Latest and Breaking Classical Music News and Top Stories - July 7
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You’ve got to start somewhere in the orchestra. To watch the video, click on the word ‘Post’. Post by Fabio Ibrahim El Khoury.
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Nice one, Rainer Hersch and Lore Lixenberg.
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My preview of this year’s classical music season at the Hollywood Bowl … To Bowl with Beethoven. Los Angeles Register, July 7, 2014.
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The Glimmerglass Festival of opera in Cooperstown, N.Y., is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
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Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Dan Ettinger (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 2.7.2014 (JMI) Cast: Guillaume Tell: Michael Volle Arnold: Bryan Hymel Mathilde: Marina Rebeka Jemmy: E...
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One of Moscow’s oldest independent record stores, the Purple Legion, founded in 1992, shut down today after poor sales. Our man on the spot says it had the best classical department in the whole of Russia. The store had downsized s...
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The conductor Yannick Nézét-Séguin has asked us to adjust a previous report, suggesting he was no longer music director in Rotterdam. He writes: ‘I remain deeply and profoundly proud of being Music Director of the Rotterdams Philha...
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George Irving as Julius Caesar Credit Manuel Harlan Claire van Kampen; new score for Julius Caesar; Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre Reviewed by Jill Barlow on Jul 2 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Music so robust & noisy - even before play starts ...
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An inquest into the death of Frances Andrade, the violinist who took her own life after testifying against her rapist, the Chetham’s head of music Michael Brewer, has been told by her widower that she was upset at the time about he...
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Liverpool Cathedral Michael Nyman's 11th symphony, marking the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, reused parts of earlier works to create an occasion for reflection Parody was the term 18th-century composers used for the recy...
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The Canadian conductor Yannick Nézét-Séguin is no longer listed as music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic on his Facebook page. The orch has sent its managing director Hans Waege on indefinite medical leave (as we reported exclusiv...
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Every Monday morning at 9:15, I join John Birge on Classical MPR to discuss stories we're publishing on our website. Here are the stories we'll be discussing today.
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This is the unfortunately named ‘Invasion’, in the Tver region, highlight of the Russian rock summer. More here.
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Irina Churilova, 31, from Novosibirsk, won the Hans Gabor Belvedere singing competition in Düsseldorf last night. Second was the South African baritone, Siyabulela Ntlale. Third was the South Korean bass, Il Do Song. The next Belvedere ...
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One always expects high style from the directing duo Leiser and Caurier, and the opening moments of their new Maria Stuarda are both arresting and puzzling.
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The Australian pianist Jayson Gillham, winner of the Montreal Piano Competition, has signed an agency deal with Emblem Artists, a one-woman firm that has just one other artist on its books – the violinist Nicola Benedetti. Emblem i...
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Michael Mizrahi + Alex Sopp at Greenwich House Music School Michael Mizrahi will give the NYC premiere of pieces by Troy Herion, Patrick Burke, and Asha Srinivasan. Michael will also perform works by Mark Dancigers, Beethoven, and Bach. ...
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Troy burns and Aeneas sails on to conquer Dido, in Berlioz's epic
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Khachaturian film scores for Othello and The Battle of Stalingrad
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I had a note the other week from a hip-hop songwriter/rapper in the US, Anthony Tomaz, asking me to have a look at his story. I don't cover much rap, as you've probably noticed - it's never been my cuppa - but this film from Fuse News to...
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From Mahler fan, Paul West, a delicious tribute !
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Carmen Giannattasio and Joyce DiDonato (c) Bill Cooper / ROH 2014 Donizetti Maria Stuarda ; Joyce DiDonato, Carmen Giannattasio, Ismael Jordi, cond. Bertrand de Billy; Royal Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 5 2014 Star rating...
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This is Daniel Barenboim’s third go-around with the Bruckner Symphonies, this time for the digital download-only Peral Music label formed in collaboration with Universal Music. Launching a new label with early Bruckner symphonies is a cu...
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Saffron Hall , the new 730 seater concert hall in Saffron Walden, has announced the details of its 2014/15 season. The hall opened in November 2013, and this is the first season under new Director Angela Dixon, and it is quite a va...
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Sydney Opera House, Sydney Opera Australia leave behind offstage drama of disgraced Georgian soprano Tamar Iveri for brilliant onstage performances In an attempt to entice composer Giuseppe Verdi out of premature retirement in the late 1...
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By Richard Todd OTTAWA - Cellist Julian Armour first founded Chamberfest, then Music and Beyond, making Canada's capital a major destination for chamber music in North America. Why such musical abundance? Therein likes a tale.
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Schubert: The Prince Consort [Anna Leese (soprano) Rowan Hellier (mezzo-soprano) Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) Jacques Imbrailo (baritone)] / Alisdair Hogarth (artistic director/piano), Wigmore Hall 04.07.14 (RB) The Prince Consort presented...
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Britten, The Prodigal Son. Members of the Chorus and Instrumentalists of the Orchestra of Teatro dell’Opera, Rome. Chorus Master, Roberto Gabbiani. Conductor, James Conlon. Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome. 04.07.2014 (JB) ...
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The San Francisco Opera production of Verdi's "La Traviata" got a welcome reboot on Saturday night with the arrival of a vibrant new cast of young singers in the principal roles. Or more timely, for that matter - Saturday's performance d...
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Filipino conductor and violinist Oscar Yatco died in July 2014, aged eighty-two
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Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo has two new CD releases out this summer
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Precisely why this recording—made live at Covent Garden in 1973—is not better known is a mystery; it’s the best Carmen on the market. In the title role on CD there’s no dearth of great singers available, but Angeles is too pure; Callas i...
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At last, a remastered release of the legendary Jascha Horenstein Mahler Symphony no 5, with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra recorded at the Edinburgh Festival in 1961. It's available for digital download from Printine Class...
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Shattered Passage. The New Yorker, July 7, 2014. The Met's Klinghoffer Problem. New Yorker website, June 25, 2014. Blockbuster. The New Yorker, June 23, 2014.
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By Kate Little: The following are notes from a recent lesson that was particularly effective. The notes were taken after-the-fact from the audio recording of the lesson. After performing Minuet II (Bach/Suzuki Book I) for my Montana teac...
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Janáček and Bartók: Michelle DeYoung (soprano), Gábor Bretz (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Edward Gardner, (conductor), Symphony Hall, Birmingham 2.7.2014. Janáček: Sinfonietta Bartók: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle (sung in Hun...
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Bridgewater Hall, Manchester An intent audience gave the impression that they could submit to the numinous ebb and flow of Reich's work forever It seems a fairly safe bet that Radiohead should be into Steve Reich. That Reich is equally i...
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Royal Opera House, London What gives the evening genuine distinction are the individual vocal performances, and especially those from the protagonist and her implacable opponent The most famous scene in Donizetti's opera is a personal co...
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By Bram Heemskerk: On a hot summer day we played on 22 june with our movie- and musicalorchestra Timbres Divers (Different Styles) in a chanel on a pontoon in Gouda, which is well known for its cheese Gouda cheese .I was once in Iceland ...
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Joyce DiDonato's enthralling singing saved this Maria Stuarda
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Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof and Fiorello! , wrote dozens of songs for those shows and others that never saw the stage.
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Beethoven, Triple Concerto in C, Op 56: Benedetti/Elschebroich/Grynyuk Trio, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits (conductor), Town Hall, Cheltenham, 2.7.2014 Brahms, Arlene Sierra, Shostakovich: Benedetti/Elschebroich/Gry...
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With the anniversary of the commencement of the First World War this year, and the prospect of further anniversaries looming for the next four years at least, choirs that sing unaccompanied vocal music are perhaps in danger of feeling le...
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Many piano students have issues with stretching. Smaller hands are less suited to playing the piano than larger ones, and they often need a little more help when learning certain repertoire. Playing hefty chords and intervals of an octav...
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Watch: Mozart's Don Giovanni live from Glyndebourne from 3pm
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An old saying says be careful what you wish for coz it might happen . You know me, always curious to know how things happen behind the scenes of a production, who's involved, what they are doing and so on. I wished to attend a rehearsal ...
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Opera – good, bad and indifferent – probably solicits the most emotional response from anyone attending a concert. Girls – and probably more than a few boys – may cry and swoon at pop concerts but I think that has more to do ...
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If I have a beef with Britten’s Death in Venice it’s that it’s a bit cerebral and bloodless, at least as it has come down in the Aldeburgh-Glyndebourne-ENO performing tradition. I think it’s fair to say that in i...
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Photo: Bernd Uhlig After a prompt from Lydia ( definitelytheopera ), I decided to look up some additional information (in English) on this new, moving production of Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice . The official videos at the...
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Äneas Humm Five days ago, we posted about the 19-year-old Swiss wunderkind Äneas Humm. You can now watch the 21-minute documentary that appeared on Swiss television online. Although the segment is in German, non-German speakers will enjo...
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Some reports of technical problems with comments and other buttons on this blog. I think it may be an issue with the WordPress theme – still working on it. If you have encountered this problem, let me know, either with … Cont...
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An uplifting way to start the week from Our Own Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin : a performance of Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide under the baton of Riccardo Muti .
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(via NATS – BOSTON) – Soprano Melissa Wimbish won […]
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Four stunning operas. Four aspects of love. Some […]
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Posted by Melissa Wimbish (via Madcap Review) 23 Questi […]
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I don’t know if this is in some way my fault but fairly often when I open WordPress the Reader is not updated. For instance, I know a certain post has a number of comments, yet they do not appear in the Reader. That is frustrating ...
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High drama in Aix. Three scenarios in conflict — those of G.F. Handel, Richard Jones and the intermittents (disgruntled seasonal theatrical employees). Make that four — mother nature.
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Fairytale princes can feel a bit machine-cut. Sure, they’re handsome (natch) and brave and romantic … but what are they really like? In Alexei Ratmansky’s Cinderella, the Prince has a distinct character, and you know it...
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Rupert Christiansen takes issue with singer Jessye Norman's score-settling and self-congratulatory memoir
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On June 19th, Anja Harteros joined Phillippe Jordan and the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris in Vienna to sing a bit of Richard Strauss. On July 6 th , Ö1 Radio broadcast a recording of that performance. Here is the fir...
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The programme declared that ‘music, water and night’ was the connecting thread running through this diverse collection of songs, performed by soprano Lucy Crowe and pianist Anna Tilbrook, but in fact there was little need to seek a unify...
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‘Only make the reader’s general vision of evil intense enough … and his own experience, his own imagination, his own sympathy … will supply him quite sufficiently with all the particulars.
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I do not know if the Scala Recital which is at the moment on youtube will last for long but it is worth enjoying now without restraint. One at a time with the poem, translation and. scores .. an adventure for mind and soul....with ...
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* Notes * The second cast of La Traviata (Ailyn Pérez as Violetta and Stephen Costello as Alfredo in Act I pictured left, photograph by Kristen Loken) at San Francisco Opera this season performed last night. This performance was presente...
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It is not often that concept, mood, music and place coincide perfectly. On the first night of Opera della Luna’s La Fille du Regiment at Iford Opera in Wiltshire, England we arrived with doubts (rather large doubts it should be admitted)...
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(video from the theater site) It was tempting... a real grand production with what is the Broadway touch, I imagine! The choreography was a mixed Asian composition which reminded me of the costumes and dances during the...
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Aaron Sørensen from the Barihunks calendar & the Criterion Theatre in Maine Aaron Sørensen, who was one of this year's recipients of a Barihunks calendar grant, made his West Coast recital debut in a concert with hunkentenor Jonathan...
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From today, Sunday July 6 you have one week to watch on demand. Don Giovanni - 2010 Festival recording with fabulous cast ~~ Watch HERE at the Glyndebourne web site Don Giovanni - Gerald Finley Donna Anna - Anna Samuil Donna Elvira - Kat...
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Gabriel Preisser (Photo: Provided/Opera Philadelphia, Dominic Mercier) As the Cincinnati Opera gears up to be the latest company to present Kevin Puts' Silent Night, the Cincinnati Enquirer sat down and interviewed three of the leading b...
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I spent some of yesterday watching a DVD of Verdi’s Aida, the one from Zurich with Nina Stemme in the title role. I’ve seen this one before, ages ago, and I remembered the split screen video direction (for example, in …...
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Born in the city of Piedras Negras in the Mexican state of Coahuila, tenor Eleazar Rodríguez is an exciting young talent. A member of the ensemble at the Badisches Staatstheater, […]
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Maria Stuarda (Royal Opera House, Saturday 4 July 2014) Maria Stuarda – Joyce DiDonato Elisabetta I – Carmen Giannattasio Giorgio Talbot – Matthew Rose Guigliemo Cecil – Jeremy Carpenter Roberto, Conte di Leicester – Ismael Jordi Anna Ke...
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Welcome to Parterre Puzzle Corner #2 . But first, the solution to last week’s challenge.
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La Cieca would never kid you, cher public: it's that time of the week when we discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.
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Joyce DiDonato's enthralling singing saved this Maria Stuarda
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Watch: Mozart's Don Giovanni from Glyndebourne. Available on demand until Sunday July 13
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Adelaide, Cinderella’s coming to town – and it’s time to get dressy! As a tribute to the wild and wonderful head-wear of Jerôme Kaplan’s designs (Schiaparelli-inspired shoe hats, Marcel waves, sky-scraper wigs), w...
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Opera Cake (the blogger) calls La Monnaie's new Orphée et Eurydice "simply devastating," and says we need to see in person. While OC did not reveal why (but promised a fuller review soon), I've a feeling s...
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Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann is the single presentation of the Opéra National de Lyon in their Japanese tour. Quite understandably, if one has in mind that Laurent Pelly’s production involves ever-changing scenery ...
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Gerald Finley and Luca Pisaroni at Glyndebourne You will be able to watch the acclaimed 2010 production of Mozart's Don Giovanni from Glyndebourne online. It features three of the greatest low voices around today, Gerald Finley in the ti...
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The chipper Swedish mezzo brought long time partner in crime Bengt Forsberg (piano) and Steven Isserlis (cello) for a jazzy evening from the Wigmore Lates series (starts at 10pm and runs for an hour without intermission; jazz performance...
