Tuesday, July 7, 2020 from Classics Today
With the fifth volume in Naxos’ ongoing cycle of Robert Schumann chamber and orchestral works arranged for piano duet, the Eckerle Piano Duo has now traversed all four symphonies in arrangements either penned or sanctioned by the...Monday, July 6, 2020 from ArtsJournal
If Black lives matter now more than ever, hearing Black liveness in classical music also matters. The alternative is an addiction to exclusion that ends, as addictions often do, in impoverishment. – The New York TimesMonday, July 6, 2020 from Classical Life
When I was young and ambitious, I decided, after a little more than a year working as a freelance music critic at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, that I’d take a shot at working for the Los Angeles Times, the biggest game in town. I got...Monday, July 6, 2020 from ArtsJournal
“We have raised $60m in funding over the past few months,” says Peter Gelb. “This has solved the immediate problem of the cancellation of the last weeks of the 2019-20 season and the loss of ticket revenue for this fall season, but it...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Donizetti, Don Pasquale: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York / Nicola Rescigno (conductor). 11.1.1979 performance reviewed as Nightly Met Opera Stream on 5.7.2020. (JPr) Production: Production – John...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Music and Vision
Ennio Morricone (1928-2020)Monday, July 6, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Patrick Hahn (Photo Gerhard Donauer) The Austrian conductor Patrick Hahn has been appointed as the new General Music Director of Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester (Wuppertal Symphony Orchestra), making him at 24 the youngest...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Waterperry Gardens This Summer, it seems that live music in gardens is going to be the way forward through the present restrictions. Both Glyndebourne and West Green are offering garden openings with live music, and Waterperry Opera...Monday, July 6, 2020 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Dan Siegler and Dawn Sinkowski | Works & Process Created at home by artists familiar to Works & Process audiences,.. The post This week: live streamed concerts (July 6, 2020 – July 12, 2020) appeared first on I CARE IF YOU...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Music Genre: Classical
The iconic Italian composer, who scored The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and more than 500 other films, died Monday in Rome.Monday, July 6, 2020 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
Louise Farrenc (1804 – 1875), pictured above, was a French Romantic composer. In her lifetime she enjoyed a considerable reputation, and whilst the majority of her compositions are for the piano, her chamber music is generally...Monday, July 6, 2020 from JDCMB
The government has just announced a rescue package for the UK's arts and heritage that is worth £1.57bn. A massive "thank you" is in order - to them, to the organisations whose directors lobbied for us all, to the individuals who...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Riot Ensemble have announced six commissions as part of the ensemble's ongoing Zeitgeist commissioning project, intended as a response to lockdown, and intended to keep music flowing. The...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Classics Today
In most compilations such as this, you are lulled into a comfortable place where the listening’s easy and the romantic atmosphere is high. Then, just as you settle in and relax, the mood is shattered by an unwanted intruder,...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Adaptistration
After collecting three full months of data, it’s clear that orchestra staffers and musicians continue to move toward higher ratios of under-employed and unemployed statuses. 35 percent of these stakeholders are some form of...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
Under Pressure. The New Yorker, July 6 and 13, 2020.Monday, July 6, 2020 from Classics Today
Unless you are a cetologist, all whales of a species look alike to you. The seasoned eye, meanwhile, will take one glance at a disappearing dorsal fin and immediately conclude: “Oh, look, there’s Laura!” Same thing with Vivaldi violin...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Classics Today
Though not the dominant classical label it once was, the Deutsche Grammophon logo on a recording still bestows a certain prestige, a prestige that was certainly due William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony. In the 1960s RCA and...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Classics Today
As a Beethoven fortepianist, Jos Van Immerseel never attained the inspiration of recorded competitors like Robert Levin, Steven Lubin, Tom Beghin, or Ronald Brautigam, not to mention Peter Serkin’s remarkable forays into the late...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Classics Today
In 1999 APR reissued piano legend Dinu Lipatti’s complete issued 1947 recordings in superb remasterings. It returns to the catalog as an expanded two-CD edition that now includes Lipatti’s 1948 sessions, plus five 1947 test...Monday, July 6, 2020 from Classics Today
The three symphonies (and other orchestral works) of Zdenĕk Fibich enjoy a tenuous hold on the repertoire, and even less than that outside of the Czech lands, but they are all enjoyable, well-made works. They have been recorded notably...Sunday, July 5, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Weber: Euryanthe - Theresa Kronthaler (Eglantine), Andrew Foster-Williams (Lysiart) Theater an der Wien (Photo © Monika Rittershaus) Opera this week included two rather different rarely performed operas, Weber's grand romantic opera...Sunday, July 5, 2020 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
For me, La Nativité du Seigneur was entry level for Olivier Messiaen’s music. At the Church of Scotland in Glasgow, where I attended in the mid-1970s, the organist Kenneth Dawkins was a great enthusiast of this composer. He used to play...Saturday, July 4, 2020 from Classical music | The Guardian
The Navarra String Quartet cover all bases, from Schubert to A Bullfighter’s Prayer. Plus, Nicholas Maw and a new opera with a cause • The title Love and Death (Orchid Classics) could incorporate nearly all music ever written. The...Saturday, July 4, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Julian Sinani and Anna Ovsyanikova (Photo Anton Phatianov) Violinist Anna Ovsyanikova and pianist Julia Sinani have a disc out on Stone Records this week, Les Saisons Françaises , of French music for violin and piano, exploring not just...Friday, July 3, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Seen and Heard International hopes for the happiest of outcomes for all those who are ill due to the current coronavirus pandemic. We share the optimism of those experts who hope that all those in otherwise good health will be able to...Friday, July 3, 2020 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Beethoven Symphony no 9 "Choral" in D minor, Op. 125, and the Choral Fantasy in C minor op 80 with soloist K ristian Bezuidenhout, Pablo Heras-Casado conducting the Freiburger Barockorchester, new from Harmonia Mundi. In...Friday, July 3, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
On 4 March 2020 I went to Symphony Hall, Birmingham to hear the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the CBSO Chorus give a fine performance of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem conducted by the orchestra’s charismatic Osborn Music...Friday, July 3, 2020 from ArtsJournal
After six weeks of “fantasy Proms” consisting mostly of rebroadcasts from previous years’ festivals, the hope is to present live performances (without live audiences) in the Royal Albert Hall from Aug. 28 through the...Friday, July 3, 2020 from Music and Vision
Patrick Maxwell celebrates Peter Donohoe's Mozart Piano Sonatas. '... played with a precise and enjoyable dexterity and with admirable clarity; the collection as a whole deserves to be celebrated.'Friday, July 3, 2020 from The Classical Review
Arvo Pärt, Stabat Mater. Gloriae Dei Cantores GDCD 065 When he […]Friday, July 3, 2020 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing and connected during times.. The post ListN Up: Meerenai Shim (July 3, 2020) appeared first on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN .Friday, July 3, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
When love speaks - choral music by Owain Park; The Epiphoni Consort, Tim Reader; DELPHIAN Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 3 July 2020 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) A finely-crafted portrait disc, showcasing the lyrical music of the young composer...Friday, July 3, 2020 from The Independent - Classical
'We're dealing with constantly changing regulations,' said conductor Sakari OramoFriday, July 3, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Christopher Monks & Armonico Consort at the Court House, Warwick The Armonico Consort has launched a weekly series of performances recorded live and broadcast on the group's Facebook page. These socially distanced performances are...Friday, July 3, 2020 from Adaptistration
Each year, one of the most popular items in the orchestra compensation reports is a big picture overview of all compensation alongside Total Expenditure figures. If you’ve been looking for something that shows all the report values in a...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
From Bernstein to Benedetti, Haitink to Hvorostovsky, Mackerras to Kanneh-Masons Musical greats, from the past and the present, brought together in one extraordinary Proms season 17 July – 12 September 2020 BBC Radio 3 opens this...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Classical music | The Guardian
Orchestras of a ‘Mozart size’ will play at the Royal Albert Hall from 28 August There will be orchestras of Mozart and Beethoven size rather than Mahler and Shostakovich size but at least they will be performing live from the stage of...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
POSTPONEMENT OF OPERA NORTH’S AUTUMN / WINTER SEASONS As a result of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and the latest guidance on live performances, Opera North has today announced the postponement of all mainstage productions due to tour in...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Wagner, Die Walküre: Soloists, Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House, New York / James Levine (conductor). 8.4.1989 performance reviewed as a Nightly Met Opera Stream on 1.7.2020. (JPr) Production: Production – Otto Schenk...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Seen and Heard International
Beethoven, Schumann: Mark Padmore (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Blackheath Halls, London, viewed on 1.7.2020 (CS) Beethoven – ‘Mailied’ Op.52 No.4, ‘Neue Liebe, neues Leben’ Op.75 No.2, ‘Aus Goethe’s Faust’ Op.75 No.3, ‘Ein...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from ArtsJournal
Back in the late 1960s, Charlie Perrière was a struggling young musician in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic, and about to leave for Congo when he was personally summoned by President Jean-Bédel Bokassa — the one who later...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Classical music | The Guardian
Chiuri/Rügamer/Nagy/Danish National Choir & SO/Noseda (Chandos) The Italian composer’s lyrical yet economical drama confirms its status as one of the finest short stage works of the 20th century L uigi Dallapiccola composed four...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Music and Vision
Mike Wheeler is impressed by Lynne Marsh's film 'Tragedy', which provides an altered experience of Opera North's production of Verdi's 'La traviata'Thursday, July 2, 2020 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
Canadian piano teacher and music examiner Amy Boyes lives in Ottawa where she also works an adjudicator, judging piano festivals and competitions. She believes that music educators must always strike a careful balance between kindness...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Il gondoliere Veneziano: A musical voyage through Venice ; Holger Falk, Nuovo Aspetto, Merzouga; Prospero Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 2 July 2020 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A delightful exploration of 18th century Venetian gondoliers'...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Adaptistration
For the third year in a row, the 2017/18 season produced a positive gain in the average concertmaster’s compensation level. Having said that, and not counting years with negative growth, this was the third smallest average increase since...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from Classics Today
Twenty years before Beethoven’s “Pastoral” symphony appeared, the German composer Justin Heinrich Knecht (1752-1817) brought out “Le Portrait musical de la Nature”. One might call this five-movement symphony the “original...Thursday, July 2, 2020 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
Geoffrey Bush (1920-98) is largely the preserve of enthusiasts of 20 th century British music. He is never heard on Classic FM and rarely features on Radio 3. Despite composing many outstanding orchestral works, he has only had three...Wednesday, July 1, 2020 from ArtsJournal
Amazingly, not only has the group continued the girls’ education online, it has used the constraints to its advantage by bringing in guest artists for master classes and increasing one-on-one instruction. At a time when many of the girls...