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Tanglewood 2025 [1] – Debussy, Ravel: Seong-Jin Cho (piano), Boston Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons (conductor). Koussevitzky Music Shed, Lenox, 12.7.2025. (ES-S) Debussy – Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; La mer Ravel –...Monday, July 14, 2025 from ArtsJournal
One of the highlights of this season has fallen victim to a baffling Venezuela travel ban. Gustavo Dudamel can no longer bring his Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in August. That now means that Dudamel will spend only a single week at...Monday, July 14, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
BERLIN – Ample government subsidies have allowed German companies to take risks, and that spirit has been bolstered by the enthusiasm of a young, hip audience quite different from the older crowd that shows up for more traditional fare....Monday, July 14, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The National Restaurant Assn. said its members pay an average of $4,500 per year to license music, or 0.5% of the average U.S. small restaurant’s total annual sales. “This may not seem like a large amount, but for an industry that runs...Monday, July 14, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The venue is stepping up the enforcement of its dress code this summer, reminding patrons via signs in the foyer to dress “in keeping with the decorum of the theater.” The underdressed will not be allowed inside, according to its policy,...Monday, July 14, 2025 from Music and Vision
How classical music is changing at various organisationsMonday, July 14, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2025 [4] – Ligeti, Respighi, and Schoeck: Stéphane Degout (baritone), Quatuor Diotima (Yun-Peng Zhao, Léo Marillier [violins], Franck Chevalier [viola], Alexis Descharmes [cello]). Conservatoire Darius Milhaud,...Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Aspen Music Festival 2025 [2]: Harris Hall, Aspen, Colorado. (HS) Edgar Meyer is one of the Aspen Music Festival regulars who occupy a short list of ‘miss this performance and it’s your loss’. He has played here brilliantly when...Sunday, July 13, 2025 from ArtsJournal
It’s not great: Subscriptions are down 36 percent. But “complicating things for a number of NSO supporters … is the energy surrounding the orchestra itself, which remains infectiously high, ascendant and alive with promise, especially...Sunday, July 13, 2025 from ArtsJournal
Musicians dealing not only with tiny streaming payments but now software-created “musicians” that steal even that limited option say they need some legal support. – CBCSunday, July 13, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The tale is a wild, sad one, and what’s at fault? The California’s public employees’ retirement system. – San Francisco ChronicleSunday, July 13, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Barbican, London Asmik Grigorian heads one of the finest casts you could hope to hear, and every flicker of detail and colour in Strauss’s score hits home, as Antonio Pappano’s first season with the LSO climaxes in remarkable style A...Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Music and Vision
News from around the globeSunday, July 13, 2025 from ArtsJournal
“Rising fees for performers, a punishing U.S. exchange rate, reduced consumer spending and higher insurance charges have combined to pose existential threats to Canadian non-profit music festivals.” But Winnipeg is hopping. – CBCSunday, July 13, 2025 from ArtsJournal
It’s not pretty. Yet organizers persist. Why? “When you’re in the same room as the artist, when you feel the music move through your body, when you see the emotion on their face and hear their story — that creates a bond. … It...Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Classics Today
Thomas Dausgaard’s recent, mostly idiotic series on BIS of large symphonic works played by chamber forces almost made me forget what a talented and dynamic conductor he really is. This terrific performance of the Cooke edition of...Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Classics Today
Just what we’ve been waiting for! Another Mahler cycle! Yay! Or rather, Oy! Hearing this perfectly decent reading of the Seventh prompts several thoughts. No, it’s not “necessary”, but I can’t help but...Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Classics Today
Kletzki made some fine Mahler recordings for EMI (Symphony No. […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account , or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Classics Today
Abbado’s best Mahler recordings were his earliest, made in Chicago, […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account , or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Classics Today
Bernard Haitink once gave an interview in Gramophone Magazine where […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account , or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.Sunday, July 13, 2025 from Classics Today
This is a sad review to have to write. There was a time when a new recording of Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony was an event, something to be celebrated. Not now. Gergiev is, at best, a patchy Mahler conductor, but he...Saturday, July 12, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Beethoven, Brahms: Cédric Tiberghien (piano), Chiaroscuro Quartet (Alina Ibragimova [violin], Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux [violin], Emilie Hörnlund [viola], Claire Thirion [cello]). Wigmore Hall, 10.7.2025. (CC) Beethoven – String...Saturday, July 12, 2025 from Music and Vision
Nikolas Mavreas reads Anthony Burgess' writings about music and musiciansSaturday, July 12, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
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From Wikipedia On 15 November 1905, the Australian born Percy Grainger (1882-1961) gave a remarkable recital at the Bechstein Hall, Wigmore Street London. At the time, Grainger was establishing himself as a pianist and composer in...Friday, July 11, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence [2] – Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 8.7.2025. (MB) If I...Friday, July 11, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Fauré: Joshua Bell, Irène Duval (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello), Jeremy Denk (piano), Blythe Teh Engstroem (viola). 92nd Street Y, New York, 9.7.2025. (ES-S) Fauré – Violin Sonata No.1 in A major, Op.13; Piano Trio in D minor,...Marie Jacquot pairs rare Richard Strauss with Goosby’s Mozart in 2025’s first ‘Summers at Severance’
Friday, July 11, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
‘Summers at Severance’ 2025 [1]: Randall Goosby (violin), Cleveland Orchestra / Marie Jacquot (conductor). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 10.7.2025. (MSJ) Mozart – Overture to Don Giovanni, K.527; Violin...Friday, July 11, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Kings Place, London Bridgerton star Adjoa Andoh’s outstanding delivery of poetry from the 2018 anthology was interspersed with excellent, yet slightly overshadowed, performances from baritone James Newby and pianist Joseph Middleton P...Friday, July 11, 2025 from Music and Vision
A classical music word search puzzle by Allan RaeFriday, July 11, 2025 from ArtsJournal
“I’ll always have my guitar, my inseparable companion,” said the 83-year-old. “But my relationship with it will be more open, freer. It’s simpler when you don’t have as many commitments. I’ll have much more time to, eventually, get back...Friday, July 11, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
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Peter Maxwell Davies's 1973 work Stone Litany is a setting of several Norse runic inscriptions that are found on the walls of the great Neolithic tomb of Maes Howe, in the Orkney Islands. The runes amount to young guys' boastful...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2025 [3] – Saariaho, Boulez, and Debussy: Quatuor Diotima (Yun-Peng Zhao, Léo Marillier [violins], Franck Chevalier [viola], Alexis Descharmes [cello]). Villa Lily-Pastré, Aix-en-Provence, 9.7.2025. (MB)...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Wagner, Tannhäuser: Soloists, Chorus, Ballet and Orchestra of Sofia Opera and Ballet / Constantin Trinks (conductor). National Opera and Ballet, Sofia, 5.7.2025. (GT) In his introduction to this Tannhäuser, Plamen Kartaloff reflected...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Various – ‘Summer Evenings’: Gilles Vonsattel, Evren Ozel (piano), Julian Rhee (violin), Dmitri Atapine (cello). Alice Tully Hall, New York, 8.7.2025. (ES-S) Mozart – Sonata in F major for Violin and Piano, K.376 Beethoven – Trio in...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from ArtsJournal
Phil Spector had famously created a figurative wall of sound by layering instruments and orchestral sweeps. But the Dead’s wall was essentially a behemoth sound system, a hulking electrical mess of amps, speakers, wires—like the...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Classical Voice North America
PERSPECTIVE – As you get older, the departures of people who played significant roles in your work and imagination become more numerous and saddening. Certainly Schifrin's passing on June 26 affected me this way – and more than I...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from ArtsJournal
Des Moines Metro Opera performs in a house with only 476 seats, yet it has a track record of successfully staging such large-scale works as Wagner’s Flying Dutchman, Strauss’s Elektra and Britten’s Peter Grimes. Audiences are thrilled...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Steven Osborne (Hyperion) His grasp of Schubert’s scale and ebullience means this is among the finest recordings of one of the composer’s final sonatas Steven Osborne’s third album of Schubert for Hyperion is the first to include one of...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from ArtsJournal
The 62-year-old Briton — currently music director of the Tokyo Symphony and Geneva’s Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and formerly at the helm of the Bamberg Symphony, the orchestra and opera company in Lucerne, and Paris’s Ensemble...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Classical music | The Guardian
Synergy Vocals/Van Sweden/ Colin Currie Group (Nonesuch) The consistent harmonics of Traveler’s Prayer are an unfamiliar side to the US composer’s output while the exuberant Jacob’s Ladder brings back his familiar propulsive figures...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Music and Vision
This year's end of August festival in Wales celebrates Shostakovich and living composersOrchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp Brings Joyful Grooves to Rhode Island’s Machines with Magnets
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Switzerland’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (OTPMD) and Providence, Rhode Island’s dakoudakou are two groups that could absolutely perform for a seated audience; these are bands that, by design, are not necessarily looking to...Thursday, July 10, 2025 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2025 [1] – Cavalli, La Calisto: Soloists, Ensemble Correspondances / Sébastien Daucé (conductor). Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Aix-en-Provence, 7.7.2025. (MB) Opera’s relationship to broader social and...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Lübeck Theatre Soloists, Chorus and Extras, Hansestadt Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra / Takahiro Nagasaki (conductor). Lübeck Theatre, 6.7.2025. (DM-D) Production: Director – Anna Descher Stage and Costume...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Seen and Heard International
SAFFRON OPERA GROUP PRESENTS DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED CAST IN WAGNER’S TEMPESTUOUS TALE OF DOOMED LOVE SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2025, at 2.30pm ‘Saffron Opera is on top form… a brilliant account’ Seen and Heard...