Latest and Breaking Classical Music News and Top Stories - July 4
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This is the cast of La Traviata at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich tonight (NB, in the interval) as Germany progresses to the semi-final of the World Cup. "Something I've never, ever witnessed at Glyndebourne," says my spy.
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You’ll probably hear other Sousa marches today, so I thought I’d share one that you probably won’t — one of my favorites, The George Washington Bicentennial March. Happy 4th.
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By Kimberlee Dray: I keep a blog elsewhere in a dark obscure corner of the internet, but today I thought I might share something I wrote with the v.com audience, for what it's worth. My best to each of you as you serve the horsehair and ...
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Verdi: Macbeth, Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Paolo Carignani (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 1.7.2014 (JMI) Cast: Macbeth: Simon Keenlyside Lady Macbeth: Anna Netrebko Macduff: Joseph Calleja Banco: Ildar Abd...
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Symphony Hall, Birmingham City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra provides all the illustration needed in a fine instrumental performance of Bluebeard's Castle Of all great 20th-century operas, there's none that retains its dramatic power ...
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Wigmore Hall, London The French pianist was never inelegant, but he delivered Mozart and Mahler with characteristic grandeur French pianist Alexandre Tharaud 's recitals tend to be wayward if fascinating affairs insightful and perverse i...
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On the occasion of medici.tv’s live webcast of the OSESP concert of July 6, we’ve met with three of the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo musicians and asked them a few questions about football and music… As yo...
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This Sunday, while eyes around the globe remain glued on Brazil for the final rounds of soccer’s World Cup, medici.tv flies to São Paulo to broadcast the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo’s concert featuring a performance ...
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The music director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (and incoming chief of La Scala) has pulled out of the opening of next season after breaking the ulna in his right forearm. These things take a while to repair. Chailly will be replaced by New...
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Love those sideburns in the brass.
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Long Yu, the most powerful conductor in China, has long been preparing a mighty bash for his 50th birthday. The first leg was in Beijing midweek, before Lang Lang flew off to Lebanon. But the big event was aimed at his home...
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Watch: an acclaimed production of Mozart's Don Giovanni from Glyndebourne - available to view from 3pm on July 6
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Times critics share what they’ve been listening to lately.
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In a pre-concert chat at the Theater an der Wien on Sunday, June 15, composer Georg Friedrich Haas said that classical music written in the 20th century sometimes had a tendency to be emotionless. He kept this in mind when writing Blutha...
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French and German media have been shaken by the sudden deaths of Le Monde editor Erik Izraelewicz, aged 58, and the FAZ editor Franz Schirrmacher at 54. Today, we hear that Benoît Duquesne, editor and presenter on TF1 and Europe 1, has ...
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Renowned soprano and guitarist to join forces at Adelaide International Guitar Festival.
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Fanciulla is Puccini’s hardest opera to cast. The role of Minnie is unlike any other in his canon: Turandot is more direct, half the length, and rarely requires anything other than exclamatory singing; and Johnson is longer, higher, and ...
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No idea. But you can cram two of them into a Wigmore Hall elevator, provided you leave out the Danish cellist. Doric Quartet, Danish Quartet in a rehearsal crush
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In 1993, after a prolonged absence from prime time screens, Rolf Harris was brought back to the BBC to host Animal Hospital. The series drew such high ratings that the incoming controller of BBC1, Lorraine Heggessey, commissioned him to ...
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Amidst a tough climate, the Met faces calls to implement a safer business model.
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Composer, conductor, great personality of the musical world: Hilary Spurling on the wit and drive of the 'English Diaghilev' The only good thing about life as a conductor, according to Constant Lambert, "was that you went on, and en...
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Alina Ibragimova and Steven Osborne's performances have a real strength of character, says Geoffrey Norris
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Vittorio Grigòlo's latest CD leaves Rupert Christiansen questioning whether he is serious about developing his artistry
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Our man in the Kremlin is a little perplexed that the Vienna Phil have put themselves in the hands of a rock manager for future Russian tours. Their next visit, with Riccardo Muti in April 2015, will feature two concerts inside the Kreml...
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There’s no doubting the thrill of hearing a pot-bellied orchestra going for climactic points in a score with all its might and dislodging the dust from concert hall rafters. Yet the other end of the textural spectrum can be equally...
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With his final festival program about to kick off, Artistic Director Noel Staunton has saved the best to last.
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press release: Six talented young composers have been announced as the winners of the BBC Proms Inspire Young Composers’ Competition 2014 – the culmination of the BBC Proms’ annual scheme which gives the nation’s brightest young c...
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The city of Hamburg is so excited by the tercentenary of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach that it is building a museum courtyard for all the composers that ever lived within its hospitable society. 1 Johannes Brahms has a museum all to himself....
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Recorder player Miriam Nerval is presenting a concert with a difference on 10 July 2014 as part of the City of London Festival . The concert will start at the church of St Sepulchre without Newgate and finish at the Old Bailey. During th...
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Bertrand d’At was due to get married his weekend. A protégé of Maurice Béjart, he danced and made ballets for the master’s company before branching out on his own, with a special interest in Chinese culture. His most eye-catc...
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First Time Live: Youth in Grimsby Orchestras Live brings people and orchestras together in innovative ways, providing access to orchestras for people who might not otherwise have the opportunity (see my review of their Grimsby First Time...
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Lucy Crowe © Marco Borggreve Schubert, Sibelius, Berg, Head, Britten, Tate, Walton; Lucy Crowe and Anna Tilbrook; Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 3 2014 Star rating: 5.0 Fine silvery tones and intense communicativeness in a...
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It’s only natural, I suppose, to assume that an “arrangement” or “transcription” for piano of a great orchestral work will be inferior to the original. But that depends on the particular arrangement and on y...
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Schnittke, Bach, Lobos, Piazzolla, Bartok, Monti: Ksenja Sidorova (accordion) and Thomas Gould (violin), Swansea, 2,7.2014 (LJ). Alfred Schnittke, Suite in the Old Style J. S. Bach, Sonata for violin & keyboard No. 6 in G BMV 1019...
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William Littler DRESDEN – The Gewandhaus Orchestra, in a visit to this neighbor Saxon city, is now led by Italian Riccardo Chailly, whose operatic experience seems to have contributed to a lightening and brightening of the ensemble's fam...
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Piano trios from the 1890s, heard by Howard Smith. '... compelling feeling and technical assurance ...'
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Britten, The Turn of the Screw: Soloists, City of London Sinfonia, Steuart Bedford (conductor), Holland Park, London, 1.7.2014 (MB) Cast: The Governess – Ellie Laugharne Peter Quint – Brenden Gunnell Mrs Grove – Diana Montague Miss Jess...
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Silber/Jackson/Vosk/Vortmann/San Francisco SO/Tilson Thomas San Francisco Symphony (two CDs) Taken from concerts a year ago in the San Francisco orchestra's home at Davies Symphony Hall, Michael Tilson Thomas 's performance of Leonard Be...
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Olga Stezhko (Luminum Records) Olga Stezhko calls her disc Eta Carinae, after a binary star system in the Carina galaxy 8,000 light years away. Her interest in astrophysics was apparently sparked by the late music of Scriabin , she says,...
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We're not making this up forming or creating items from any materials are the ingredients for this week's music nominations Fashioning clothes from fur or leather, knocking up a shelter, starting fires with flint, or clubbing together a ...
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Flux Quartet (Mode, Two CDs and DVD) The chamber works that Morton Feldman wrote in the last decade of his life are among the most beautiful and extraordinary composed in the second half of the 20th century. Completed in 1979, String Qua...
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Bonitatibus/Accademia degli Astrusi/La Stagione Armonica/Ferri (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Two CDs) The life and exploits of Semiramis, the legendary queen of Assyria from the 9th century BC, seems to have held a peculiar fascination for 1...
