Latest and Breaking Classical Music News and Top Stories - July 8
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Nielsen Soundscan reports that foru million LPs have sold in the US since January. They’re predicting 8.3 million for the year. The bad news? Vinyl is the only format that’s up.
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Jun Hwi Cho Of Seoul, South Korea Wins Joyce B. Cowin First Prize At The Seventh New York International Piano Competition Jun Hwi Cho is Awarded $10,000 as well as Concert Appearances Throughout The United States The Stecher and Horow...
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St Paul's Cathedral, London Penderecki fell flat but Bruckner soared through the cathedral, as Daniel Harding grappled with St Paul's acoustics Bruckner's symphonies are often described as "cathedrals of sound", not merely beca...
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This excellent recording of I briganti is a brisk, idiomatic interpretation, says Rupert Christansen
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Opera Openings Grange Park Opera opened with a new production of Verdi's La Traviata with Claire Rutter in the title role, and continued with Britten's Peter Grimes and Massenet's Don Quichotte . Opera Holland Park's new season started w...
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"Bringing Schubert's Vienna to Oxford". This year's Oxford Lieder Festival will be the most ambitious Schubert undertaking ever attempted in Britain. "An intense survey of Schubert songs like this has never been done in the U...
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Six weeks ago, we discussed on Slipped Disc one of the persistent slurs on the great violinist Isaac Stern – that he used his prestige and power to disable some of his American rivals. On the evidence available, we determined that ...
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The St Magnus festival celebrated Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' 80th at a special concert involving the local community and Max's compositions for children There was something hugely touching about the birthday party the St Magnus Festival t...
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Quelle horreur! It has been disclosed that the accordionist accompanying the cycle race all the way from Yorkshire to the Champs Elysées is Karen Street, who lives in Wells, Somerset. She is doing it in homage to Yvette Horner, 92, who w...
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Classical music festivals often mean little fun and even less sun
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Jazzy Balkan folk from Kristjan Järvi and friends
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The deficit is no bigger than last year’s and it is being covered by a sale of assets, but how much longer can two newspapers – the Guardian and the Observer – continue hemorrhaging money at this volume? The end of prin...
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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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Alan Gilbert will replace Riccardo Chailly in Berlin’s Musikfest in September. Semyon Bychkov (below right) stands in for Lorin Maazel. There’s something transitional in the air.
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Two musicians I feel very lucky to know are both celebrating birthdays today. Have a listen to celebrate. First, here is my very special colleague Philippe Graffin , the poetic and creative French violinist, in a track from the album Hun...
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The Rheingau Music Festival’s 2014 prize, worth 10,000 Euros, has been awarded to the German conductor and pianist Christoph Eschenbach. Well, he’s had a tough year, being kicked around by critics and orchestras from here to ...
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We have received the following disturbing report from Germán Clavijo, a viola player in one of the London orchestras, who is starting a career as a conductor. Germán took part in the II International Conducting Competition in Cor...
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The British soprano Rosemary Joshua has been named artistic director of the Dutch National Opera Academy. Starting in September, she succeeds Alexander Oliver who has led the Academy since 1999. Holland has one of the fast-growing opera ...
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Birgitta Festival at St Brigit's Convent in Tallinn The Birgitta Festival takes place in the historic and very atmospheric St Bridget's Convent in Tallinn. The convent was destroyed in the 16th century, but the ruins remain significant a...
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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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Stephen Gadd, Carl Tanner and ensemble Queen of Spades act three Tchaikovsky Queen of Spades ; Carl Tanner, Giselle Allen, cond. Gianluca Marciano; Grange Park Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jul 05 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Powerful revi...
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Knussen's third symphony is only 15 minutes in length but it covers a massive musical and emotional spectrum Fantastic, and fantastical abstraction. In a sense, thats a pretty good definition of what this whole symphony idea is all about...
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Charles Hubert Hastings Parry’s Fifth Symphony was composed for the centenary of the Royal Philharmonic Society and was duly heard at the Queen’s Hall on 5 December 1912 with the composer conducting. The original title of the work was ‘S...
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By Laurie Niles: One effective way to practice a difficult fast passage is to play it slowly and correctly. But sometimes, after all that slow practice, it doesn't seem to fit back into the music. Why is that? One common problem with slo...
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Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Serenade probably is his orchestral masterpiece, although a good case can be made for the Second Symphony as well. It has been lucky on disc, starting with Rafael Kubelik’s very good recording, and Neeme...
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Aspen Music Festival (1): Philip Setzer (violin), David Finckel (cello), Wu Han (piano), Stephen Hough (piano), Takács Quartet. Harris Hall, Aspen, Colorado. 1-3.7.2014 (HS) Recital, 1 July Philip Setzer, violin David Finckel, cello Wu ...
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Nicola Lefanu, Tokaido Road (world premiere): Soloists, Okeanos / Dominic Wheeler (conductor), Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham, 6.7.2014. Cast Hiroshige: Jeremy Huw Williams Kikuyo: Raphaela Papadakis Marika: Caryl Hughes Mime/Dancert:...
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Mussorgsky, Beethoven, Villa-Lobos et al, Tryst: Devotion and Betrayal: New English Ballet Theatre, Peacock Theatre, London, 5.7.2014 (J.O’D) Tangents Dancers: Jessica Clyde, Hayley Blackburn, Mercedes Schindler, Lorenzo Bernardi, Matt...
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Nigel Ogden begins Derby Cathedral's series of summer organ recitals, heard by Mike Wheeler
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Mozart, Saint-Saëns, Bizet, Rachmaninov: David Doidge (piano) and Seho Lee (piano), Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff , 4.7.2014 (LJ). Mozart: Overture from The Magic Flute, arr. Busoni Saint-Saëns: Dance Macabre, Op. 40 f...
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In response to repeated urging by La Cieca, Our Own Dawn Fatale has contributed a "to do" list for the benefit of Met management, assuming the company makes it out of this summer alive.
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"How the Dying Composer's Sentimental Whim Was Invoked by Lucy Arbell, the English Prima Donna, to Forbid Mary Garden to Sing the Title Role in Cleopatra."
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In August of 1857 Richard Wagner stepped away from the massive half-completed Ring of the Nibelung (he had already fully orchestrated Das Rheingold and Die Walküre ) and began work on what would become one of his most important works. Th...
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One hears that opera attendance is on the skids in New York. The City Opera is gone. The Metropolitan Opera and representatives of its labor unions are engaged in tense negotiations . Doomsayers fear the Met season will not begin on time...
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The Washington Ballet's Tamako Miyazaki at USA IBC. Photo by Richard Finkelstein
