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(Photo credit: Ismael Lorenzo) In the presence of Thomas Demenga, there’s no such thing as a solo concert, for one considers not only the unrepeatable coincidence of performer and instrument but also the composers whose creations bond...Thursday, April 26, 2018 from Classical music | The Guardian
A new study by Incorporated Society of Musicians has found that 60% of those who responded had experienced sexual abuse, in what is deemed a ‘toxic culture’ A survey of around 600 professional musicians has uncovered a culture of sexual...Thursday, April 26, 2018 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Sir Charles Hubert Parry was, arguably, the founder of modern British music. Elgar didn't teach, except by example. Parry was both composer and academic, with a direct influence on a whole generation of composers who were to make British...Thursday, April 26, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Handel, Corelli, Sammartini, Geminiani, Castrucci, Blow, Smith; Olwen Foulkes, Nathaniel Mander, Carina Drury, Toby Carr, Tabea Debus; Barn Cottage Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 April 2018 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Music by...Thursday, April 26, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Beethoven’s Broadwood, which is currently at the Hungarian National Museum In May 1818, after an arduous journey from London via Trieste and the Alpine passes involving 360 miles via horse and cart, a Broadwood piano arrived in Vienna....Thursday, April 26, 2018 from Classical music | The Guardian
In 1985, a group of Washington women hit back at the ‘offensive’ lyrics of some of pop’s biggest names. Now their ‘parental advisory’ meddling – and the 15 tracks they initially targeted – have been turned into a riotous piece of musical...Thursday, April 26, 2018 from Music and Vision
Music by Kara Karayev, heard by Geoff Pearce. '... I think this composer will become more widely known - he certainly deserves to be, if these two quite contrasting and original works are anything to go by.'Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Joshua Kosman
Frederica von Stade has sung her share of page boys and ingenues over a long and varied career. But there’s always a special significance in a role that was created just for her. One of those is Madeline Mitchell, the imperious and...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Violin Channel recently caught up with 2018 Menuhin Competition jury members Pamela Frank, Joji Hattori, Itamar Golan, Ilya Gringolts, Henning Kraggerud, Lu Siqing, Josef Špaček and Soyoung Yoon. We sat the esteemed panel down to...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Academy of Ancient Music early music ensemble, in Cambridge, has this week announced the appointment of 38-year-old Croatian violinist Bojan Čičić as their new leader – effective immediately. A graduate of the Guildhall School of...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Portuguese water-sports enthusiast and violinist Nuno Santos tests the age-old question: ‘Can one really water ski and play the violin at the same time?’ Apparently so … The post WACKY WEDNESDAY | Meet Nuno Santos – World’s...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Recorded live at the 2018 Menuhin Competition, in Geneva, Japanese violinist and jury member Joji Hattori works us through Ravel’s Tzigane – with 17-year-old violinist Julian Walder from Austria. JOJI HATTORI MASTERCLASS |...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: "Let's try doing this in time, a little more evenly," I said to my seven-year-old student as I removed the lid of the metronome and flipped the arm into motion. I started explaining what to do next: play the note on...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Recorded live at the 2018 Menuhin Competition, in Geneva, Arctic Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director and jury member Henning Kraggerud works us through Johan Svendsen’s Romance – with 14-year-old violinist Marley...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Recorded live at the 2018 Menuhin Competition, in Geneva, Curtis Institute of Music pedagogue and jury member Pamela Frank works us through the first movement of Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major – with 15-year-old...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
It has been announced today that British cellist VC Young Artist Sheku Kanneh-Mason has been selected as one of a number of classical musicians to perform at the upcoming Royal Wedding service of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle – on...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Cleveland Orchestra has today announced the appointment of 26-year-old American violinist Stephen Tavani as its new Assistant Concertmaster – effective from the commencement of the 2018-2019 season. A graduate of the Curtis...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Today is Norwegian cello virtuoso Truls Mørk‘s 57th birthday! A student of Natalia Shakhovskaya, Mr. Mørk is a former prize winner at the Tchaikovsky, Naumburg and Cassado International Cello Competitions. He currently holds a...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Classics Today
Aaron Davies Hall (The City College of New York), Harlem Friday, April 20, 2018 7pm Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig The Orchestra Now, Bard College’s excellent ensemble of graduate students, presented a very appealing program at a...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Bellini, La sonnambula: Soloists, Chorus, and Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra / Eun Sun Kim (conductor), 21.4.2018. (GT) Cast: Amina – Brenda Rae Elvino – Ioan Hotea Rodolfo – Khwan Sim Lisa – Elizabeth Sutphen Teresa – Katharina...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
The Lincoln Center Theater production of RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S THE KING AND I DEAN JOHN-WILSON (WEST END STAR OF ALADDIN) & NA-YOUNG JEON, CAST AS ‘THE YOUNG LOVERS’ IN WEST END PRODUCTION OF THE KING AND I, AS LONDON PALLADIUM...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Schubert song changed my life. If I hadn’t heard a recording of Fischer-Dieskau and Gerald Moore performing his Erlkönig in about 1979, I would never have become a singer. Schubert kept me interested in singing; he...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Not strictly classical, but with enough interesting inspirations and references (from Enya to the classically inspired piano accompaniment) to perhaps intrigue, though perhaps the floaty visuals are a bit much. And we might consider...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
The glorious fan vaulting at the church of St Mary Aldermary The young professional choir Siglo de Oro , conductor Patrick Allies , has just released a new CD, the group's second disc, on the Delphian label which has Hieronymus...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from JDCMB
...I'm off to Glasgow to give a pre-concert talk about Chopin for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall. Curtain-raiser for a gorgeous programme bookended by Smetana and Dvorák, and in the middle David Kadouch is...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
This week my guest writer is Irish composer and music examiner, John McLachlan. A prolific composer, John has written for many genres, including a substantial collection of pedagogical piano works, some of which have been selected for...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Parra, Bartók: Orquesta Nacional de España/David Afkham (conductor), Auditorio de Música, Madrid, 21.4.2018. (JMI) Parra – Avant la fin…vers où? (world premiere) Bartók – Bluebeard’s Castle (concert performance) Cast: Bluebeard –...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
William Morgan Oxford Lieder Festival's new series of early-evening song recitals, Song at Wolfson , launches on Thursday 26 April 2018 at 6pm at the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Linton Road, OX2 6UD. The series will showcase...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
This is an enjoyable CD of songs by the Welsh composer Gareth Glyn. They have been composed over his entire career with the earliest dating from 1970 and the most recent in 2015. They are sung here by tenor voice, but not all were...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Matthias Goerne and Seong-jin Cho at the Wigmore Hall, London in a demanding programme - Hugo Wolf Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo , Hans Pfitzner songs, Richard Wagner Wesendonck Lieder and Lieder by Richard Strauss. From Goerne we...Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
"Maybe I should just tell you the mystery of mysteries, to put your mind at rest: there are no mysteries.” — Andrei Bely, Dramatic SymphonyWednesday, April 25, 2018 from Music and Vision
The first American performances for Ethel Smyth's choral symphony 'The Prison'Tuesday, April 24, 2018 from New York Concert Review, Inc.
Bob Chilcott, Guest Conductor; Simon Carrington, Guest Conductor Special Guests- The King’s Singers: Patrick Dunachie, countertenor; Timothy Wayne-Wright, countertenor; Julian Gregory, tenor; Christopher Bruerton, baritone; Christopher...Tuesday, April 24, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Stravinsky, Dvořák, Bach, Mozart: Camerata Salzburg, Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Mozarteum Argentino at Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. 17.4.2018. (JSJ) Stravinsky – Pulcinella Suite Dvořák – Biblical Songs. Op.99 Bach – ‘Schlummert ein,...Tuesday, April 24, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Beethoven, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Various: Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Julius Drake (piano), Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, 20.4.2018. (BJ) Beethoven – ‘Neue Liebe, neues Leben’; ‘Wonne der Wehmut’; ‘Mit...