Tanglewood Festival 2024 [5] – Purcell, The Fairy Queen: Soloists, Les Arts Florissants / William Christie (music director). Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, 18.7.2024. (CSa) Soloists: Paulina Francisco (soprano) Georgia Burashko...
Colorado Music Festival 2024 [1] – Various: Olga Kern (piano), Kabin Thomas (narrator), Colorado Festival Orchestra / Gemma New (director). Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, Colorado, 19.7.2024. (DS) Vivien Fung – ‘Prayer’...
I am having trouble thinking of an app update fiasco large enough to compare it to this one, because in my time as a consumer tech reporter and editor, I cannot think of another software update that took away users’ ability to...
Research has shown that many aspects of memory are affected by ageing, such as recall tasks that require real-time processing, whereas recognition tasks that rely on well-known information and automatic processes are not. – Nature
“The company is liable for few of the major criticisms levied at the opera world, with varying degrees of justification, by politicians and their quangos. And yet … the company has been bullied into an acquiescent silence...
Royal Albert Hall, London Beautiful wind playing in a slow-burning Brahms joined searing strings in Schoenberg and Alice Coote’s fine-grain singing of Mahler for a space-testing night Outside the Proms, British orchestras from beyond the...
“Further, with the news of Sharon’s extended stay (as artistic director) in Detroit (through 2028), the company announced overarching themes for its next three programming seasons: America, faith and sustainability.” –...
If there’s ever been a sterner and bleaker studio rendition of Brahms’ First concerto than Michael Korstick’s collaboration with Constantin Trinks and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, I haven’t heard it. Think of the slow and...
Verbier Festival 2024 – Beethoven: Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Klaus Mäkelä (cello), Lahav Shani (piano), Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Salle des Combins, Verbier, Switzerland, 23.7.2024. (LV)...
This month, with the release of a new album of live recordings, fresh material has been added to the ongoing debates about Armstrong’s contradictions. – BBC
PROM 5 – Schoenberg, Zemlinsky: BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Ryan Bancroft (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 22.7.2024. (CK) Schoenberg – Pelleas und Melisande Zemlinsky – Die Seejungfrau Schoenberg and Zemlinsky? It was bold...
PARIS – Unheard at the Paris Opera since 1854, La vestale returned to the Bastille stage, entrusted to the fashionable, wildly imaginative American-born director Lydia Steier. She and dramaturg Olaf A. Schmitt clearly felt unbound by the...
Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Francis (CPO) The music is earnestly motivic and the scoring dense and dark Of Irish parentage, Augusta Holmès lived in France throughout her life, adding the grave accent to her surname when she became...
BBC Philharmonic/Mena (Chandos) Juanjo Mena brings out the flair for instrumental colour in Roberto Gerhard’s early works The Catalonia-born Roberto Gerhard was a pupil of Schoenberg in Vienna and Berlin in the 1920s, but it was not...
Cara Kizer, the horn player who was denied tenure after reporting an alleged rape by associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey, says now-former CEO Gary Ginstling was the only orchestra executive ever to reach out to her since the 2010...
At his best, Gardiner’s take on classical repertoire could be thrillingly alive – but after stepping down from his ensembles following a violent outburst, his career is uncertain It comes as little surprise after the events of last...
Gerald Fenech heartily recommends Isata Kanneh-Mason's new Mendelssohn album. 'An enchanting album, sensitively performed and sumptuously recorded ...'
While the conductor issued a subsequent statement maintaining that he had resigned, the announcement by the board said it had “made the decision that Sir John Eliot Gardiner, founder of the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque...
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Salonen’s anticipated departure casts a long shadow over the Symphony amidst a furor of concerns about leadership, transparency and board decisions. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
According to the Boston Symphony, the orchestra gave 146 world premieres during his tenure, as well as another 86 U.S. premieres and many, many more performances of recent pieces he thought deserving of an audience. He led more than 300...
“‘The Taliban tried to silence us,’ said Ahmad Sarmast, the director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, in his new office in Braga,” where he and his students were eventually settled after escaping...
BREAKING NEWS – The work by composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch, based on an exposé of asylum abuses, is the winner of the 2024 Award for Best New Opera conferred by the Music Critics Association of North America. The...
Music at Paxton – Summer Festival of Chamber Music 2024 [2] – A Modern Folk Music Programme: Beth Malcolm (singer, keyboard), Heather Cartwright (guitar). Marquee, Paxton House, Scottish Borders, 20.7.2024. (MC) Music at Paxton is where...
Music at Paxton – Summer Festival of Chamber Music 2024 [1] – Beethoven, Schubert: Viktoria Mullova (violin), Alasdair Beatson (piano). Picture Gallery, Paxton House, Scottish Borders, 19.7.2024. (MC) Beethoven – Violin Sonata in A...
★★ ★★☆ / ★★★★★ Royal Albert Hall, London A visceral concert experience, with singers and the conductor Ryan Bancroft showing off proper theatrical bones – followed by extraordinary range from the star countertenor It’s typical of the...
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The Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) was established in 1939 by Basil Dean and Leslie Henson to provide entertainment for British military personnel and war workers during World War II. Operating as part of...
Bampton Classical Opera – Gazzaniga, Alcina’s Island: Soloists, Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Thomas Blunt (conductor). Bampton, Oxfordshire, 19.7.2024. (CP) Production: Director and Designer – Jeremy Gray Assistant...
Blossom Festival 2024 [3] – Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Beethoven: Véronique Gens (soprano), Cleveland Orchestra / Antonello Manacorda (conductor). Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, 20.7.2024. (MSJ) Mendelssohn – Overture to A...
“Barely a decade has passed since (Rieko) Hirosawa started learning goze uta (blind women’s songs) – a genre of music spanning four centuries that most Japanese people have probably never heard. That she now plays with the...
I want to suggest some parallels between this 18th-century musical lingua franca and a familiar device from another medium: modern realist prose, which emerged through the 17th and 18th centuries – just when these musical conventions...
Royal Albert Hall, London Ryan Bancroft’s conducting did crisp justice to Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande and Zemlinsky’s Mermaid, which originally premiered together in 1905 The BBC National Orchestra of Wales is appearing in six...
“Consider it the orchestral equivalent of someone who’s ready to give up on romance suddenly finding the perfect partner. After claiming for several seasons that it is transitioning toward becoming a conductor-less orchestra,...
Gerald Fenech recommends music by Mozart played by the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice. '... sound quality is not what we would expect today, but in a sense, therein lies its charm and fascination.'
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PERSPECTIVE – Marking the 150th anniversary of Serge Koussevitzky's birth and the 100th of his appointment to lead the Boston Symphony, where he reigned for 25 years, the orchestra will honor his legacy in festival programs July 26-28....
Handel, Acis and Galatea: Soloists, Ensemble of Opera Holland Park, City of London Sinfonia / Michael Papadopoulos (conductor). Opera Holland Park, London, 19.7.2024. (AK) Production: Director – Louise Bakker Designer – Alyson Cummins...
TORONTO – For 19 years, Toronto Summer Music has been filling the off-season gap with chamber music and recitals reflected in Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko's program fashioned around Beethoven's Op. 111 and accented by Prokofiev....