• VC LIVE | 2023 Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition
    Tuesday, March 28, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • Violinist Hilary Hahn Appointed NY Phil's Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • University of North Carolina School of the Arts Appoints Symphony Orchestra Music Director
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • Strauss Rarity ‘Daphne’ Gets A Ringing Revival, Beautiful And Very Loud
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Classical Voice North America
    NEW YORK – With soprano Jana McIntyre offering a remarkable and tireless performance in the demanding title role, Leon Botstein led his American Symphony Orchestra and a strong supporting cast in a splendid, if noisy, account. The post...
  • The BBC Suspended the Proposed Closure of the BBC Singers
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • 'Let other pens dwell on misery and grief' - a joyous ensemble performance of Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park from RNCM Opera
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
    Jonathan Dove - Mansfield Park - RNCM Opera (Photo Robin Clewley)
  • Dnipro Opera visits Basildon and Madama Butterfly is emotional and thought-provoking in many ways
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Seen and Heard International
    Ukrainian National Opera – Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Dnipro Opera, Ukraine / Ihor Puchkov (conductor). Towngate Theatre, Basildon, Essex, 25.3.2023. (JPr) Production: Director- Oleksiy Duginov...
  • Prizes Awarded at Missouri's Plowman Chamber Music Competition
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich was Born in 1927
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • BBC NOW/Otaka/Lamsma review – all-English programme flows from disquiet to joy
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Classical music | The Guardian
    St David’s Hall, Cardiff Conductor Tadaaki Otaka demonstrated his quiet authority and his instinctive way with Elgar during a concert that also included Britten and Elizabeth Maconchy As special relationships go, that of the BBC National...
  • Ensemble. A Favourite with Audiences
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Music and Vision
    Lucas Ball was impressed when Andrew Slater stepped in at short notice to sing in Elgar's 'The Dream of Gerontius'
  • Today is Violinist Dora Schwarzberg's Birthday!
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • Andy Akiho Wrings New Sounds out of Colossal Sculptures
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
    A massive bronze head, with loops jutting out from every crevice of its face, sits amongst the orchestra at The.. The post Andy Akiho Wrings New Sounds out of Colossal Sculptures appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN .
  • Bryn Terfel in full cry and a solid Bruckner Sixth from Alexander Soddy and the Philharmonia
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Seen and Heard International
    Wagner, Bruckner: Sir Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra / Alexander Soddy (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London. 26.3.2023. (JR) Wagner – Prelude and ‘Was duftet doch der Flieder’ (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg);...
  • Jean Muller’s No Frills, Many Thrills Beethoven Cycle
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Classics Today
    During the 2020 pandemic lockdowns, I often followed pianist Jean Muller’s impressive weekly online series devoted to all 32 Beethoven sonatas (available on YouTube). Later I learned that he had played an earlier Beethoven cycle between...
  • Unique Nuits d’été, Excellent Harold
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Classics Today
    Berlioz’s original intentions for his only song cycle, Les nuits d’été, specified a mezzo or tenor and piano. When he orchestrated the songs, he transposed two songs downward (“Le spectre de la rose” and “Sur les...
  • Todmorden’s Purely Classical concert
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from Seen and Heard International
    Elgar, Nielsen, Brahms: Frederico Paixão (flute), Todmorden Orchestra / Nicholas Concannon Hodges (conductor). Todmorden Town Hall, Calderdale, 25.3.2023. (RBa) Elgar – Overture, ‘Cockaigne’ Op.40 Nielsen – Flute Concerto FS 119 Brahms –...
  • VC LIVE | 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grants Ceremony
    Monday, March 27, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • The BBC, Overwhelmed With Funding Offers, Pauses Its Closure Of The BBC Singers
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from ArtsJournal
    When the BBC announced plans to close the UK’s only full-time professional chamber choir right before its century mark, 140,000 people signed a petition – and alternative funders stepped in. – BBC
  • After A Stroke, Falling In Love With Playing Piano
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from ArtsJournal
    “Some people believe students can only learn music well when they’re young. Financial problems meant I never had that chance as a child. But I had a dream, a passion and the conviction, and these beliefs did not deter...
  • A Music School For Syrian Refugees Survived The Earthquake In Turkey
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from ArtsJournal
    Its students are deeply relieved. One said, “This school is my sanctuary from the stress of life as a Syrian refugee in Turkey. … I couldn’t bear the thought of something happening to it.” – NPR
  • Finalists Announced at Missouri's Plowman Chamber Music Comp
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • A Composer Responds To California’s Water Crises
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from ArtsJournal
    “Reena Esmail acknowledged the irony that we were talking about her new choral work — ‘A Requiem for Water,’ inspired by California’s water crisis — in the midst of a deluge. She was wearing galoshes, as were many...
  • A House of Call/Aurora Orchestra review – a dazzling parade of musical imagery
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from Classical music | The Guardian
    Royal Festival Hall/Queen Elizabeth Hall, London The London Philharmonic were superb in the UK premiere of Heiner Goebbels’ 15-movement work, which is studded with found recordings, while the Aurora Orchestra performed Héloïse Werner’s...
  • The latest in Manchester Camerata's Mozart, Made in Manchester series featured a lovely creative dialogue between Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gábor Takács-Nagy and the players
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
    Mozart, Made in Manchester - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Manchester Camerata - The Stoller Hall (Photo Manchester Camerata)
  • Echoes of Oblivion by Robert McCarney
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from Music and Vision
    Behind the Wall of Sleep
  • ENO The Dead City review – Korngold’s study of grief, guilt and obsession is full of queasy beauty
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from Classical music | The Guardian
    Coliseum, London Annilese Miskimmon’s new production of Korngold’s hallucinatory 1920 work sacrifices some of its disturbing power but musically it is magnificently alert to the mood-shifts and beauty of its sound-world ENO’s artistic...
  • John Ireland: Spring Sorrow (1918)
    Sunday, March 26, 2023 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
    John Ireland (1879-1962) had already set two of war-poet Rupert Brooke’s (1887-1915) most memorable poems, The Soldier and Blow out, You Bugles, Blow , which were composed in early 1918. Later that year, he completed a third, Song (All...
  • For Bea
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
    Earlier this month we lost our gorgeous, irrepressible, acrobatic, fastidious, eccentric, and deeply sweet cat Bea. She was fourteen, and wildly vital almost the end. She joins Penelope and Maulina in the land of infinite treats. The...
  • Melbourne Opera takes the Ring road to Bendigo for Das Rheingold
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Seen and Heard International
    Wagner, Das Rheingold: Soloists, Melbourne Opera Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Livestreamed on the from the Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo, 24.2.2023. (JPr) Production: Director — Suzanne Chaundy Set designer — Andrew Bailey...
  • Once more, the RSNO celebrates the music of John Williams
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Seen and Heard International
    John Williams at the Oscars: Tommy Pearson (presenter), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Robert Baxter (conductor). Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 24.3.2023. (SRT) John Williams – Music from Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Harry...
  • Intriguing, illuminating, frustrating: Henning Kraggerud and RNCM Chamber Orchestra
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
    Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 - Henning Kraggerud & RNCM Chamber Orchestra - RNCM
  • The week in classical: OAE, Bach’s Mass in B minor; Aurora Orchestra – review
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Classical music | The Guardian
    Royal Festival Hall, London; Bristol Cathedral A heckler heightened the atmosphere before a precise performance of Bach’s testing mass; and care home residents enjoyed a thrilling rendition of Beethoven’s Fifth in a truly resonant...
  • CD Spotlight. Consistently Vibrant
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Music and Vision
    Gerald Fenech listens to orchestral music by German composer Paul Lincke. '... full of striking melodies, rapturous harmonic beauty and often exuberantly dance-like gestures ...'
  • A lockdown success story: St Mary's Perivale and its amazing programme of 120 recitals per year, viewed live and online
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
    Piano recital by Alasdair Beatson at St Mary's Perivale (Photo : John Ross)
  • VC LIVE | 2023 Plowman Chamber Music Competition
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • The Plowman Chamber Music Competition's Artistic Director Looks Back on its Roots
    Saturday, March 25, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • An Ester Mägi moment
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
    Inspired by a 5:4 post.
  • Mahler’s vision of the Beethoven Ninth excitingly revealed by Vasily Petrenko and the RPO
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from Seen and Heard International
    Beethoven and Mahler: Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Claudia Huckle (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass-baritone), The Bach Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London,...
  • Are Expensive German Opera Training Programs Worth It?
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from ArtsJournal
    There’s no guarantee that the programs will help young singers get roles in the first place. – Van
  • LA’s Metro Turns To Classical Music For Crowd Control
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from ArtsJournal
    The music — described to me as “earplugs-at-a-concert loud” by one frequent commuter — is the audio version of hostile architecture, where bumpy benches and spiky surfaces are employed to keep those who have nowhere else to go out of...
  • VC Artist Marc Bouchkov Signs with Keynote Artist Management
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • Every Voice with Terrance McKnight — Episode 5 "Otello: UNMOORED"
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • The Suffering, Death, And Rebirth Of Professional Orchestral Music In San Antonio
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from ArtsJournal
    After three decades of financial difficulties and musician-vs.-management strife culminated in a nine-month strike, the board threw up its hands and dissolved the San Antonio Symphony. Here’s a deep dive on how things got to that...
  • Like A Chef In Kitchen, Maestro Loves Mixing His Baroque Ingredients
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from Classical Voice North America
    PORTLAND, Ore. – Julian Perkins, the newly appointed artistic director of Portland Baroque Orchestra, is cooking up some fresh ideas for his first season. One of the dishes he has concocted is an opera pasticcio, basically a musical pie....
  • Famed American Violin Pedagogue Dorothy DeLay Died in 2002
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • Mozarteumorchester Salzburg Names New Chief Conductor
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
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  • The New San Antonio Philharmonic Now Has A Proper Union Contract
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from ArtsJournal
    “The musicians of the San Antonio Philharmonic have reached their first collective bargaining agreement with the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) union Local 23.” The contract for the fledgling ensemble is more flexible...
  • The highs and lows of Nikolai Lugansky’s ‘MaRachthon’ at Wigmore Hall
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from Seen and Heard International
    Rachmaninov: Nikolai Lugansky (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 20.3.2023. (JC) Rachmaninov – 10 Preludes, Op.23; Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op.42; Études-Tableaux, Op.39 Nikolai Lugansky’s all-Rachmaninov recital at the...
  • The voice of Jessye Norman soars again in trove of unreleased recordings
    Friday, March 24, 2023 from Music Genre: Classical
    Soprano Jessye Norman left a number of recordings in the vault at the time of her death. Now some of them have been released for the first time. A new collection of recordings finally freed from the vaults offers a chance to hear one of opera's greatest artists sing Wagner, Strauss, Berlioz and more.
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