Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Wagner, Siegfried Act II: Soloists, Rehearsal Orchestra / Anthony Legge (conductor), Henry Wood Hall, London, 21.10.2018. (JPr) Singers: Freddie Tong – Alberich Pauls Putnins – Wanderer Paul Goodwin-Groen – Fafner Jonathan Finney – Mime...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from ArtsJournal
The 27-year-old pianist Daniil Trifonov was named Artist of the Year, while Julia Wolfe took Composer of the Year honors. Carlos Miguel Prieto, music director of the Louisiana Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, and...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Igor Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto in D premiered on this day in 1931 – 87 years ago. The first performance was given by Samuel Dushkin – with Stravinsky conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. The 4 movement work contains a...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Today’s track premiere features Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect performing Hildur Guðnadóttir‘s Point of Departure from their upcoming album He(a)r. Nordic Affect is Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir,.. The post Track Premiere:...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from Classical-Music.com
'Huw Wiggin brings dazzling flair and imagination to his performance' This week's free download is Debussy's The Girl with the Flaxen Hair , performed by saxophonist Huw Wiggin and harpist Oliver Wass, and recorded on...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from JDCMB
I just photographed the packaging of my latest assignment While I'm writing this, I ought to be writing a CD review. Yes, my copy for BBC Music Magazine is late. Why? Because yesterday I spent so long picking and scratching and scrubbing...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Schubert Swansong , On the River , The Shepherd on the Rock ; Sir John Tomlinson, Sophie Bevan, Julian Bliss, Alec Frank-Gemmill, Christopher Glyn, Jeremy Sams (translation); Signum Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 21 October 2018...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
A new Welsh contemporary classical music ensemble, UPROAR, is starting with a bang with a programme of ten 5 minute works by ten Welsh composers. UPROAR's (10x10) will showcase a a cross section of composers with a wide range of...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from classical music | New York Post
The rustling of a gum wrapper during an intense performance of Mahler’s 5th Symphony in Sweden last week led to a “violent attack” in the audience after the gum-rustler smacked the glasses off a young man who grabbed the pack...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from Classical Music and Musicians
I, unfortunately, have sensitive ears. I came across this full version of Tosca on youtube. It was recorded in 1928-1929. On youtube, someone had taken the trouble to removed all the noise and to make recording sound as if it had been...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
When I was looking through some old posts on my Land of Lost Content Blog I found that in 2008 I had posted this review originally published on MusicWeb International. On my blog, it had become corrupted with some missing text and the...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Piotr Beczała - photo Anja Frora Can Piotr Beczała sing the pants off Jonas Kaufmann ? Beczała is a major celebrity who could fill a big house, like Kaufmann does, and at Kaufmann prices. Instead, Beczała and Helmut Deutsch...Tuesday, October 23, 2018 from Music and Vision
Ron Bierman talks to British opera director Stephen Lawless, whose 'Marriage of Figaro' is currently at San Diego OperaMonday, October 22, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera, New York / Sir Mark Elder (conductor). Broadcast Live in HD from the Metropolitan Opera to Everyman Cinema, Chelmsford, Essex, 20.10.2018. (JPr)...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Beethoven and Ligeti: Quatuor Voce (Cécile Roubin, Sarah Dyan [violins], Guillaume Becker [viola], Lydia Shelley [cello]). Wigmore Hall, London, 21.10.2018. (MB) Beethoven – String Quartet No.10 in E-flat major, Op.74, ‘Harp’...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Glass, Satyagraha: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / Grant Gershon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 20.10.2018. (JRo) Cast: M. K. Gandhi – Sean Panikkar Miss Schlesen – So Young Park Mrs. Naidoo – Erica...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of The National Theatre / Andreas Sebastian Weiser (conductor), The Estates Theatre, Prague, 18.10.2018. (RP) Cast: Leonore – Melanie Diener Florestan – Daniel Frank Don...Monday, October 22, 2018 from ArtsJournal
A costly experiment? Surely, since box office revenue in these spaces is small relative to cost of production. Without philanthropic support, the project would be untenable. What Opera Philadelphia is discovering is that there are donors...Monday, October 22, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
27-year-old Taiwanese-American VC Artist Richard Lin is quickly building an international reputation as one of the new generation’s most promising and gifted young concert soloists. A graduate of the Juilliard School and the Curtis...Monday, October 22, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Violin Channel recently caught up with Indiana University Jacobs School of Music violin pedagogue, Professor Grigory Kalinovsky. In a VC-exclusive guest blog, Grigory shares his insider thoughts on which classes he feels every...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: In an effort to promote the coverage of live violin performance, Violinist.com each week presents links to reviews of notable concerts and recitals around the world. Gil Shaham performed Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Sequenza21/
[untitled] is the moniker given by Seattle Symphony to its thrice-annual Friday night new music events. Staged in the lobby of Benaroya Hall, it’s a semi-formal atmosphere in which the Symphony can deploy its musicians in smaller...Monday, October 22, 2018 from The Classical Review
Alfred Hitchcock has made it to the Metropolitan Opera stage—sort of. The […]Monday, October 22, 2018 from Classical Life
In case you were wondering what the Mariinsky Orchestra and conductor Valery Gergiev played as an encore Saturday night at Segerstrom Concert Hall, it was the nifty little ditty above, Liadov’s “Baba-Yaga.” As Gergiev...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Violinist.com
By Simon Fischer: During the summer between finishing my post-graduate years at the Guildhall School of Music, and beginning my post-post-graduate studies in New York, I played in a chamber orchestra that toured South America for five...Monday, October 22, 2018 from ArtsJournal
Hm. Not that well. “While there have been conversations behind closed doors about certain gatekeepers … there hasn’t been a tipping point like what’s happened in Hollywood with Weinstein. As one singer told Rolling Stone...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Classical Voice North America
By Jason Victor Serinus SEATTLE – British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, the first black musician to win the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award, looked super-stylish and made a smart musical impression in Tchaikovsky with the Seattle...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Wexford Festival Opera 2018 [1] – Donizetti, Don Pasquale: Soloists of Wexford Festival Opera / Daniella Pellegrino (Music Director), Clayton Whites Hotel, Wexford, 20.10.2018. (RB) Cast: Don Pasquale – Toni Nežić Dr Malatesta –...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Falla, Lalo and Stravinsky: Christian Tetzlaff (violin), London Symphony Orchestra / Jaime Martín (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 21.10.2018. (AS) Falla – El sombrero de tres picos – Part 1, Scenes and Dances; Part 2, Three...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
The Rio Homeless Choir performs on the steps of the Municipal Theatre of Rio de Janeiro during the 2016 Uma So Voz Week. Photo: Lorena Mossa. With One Voice the international arts and homeless movement, founded by Streetwise Opera , that...Monday, October 22, 2018 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Ensemble Connect Ensemble Connect kicks off its 2018–2019 season by performing Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet, Kaija Saariaho’s Light.. The post This week: concerts in New York (October 22, 2018 – October 28, 2018) appeared...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
R. Strauss, Schoenberg, Tchaikovsky: The Jerusalem String Quartet [Alexander Pavlovsky and Sergei Bresler (violins), Ori Kam (viola), Kyril Zlotnikov (cello)], Pinchas Zukerman (viola), Amanda Forsyth (cello), Chan Centre, Vancouver,...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Classics Today
On paper, the season-opening concert of the Bamberg Symphony on September 28 was a winner unheard and unseen, before it ever took place: György Ligeti’s Atmosphères, Bohuslav Martinů’s First [sic!] Violin Concerto with Frank Peter...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Music for Windy Instruments: Sounds from the court of King James I; English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble; Resonus Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 10 October 2018 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) A window onto the sounds heard at the court...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Premiering a new work is always exciting for a choir, but particularly so when the piece has been created by the choir's own members. This will be the case when St Peter's Singers of Leeds, director of music Dr Simon Lindley, present a...Monday, October 22, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Spanish cellist Pablo Casals died on this day in 1973 – aged 96. He is remembered as one of the distinguished cello virtuosi of all time. PABLO CASALS | BACH | SOLO CELLO SUITE NO. 1 IN G MAJOR | 1954 The...Monday, October 22, 2018 from Music and Vision
Orchestral music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold impresses Gerald Fenech. 'Rohde and his forces dish out some truly magisterial interpretations full of spirited playing and athletic grace ...'Sunday, October 21, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and the Orchestra of Scottish Opera / Rumon Gumba (conductor), Theatre Royal Glasgow, 18.10.2018. (GT) Production: Director – Matthew Richardson Designer – Jon Morrell Original Lighting Designer – Tony...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Light Odyssey (Lightpool Festival 2018) – Debussy, Saint‐Saëns, Barber, Bernstein, Copland, Vaughan Williams, Britten: BBC Philharmonic / Eivind Aadland (conductor), Empress Ballroom, Winter Gardens, Blackpool, 18.10.2018. (MC)...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from ArtsJournal
Some candor, some mistakes, some crossover. “As he’s helped to wash away artificial divides between jazz and other contemporary black music, Mr. Glasper has spoken with a casual candor not typical of jazz musicians. ‘If you...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from Classical Music and Musicians
Having just heard this piece in concert, I thought that I would post it. I will put the music just below this line, for those who want to get right to it. Otherwise, there is some commentary and history below. 1st...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from ArtsJournal
The journalist, before interviewing the song’s writer: “If the song is so paper-thin, why can’t I stop singing it under my breath? And why has the internet been moved to slap ‘Why Did You Do That?’ on top of...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: Congratulations to the six semi-finalists named Wednesday in the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover, Germany! 2018 Finalists in the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover. Photo...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from Classics Today
Go ahead. Pull out any disc at random. Chances are you’ll be holding a reference recording for the work in question. Based on the recorded evidence, George Szell was simply the finest conductor of the twentieth century. No one else...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from ArtsJournal
Saskatoon is cold, and the office was near a bus stop, before a man entered the office and stabbed the executive director in the eye with the blunt end of a fork. “As an arts organization, we’re really open to the public and we...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from ArtsJournal
Kubrick never paid Gerald Fried (or apparently many others) for their first film. “He thought the very fact that my doing the music to his early movies got me into the profession was enough payment. We had an agreement – not in...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from ArtsJournal
How does the station Bravo keep people addicted to its reality TV shows? A composer says that he and others make the station sound like candy: “midcentury spy film vibraphones. Tchaikovskian pizzicato — that is, finger-plucked —...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The 6 Finalists have just minutes ago been announced at the 2018 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition – in Hannover, Germany. The 2018 Finalists are: VC Young Artist Timothy Chooi (Canada) VC Young Artist Rennosuke Fukuda...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from Peninsula Reviews
Composer Alex Berko receives acclaim On Saturday evening at Sunset Center the Monterey Symphony opened its 73rd season – Sound Waves – with a new work by composer Alex Berko, commissioned in collaboration with the Big Sur Land Trust,...Sunday, October 21, 2018 from Seen and Heard International
Bernstein, Candide (concert version): Liceu Chorus and Orchestra /John DeMain (conductor), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, 18.10.2018. (JMI) Cast: Candide – Paul Appleby Cunegonde – Meghan Picerno Pangloss/Voltairer/Martin/Cacambo –...