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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalProm 28:Beethoven, Brett Dean, Stavinsky: Francesco D’Orazio (electric violin), Soloists, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus (chorus master: Stephen Jackson), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 7....
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukCadogan Hall, London Peter Maxwell Davies's Sinfonia, a powerful and rarely performed work, was the highlight of a wide-ranging programme Based in Rovaniemi, Finland, just a few miles south of the Arctic Circle, the Lapland Chamber Orche...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Joshua KosmanLike the impoverished but resourceful young esthetes in "La Bohème," the folks at West Edge Opera have turned the company's precarious finances into a golden artistic opportunity. The compact 2014 season - a tight little three-opera fest...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from ArtsBeat» Classical MusicThe Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, Peter Gelb, has threatened to lock out workers at the opera house if they do not agree to concessions.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalEdinburgh International Festival 2014 (3) – Brahms, Schumann, Webern, Beethoven: Lars Vogt (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor), Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 10.8.2014 (SRT) Brahms: Tragic Overture Schumann: Symphon...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
In recent years the enterprising Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble has brightened the usually arid weeks of August in New York City with some worthy operatic showcases for young singers. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Lyndon Terracini has announced his new season and it’s not a bad mix. The veteran Elijah Moshinsky will return after a long absence to direct Verdi’s Don Carlos, seldom seen down under. David McVicar is back with a new Marriage of ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Amernet String Quartet plays the music of Steven R. Gerber The Amernet String Quartet plays the music of Steven R. Gerber at (le) poisson rouge. Monday, August 11 at 7:30 PM Tickets $15 advance, $20 day of show (le) poisson rouge, 158 Bl... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet["No! Let's Get Back To Bed, Boy is a horible, horrible song!" - True, perhaps, but one cannot argue with the point it makes. Add the sideburns, tux stripes and attitude (can I have a stanza for that stance?!), and we've got a Princess ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3The best internet radio stations, selected Pete Naughton
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Slipped Disc
And it’s raising $10 million more for music programming. South California is becoming a culture hub. All it takes is the will (and the wealth). Report here. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Slipped Disc
This is Laura Wright, mezzo-soprano, promoted to the tabloid press as ‘the Queen’s favourite opera singer’. (Sorry, Kiri.) This is Laura, too, stripped and ready for video action. The pictures are from her new ex... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Representatives of Sony Music Russia, Universal Music Russia and Warner Music UK went to court today in an action against VKontakte – often known as Russian’s Facebook – for music piracy. VK, founded in 2006, allows use... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletLike every year, two new opera productions were presented at Les Chorégies d'Orange 2014, Nabucco and Otello [2 shows each], and one of the shows was broadcast on national TV broadcast - Otello on France2, August 5 2014. The respon...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Eric Whitacre » Blog
Workshopping next year’s production. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
So, today marks the third anniversary of this blog. This will be the 824th post. There are over 300 DVD/Blu-ray reviews in the database. As I write there have been 1,981 comments and 182,996 views. As I have said to … Continue r... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTElgar, Elder and the Hallé: an ideal combination.. Alice Coote sang Elgar Sea Pictures at BBC Prom 3: the stuff of dreams. Coote's rich mezzo brings out the sensual undercurrents in the songs, suggesting dark mysteries hidden benea...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Sinfini
Some of the characters at the Edinburgh International Festival -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukThe word pastoral disguises the true intentions of Vaughan Williamss third symphony, which confronted the horrors of the first world war Its really wartime music a great deal of it incubated when I used to go up night after night in the ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRoyal Albert Hall, London Neville Marriner celebrated his 90th birthday with a typically subtle and vivacious account of Walton's score for Henry V Conductors celebrating significant birthdays is one of the many threads running through t...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
Yesterday saw the 21st and final performance for this season for the Bicycle Opera Project; the conclusion of a five week, fourteen city trip around Ontario. Fittingly for an eco-opera venture it took place at the Evergreen Brickworks i... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Classical NotesEvery Monday morning at 9:15, I join John Birge on Classical MPR to talk about stories being featured on our website. Here are the stories we'll be discussing today.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
The EPTA UK Piano Teachers’ Course is now in its sixth year and is the only one of its kind in the UK. A course like this is crucial for pianists and piano teachers, and should ideally be a mandatory component … Continue read... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletPosted by Melissa Wimbish When the zombies eat everyone […]
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from - Classical RSS FeedTraditionalist Handelians had trouble accepting the playful take by director Robert Carsen and designer Gideon Davey on Rinaldo at its premiere three years ago; judging by the audience’s response to this revival under Bruno Ravella, that...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletFort Worth Opera (FWOpera) in collaboration with […]
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletI love to arrive early to the opera. For one, I want t […]
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTFrom Roger Thomas : " Something very puzzling is happening in BBC TV's coverage of the 2014 Proms. Although the concert items that the BBC labels as New Works are included in their original context in the live (but broadcast on a later d...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Balletby Melissa Wimbish I thought this wasn’t awesome […]
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicMy recently completed motet, Miserere mihi , sets text from Psalm 85 (Have mercy on me, O Lord) which is the Introit for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time which occurs between 28 August - 3 September. The motet is set for six ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Sinfini
Leon Fleisher - All The Things You Are -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Slipped Disc
In addition to the insurance firm, the car maker, the watch, the pen and whatever else, Lang Lang has added Harman ‘ the premium global audio and infotainment group’ to his portfolio. Soon, he’ll be raking in so ... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicAlistair Shelton-Smith, Christopher Diffey and Mark Beesley in Edward Lambert's The Catfish Conundrum photo Claire Shovelton Our visit to Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival at King's Place on Sunday 11 August 2014 started as soon as we ente...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Roger Frisch had a tremor. Surgeons said they could correct it, provided he carried on playing while they worked on his brain. Here’s how. -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Slipped Disc
The West-Eastern Diwan orchestra has thrown an outdoor free Vivaldi concert into its Argentine tour. The conductor said: ‘The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is very sensitive to the situation in Middle East. The musicians have relati... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Slipped Disc
In enjoying and reviewing Leon Fleisher’s 85th birthday release – it’s my album of the week on sinfinimusic.com – I mulled a good deal over a fugue by Bach that was transcribed for the left hand by Johannes Brahms... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
Two debuts of legendary singers on a single night highlight this performance of Faust from the final season of the Old Met, courtesy of Jungfer Marianne Leizmetzerin . -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Classical Music on Huffington Post
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from ArtsBeat» Classical MusicThe opera "JFK," by David T. Little will not have its premiere until 2016 but a workshop performance has been scheduled for New York in November.
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicKarina Gauvin as Armida photo Robbie Jack Handel Rinaldo ; Karina Gauvin, Iestyn Davies, Christina Landshamer, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenmment, cond. Ottavio Dantone, direct. Robert Carsen; Glyndebourne Festival Opera Reviewed by ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Classical Voice North AmericaTriumph Of Time "> By David Gordon Duke VANCOUVER – The music of Handel has occupied a key place in the summer offerings of Early Music Vancouver for a number of seasons. This year's festival keystone was Handel's first oratorio, Il trio...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Classics TodayOn paper the Britten and Shostakovich violin concertos make for an apt pair. The two composers were longtime friends who were very familiar with each other’s music. However, apart from both concertos featuring an extended passacaglia mov...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukConcert Hall, Sydney Opera House German tenor delights on his first Australian tour with masterful technical control coupled with an endearingly playful side Superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann is the type of man your mother warned you about....
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Mel Gibson directed Don Carlos? I raise the question because in this version, directed for the Theatre du Chatelet by Luc Bondy, there is a moment in Posa’s death scene … Contin... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalVariety and Distinction in Vancouver’s 2014-2015 Concert Season For its size, Vancouver offers a remarkable array of classical music, featuring an endless stream of international artists that almost completely fill up a calendar ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
This year, Senior Artist Miwako Kubota will be a guest artist with The Dancers Company as for the third time. We talk to her about her love of travelling and why The Dancers Company tour is a unique experience every … Continue read... -
Monday, August 11, 2014 from Classics TodayFew composers wrote better salon music for piano than Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925), whose solo etudes and character pieces are always fun to hear, at least in the hands of pianists who ooze technique and charm. And like all good salon c...
