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The pianist Valentina Lisitsa has been highly outspoken in her hatred of the Ukrainian government and her support for Russian intervention. She lives in the US and she likes to play up alleged Fascist and Nazi elements in the Ukraine gov... - Monday, April 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Couldn’t make it up? Oh, yes they could…. - Monday, April 6, 2015 from ArtsBeat » » Classical MusicThe Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts provides awards totaling $300,000.
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsCleveland Scene Weekly Five Classical Musical Events You Should Catch This Week Cleveland Scene Weekly Pipa virtuoso Wu Man at the Cleveland Museum of Art. A member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, Wu Man has worked tirelessly to in...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseNew titles of interest. — Philip Glass, Words without Music (Norton) — Sarah Barbedette, ed., Pierre Boulez (Actes Sud) — Gary Tomlinson, A Million Years of Music: The Emergence of Human Modernity (Zone) — Nigel Simeone and John Tyrrell,...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3The Dunedin Consort's performance left an intriguing emotional after-taste, in which sadness and joy were inextricably mixed, says Ivan Hewett
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukBarbican, London The formidable challenges of James MacMillan’s second passion setting were superbly met in this performance conducted by the composer Continue reading...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukAfter a three-year hiatus, orchestra has been revived with an ambitious programme and a world-class conductor, Alexander Rahbari – and he says it’s all thanks to Rouhani’s administration Continue reading...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Latest Classical Music VideosLang Lang - Mandarin Monday #5 (Springtime) Springtime is here...and so is our next Mandarin Monday! Have you been keeping up on your lessons?? From: Lang Lang Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 00:47 More in Music
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In an outspoken interview with Amit Slonim in Mako magazine, the veteran music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra shares some grim thoughts about cultural isolation. His exact words (in Hebrew): הבידוד של ישראל בעולם כל כך מדא... - Monday, April 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsMother Nature Network Classical music soothes cats during surgery Mother Nature Network "Different music genres affect individuals in different ways," he said in a news release. "During consultations I have noticed, for ex...
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Stefan Arzberger, leader of the Leipzig Quartet who was found wandering naked in a New York hotel last week, is determined to prove that he was a victim of crime. He has appealed for €15,000 to help with legal expenses. As of today, he ... - Monday, April 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
He tells Vienna’s Kurier that the art form is losing social relevance. Most young people consider it elitist and ‘belonging to the past’. He has a book to plug, but no solutions to offer. - Monday, April 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Michael Fabiano stood in last week at the Met on less than seven hours’ notice after Joseph Calleja – the Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor – called in sick. Fabiano, who caught a train in from Philadelphia, told reporters... - Monday, April 6, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICALViolinist, composer, conductor and also actor Aleksey Igudesman might have an answer for that, and that answer bears the title “Chilekli Devekushu”. In a virtuoso-like performance together with Rusanda Panfili, and with a dis...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Latest Classical Music VideosLiszt: Chasse-neige - Nadezda Pisareva Nadezda Pisareva performs Chasse-neige (No. 12 of the Etudes d'exécution transcendante by Férénc Liszt on a C. Bechstein grand piano C 234 live at the C. Bechstein Centrum B...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTSupport the Musée Rodin and the Mediath è que Musicale Mahler in grand style. The museum is offering, in an exclusive limited edition, a copy of Rodin's 1909 bust of Mahler. This i8s no ordinary reproduction but an exact cast from Rodin'...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSage, Gateshead Conductor McGegan brought avuncular drama to Beethoven and Mahler and the RNS triumphed Continue reading...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Latest Classical Music VideosBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 Waldstein - Nadezda Pisareva Nadezda Pisareva performs the Allegro con brio of the Waldstein sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven on a C. Bechstein grand piano C 234 live at the C. Bechstein Centrum Berlin on Mar...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukLinbury Studio, London This family opera based on the Finnish epic Kalevala is easy to follow and listen to, but little of the score sticks in the mind Continue reading...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe New Daily Classical music numbs surgery pain for cats The New Daily Classical music played to cats during surgery could help reduce the dosage of anaesthetic, according to research. The findings, published in the Journal of Feline Me...
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Gianluigi Gelmetti is on his way out of the Orchestre Philhamonique de Monte Carlo. He will be replaced in September 2016 as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director by Kazuki Yamada. Are we excited? He is: ‘I am thrilled to beco... - Monday, April 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
‘It’s boring and music is dead,’ says Brett Mitchell to camera, ‘but I’d appreciate it if you’d help them pay my salary’. Brett is assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra and outgoing musi... - Monday, April 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Claudio Prieto, a quiet but influential voice in Spanish music, has died at the age of 84. A student of Ligeti and Sockhausen at Darmstadt, he won a national prize in 1969 with ‘Solo a solo’ for flute and guitar and went on t... - Monday, April 6, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Luca Salsi stepped in as Don Carlo in Verdi’s Ernani on Satirday after the Spanish singer failed to overcome a cold. It sounds quite dramatic. Here’s Associated Press: NEW YORK (AP) — Luca Salsi was at the corner of Br... - Monday, April 6, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsBurton Mail Cats prefer classical music according to a new study Burton Mail Forget the expensive cat food and luxury bed, what they really want is to listen to a bit of Handel. A new study has revealed that cats prefer classical music t...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICALAs far as we know Dmitri Shostakovich never recorded his own arrangement of “Good Morning to All” (1893)/”Happy Birthday to You” (1912), but Trio Telepatico’s Martijn Dendievel, who works with Shostakovich’s material on...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from JDCMBZizi Strallen rehearsing as Lana. Photo: (c) Micha Theiner I trekked off to Three Mills Studios the other week to watch Matthew Bourne's company rehearsing the long-awaited revival of The Car Man and depict him in action... the resulting...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicTchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 1879 version, Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 ; Gerstein, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Gaffigan; Myrios Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Mar 28 2015 Star rating: 4.0 A first outing for the new edition...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukFrom opera and learning to conduct it, to Jonny Greenwood and Jonas Kaufmann, cellist Alban Gerhardt reveals his musical passions, on and off the stage Continue reading...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Classics TodaySpohr’s symphonic music (and much else) is earnest to the point of caricature. The Seventh Symphony is subtitled “The Earthly and Divine in Human Life,” believe it or not. Interestingly scored for two orchestras, the sm...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Classics TodayThis recording was poorly received upon its initial release. Re-listening, quite carefully, after 43 years, has done it no favors. Leonard Bernstein, who led it at the Met with the same cast, had his own ideas about the score and most of...
- Monday, April 6, 2015 from Music and VisionGiuseppe Pennisi attends a memorial to Luca Ronconi
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Tidal and Composed are shaking up the digital music scene - Monday, April 6, 2015 from Sinfini Music
John McCabe plays Carl Nielsen's piano music - Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Arts Desk 10 Questions for Composer Unsuk Chin The Arts Desk Yet her music also has a strong gestural quality, her musical ideas are clear and definite, often subtle but never ambiguous. It is an approach that has won her many admire...
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsMozart's Sinfonia concertante is a hybrid piece combining elements of the symphony and the concerto. http://bit.ly/1DGaYNu #STLSinfonia
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsThomas Søndergård closes our St David’s Hall season with Mahler 2 http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e9cg9r pic.twitter.com/t7cL0e007S
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsIndiana #jazz program to reunite alumni, incl. #JuilliardAlumni @PhilipKuehn and @JoeSaylorTweets #JuilliardJazz http://buff.ly/1C1Yf4I
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsIf you missed Tony winner @theebillyporter's concert on @PBS, you can now watch it here: http://bit.ly/1CqQuFq #LFLC pic.twitter.com/96mN5qADYf
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets#DYK you can use your Bank of America card for a 10% discount on Carnegie Hall concerts? Learn more: http://bit.ly/1zVGVPA
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsCBS 58 - Successful #Milwaukee businessman & #pianist @gregmarcus is 'The Piano Man' on #KAWAI grand #piano. http://www.cbs58.com/Clip/11325877/greg-marcus-is-the-piano-man#.VSGDi0JIIvI.twitter …
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsLearn more about our own "Piano Man", @MarcusHotels CEO @gregmarcus, who sometimes performs up in Blu. http://bit.ly/1CHZolJ
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsStunning London premiere of @jamesmacm Luke Passion @BarbicanCentre with @BrittenSinfonia. Absolutely amazing! @ERuckerThompson was awesome
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- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Classical Life
A barn burner of a performance. Georg Solti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic.
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets@KawaiPianos @YouTube I just created a piece of digital art from this cool video pic.twitter.com/LnUj2tyUlQ
- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsWigmore Hall to undergo £2m refurbishment https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2015/wigmore-hall-undergo-2m-refurbishment/ … via @The Stage
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- Sunday, April 5, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets.@artsjournalnews Review: #JuilliardDance Tackles Masterworks http://buff.ly/1BNjYxr
