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Anne Midgette: “There’s a big gap between the way classical music is introduced to lay listeners and the way musicians experience it. We tend to offer classical music to audiences like a history lesson, in explanations studded with...Monday, February 18, 2019 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
Many thanks to all those who took part in my weekend competition. I always enjoy reading the comments. The prize this week is a copy of Nancy Litten’s new publication for singers and accompanists; Choral… MoreMonday, February 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Schumann, Wagner and Mahler: Elīna Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 17.2.2019. (JPr) Schumann – Myrthen Op.25: ‘Widmung’, ‘Der Nussbaum’; ‘Jemand’; ‘Lied der Braut I & II’; Frauenliebe und...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Violinist.com
By Karen Allendoerfer: Since January 8th I've been reliving adolescence. Hopefully in a good way: I started a job as a Teaching Fellow , training to become a full-time Biology teacher. The view from my office window in the morning...Monday, February 18, 2019 from ArtsJournal
And every indie music journalist knows it. “Publicists for male indie stars ask for guarantees that allegations and evidence of an artist’s bad behaviour aren’t referred to in interviews, and often receive those guarantees....Monday, February 18, 2019 from Classical Voice North America
By Keith Powers BOSTON – Resisting Cupid proves futile in Paride ed Elena. Helen, the most beautiful of mortal women, tries not to love Paris, but rascal Cupid makes sure she does. Gluck's taut foreshadowing of Troy plays out at Odyssey...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Mozart, The Magic Flute: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Damian Iorio (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 15.2.2019. (GPu) Production: Director – Dominic Cooke Revival director – Caroline Chaney Set...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Every Monday, the BBC Music Magazine team choose their favourite new recordings of the past week. The tracks are compiled into The Playlist , which can be accessed via the BBC Music Magazine 's Apple Music...Monday, February 18, 2019 from ArtsJournal
In Cremona, where the mayor doubles as the president of the Antonio Stradivarius Violin Museum Foundation, sound engineers were trying to record every note a Strad could make, and every transition between every note. But a town of 70,000...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Minkus (arr. Martin Yates), Don Quixote: Dancers of the Royal Ballet, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Orchestra / Martin Yates (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 16.2.2019. (JPr) Production: Original Choreography...Monday, February 18, 2019 from ArtsJournal
The chairman of the board also happens to be New York City Opera’s biggest benefactor. And: “Its board is down to a mere three members. It has largely spent the more than $5 million in bequests it received after emerging from...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Origins: Elmhurst Ballet Company, Sadler’s Wells, London, 15.2.2019. (J.OD) Choreography – Sir Kenneth MacMillan, David Bintley, Lev Ivanov and Sir Peter Wright, Wayne McGregor, Marius Petipa Dancers – Ellie Hennequin, Ryan...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Rehearsal image from The Monstrous Child © ROH 2019 photography by Stephen Cummiskey The Monstrous Child is a new opera by composer Gavin Higgins and librettist Francesca Simon which premieres at the Royal Opera House 's Linbury...Monday, February 18, 2019 from The Independent - Classical
An encore where the Russian musician insists on performing some of his own compositions is dissipates the magic, but the rest of the evening was pure pleasureMonday, February 18, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Dowland: The Collected Works The Consort of Musicke/Rooley Decca E452 5632 A one-stop shop for Dowland’s major works in 12 authoritative discs. 15 unusual uses for Mozart Complete Lute Music...Monday, February 18, 2019 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Lux et Amor: The Music of Dan Forrest and Ola Gjeilo DCINY conductor James Meaders leads the Distinguished Concerts Orchestra.. The post This week: concerts in New York (February 18, 2019 – February 24, 2019) appeared first on I CARE IF...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 The Southbank Centre announced a new project today, in which newcomers to classical music will be able to attend a concert accompanied by a leading musician or composer, completely free of charge. Conductor Marin Alsop ,...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Josef Mysliveček The Czech composer Josef Mysliveček remains best known as a friend and influence on Mozart. Nearly twenty years older than Mozart, Mysliveček was based in Italy for most of his adult life and met the young composer in...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Adaptistration
The Institute For Composer Diversity (ICD), which evolved from the Women Composers Database project, released their initial 2019-2020 season report. The report tracks the overall number and percentage of masterworks series works from...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Verbum caro factum est: Advent and Christmas music from Portsmouth ; Choir of Portsmouth Cathedral, David Price; Herald AV Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 13 February 2019 An imaginative selection of music moving from Advent through to...Monday, February 18, 2019 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
As can be divined from the CD’s title and track-listing, this is a journey through the Church’s Year, with specific reference to Lincoln Cathedral. It is appropriate in this secular age that the excellent liner notes include a succinct,...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Various selections: Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Eric Owens (bass-baritone), Craig Terry (piano), presented by Stanford Live!, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 15.2.2019 (HS) In their classical recitals a...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Classics Today
Although the press release accompanying this recording of the Well-Tempered Clavier promises a “fresh” interpretation, Heidrun Holtmann’s artistry is actually pretty much run-of-the-mill for the average modern-day, stylistically aware...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Classics Today
Among neglected 20th-century composers, Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957) is one of the really great ones. Not only for his style of lyrical late romanticism—long-derided but en vogue again (i.e., his violin and cello concertos, his songs)—but...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Classics Today
I haven’t heard a Sibelius Fifth this dull since Maurice Abravanel and the Utah Symphony on a Vanguard LP, which was my first, nearly ruinous exposure to the composer. (Thankfully Colin Davis and the Boston Symphony on Philips provided...Monday, February 18, 2019 from Classics Today
Jan Lisiecki seems to be staking his claim to the early romantic piano repertoire, and as his previous disc of Chopin music for piano and orchestra showed, he certainly has an affinity for it. The solo pieces here come off especially...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of Opera Philadelphia / Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 10.2.2019. (BJ) Production: Director & Lighting designer – Robert...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo, Pagliacci: Soloists and Chorus of Gothenburg Opera, extra chorus, Gothenburg Opera Orchestra / Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor), Gothenburg Opera, 9.2.2019. (NS) Production: Director...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Violinist.com
By Phil Holland: I still remember my first violin; a Chinese-made student violin which came with a bow and a piece of rosin. To this day I remember the smell of the rosin and when I open a new student violin case, the memory is so...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Listening links and livestreams (click on blue bold for link) Berlioz : La Damnation de Faust - François-Xavier Roth nous propose sa vision de "La Damnation de Faust" avec les forces de son orchestre Les Siècles. From L'Opea de...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from ArtsJournal
The original advertising campaigns for the theremin included it as a home music-making instrument. “This campaign primarily targeted middle and upper-class white women, a demographic frequently associated with (and compelled to...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from ArtsJournal
Everyone was in on the joke, or at least everyone on stage was. But the audience wasn’t sure what to do or how to react. “The concept, whatever its good intentions, tempts comparisons with the history of African-American...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Peninsula Reviews
During my 45 years on the Monterey Peninsula I don’t remember ever experiencing such a powerful set of storms as we have just witnessed during the past two weeks. And, it has had its toll, for at the Monterey Symphony …...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Berlioz: Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Matthew Brook (bass), BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales / Sir Andrew Davis (conductor). BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff, 15.2.2019....Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Classical music | The Guardian
Symphony Hall, Birmingham This refined outing of painter/composer Čiurlionis came complete with Norman Perryman’s live paintings M ik al ojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis is regarded as Lithuania’s foremost visual artist, as well as one of...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Polonaises Poland’s national dance is a stately affair, but in Chopin ’s hands, it become a passionate statement about his home country. Start with the A-major Polonaise. Recommended recording: Maurizio Pollini, Martha...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Classical music | The Guardian
Coliseum; Royal Festival Hal; Wigmore Hall; Barbican, London Minimalism becomes spectacle in ENO’s entrancing Philip Glass revival, while many hands make hypnotically light work of Steve Reich Two giants of American minimalism bestrode...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Classical music | The Guardian
The cellist is joined by Martha Argerich, Bernard Haitink et al; Bavouzet goes solo. Plus, a weekend of Berlioz • The vulnerability and passion in Schumann ’s music stirs an unusually intense response in some performers: almost a wish to...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Sequenza21/
On Saturday, February 9, 2019 the Southland Ensemble presented New Experimental Works at Automata in downtown Los Angeles. This concert was the result of Southland’s inaugural Call for Scores issued last year. With more than 200...Sunday, February 17, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn: Jennifer Mitchell (soprano), Margaret (Peg) Lisi (mezzo-soprano), Michael Jankosky (tenor), San Francisco Symphony Chorus/Ragnar Bohlin (director), San Francisco Symphony / Andras Schiff (piano, conductor). Davies...Saturday, February 16, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Beethoven, Brahms, Shostakovich, Prokofiev: Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider (violin), Robert Kulek (piano), Wigmore Hall, London, 13.02.2019 (CS) Beethoven – Violin Sonata No.1 in D Op.12 No.1 Brahms – Violin Sonata No.1 in G Op.78 Shostakovich –...Saturday, February 16, 2019 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
Ryoji Ikeda's 100 Cymbals and Alison Knowles's Proposition #2: Make a Salad were performed last night at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The salad was quite delicious.Saturday, February 16, 2019 from Peninsula Reviews
On February 6, 2019, Yoel Levi conducted the Israel Philharmonicat Miami’s Arsht Center. The program consisted of Schubert’s ThirdSymphony and the Bruckner Seventh Symphony. The featured work, Bruckner’s Seventh...Saturday, February 16, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Johannes Brahms at the piano Brahms Liebeslieder Walzer , Schumann Spanisches Liebeslieder ; Gemma Summerfield, Fleur Barron, James Way, Julien van Mellaerts, James Drake, Stacey Bartsch; Temple Song at Temple Church Reviewed by Robert...Saturday, February 16, 2019 from JDCMB
It is Lithuania's National Day today, and for the first time Symphony Hall, Birmingham, is to resound to the sound of The Sea by Mikolajus Čiurlionis, conducted by Mirga Gražynitė-Tyla, with live-painted visual interpretations by Norman...Saturday, February 16, 2019 from Violinist.com
By Diana Skinner: Madness, mayhem, dueling dynasties, and a sustained high E flat. Ah, opera! And while operatic fireworks tend to happen on stage (or, at times, offstage), there are particular fireworks that occur between the stage and...Friday, February 15, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Mahler: Academic Choir Popov, Academic Masters of Choral Singing of Lev Kontorovich, Academic Boys Choir named after Sveshnikov, Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Sladkovsky (conductor), Saideshev Concert Hall, Kazan,...Friday, February 15, 2019 from ArtsJournal
The Composer’s music moves people, and he is not characterized in the book as necessarily a bad person; he meets with every fan who stays after the concert to chat with him, and he knows his work provides comfort to people going through...Friday, February 15, 2019 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter has been awarded a 2019 Polar Music Prize . Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter. Photo by Harald Hoffmann, courtesy Deutsche Grammophon. The Polar Music Prize was established in 1989 by ABBA...Friday, February 15, 2019 from ArtsJournal
Ashley Magnus: “Right now, we’re in a golden era of American opera. Significantly more operas have been written in the US between 1997 and the present than in the 100 years prior. I would love for people to take risks and support...