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Sunday, February 1, 2015 from Music and VisionA recital by Agnieszka Kozlowska and Beate Toyka, reviewed by Mike Wheeler
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayFrench-Romanian composer Marius Constant (d. 2004) is best known in this country for his theme music to The Twilight Zone. This probably gave him a higher profile than he ever enjoyed in France. He is also noteworthy as a conductor, an e...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Music Genre: ClassicalFrom a sensational soprano to an audacious new work for orchestra, NPR Music's Tom Huizenga and host Arun Rath spin a broad selection of new classical albums.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayDonald Francis Tovey famously described Mendelssohn as a “spoiled genius”. If so, then these two works composed between the ages of 14 and 15 reveal his genius before it got spoiled. They are wholly delightful. Mendelssohn’s classical im...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletThis is worth delving into for the sake of the Antonacci/JDD pairing. How would two singers who resist easy categorisation work together to bring out two characters that aren’t easy to pin down either? Tito: Charles Workman Vitelli...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayThe principal value of this five-CD set lies in “Der Kna’s” Bruckner performances. You get two of the Ninth, one live, one studio broadcast, and one of the Eighth. The editions are pre-Nowak, though the Eighth is mostly the final version...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet* Notes * Conductor Paul Goodwin (pictured left, photograph by Manny Espinoza) is leading the San Francisco Symphony in a rather traditional program of Bach and Mozart this weekend. Goodwin, however, is anything but staid. He has a clear...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
So, back at the Four Seasons centre last night for a second look at Tcherniakov’s production of Don Giovanni, this time from the Third Ring. I’ve also been thinking and talking a lot about this production both with people wh... -
Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3The thrillingly intense Anna Netrebko is perfectly cast as Tchaikovsky's heroine Iolanta, says Rupert Christiansen
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicThe next concert from the Chetham 's Symphony Orchestra, Images of World War I , will be mixing sound and image. Conducted by Simon Threlfall, the 100 strong orchestra, made up of students aged 14 to 18 from Chetham's in Manchester, will...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musics Dmitri Hvorostovsky The Royal Opera © ROH. Photograph by Catherine Ashmore, 2014 The Royal Opera's new production of Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera debuted in December 2014. It seems to have divided critics. Directed by Katharina Thoma a...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Scottish Chamber Orchestra's twinning of a great work each by Haydn and Mahler was a triumph, says Ivan Hewett
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukIn 2018, he steps down as conductor of the world’s greatest orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic. What then? Ahead of Rattle’s London residency, his biographer Nicholas Kenyon asks if he will soon come home for good • Sir Simon Rattle at 6...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletShe will be on the road again.. Last saturday we were celebrating her birthday after a wonderful recital ... ( previous post). She will be singing at the Kennedy Center Feb 3rd. Vocal Arts DC presents: Karine Deshayes, mezzo-sopran...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicA huge number of composers suffered during World War II, and a whole generation was lost in the Holocaust, virtually wiping out a strand of European modernism. OperaCoast is presenting a pair of concerts in Brighton (2/5/2015) and Lewes ...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayRich, vibrant sonorities, sensible tempos, exacting ensemble playing, sublime solo performances, and an overall sense of these six works as the uniquely entertaining pieces that Bach intended enters this recent production from Florilegiu...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from JDCMBA number of you have written to me asking to read my talk about Korngold and his Symphony in F sharp, given the other day for the CBSO, so I'm posting it below. But don't forget that for the price of two large coffees you can still get m...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost ContentJohn McCabe’s (b.1939) Symphony No.1 ‘Elegy’ was first performed on 4 July 1966 at the Cheltenham Festival by the Hallé Orchestra with their conductor John Barbirolli. It is a work that I can hardly believe is not fairly and squarely in ...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletMartin Acrainer in Orphée (left ) and Spuren der Verirrten (right) Nary a year goes by where we don't celebrate the birthday of American composer Philip Glass who turns 77 today. Many of his 20+ operas have become staples of the standard...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayKurt Atterberg’s richly romantic, colorful orchestral vistas require excellent recorded sound and a no-holds-barred performance to make their best effect, and both of these symphonies previously have been well served in this regard...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayComposed around 1763-64, these gala cantatas were written for the sole purpose of glorifying Prince Nicholas Esterházy, and two of them have never been played since. They are joyous works of praise, filled with complicated coloratura and...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayNikos Skalkottas was a genius, and like so many geniuses he died young (45) and unacknowledged. Recognition is slowly coming, largely thanks to this series of recordings from BIS (heaven knows it’s not because his music gets played...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayCPO has devoted 13 previous releases to Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843-1900), whose wife Elisabeth (1847-1892) was a favorite pianist of Brahms. It should be mentioned that the label’s latest endeavor on the Austrian composer’s behalf d...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayJohan Helmich Roman’s Drottningholmsmusiken consists of 24 numbers (and one da capo), totaling about 70 minutes in these lively performances. It’s about what you’d expect for a baroque wedding (1744), and perhaps the ne...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Classics TodayJust when you think there is nothing new to say and nothing more to add to the Brandenburg Concertos’ rich interpretive spectrum on disc, along comes Rinaldo Alessandrini. In one fell swoop, the harpsichordist/conductor has created...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletJohn Brancy returns to the role of Papageno in Edmonton Opera's The Magic Flute , which opens Saturday, January 31st and runs through February 5th. The opera, which was created and designed in house, will be presented as a visually stunn...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Stephen Brivati: Greetings, Many moons ago, after a concert in Amalfi, I met a wrinkled old man in a white hat outside the gents' toilets and shook hands with him. His name was William Walton. He is dead now but I dont think that is b...
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Music and VisionDénes Várjon's Nottingham piano recital, praised by Mike Wheeler
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Saturday, January 31, 2015 from Music and VisionIsraeli conductor Israel Yinon died in January 2015, aged fifty-nine
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Penny Kruse: Last Friday, I had the best time at my studio seminar or violin class with my students. During lessons that week, I sensed that my students were not practicing enough technique and also that they did not always read my e-...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
October 23 - November 14 2015: Tosca October 30- November 13 2015: Eugene Onegin December 4-20 2015: The Little Prince January 23- February 8 2016: Le Nozze di Figaro January 29- February 12 2016 : Rusalka March 5-13 2016: Prince...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from Joshua KosmanMembers of the San Francisco Symphony expend most of their time and energy on the classic works of the 19th and 20th centuries, repertoire that is central to any orchestra’s mission statement. Under the baton of debuting conductor Paul G...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from Violinist.comBy The Weekend Vote: We already had a vote about whether or not your have a "broke" bow , now I'd like to ask: Do you have a Baroque bow? When I was chatting with Rachel Barton Pine about her Mozart concertos for our interview this week ...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletDanceMedia is accepting applications through March 1 for summer interns (June-August) to work on Dance Magazine , Pointe , and Dance Spirit . All internships are unpaid, and require a minim...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from Joshua KosmanNicholas McGegan will celebrate his 30th season as music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra with a season of works ranging from Alessandro Scarlatti to Mendelssohn, a gala concert featuring mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and a N...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseAll praise to NewMusicBox, which goes from strength to strength: Heather Stebbins's posts from Estonia, Tim Rutherford-Johnson on new music and globalization, Eugene Birman on the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute.... LA's Jacaranda...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletA protester who took the stage at the Metropolitan Opera during the curtain call of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta has been at the center of previous political demonstrations involving Russian artists. Midway through the double bill presentation ...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from Classical NotesThis week, Classical MPR unveiled its brand-new website. Make sure to take a tour — and to help you kick the tires on our new site, here are three feature recommendations for you. How to navigate the new site Learning a new website...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from Blog medici.tvmedici.tv vous invite à la 26ème édition de Musicora à la Grande Halle de la Villette Salon annuel grand public, Musicora réunit pendant trois jours les professionnels et amateurs de musique classique et jazz. Au programme : concerts, sh...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet~~ image from Greenhoe Trombones In an orchestral setting Wagner tells us “Don’t look at the trombones, it only encourages them” but do take a look, and a listen, to this clever chap. Intriguing stuff. Trombonist Christ...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
Andriana Chuchman will sing the role of Valencienne in this season’s April and May performances of Lehár’s The Merry Widow . -
Friday, January 30, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseCult Fame and Its Discontents, New Yorker website.
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & Ballet
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletThomas Tatzl Austrian barihunk Thomas Tatzl will star in composer Mauricio Sotelo's new opera El Público , commissioned by the last Gerard Mortier for the Teatro Real in Madrid. The work was adapted by Andrés Ibáñez from a 1930 pie...
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Friday, January 30, 2015 from BREAKING NEWS: Opera & BalletOutside the Metropolitan Opera, Art Against Aggression protesters made a peaceful showing at the delayed opening Thursday of the Iolanta / Bluebeard's Castle double bill, quietly accusing star soprano Anna Netrebko of being "world renown...
