Friday, April 18, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
NEW YORK – The seventh re-appearance of Bartlett Sher's broad and colorful 2006 staging proved an energized and refreshing standout among the Met's revivals this season, with an impressive podium debut by Giacomo Sagripanti. The post In...Friday, April 18, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The livestreams haven’t calmed the complaints about Coachella’s lacklustre audiences — many who watch online have commented that the crowds aren’t as hype as they believe they would be if they were in...Friday, April 18, 2025 from ArtsJournal
“The Sonic Heritage project is a collection of 270 sounds from 68 countries, including from famous UNESCO-designated sites such as Machu Picchu and the Taj Mahal, … a monarch butterfly sanctuary, … wind turbines, rare whales and the...Friday, April 18, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Leçons de Ténébres: Les Arts Florissants / William Christie (director/organ) with Ilja Aksionov (tenor) and Padraic Rowan (bass-baritone). Wigmore Hall, London, 16.4.2025. (CC) I overheard an usher advising a...Friday, April 18, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Barbican, London In a programme of Fauré, Schumann and Chopin, the pianist’s take felt at times wilfully eccentric as in his hands, this familiar music became quite alien. Think what you will of Lang Lang’s brand of pianist-celebrity,...Friday, April 18, 2025 from Music and Vision
John Dante Prevedini explores the music of contemporary American composer Alicia Rytlewski. '... a highly original path ...'Friday, April 18, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Friday, April 18, 2025 from Music Genre: Classical
Friday, April 18, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Thursday, April 17, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
JS Bach: Vikingur Ólafsson (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 13.4.2025. (CSa) JS Bach – Goldberg Variations, BWV.988 A serious eye infection, an unsuccessful surgical operation on his right cornea, and a debilitating bout of family flu left...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Vajda, Mario and the Magician / Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Hungarian State Opera / János Kovács (conductor), Hungarian State Opera, Budapest, 9.4.2025. (AK) The pairing of these two one-act operas...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
PERSPECTIVE – Ahead of the ensemble's complete turn through the 15 works April 21-30 in Cleveland, its founding cellist, Kyril Zlotnikov, reflected on an arc of music not even begun until well into Shostakovich's often perilous artistic...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from ArtsJournal
Since their return in 2021, the Taliban have waged a war on music, claiming that it causes “moral corruption”. According to figures from its own Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, the group has destroyed...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Wigmore Hall, London Candlelight set the tone for the ensemble of superb focus, great refinement and real depth of feeling William Christie and Les Arts Florissants marked Holy Week at Wigmore Hall with a selection of Tenebrae Lessons...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from ArtsJournal
“It’s not that these are great pieces that happen to be long; the length itself is the point. The language – ‘endurance’, ‘epic’, ‘marathon’ – is that of extreme sport. Test yourself, we’re implicitly urged. … In that moment, an act of...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Monteverdi Choir/Sells (SDG) The choir’s first release since the departure of its founding conductor filters the composers through a 19th-century lens but things can at points feel a little unwieldy Bruckner and Gesualdo may be the two...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Why is the great performance artist making pianist Levit play a Satie piece 840 times? And does he really have a screen to go behind should nature call? We enter another level of time and consciousness Amid the experiments and...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Finley/Davidsen/Sherratt/de Barbeyrac/Norwegian National Opera/Gardner (Decca, two CDs) The Norwegian soprano dominates in this recording taken from concert performances in which Finley’s Dutchman feels somewhat underpowered According to...Thursday, April 17, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The orchestra is facing “financial challenges driven by inflation, shifting consumer behavior, an increasingly competitive landscape and broader economic uncertainty.” – Nashville Business JournalThursday, April 17, 2025 from Music and Vision
Geoff Pearce listens to two works by Gustav Holst. '... very evocative and enjoyable ...'Thursday, April 17, 2025 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
There is little stopping classical music programmers from making innovative choices, except maybe conviction, comfort, and guts. “Meet in the Middle: Black Midwest Music and Photography” had all three. Held April 13 and 14 at...Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (based on the novel by C. S. Lewis): Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 15.4.2025. (JPr) It is the 75th anniversary of C. S. Lewis’s popular story The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and it...Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Various: Erin Morley (soprano), Gerald Martin Moore (piano). Board of Officers Room, Park Avenue Armory, New York, 11.4.2025. (RP) The weather did not cooperate on a cold, wet evening. Still, a beautiful bouquet of songs was coaxed into...Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from ArtsJournal
This odd wind instrument, whose name is Italian for “little goose,” was invented more-or-less by chance in 1853 in a little town near Bologna. That town now manufactures hand-crafted ocarinas, boasts an ocarina septet which tours...Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from ArtsJournal
Coachella’s payment plan is just this: For a $599 GA ticket (including fees), fans had the option to put $49.99 down when tickets went on sale in November 2024, then pay off the remainder of the balance in monthly installments through...Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from Music and Vision
Mike Wheeler reports on Haydn, McDowall and Handel from DerbyWednesday, April 16, 2025 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
With The Sea (Notice Recordings), composer Francisco del Pino and soprano Charlotte Mundy make a compelling case for the distinctive versatility of the human voice and the uniquely vibrant poetry of Victoria Cóccaro. In accord with many...Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
The Battle of the River Plate is a 1956 British war film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It relates the story of the 1939 naval battle between the British Royal Navy and the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee....Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Bach, St. John Passion: Soloists, La Chapelle de Québec, Orchestra of St. Luke’s / Bernard Labadie (conductor). Carnegie Hall, New York, 10.4.2025. (RP) Bach – St. John Passion, BWV 244 Andrew Haji (tenor) – Evangelist Philippe Sly...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from ArtsJournal
For the past several decades, Greg Sikora has tuned and voiced pianos for the biggest musical artists to play this region, from Frank Sinatra to Lady Gaga and everyone in between. He also served as the chief concert piano technician for...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from ArtsJournal
Parker Ramsay: “Could you conceive of a world in which a harp work occupies your attention like an opera or a violin concerto? That might be a stretch, but I’ve been able to commission music that makes me think it’s possible.” –...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
CBSO Centre, Birmingham The centrepiece of this all-Asian programme from the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group was the world premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Shō Concerto In the foyer, a family workshop was in full swing. A huddle of...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from ArtsJournal
Like every other sector of cultural life, classical music has been roiled over the past decade by intense debates about the field’s ongoing lack of diversity, among performing artists, composers, and leaders of musical...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Bryce Dessner, Stravinsky: Bryce Dessner and David Chalmin (guitars), Katia and Marielle Labèque (pianos), National Symphony Orchestra / André de Ridder (conductor). National Concert Hall, Dublin, 11.4.2025. (RB) Bryce Dessner – St...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Hanruji Lee, Bach: Yunchan Lim (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 8.4.2025. (MBr) Hanruji Lee – …round and velvety – smooth blend… Bach – Goldberg Variations BWV988 Bach’s Goldberg Variations are endlessly fascinating, and no...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Music and Vision
The French mezzo-soprano has been signed up by the Intermusica agencyTuesday, April 15, 2025 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
The gargantuan, stunning Church of Ascension in Greenwich Village gave audience members a profound sense of place and history on April 8 as we gathered for “Voices of Mannahatta,” a prayerful tribute to Lenapehoking (the land beneath New...Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
The word that best describes what the Trump regime is trying to do to Harvard University.Tuesday, April 15, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
TORONTO – Marc-Antoine Charpentier's David and Jonathan (1688), revived by Opera Atelier, spotlighted tenor Colin Ainsworth and mezzo-soprano Mireille Lebel in the title roles with Tafelmusik as the pit band led by David Fallis. The post...Monday, April 14, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Various – ‘Music of Fire & Love’: Hespèrion XXI / Jordi Savall (director, treble viol). The 92nd Street Y, New York, 11.4.2025. (ES-S) Few musicians have done as much as Jordi Savall to reclaim and breathe new life into the rich...Monday, April 14, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Various – ‘Crossing Borders’: Megan Moore (mezzo-soprano), Francesco Barfoed (piano). Morgan Library and Museum, New York, 6.4.2025. (DS) Barbara Strozzi – ‘L’Eraclito amoroso’ Rossini – ‘La regata veneziana’ Prokofiev – 5 Poems, Op.27...Monday, April 14, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
DIGITAL REVIEW – “I have found myself at the intersection of music and dance for over 15 years,” says violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim, who is concertmaster of Pacific Northwest Ballet and the spotlighted artist on a far-reaching CD titled...Monday, April 14, 2025 from ArtsJournal
While music discovery used to be a social event, now most of us cower to simply accepting whatever the Spotify algorithm feeds us. While there is convenience in turning off our brains and mindlessly listening to an AI-generated lo-fi...Monday, April 14, 2025 from ArtsJournal
As a classically trained flutist, I expected to feel unmoored without structure. But improvisation has made space for a freedom I didn’t know I needed: timelessness. – Washington PostMonday, April 14, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The Los Angeles Philharmonic led the charge into their first Coachella performance on Saturday with the “Ride of the Valkyries,” helmed by Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel, in his latest move to reach out to new...