Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from Music and Vision
Little-known music by George Enescu, highly recommended by Gerald Fenech. 'Passionate and exciting performances complement an invaluable addition to the Enescu discography.'Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Roundhouse, London The Malian and French musicians switch their kora and cello from lead to rhythm in a show of stunning musical intuition They begin as they plan to continue, with an exquisite, hypnotic late-night meditation. A gently...Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Jonathan Dove: Ariel - Daniella Sicari at Waterperry Opera Festival 2021 in a production directed by Rebecca Meltzer Amazingly, Waterperry Opera is five this year, so artistic director Guy Withers and music director Bertie Baigent have...Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Although pandemic-related isolation is threatening to become a subgenre, clarinetist Alicia Lee’s new album Conversations With Myself succeeds in putting.. The post Alicia Lee’s Conversations With Myself Resonates from the Depths...Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Aurora Sanseverino who commissioned Handel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo by Francesco Solimena Handel Aci, Galatea e Polifemo ; Zoe Brookshaw, Bethany Horak-Hallett, Trevor Bowes, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Steven Devine; Cadogan...Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Fiachra Garvey and Adam Walker performing at the Garden Museum as part of Classical Vauxhall 2020 Classical Vauxhall is lively festival intended to celebrate the Vauxhall area. Funded by Vauxhall One , Vauxhall’s Business Improvement...Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from Adaptistration
I finally found the time to write some code that displays the total number of entries in ArtsAdminJobs’ Candidate Database. It’s the most common question I get from employers interested in purchasing a subscription. I get it....Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from Classics Today
Back in the pre-recording and pre-radio days, if you wanted to hear new orchestral works without traveling to symphonic concerts, you simply had to play this music yourself at the piano. Because the piano was virtually the home...Tuesday, January 25, 2022 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
I am not a mountaineer or climber, but I have been to the top of Kinder Scout in Derbyshire. And it was a wonderful day with clear and expansive views. Snowdon was visible in the far West, as was Pendle Hill and Ingleborough to the...Monday, January 24, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Finnish musician Pekka Kuusisto has had the Strad for a trial period, during which he had the opportunity to play it in different scenarios. Through Tarisio, the official loan is effective immediately and the period is indefinite....Monday, January 24, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
This be her verse: Golda Schultz (soprano), Jonathan Ware (piano), San Francisco performances, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, 21.1.2021. (HS) Clara Schumann – ‘Liebst du um Schönheit’, ‘Warum willst du and’re fragen’, ‘Am Strande’,...Monday, January 24, 2022 from ArtsJournal
Going online has forced music educators to adapt existing ideas, or adopt existing technology, to discover, invent and share ways to reach students to keep music education alive. – The ConversationMonday, January 24, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The San Antonio Symphony's (SAS) management last year proposed that the full orchestra would instead comprise 68 musicians. As explained by SAS Executive Director Corey Cowart: “Forty-two would be full-time musicians and the...Monday, January 24, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Violin Channel recently caught up with Janet Sung, who was recently appointed Artistic Director of the prestigious Meadowmount School of Music. Apply to this summer's program by January 31, 2022. The Meadowmount School...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
Moonlight. The New Yorker, Jan. 31, 2022.Monday, January 24, 2022 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Brian Raphael Nabors is a composer of enormous gifts and accomplishment. A 2020 Fulbright Scholarship recipient, Brian’s CV includes being.. The post 5 Questions to Brian Raphael Nabors (composer) appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN .Monday, January 24, 2022 from ArtsJournal
Why? Streaming royalties. – BBCMonday, January 24, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Regents Opera (formerly Fulham Opera) present La forza del destino 16 February – 5 March 2022 at St John’s Church, Fulham, London FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT REGENTS OPERA CLICK HERE Regents Opera (the new name for Fulham Opera) to stage...Monday, January 24, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Prague Cello Quartet (PCQ) comprises cellists Jan Zvěřina, Petr Špaček, Ivan Vokáč, and Jan Zemen. They are known for their cinematic music videos and new arrangements of pieces across different music genres. Their new disc,...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Shostakovich: Quartetto Prometeo (Giulio Rovighi, Aldo Campagnari [violins], Danusha Waskiewicz [viola], Francesco Dillon [cello]), Teatro Argentina, Rome, 20.1.2022. (GP) Quartet No.1 in C major Op.49; Quartet No.2 in A major Op.68;...Monday, January 24, 2022 from ArtsJournal
Uma Thurman and Renée Fleming are both Penelope; it’s just that one speaks, and one sings. Thurman: “When you put language to music, it becomes very specific. … It’s a challenge that makes me feel like I’m doing things...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Five new productions to celebrate the return of summer Opera Holland Park’s 2022 new productions of the classic nineteenth-century tragedies Eugene Onegin and Carmen take us from the palaces of St Petersburg to the streets of...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Barbican, London A day of concerts featuring music written in imprisonment during the Holocaust was a powerful testament moving from rage to irony “Our endeavour with respect to art was commensurate with our will to live” the composer...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Hard-hitting new work TRAPLORD heads spring season ablaze with international dance talent and UK favourites For more Sadler’s Wells information and to book CLICK HERE Sadler’s Wells spearheads its spring 2022 season with a powerful...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Classics Today
These are two major works, all but unknown: big, serious, superbly written and (here) superbly played and recorded. Ernst Bacon is best known for his large output of art songs. He enjoyed a long life (1898-1990), and both of this piano...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester Mahler’s huge Third Symphony marked a triumphant opening of the Hallé’s spring season The once familiar sight of bustling Bridgewater Hall greeted the Hallé orchestra, who opened their spring season with a...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Music and Vision
John Dante Prevedini listens to contemporary music by Nastasia Khrushcheva. '... genuinely powerful and positively transformative ...'Monday, January 24, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is looking for two aspiring young musicians to join its BSO Young Associates programme, the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain (NYCGB) has just announced the 2022 cohort for its Fellowship...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Classics Today
Lorin Maazel made tons and tons of recordings featuring both orchestral and operatic repertoire. He often gave the impression of an artist who promised more than he delivered. His talent was never in doubt, his technique among the best...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karina Canellakis at Royal Festival Hall (photo Benjamin Ealovega) Boulanger, Wagner, Scriabin; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karina Canellakis; Royal Festival Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 22 January...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers - Winter Opera St Louis In the UK, if we know the American city of St Louis for opera it is via Opera Theater of St Louis (OTSL) which does a Summer season each year and is routinely reviewed in...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Adaptistration
While the COVID driven operating environment can make your tasks feel like changing a tire on a moving car, it’s good to remember the value in taking a step back when a task feels overwhelming. Odds are, you’re overthinking...Monday, January 24, 2022 from Classics Today
Although Rossini “officially” retired from writing operas in 1829 at the ripe old age of 37, he never truly retired from composing. From the mid-1850s on he produced numerous piano pieces, songs, vocal ensembles, and chamber works that...Sunday, January 23, 2022 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
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The concerts for isolated people have ended up a lifeline for the musicians too. “Sometimes the concerts can be really unusual in that you start it in the middle of the street, and you don’t know if anybody is listening, and...Sunday, January 23, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Walker, Stravinsky: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia Orchestra and Men of the Chorus / Corrado Rovaris (conductor). Opera Philadelphia, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, 21.1.2022. (RP) George Walker – Lilacs Soprano – Tiffany Townsend...Sunday, January 23, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Tenor who sang Wagner’s Tristan under Reginald Goodall, Beethoven and Mahler at the Proms, and many rarer works A familiar figure on the concert platform and a prolific broadcaster for the BBC, the tenor John Mitchinson has died at the...Sunday, January 23, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Boulanger, Wagner, Scriabin: London Philharmonic Orchestra / Karina Canellakis (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 22.1.2022. (MB) Lili Boulanger – D’un soir triste Wagner – Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I and...Sunday, January 23, 2022 from ArtsJournal
“The trope of the cloistered composer is a tried and true archetype — the solitary soul flanked by stacks of scores in the dark study of a secluded home, squinting at notation while sitting at a keyboard dusted with spent...Sunday, January 23, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
Grand theatre, Leeds Underlining the otherness of Verdi’s court jester by making him a black man is a masterstroke by Femi Elufowoju Jr, the leads sung with potency by Eric Greene and Jasmine Habersham The big idea in Femi Elufowoju Jr...Sunday, January 23, 2022 from Music and Vision
Gerald Fenech listens to Wagner's 'Götterdämmerung' from 'The Ring on the Rhine'. 'The performance eschews grandeur from beginning to end, and both singers and orchestra respond magnificently.'Pure joy: ECHO Rising Star recorder player Lucie Horsch & lutenist Thomas Dunford in music old & new
Sunday, January 23, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Thomas Dunford & Lucie Horsch (image from Lucie Horsch's Instagram feed ) ECHO Rising Stars ; Lucie Horsch, Thomas Dunford; LSO St Luke's Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 21 January 2022 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Technical facility and...Saturday, January 22, 2022 from Classical music | The Guardian
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain have been busy commissioning, while Sandrine Piau soars on Enchantresses • Despite the no-choral-singing strictures of lockdown, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain has inspired nine...Saturday, January 22, 2022 from Music and Vision
Music from Central and Eastern Europe for cello and piano, recommended by Geoff Pearce. '... very gifted, skilful and inspired ...'Saturday, January 22, 2022 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Joseph Phibbs: Juliana - Samuel Pantcheff, Cheryl Enever at the premiere in 2018 (Photo Laurie Slade) Joseph Phibbs ' opera Juliana , with a libretto by Laurie Slade , was a joint commission from Nova Music Opera , the Cheltenham...Saturday, January 22, 2022 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
I am not a great aficionado of Joseph Haydn. That said, he is my favourite from the great triumvirate of classical composers, including Beethoven and Mozart. Furthermore, I cannot recall hearing a piece of Haydn that I did not enjoy or...Saturday, January 22, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Wagner, Mozart, Schubert: Orchestra of the Swan / Michael Collins (conductor, clarinet). Warwick Hall, Warwick School, 20.1.2022. (CP) Wagner – Siegfried Idyll, WWV 103 Mozart – Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major,...Friday, January 21, 2022 from ArtsJournal
The letter alludes that the new publication is in response to “…the virulent spread of identity-based concert programming.” It goes on to state they are looking to “actively promote canonical masterworks of the Western Classical...Friday, January 21, 2022 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Held every two years, the Netherlands Violin Competition, in Utrecht, Netherlands, aims to develop young violin talents under the age of 26. SATURDAY JANUARY 22 | 8:00 AM (ET) 2022 NETHERLANDS VIOLIN COMPETITION OSKAR BACK...Friday, January 21, 2022 from Seen and Heard International
Shostakovich, Prokofiev: Gauthier Capuçon (cello), San Francisco Symphony / Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor), Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, 20.1.2022. (HS) Shostakovich – Cello Concerto No.2 in G major Op.126 Prokofiev...