Wednesday, August 21, 2019 from Adaptistration
Back in May, we pointed out an article that was examining the business practices of Sofar Sounds, a presenter of non-classical music events in small venues. In a nutshell, the company’s business model has come under scrutiny of the...Wednesday, August 21, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Bayreuth Festival 2019 (Photo Enric Nawrath) Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde ; Petra Lang, Stefan Vinke, Georg Zeppenfeld, Greer Grimsley, Christa Mayer, dir: Katharina Wagner, cond: Christian...Wednesday, August 21, 2019 from Peninsula Reviews
Our little corner of the World is a quiet one. We have many opportunities to savor live performances of wonderful music. While those concerts would probably not...Wednesday, August 21, 2019 from Classical Voice North America
By Keith Powers LENOX, Mass. – With the British composer directing the Festival of Contemporary Music, tough scores and head-spinning ideas were the norm. A delicate look at depression, Richard Ayres’ The Cricket Recovers , opened the...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Sequenza21/
The conductor Martyn Brabbins has been and continues to be a champion of new music and of British composers in particular. In celebration of his 60th birthday, the BBC commissioned fourteen composers with whom he has been associated to...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
SAFFRON OPERA GROUP PRESENTS TRISTAN UND ISOLDE FORMER TRIUMPHS INCLUDE THE RING CYCLE, PARSIFAL, DIE MEISTERSINGER THRILLING CAST OF ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING ARTISTS IN OPERA’S GREATEST LOVE STORY ‘A most remarkable concert performance…...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Tanglewood [8] – Schumann, Brahms: Richard Sebring, Michael Winter, Rachel Childers and Jason Snider (horns), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Boston Symphony Orchestra / François-Xavier Roth (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 18.8.2019. (RP)...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Edinburgh International Festival [10] – Haydn, Dean, Brahms: Doric String Quartet, Brett Dean (viola), Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, 20.8.2019. (SRT) Haydn – String Quartet Op.33 No.2 ‘The Joke’ Dean – String Quartet No.3 ‘Hidden...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Salzburg Festival [5] – Mozart, Paisiello, Salieri, and Martín y Soler: Claire de Sévigné, Siobhan Stagg (sopranos), Lea Desandre (mezzo-soprano), Mauro Peter (tenor), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), Robert Gleadow (bass), Choir...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Sir Simon Rattle, photo : Doug Peters Simon Rattle Prom with the London Symphony Orchestra, programmed with typical intelligence - Koechlin, Edgard Varèse and Walton's Belshazzar's Feast . Disparate pieces that did work...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Tanglewood [7] – Brahms, Schumann: Kirill Gerstein (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra / François-Xavier Roth (conductor), Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 17.8.2019. (RP) Brahms – Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat Op.83 Schumann –...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
The Irish composer Roger Doyle received the honour of Saoi, the highest award open to an Irish artist. Doyle was presented with the symbol of the office of Saoi, the gold Torc by Irish President, Michael D. Higgins on 16 August 2019. The...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
44 year-old French-Canadian composer Julien Gauthier has been tragically killed following an attack by a grizzly bear – in the Northwestern Territory of Canada. Julien, who had served as Composer-In-Residence with the Brittany...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
12-year-old VC Rising Star Chloe Chua from Singapore performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E Minor – with conductor Huifang Chen and the Atlanta Festival Academy Orchestra. Recorded live on the 30th of July, 2019 – at the Sandy...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti performing the world premiere recording of composer and jazz legend Wynton Marsalis‘ Violin Concerto in D – with conductor Cristian Măcelaru and the Philadelphia Orchestra. “We wanted...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Today is Russian-born violinist, violist and conductor Maxim Vengerov’s 45th birthday! A protégé of Zakhar Bron, Maxim is a former 1st prize winner at the Karol Lipinski and Carl Flesch International Violin Competitions – and is widely...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 The music for the opening credits of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing was written by Dan McGrath and Josh Phillips, the composing duo also responsible for the theme tunes for Take Me Out , A...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 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. Violinist Itzhak Perlman. Itzhak Perlman performed...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from ArtsJournal
“Here there’s a problem where even when the community values this, they think it’ll be supported by wealthy industrialists. But those days are over, and we need to say we’ve got a lot of wealth in this community. How can we get...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from ArtsJournal
The controversy at the Bang on a Can Summer Festival (aka Banglewood) in Massachusetts broke out over the use of didgeridoos in the 1990 work Thousand Year Dreaming by 80-year-old New Zealand-American composer Annea Lockwood. Several of...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Netflix’s hit fantasy drama Stranger Things reaches operatic new heights in the sixth chapter of its recently released third series. The eagle-eared among you may have noticed the producers...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 Celebrated children’s writer Michael Morpurgo and award-winning composer Rachel Portman have teamed up for a special animated TV adaptation of Morpurgo’s Mimi and the Mountain Dragon, due to air on...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Music and Vision
Rachmaninov's Vespers, recommended by Gerald Fenech. 'Although the choir is not Russian, performances are as passionately devotional as one can expect, particularly the soprano and bass sections, who capture the wide range of dynamics...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
‘Romantic ardour is here in plenty, and the Chandos sound is well up to its resplendent best’ This week’s free download is the second movement, Un Bal , from Berlioz ’s Symphonie fantastique , performed by the...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
It’s summer opera festival season in the UK–so, are you a Glyndebourne or a Grimeborn person? Country house in Sussex,.. The post Grimeborn Festival Stages Daring Triple Bill Featuring El-Turk’s “Silk Moth”...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Classical-Music.com
Rating: 0 A new role has been created at Welsh National Opera: female conductor in residence. This follows an open call earlier this year for aspiring female conductors, as part of WNO’s programme to work towards gender...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from JDCMB
SO heartening to attend two Proms within a week that included a) world premieres and b) full houses. Here's my write-up of last night's new works from Jonathan Dove and Dieter Ammann, alongside Beethoven 9, in The Arts Desk . Taster...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Classical music | The Guardian
Usher Hall, Edinburgh The latest symphony from the pre-eminent Scottish composer, a meditation on the Holy Spirit featuring a striking 20-voice motet, received a rapturous response Scotland’s pre-eminent composer, Sir James MacMillan ,...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from The Classical Piano and Music Education Blog
Today’s guest blog post has been penned by my student Becky Flisher. Becky is a typical adult piano student who has a full-time job and many other hobbies and interests. She has been learning the… MoreTuesday, August 20, 2019 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Wagner: Parsifal - Ryan McKinny - Bayreuth Festival 2019 (photo Enrico Nawrath) Wagner Parsifal : Günther Groissböck, Ryan McKinny, Elena Pankratova, Andreas Schager, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Derek Welton, dir: Uwe Eric Laufenberg, cond:...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Adaptistration
A bit of a housekeeping post today. It’s hard to imagine the end of summer is much closer than the start so to that end, I took a step back to see what was in store and there are some nice topics on the horizon. I’ve had a...Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content
Much of Gösta Nystroem’s (1890-1966) music is associated with the sea. I discovered this Swedish composer by way of his Sinfonia del Mare (Symphony No.3) (1946-8) and the symphonic poem Arctic Ocean (Ishavet or La mer arctique) (1924-5)....Tuesday, August 20, 2019 from Classical Voice North America
By CVNA Editors DATEBOOK – With a Billy Budd in San Francisco to mark Melville's 200th (at right), a Sonatathon in Cincinnati for Beethoven's 250th, and novel new roles for composers and composer-performers, the 2019-20 season is ready...Monday, August 19, 2019 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST
Berthold Goldschmidt's Beatrice Cenci at last on DVD, from the Bregenz Festival in 2018, conducted by Johannes Debus, directed by Johannes Erath, sung in German translation. Some time after Goldschmidt's death, I found a trove of his...Monday, August 19, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Melodiya Records has announced the release of Russian-born cellist Alexander Ramm‘s new album: ‘Benjamin Britten Suites‘. The disc features the three Benjamin Britten solo cello ‘Suites’ Op. 72, 80 and 87....Monday, August 19, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Never-before-uploaded 1927 archival audio recording of legendary Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler performing Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D Major – with conductor Leo Blech and the Berlin State Opera Orchestra. Recorded live at the...Monday, August 19, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Salzburg Mozarteum University, in Salzburg, Austria, has today announced the appointment of violinist Maxim Vengerov to its violin teaching faculty – effective from October of this year. The position will be an endowed...Monday, August 19, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
A 38-year-old man, in London, has this week been arrested on suspicion of theft – following the robbery of a valuable violin on June 11th this year from a train near Haywards Heath, in Sussex, England. The man has been released on...Monday, August 19, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Salzburg Festival (4) – Bartók, Weber, Koncz, and Kodály: Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet), Camerata Salzburg, Lorenzo Viotti (conductor). Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, 17.8.2019 (MB) Bartók – Music for Strings, Percussion, and...Monday, August 19, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Vancouver Bach Festival [4 & 5] – Handel, Corelli, Locke, Blow, Purcell: Christ Church Cathedral and Chan Center, Vancouver, 7/9.8.2019. (GN) [4] Amanda Forsythe (soprano), Pacific MusicWorks/Stephen Stubbs (director): Christ Church...Monday, August 19, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
29-year-old Spanish violinist Francisco Fullana is building an international reputation as a rising young virtuoso of outstanding potential. A graduate of The Juilliard School and the University of Southern California Thornton School of...Monday, August 19, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
In a VC-exclusive guest blog, Mozarteum University Salzburg Violin Professor Esther Hoppe shares her thoughts on what should be a student’s ‘dos and don’t’s for their first lesson with a perspective new...Monday, August 19, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
The Scottish Ensemble and Swedish dance company, Andersson Dance performing an ambitious new interoperation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations – for 11 string players and 9 dancers … The post MANIC MONDAY |...Monday, August 19, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Today is Norwegian violin virtuoso Vilde Frang’s 33rd birthday! A graduate of the Barratt Due Institute of Music, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and the Kronberg Academy, today Vilde is recognized as one of the world’s eminent...Monday, August 19, 2019 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Romanian violinist, composer and conductor George Enescu was born on this day in 1881. Remembered as one of the most influential violin pedagogues of the 20th Century, his famed students included: Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, Ivry...Monday, August 19, 2019 from Sequenza21/
On Saturday, August 10, 2019 wasteLAnd presented its first Summer Academy for Composition Concert at Art Share in downtown Los Angeles. The work of eight emerging composers was performed at this event with each having participated in an...Monday, August 19, 2019 from Seen and Heard International
Bayreuth Festival 2019 [2] – Wagner, Lohengrin: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival / Christian Thielemann (conductor). Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 14.8.2019. (JPr) Production: Director – Yuval Sharon Stage design and...Monday, August 19, 2019 from ArtsJournal
The claim: The event takes up an incredible amount of time and money, and the symphony says “our understanding of our role in the community has begun to change.” Therefore, “the staff is evaluating [Free Music Day] and...Monday, August 19, 2019 from Adaptistration
Just a quick pointer today to an article in the 8/19/2019 edition of the Washington Post written by Kena McGregor that reports on changing attitudes among top for-profit CEOs toward the singular goal of shareholder profit. You...Monday, August 19, 2019 from ArtsJournal
Singer/songwriter Lucy Dacus: “Music is magic, yes, and many people use it as an outlet for their animal emotions, but I just wish people would let loose their feelings while still keeping their behavior under control.”...