Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Handel and Haydn Society, in Boston, has today announced the appointment of American period instrument specialist Heather Miller Lardin as its new Principal Double Bassist. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and Cornell...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from ArtsJournal
Chad Cooper, a 45-year-old former managing director at Deutsche Bank in New York, left that lucrative job to become executive director of the conservatory, 121 years old but at that point nearly insolvent. And he seems to have rescued...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Philharmonie Südwestfalen, in Hilchenbach, Germany, has today announced the appointment of 37-year-old German-Egyptian conductor Nabil Shehata as its new Music Director. A former 1st prize winner at the ARD International Double Bass...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Classical music | The Guardian
Barbican, London Themes of refuge and religious doubt came to the fore in a poignant oratorio conducted elegantly by Edward Gardner Though Berlioz professed himself an agnostic, he was drawn throughout his life to the theatrical...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
The Met: Live in HD – Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor). Broadcast live to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 15.11.2018. (JPr) Production: Production...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
French cellist Paul Tortelier died on this day in 1990 – aged 76. Maestro Tortelier is remembered as one of the prominent cellists of the 20th Century – with his famed students including British virtuoso Jacqueline du Pré. He received...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Revolutionary French violin pedagogue and composer Lucien Capet died on this day in 1928 – aged 55. He held a long-term teaching position at the Société Sainte-Cécile de Bordeaux – during which time he researched, developed and published...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Italian luthier Antonio Stradivari died on this day in 1737 – 281 years ago. A protégé of Nicolo Amati, it is estimated that Stradivari made approximately 1100 string instruments in his lifetime – with around 650 having survived today....Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Various composers, In the Wake of the Marseillaise: Jessica Gould (soprano) Pascal Valois (early romantic guitar), The Brotherhood Synagogue, New York, 13.12.2018. (CP) Jessica Gould’s and Pascal Valois’ concert of early romantic...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Sequenza21/
Best of 2018: Compilation CDs (Various Genres) Wet Ink: 20 Wet Ink Large Ensemble Carrier Records Wet Ink Ensemble has been performing music for twenty years. To celebrate, they have released Wet Ink: 20, a collection of pieces by...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from ArtsJournal
Said company CEO Stuart Murphy, “We were founded on the belief that opera is for everyone. Removing cost as a barrier to entry for under-18s is a seismic leap forward for ENO and for opera as a whole.” There are two hitches,...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 The BBC Proms has announced that it will be adding Japan to its growing list of international tours, following Australia in 2016 and Dubai in 2017. Thomas Dausgaard will lead the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 For the first time, cameras have been allowed access to the Choir of King's College, Cambridge's annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. To celebrate ther service's 100th anniversary, BBC Two will be...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Classical-Music.com
'Tinged with jazz inflections' This week's free download is an arrangement of Debussy's Minstrels , one of his Préludes , performed by Quatuor Debussy and recorded on the Harmonia Mundi label. It was awarded four...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
What do Charles Wuorinen, Reiko Füting, Eve Beglarian, Alexandre Lunsqui, Hannah Lash, and Andy Akiho have in common? Over the.. The post loadbang Kicks off 10th Anniversary Celebration with “Music That Defines” appeared first on I CARE...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
We live in a digital age, where everything seems possible, yet much is not. You can access the most obscure of recordings in a way that record collectors in the 1960s and 1970s could only have dreamed (Maria Callas recorded on the 31...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Adaptistration
When it comes to finding business oriented holiday cards, there’s no shortage of bland and balanal but coming up with something unique is a real challenge. A few years ago, I came across an idea that hit the sweet spot of personal...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Robin Holloway The Lovers' Well , Souvenirs of Monsalvat ; Clare Lloyd-Griffiths, Kate Symonds-Joy, James Robinson, Simon Wallfisch, Edward Rushton, William Vann; DELPHIAN Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 December 2018 Star...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Classical Voice North America
Messiah For Our Time Is Mixed Blessing"> By Rebecca Schmid BERLIN - A concert version for the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin by director Frederic Wake-Walker emerged as an ambitious but cumbersome attempt to infuse the religious...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The 16 candidates have today been announced for the 2019 Michael Hill International Violin Competition – to be held in Queenstown and Auckland, New Zealand from the 31st of May to the 8th of June, 2019. The 2019 Quarter Finalists...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Classics Today
Critics and fans alike like to say that Philip Glass composes music that is either riveting or dull. Whatever, count this new symphony among the great successes. It is both fascinating and rollicking fun. It’s in three movements of...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Peninsula Reviews
Director John Koza The annual Christmas With The Camerata Singers, on December 16, is a program not to be missed and this afternoon’s concert at First Presbyterian Monterey was no exception. Under artistic director and conductor John...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Bach, Mendelssohn: Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (violin), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Karina Canellakis (conductor), City Halls, Glasgow, 14.12.2018. (GT) Mendelssohn – Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage; Symphony No.5 in D ‘Reformation’ Bach –...Tuesday, December 18, 2018 from Music and Vision
Manfred Honeck conducts, and Giuseppe Pennisi was in the audienceMonday, December 17, 2018 from ArtsJournal
Outrage — the hallmark of 21st-century discourse — still exists, but the radio flip-flop on banning indicates the paradigm may be shifting toward a reasonable middle ground, with space for the sorts of varied responses one hopes for in a...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Classical Music and Musicians
Ebe Stignani (July 10, 1903 – October 5, 1974) was an Italian opera singer, who was pre-eminent in the dramatic mezzo-soprano roles of the Italian repertoire during a stage career of more than thirty years. She was born in Naples in...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Various: Joanne Lunn (soprano), Ryo Terakado (violin), Liliko Maeda (traverse flute), Masamitsu San’nomiya (oboe), Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki (director/continuo), Chan Centre, Vancouver, 9.12.2018. (GN) J.S. Bach – Orchestral...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Brahms, Liszt, R. Strauss: Yefim Bronfman (piano), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra/Jun Märkl (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 8.12.2018. (GN) Brahms – Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major Op.83 Liszt – Les préludes R. Strauss – Don...Monday, December 17, 2018 from ArtsJournal
“There is a school of thought in contemporary classical music that music should be above everything else, that it should have a purity about it. To me, that doesn’t make sense. Everything we do in art comes from what’s around us and who...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
Trash and Vaudeville. The New Yorker, Dec. 24 and 31, 2018.Monday, December 17, 2018 from Sequenza21/
Best of 2018: Orchestral CDs with Voices Requiem John Harbison Nashville Symphony Chorus and Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor Naxos Records John Harbison’s Requiem Mass had a long and fragmented...Monday, December 17, 2018 from ArtsJournal
“Throughout my childhood, my family had missed out on the joys of sharing music with one another. With three kids, two parents, two loud TVs, one bathroom and rarely anything approaching silence, music served as each individual’s...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Classical Voice North America
Otello "> By David Shengold NEW YORK – The charismatic Venezuelan conductor’s energetic account of Verdi’s score sometimes left it wanting a chance to breathe. Carl Tanner, stepping into the title role, gave a judiciously executed...Monday, December 17, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The NDR Radio Philharmonic, in Hannover, Germany has today announced the tenured appointment of British violinist Catherine Myerscough to its 2nd violin section. A graduate of Cambridge University, the Guildhall School of Music and the...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Glinka, Eliasson, Prokofiev: Janine Jansen (violin), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich / Daniel Blendulf (conductor), Tonhalle Maag, Zurich, 15.12.18 (JR) Glinka – Ruslan and Ludmila, Overture Eliasson – Violin Concerto (Solitary Journey)...Monday, December 17, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Today is Russian violin pedagogue, Professor Zakhar Bron’s 71st birthday! Widely regarded as one of the most influential violin teachers alive today, he has served Professorships at London’s Royal Academy of Music, Rotterdam...Monday, December 17, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Today is violinist, VC Young Artist Timothy Chooi’s 25th birthday! A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, and currently post-graduate student of Catherine Cho at The Juilliard School, Timothy is a former major prize winner at the...Monday, December 17, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Soviet violin virtuoso Leonid Kogan died on this day in 1982 – aged just 58. A former 1st prize winner at the Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, he is remembered in history as one of the greatest representatives of...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 The 2019 BBC Proms will run from Friday 19 July to Saturday 14 September. The details of all the 2019 BBC Proms will be available from Wednesday 17 April 2019. There will be two Proms with CBeebies on Sunday 21 and Monday...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Peninsula Reviews
The Hartnell Community Choir presented its winter concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, December 16, at Church of the Wayfarer in Carmel. The choir, conducted by Robin McKee Williams, performed Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Salve...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Brahms, Debussy and Enescu: Leonidas Kavakos (violin), London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor), Barbican Concert Hall, Barbican Centre, London, 16.12.2018 (AS) Brahms – Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 Debussy...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Classical music | The Guardian
Ambika P3, London The London contemporary music festival put on a magnetic, maddening evening of works from a vast range of traditions Now five years old, the London contemporary music festival has lost none of its ability to intrigue,...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Damian Iorio Damian Iorio will be conducting Welsh National Opera' s revival of Dominic Cooke 's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute during February and May this year; this will be Damian's debut with the company. He is also music...Monday, December 17, 2018 from classical music | New York Post
They may be blind, but these elephants seem to like Christmas music. Several times a week, British pianist Paul Barton plays soothing music — including “Silent Night” and “Jingle Bells” — for pachyderms at Elephant World, a retirement...Monday, December 17, 2018 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, December 17, 2018 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Dorian Wind Quintet & Abigail Fischer: Bon Appétit! The Dorian Wind Quintet joins forces with mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer for Lee.. The post This week: concerts in New York (December 17, 2018 – December 23, 2018) appeared first on...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Every Christmas, we invite a leading composer to write a carol for our readers. This year's is written by composer Dobrinka Tabakova and you can download the score for the carol here . We hope you'll include...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Finzi, Mozart, Bruch works for clarinet & orchestra ; Roeland Hendrikx, Sander Geerts, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins; Evil Penguin Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 17 December 2018 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) Three...Monday, December 17, 2018 from Adaptistration
I would like to believe everyone is taking the full week before Christmas off and you’re home now in a pair of fuzzy slippers indulging in eggnog or sipping a nice glass of wine. But who am I kidding, you’re probably up to...Monday, December 17, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
18-year-old Armenian violinist Diana Adamyan is quickly building an international reputation as one of the new generation’s most promising and gifted young concert soloists. A graduate of the Tchaikovsky School of Music where she...