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Mendelssohn and Liszt: Lucy Crowe (soprano), Karim Sulayman (tenor), Julius Drake (piano). Wigmore Hall, London, 14.1.2025. (MB) Mendelssohn – Abendlied, Op.8 No.9; Erntelied, Op.8 No.4; Keine von der Erde Schönen, WoO 4 No.1;...Saturday, January 18, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Brahms and Tchaikovsky: Borodin String Quartet (Nikolai Sachenko [violin], Sergei Lomovsky [violin], Igor Naidin [viola], Vladimir Balshin [cello]). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 12.1.2025. (CSa) Brahms – String Quartet in A minor, Op.51...Saturday, January 18, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute): Soloists and Chorus of Theater & Philharmonie Essen. Essener Philharmoniker / Christopher Moulds (conductor). Aalto Theater Essen, 11.1.2025. (DM-D) Production: Director – Magdalena...Friday, January 17, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
DIGITAL REVIEW — This December 2022 taping of the 14-year-old composer's first important opera, a vocal high-wire act, features Les Musiciens du Louvre led by Marc Minkowski at the Berlin Staatsoper. The lofty musical values here merit...Friday, January 17, 2025 from Music Genre: Classical
On his new album, the British keyboardist offers both engaging and entertaining contemporary works for the misunderstood instrument.Friday, January 17, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The global music industry hit 4.8 trillion streams in 2024, a new single-year record, Luminate’s 2024 Year-End Report found. That’s up 14% from 2023, which held the previous record. – APNewsFriday, January 17, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Kings Place, London Terry Riley’s 10-movement suite for live amplified string quartet and voices was given a meticulous performance but the work feels dated today and, at 90 minutes, outstayed its welcome The theme of this year’s...Friday, January 17, 2025 from ArtsJournal
“Daniels, 58, was hired as a voice professor in 2015 and granted tenure three years later in the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. He was fired in 2020 after an investigation found he had solicited at least three students and...Friday, January 17, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
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“Left open are questions of access to and care of the instrument, as well as how often it would be played after the expected mid-March departure of Macy’s from the Wanamaker Building’s retail spaces. Macy’s has contributed toward...Friday, January 17, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
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Bridgewater Hall, Manchester New principal conductor Kahchun Wong held the balance between restraint and muscle and, with soloists Sarah Connolly and Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha, made this ‘Resurrection’ unforgettable Kahchun Wong’s...Friday, January 17, 2025 from Music and Vision
Geoff Pearce finds a new recording of Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' very compelling. '... one of the best recordings you could ever hope to hear.'Friday, January 17, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Offenbach, The Tales of Hoffmann (Les contes d’Hoffmann): Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Filmed (directed by Rhodri Huw) at the Royal Ballet and Opera in November 2024...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
VANCOUVER – Some presenters might have hesitated over Li's all-Mozart recital in the cavernous old Orpheum Theatre, a refurbished 1920s movie palace seating 2,780, but the pianist managed to create an atmosphere of intimacy. The post...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from ArtsJournal
What a lot of these criticisms seem to miss is the crucial element: that we can still choose what we listen to. No one is making you stream the lowest common denominator playlists and you’re not forced to let the algorithm direct what...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from ArtsJournal
European Union Youth Orchestra director Marshall Marcus, who’s seen a lot of El Sistema’s educational work up close, argues that those who denounce the program, its flagship orchestra and its most famous alumnus for providing...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The composer’s son, now 83 years old, stored over 100,000 of his father’s scores at Belmont, in addition to photographs, letters, books, posters and more. The scores were held in a digital back-up, but this was also destroyed in the...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Streep/Prohaska/Maîtrise et Choeur de Radio France/OP de Radio France/ Franck (Warner Classics) Hollywood royalty in the shape of Meryl Streep, and the soaring soprano of Anna Prohaska lend authenticity to Wainwright’s expressive eulogy...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Barbican, London Gustavo Dudamel drove the massed ranks of the Venezuelan orchestra with ferocious energy, but it was all too much too soon Say what you will about El Sistema (and controversies continue over the political status and...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from ArtsJournal
In the days after, Los Angeles-area musicians and industry pros began to circulate a spreadsheet noting who had lost a home or workplace. The list stretched over 200 entries. – Los Angeles TimesThursday, January 16, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Nash Ensemble (Hyperion) The Ensemble mark their 60th anniversary with an outstanding recording of Debussy’s late sonatas The three sonatas out of a planned set of six that Debussy completed in the last years of his life are among the...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The 57-year-old Finn, currently music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir in Lisbon and of the Finnish National Opera & Ballet, begins his term with the 2026-27 season. He succeeds former Houston Symphony and Calgary...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Royal Opera House, London The Royal Opera’s incoming music director conducts a performance of rare intensity and authority, with Corrine Winters and Karita Mattila compelling in the two central roles Antonio Pappano’s 23-year reign as...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Music and Vision
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A destination for many putative time travellers must be Paris in the 1940s and 1950s. After having suffered occupation by the Germans, it was quickly becoming a place of style and haute couture. There was still much deprivation on the...Thursday, January 16, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin: Soloists, Chorus and Extras of Theater Krefeld Mönchengladbach. Niederrheinische Sinfoniker / Sebastian Engel (conductor). Theater Krefeld, 10.1.2025. (DM-D) Production: Director – Helen Malkowsky Set –...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The instrument’s landmark status only means that it can’t be destroyed or moved without approval: a new owner or occupier of the soon-to-be-former Macy’s in central Philadelphia could simply mothball it. Peter Dobrin...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from ArtsJournal
Housed on a converted coffee barge moored at Fulton Ferry Landing just below the Brooklyn Bridge, the floating concert hall welcomed chamber-music cognoscenti and curiosity seekers alike since Olga Bloom, a violinist and violist,...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Music Genre: Classical
In celebration of what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.'s 96th birthday, pianist Lara Downes examines how musicians have followed in his footsteps, and faced the cost of taking a stand.Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Wilton’s Music Hall, London The exceptionally polished LGBTQ+ chamber choir teamed with Niamh Cusack for a beautifully paced production of Joyce’s short story Sometimes, the smallest gestures are those that matter most. A smile, a hand...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Music and Vision
Roderic Dunnett's take on the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain's January 2025 tourWednesday, January 15, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
As the feted musicians arrive in London for two concerts, we look at El Sistema, the education system that spawned the world-conquering orchestra, and why some are calling for its boycott December 2009, in a hall in the infamous 23 de...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Music Genre: Classical
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Last year, a seasoned performer-composer called to ask for my advice: though she had secured her first grant for a.. The post Artists Need Better Funding and Support Networks to be the Catalysts for Hope We Need in 2025 and Beyond...Wednesday, January 15, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
SAN DIEGO – Nearly half a season into upgrades at Jacobs Music Center, the San Diego Symphony displayed its musical growth in Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony with soloist Weichang Zhao and Violin Concerto No. 3 with concertmaster Jeff...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Henry Purcell, Daniel Purcell: The Sixteen / Harry Christophers (conductor). Wigmore Hall, London, 13.1.2025. (MB) Henry Purcell – Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, Z335; The Indian Queen, Z630; Catch (To all lovers of music), Z262...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
PORTLAND, Ore. – Under the banner "Leaders and Pathbreakers," the Oregon Symphony bundled Ellington's Three Black Kings and Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto with Joan Tower's Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman. The post ‘Emperor’...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
A huge number of Los Angeles-based musicians have lost their homes in the Palisades and Eaton fires. Among them are the oboist Marion Kuszyk, the trumpeter Christopher Still, and the violinist Aroussiak Baltaian, all members of the LA...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The music industry was questioning whether the show would continue with its scheduled date, despite the fact that the Los Angeles wildfires have devastated many communities in the area in the past week. – VarietyTuesday, January 14, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
SHARIF AFIFI (2023 Olivier nominee: The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse) stars in LOST DOG’s award-winning, spectacularly popular, critically acclaimed one-man take on Milton’s epic poem: ‘Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)’....Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The Pacific Palisades fire destroyed the headquarters of Belmont Music Publishers, the sole publisher of Schoenberg’s works. Lost were the complete inventory of sales materials and rental collections, some manuscripts, and...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from ArtsJournal
Last week, 13 staff members received an email containing screenshots of WhatsApp messages, including images “pornographic in nature,” between an unnamed individual and Executive Director Seth Ducey, who evidently took those...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Music and Vision
A P Virag investigates a forgotten polymathTuesday, January 14, 2025 from Music Genre: Classical
Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists.Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Some albums have the power to shift the listener’s mood: to excite, stimulate, slow down, or soothe. Other albums have.. The post Roberta Michel’s “Hush” Takes Listeners through Profound and Meditative Soundworlds...Tuesday, January 14, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
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NEW YORK – Several truths were revealed at the world premiere of the chamber opera Eat the Document at the HERE Mainstage: Everything changes. Everything stays the same. Opera and musical theater are not strictly separate genres. The...