: "Such a strange relationship between rival...
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At this week's Proms, the pop trailblazers will celebrate Alan Turing, the computer pioneer and Enigma codebreaker persecuted for his homosexuality. Here, they talk about the project's genesis, and of their admiration for him This Wednes...
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The BBC i-player has been largely shut down by what is described as a ‘technical problem’. The BBC press office said it was ‘some people cannot access certain parts of BBC online ..We are working hard to fix this as so...
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Lionel Ferbos died today, two days after his 103rd birthday party. He had been playing in New Orleans bands since before Louis Armstrong was famous and toured the world several times.
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By Michael Fox: Free, unstructured improv may be the most easiest way of music making (just watch what a young child with no lessons will do with a piano), but often well-intentioned teachers causes us to un-learn this natural skill, or ...
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If this set were all that survived from Abbado’s tenure in Berlin, collectors would be salivating for additional recordings, certain that they would reveal further evidence of an astonishingly high quality of performance and interp...
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By Laurie Niles: "Can you please show me the chapter where the lady cut off her finger?" asked a very polite eight-year-old boy, after a book signing recital that I gave in Cincinnati last week. I'd just read three excerpts from Violinis...
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This seven disc sets contains the nine canonic tone poems plus a selection of Strauss’ other orchestral works, drawn from the RCA and Sony catalogs. Some of the choices are obvious, and no less appropriate for that: Reiner’s ...
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Sir Edward Elgar's The Kingdom , First Night of the BBC Proms 2014. A magnificent start to the season, particularly one which commemorates 1914, the start of the First World War. From that perspective Sir Andrew Davis's The...
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A note for the Kaufmaniacs: this little box of delights is due out in September, we hear, and features Viennese and German operetta-plus. Du bist die Welt für mich will also enjoy a 2015 concert tour...but not to the UK, which is a cryin...
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Bartosz Woroch Sinfonia Cymru, the lively Welsh chamber orchestra, is going international with its forthcoming Small Nations Big Sounds festival in Cardiff in October. The festival is part of the EU's Emerging Classical Talent in the EU ...
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(en francais, but you can get the gist from the last line). Post by Meloclassic.
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A wonderful, lyrical, moving essay by Ménières sufferer, John Cotter.
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This year, the Proms is dominated by orchestras from outside the Western World. Ivan Hewett reflects on how classical music went global.
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Angels & Devils - music by Leclair, Vivaldi, Guillemain Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 18 2014 Star rating: 4.0 18th Music for two violins exploring the differences in French and Italian playing La Serenissima's afternoon concert a...
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With its comic intrigues and double cross-dressing, as well as its longing for a vanished world, this is Strauss's most successful and satisfying opera Der Rosenkavalier represents the apogee of Richard Strauss's popularity, and perhaps ...
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The China Philharmonic Orchestra makes its debut at the BBC Proms as China and Britain overcome their mutual "fear and fascination" through classical music
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Although I don’t know Gwendolyn Mok personally, we were classmates in the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division in the early 1970s. Our theory teacher asked her to perform for the class from time to time, and she always livened things ...
