- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTChristoph Prégardien made a welcome return to the Wigmore Hall He's long been a favourite among Wigmore Hall audiences, Thirty years ago I heard him there, singing Hugo Wolf. The audiences was in raptures, Hearing him now fee...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Globe and Mail Stewart Copeland on going from the rock world to classical music The Globe and Mail Stewart Copeland might be best known as the drummer for the Police, but his career with the trio was effectively finished by 1986. Bef...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseOn May 21 and 28, under the auspices of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, the Talea Ensemble will survey the admirably unpredictable Austrian composer Clemens Gadenstätter.... The Library of Congress, in collaboration with Q2, has...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsA Malaysian Farm is Playing Classical Music to its Chickens Smithsonian They write that a Malaysia and Singapore-based company called Kee Song Group uses classical music as part of its effort to “mass produce drug and hormone-free poultr...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical music review: Soluna chamber-music concert needed more polish Dallas Morning News Maybe it wasn't a good idea to schedule Dallas Symphony Orchestra musicians for a chamber- music concert Monday night. Between last week'...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3The Takács Quartet and pianist Marc-André Hamelin were a fine match in a Debussy-dominated programme, says John Allison
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseThe Oberlin-based composer has a strong new disc on Mode.
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Ray Chen performed Lalo's "Symphonie espagnole" with t...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukGeorg Baselitz has spent his life shocking the public, and the opera-lovers of Glyndebourne are his next target. The artist explains how big-money auctions have made things ‘heavenly’ for him today – and why women still can’t paint Conti...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Christiane Peitz in the Tagesspiegel says Ms Hahn had the Philharmonic audience at her feet in the penultimate concert before she retires to give birth to her first child. ‘An unbelievable woman,’ raves Christiane. Read her r... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalDresdner Musikfestspiele 2015 Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Schumann:: Isabelle Faust (violin), Dresdner Festspielorchester / Ivor Bolton, (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden,, 17.5. 2015 (MC) Mendelssohn: Concert overture ‘The H...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalHaydn, Brahms: Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor (conductor), Victoria Concert Hall, Singapore, 15.05.2015 (RP) Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D major, ‘The Clock’ Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 High spirits reigned ...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The following notice has gone up on the former benevolent fund’s site: We want to announce that David Sulkin has decided to leave his position as the Executive Director of Help Musicians UK with effect from 6 June 2015 to pursue ot... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicGrzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki Missa Rorate , Conductus Funebris , motets; The Sixteen, Eamonn Dougan; Coro Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Apr 28 2015 Star rating: 4.0 Worth exploring - music from the late baroque in Poland I had not heard of ...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsGreenwich Post Children's concert series presents classical music group Decoda Greenwich Post Curiosity Concerts, a project of the Greenwich Arts Council, is a new series of classical music concerts for families with children. The co...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRoyal Opera House, London Soprano Marina Rebeka impresses with her technical skills but the production lacks conviction Continue reading...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicA visit to the Pieta , music by Vivaldi and Porpora Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Kati Debretzeni London Festival of Baroque Music at St John's Smith Square Reviewed by Robert Hugill on May 17 20...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsCleveland Scene Weekly Four Classical Music Events to Catch This Week Cleveland Scene Weekly The former jazz club on Cleveland's near West Side is still serving up jazz, but it's also becoming a popular venue for classical music ...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
Soloists Jonathan Vu & Steve Yoo with Conductor Dave Dally It was an enthusiastic audience at Pacific Grove Middle School Performing Arts Center last night that gave standing ovations for the orchestra and the young soloists for thei... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Powerful piece today by Peter Dobrin, arguing that Kimmel Center’s financial targets have made it impossible to invite the Vienna Philharmonic and Lang Lang to play in the city. Read Peter here. - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSchubert, Beethoven: Wiolletta Chodowicz (soprano), Hannah Pedley (mezzo0, Andrew Rees, (tenor), Paul Carey Jones, (baritone), Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Sheffield Philharmonic Choir & members of the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus / J...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Leonard Slatkin has given a pumped-up interview to our pals at resmusica, describng how his US orchestra has emerged from ‘horrendous economic peril’ to create a new set of outreach and multimedia strategies. It’s not just ab... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalSummer Music In Cincinnati The Queen City, so nicknamed in the 19th century because of its ideal position for commerce, with the Mississippi River flowing past its downtown, gradually became a center for the arts in the Midwest. To this...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Music Genre: ClassicalIn Philip Glass' music, pianist Bruce Brubaker shifts between delicate oscillation and stormy arpeggios.
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukGuildhall, Bath Vast technical command was balanced by penetrating insight and an expressivity that seems to derive from a more than usually empathetic instinct Continue reading...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalMessiaen, Prokofiev, Fauré, and Stravinsky: Jack Liebeck (violin), Katya Apekisheva (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 17.5.2015 (MB) Messiaen – Thème et Variations Prokofiev – Violin Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.80 Fauré – Violin Sonata no.1...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRichard Eyre’s Royal Opera production of Verdi’s opera marked its 150th performance and its 12th revival on the 18 May opening night. Here are two clips from a 2009 production, with Antonio Pappano conducting and Renée Fleming, Joseph Ca...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music Big Noise orchestras praised by researchers Classical Music Based on Venezuela's El Sistema, Sistema Scotland draws children from disadvantaged backgrounds and immerses them in music . Approximately 1,300 Scottish chi...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICALJust in time for the Composer’s birthday, we found a version of a Happy Birthday performed in pure Wagner-like style. However, we found this rendition a little jarring. We expected something triumphal, following the style and rhythm of t...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Chicago’s Ars Viva gave its closing concert on Sunday. Co-founder and music director Alan Heatherington is heading off to pursue a different vocation, in the Anglican ministry. He provided opportunities for many fine musicians and... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
If you’re looking for a downtown pad in Minneapolis, you might like to take the picture tour of Osmo Vänskä’s condo, which is up for sale. photo: Brian Peterson/Star Tribune The property benefits from high windows, ope... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Janko Kastelic was appointed Kapellmeister at the Vienna State Opera on May 1. His job involves rehearsing the chorus and orchestra, also known as the Vienna Philharmonic. He tells us he’s the first Canadian in the job. Coul... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music Conductor discovers hand-written parts for Bruckner's sixth Classical Music Conductor Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs has discovered a set of hand-written parts for Bruckner's sixth symphony. Cohrs believes these to be the ...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Moscow has announced a contemporary music festival for violas next month. Taking its title from Morton Feldman’s work, The Viola in My Life, and organised by violist Sergey Poltava, the festival will match Russian works with pieces... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The concert hall of the Freiburg music academy has suffered damage estimated at a million Euros after a freak spring hailstorm burst the roof of the 1980s building. The storm broke shortly after the end of a baroque concert and, accordin... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from parterre box
Fans of the "context-free laundry list" school of opera criticism will be happy to know that "the world’s preeminent philosopher in the field of aesthetics," Roger Scruton , has now shouldered the white man's burden of rescuing opera fro... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Opera Today
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Opera TodayOn 6 June, Jonathan Dove’s Flight touches down in Kensington, west London. Opera Holland Park is to stage the first London production of Dove’s operatic presentation of the real-life story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the Iranian exile who,...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from operaramblings
Yotam Haber’s album Torus is a bit off the beaten track for me but there’s some art song on it (for some value of art song) and it has Mireille Asselin singing on one track so I thought I’d check it … Continue rea... - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from operaramblings
There may be cheerful songs in Russian but I’m not sure I have ever heard one. Certainly there were none on offer at the Four Seasons Centre today when Ekaterina Gubanova and Rachel Andrist offered up a recital of Tchaikovsky R...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Opera TodayPacific Opera Project, a small Los Angeles company, presented a production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Ebell Club with an excellent group of young singers at the beginning of what should be good careers.
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from BarihunksBari-Chunk to Bari-Hunk Edwin David Vargas We introduced Edwin David Vargas to readers last year after he was inspired by barihunk Michael Mayes to get his body in shape, as well as his voice. He's been flourishing at the Brooklyn Colleg...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1568 Queen Elizabeth I of England arrested Queen Mary of Scotland. - Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from The Eyes Have ItThe Deep South of the UK: May 19 2015 at 7.30am Am I glad to be back? You bet! Do I miss 27c? Of course not! ~~Filed under: uncategorised
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Superconductor
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Royal Ballet School » Latest newsWe are pleased to announce a prestigious line-up of guest teachers at this year’s International Summer School: Follow the links […] The post Summer School 2015 guest teachers make star-studded line-up appeared first on Royal ...
- Tuesday, May 19, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from singer for all seasonsThe atmosphere of this new Cd, (music and melodies) "Après un rêve" (Cd title from GabrielFauré 's melodie) is peaceful, nostalgic and poetic in these days of violence almost everywhere. It is like taking a deep breathi...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from The Opera Tattler* Notes * My review of Oakland East Bay Symphony's Candide is on San Francisco Classical Voice. * Tattling * There was a ton of talking but most of it was in response to the performance, so at least it...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from operatraveller
Recognized as one of the leading baritones before the public today, Kraków-born Mariusz Kwiecień has appeared on most of the world’s major lyric stages. Following his initial training in Warsaw, […]
