Monday, October 23, 2017 from Music and Vision
Enrique Graf plays Bach, Mendelssohn and Mussorgsky, heard by the late Howard Smith. '... bold exhilaration and striking poetry.'Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Seen and Heard International
CDMX: New Music from Mexico – Guzmán, Waller, Castaños, Naranjo, Syrse: LA Phil New Music Group / Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor), Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, 17.10.2017. (DLD) Guzmán – Phantasy on a Waller – Echo...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Seen and Heard International
Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus and Childrens’ Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich / Paolo Carignani (conductor), Zurich Opera, Zurich 21.10.2017. (JR) Cast: Floria Tosca – Anja Harteros Mario Cavaradossi – Brian Jagde Baron...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Seen and Heard International
The Sixteen’s Choral Pilgrimage 2017 – Music by Palestrina and Poulenc: The Sixteen / Harry Christophers (conductor), Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, 21.7.2017. (SRT) Poulenc – Salve Regina; Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence; Un Soir...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Classics Today
La Scala, Milan; October 16, 2017–These are exciting times for the Filarmonica della Scala. Founded by Claudio Abbado to provide La Scala’s regular players with an opportunity to play symphonic repertoire, the orchestra has...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Opera North’s production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana , Autumn 2017 Katie Bray as Lola, Phillip Rhodes as Alfio and Giselle Allen as Santuzza with the Chorus of Opera North (Photo Robert Workman) Leoncavallo Pagliacci , Mascagni...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
Many thanks to all who took part in my weekend competition. The prizes are two copies of Olly Wedgwood’s JukeBox: Fun Piano Solos and Duets. The winners are: PAMELA DENISON and LUCY SLANE Congratulations! Please send your addresses via...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Opera North’s production of Ravel’s L'enfant et les sortilèges , Autumn 2017 John Graham-Hall as Tea Pot, Ann Taylor as Chinese Cup, Wallis Giunta as the Child (Photo Tristram Kenton) Janacek Osud , Ravel L'enfant et les sortileges ;...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Opera North’s production of Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti , Autumn 2017 Wallis Giunta as Dinah with Nicholas Butterfield, Fflur Wyn and Joseph Shovelton as the Trio (Photo Alastair Muir) Bernstein Trouble in Tahiti , Gilbert &...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Julian Anderson Total Immersion at the Barbican with the BBC SO. yesterday. The evening programme was a well chosen retrospective. Anderson is prolific to a fault, so he can be uneven, so this was a good opportunity to...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
17 year old Australian violinist, Yebin Yoo has been awarded 1st prize at the 2017 Australian National Youth Concerto Competition – in Brisbane, Australia. The Australian NYCC is widely regarded as the most significant development prize...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Peninsula Reviews
Last night at St. Philips Lutheran Church in Carmel Valley conductor John Anderson demonstrated once again how he can assemble a group of the finest orchestra players on the Monterey Peninsula and create a program that was as strong in...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Classical Voice North America
By Richard S. Ginell LOS ANGELES – In a festival called CDMX, the music of the Mexican capital starts beyond the country’s borders, delves deeply into the national identity, and finally emerges as part of the international music community.Sunday, October 22, 2017 from JDCMB
This is one busy week. MONDAY . It's this: You'll find me and the fabulous musicians David Le Page (violin) and Viv McLean (piano) at the Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zédel, Sherwood Street (just off Piccadilly Circus), with the words&music...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from New York Concert Review, Inc.
Yi-Yang Chen, piano Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY October 18, 2017 The winner of the 2017 Virginia Waring International Piano Competition (www.vwipc.org) , twenty-seven-year old Yi-Yang Chen , was presented by the...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Classical music | The Guardian
West Road Concert Hall The Melos Sinfonia’s thrilling concert performance of George Benjamin’s intense, horrifying work was often more dramatic than full productions In the five years since i ts premiere at the Aix-en-Provence festival ,...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Classical music | The Guardian
Warsaw Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra/ Penderecki (Warner Classics) This double album of choral music, composed and conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki (born Poland, 1933), spans nearly half a century. The earliest piece, the Stabat...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Classical music | The Guardian
Sollazzo Ensemble (Linn) As early music groups move towards big-time baroque or niche classical repertory, there are all too few new recordings of medieval music. This imaginative debut album from the prize-winning six-member young...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Classical music | The Guardian
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Adam Tunnicliffe, Vasari Singers/Backhouse (Vasari Media) British choirs tackle the All-Night Vigil at their peril. The Russian language is as euphonious as Rachmaninov’s mellifluous choral writing, but a failure to...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Joshua Kosman
The Oakland Symphony’s concert in the Paramount Theatre on Friday, Oct. 20, served a double purpose, opening a new season and celebrating the 60th birthday of the orchestra’s longtime beloved music director, Michael Morgan. So there were...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Joshua Kosman
There was a long seven-year hiatus between “A Visit From the Goon Squad” — the multifaceted, phantasmagorical best-selling novel that won Jennifer Egan a Pulitzer Prize and a host of new fans — and her newly released follow-up,...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Secession Orchestra dirigé par Clément Mao-Takacs à Royaumont (© DR) A very unusual concert last month at Royaumont in the L'Île-de-France,"Jardins d'amour", for all three pieces deal with gardens, lushness and enchantment. - Mahler...Sunday, October 22, 2017 from Music and Vision
Erato is to release a rare complete recording of Berlioz's opera 'Les Troyens', recorded live in StrasbourgSaturday, October 21, 2017 from Classical music | The Guardian
Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Royal Opera House; Barbican, London David McVicar’s stylish Traviata is slow to ignite at Scottish Opera. At Covent Garden a rarity that’s great in parts. Plus, less is more with Bernard Haitink Consumption –...Saturday, October 21, 2017 from Classical Voice North America
Wozzeck, Chamber Scaled, Still Packs Its Violent Punch"> By Rebecca Schmid VIENNA – In Robert Carsen's new staging of Berg's opera starring Florian Boesch and Lise Lindstrom at the Theater an der Wien, themes of war-induced alienation...Saturday, October 21, 2017 from Seen and Heard International
Auber, Fra Diavolo: Soloists, Orchestra, Chorus and Corps de Ballet of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma / Rory Macdonald (conductor), Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Rome, 17.10.2017. (RP) Cast: Fra Diavolo – John Osborn Lord Rocburg...Saturday, October 21, 2017 from Seen and Heard International
Glinka, Shostakovich, Sibelius: Vadim Gluzman (violin), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra / Otto Tausk (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 14.10.2017. (GN) Glinka – Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture Shostakovich – Violin Concerto No.2 in...Saturday, October 21, 2017 from Seen and Heard International
Handel – Semele (concert performance): Soloists; Choir & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Christophe Rousset (conductor). Royal Festival Hall, London, 18.10.2017. (CC) Semele – Louise Alder Jupiter – James Way Juno –...Saturday, October 21, 2017 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Samuel Pantcheff & Elizabeth Roberts rehearsing for HeadFirst Productions new production of Mozat's Don Giovanni HeadFirst Productions is presenting Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Pleasance Theatre (Carpenters Mews, North Road, London...Saturday, October 21, 2017 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
It was encouraging to hear Harold Darke’s Fantasy No.2 in E major, op 39 for string orchestra played on Classic FM just after the 7 am news the other day. Further investigation reveals that it has become one of radio presenter Alan...Saturday, October 21, 2017 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Today is German-Korean violinist Christian Kim’s 31st birthday! A graduate of the Kalrsruhe University of Music and Yale University, Christian is a former prize winner at the Concorso Musicale Europeo Torino, Concours Européen pour...Saturday, October 21, 2017 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Hungarian-British conductor Sir Georg Solti was born on this day in 1912 – 105 years ago. Maestro Solti is remembered as one of the finest conductors of all time. He was the Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for more than...Saturday, October 21, 2017 from Music and Vision
Sergei Rachmaninov's First Symphony impresses Gerald Fenech. 'Ashkenazy and his Philharmonia forces exude a quite brilliant performance full of explosive intensity and exuberance, and yet when warranted, their sensitive attention to...Friday, October 20, 2017 from Violinist.com
By Laurie Niles: When my daughter, Natalie, age 20, announced that she'd be studying abroad this fall at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, I wanted to learn all I could about this southern city along the Belgian border....Friday, October 20, 2017 from Seen and Heard International
Beethoven, Trois Grandes Fugues: Lyon Opera Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, London, 19.10.2017. (J.O’D) Grande Fugue Dancers – Jacqueline Bâby, Kristina Bentz, Edi Blloshmi, Noëllie Conjeaud, Tyler Galster, Ludovick Le Floc’h, Graziella...