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Mike Wheeler remarks on the counter-intuitivity of Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky's writing for choirTuesday, May 5, 2026 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
The tagline for the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival is ‘a multi-arts festival powered by orchestral music.’ This must be interpreted in the context of contemporary debates about how to broaden the audience for classical music, an...Tuesday, May 5, 2026 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
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Percy Whitlock’s Holiday Suite (1939) is one of my favourite pieces of ‘light music.’ The titles of its three movements express the sentiment that surrounds the thoughts of a holiday by the sea in England (or Scotland, Wales, and...Monday, May 4, 2026 from Music Genre: Classical
The composer created her own symphonic fable that weaves Andean cosmology with the natural world.Monday, May 4, 2026 from ArtsJournal
A recent study found that Western music is not only starting to sound more alike but is also becoming less structurally complex than in the past. – Phys The post Study: Western Music Is Becoming Simpler And More Repetitive appeared...Monday, May 4, 2026 from ArtsJournal
A study of young adults with backgrounds in mathematics or music found that individuals with better mathematical abilities tended to have better musical abilities as well, and vice versa. – Psypost The post Study: The Links Between...Monday, May 4, 2026 from ArtsJournal
As Australians vote for the greatest classical music of all time, we look at who is listening, how classical music is evolving, and how it fills the world around us, whether we realise it or not. – Australian Broadcasting Company...Monday, May 4, 2026 from ArtsJournal
The memo insisted that “business as usual will no longer suffice,” and that to maintain “the BSO excellence and artistic stature requires that we put the organization on a solid financial footing.” Yet the board’s own actions have had...Monday, May 4, 2026 from ArtsJournal
It’s a computer simulation tool that can capture the precise physics of the instrument and even reproduce a realistic sound of a plucked string, according to a paper published in the journal npj Acoustics. – Ars Technica The post...Monday, May 4, 2026 from ArtsJournal
“Returning to music wasn’t even among the most optimistic goals of his recovery plan, but this week the artist kicked off a 10-date tour of Spain.” – El País English The post This Musician Returned From Two Strokes To Two Decades...Monday, May 4, 2026 from Music and Vision
Lucy Byrne, in her first article for Classical Music Daily, explains why we keep misunderstanding Ludwig van Beethoven and Clara SchumannMonday, May 4, 2026 from Classical Voice North America
DIGITAL REVIEW – Early-music ensemble Les Délices led by oboist Debra Nagy has put together an engaging album of secular cantatas by Rameau, Handel, and others sung with grace by soprano Hannah De Priest, plus Baroque sonatas. The post...Sunday, May 3, 2026 from ArtsJournal
Very few, though “fully generative AI music will continue to be a threat to working musicians, session artists, library music composers, and the like. But they may struggle to find footing on the charts.” – The Verge The post AI...Sunday, May 3, 2026 from ArtsJournal
“Vinyl sales peaked during the Covid lockdowns and are now, after returning to pre-pandemic levels, plateauing or even on the downturn, while production costs are going up.” Streaming actually … isn’t as bad? – The Guardian (UK)...Sunday, May 3, 2026 from Music and Vision
Seymour Bernstein (1927-2026)Sunday, May 3, 2026 from Classics Today
Iannis Xenakis’ music is impenetrable to many listeners, and a good number of those folks would describe it as “unlistenable” as well. Here we have a composer who also was a mathematician and architect and never was...Sunday, May 3, 2026 from Classics Today
From the PC of the deceased Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account , or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.Sunday, May 3, 2026 from Classics Today
This disc presents volume one a projected complete orchestral works of Iannis Xenakis (b. 1922). They are not for the faint-hearted, being the fullest expression yet of what Xenakis–pupil of Messiaen, apprentice to Le...Sunday, May 3, 2026 from Classics Today
The origins of Iannis Xenakis’ Oresteïa are almost more remarkable than the music itself, a truly bizarre “only in the USA” sort of story. Sometime in the 1960s the town of Ypsilanti, Michigan discovered that its name...Saturday, May 2, 2026 from Music and Vision
Mike Wheeler finds high spirits in an all-Russian programme from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic OrchestraSaturday, May 2, 2026 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
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Werther was the tragic hero of Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (1774) who became a crucial figure in German cultural lore. He was a gifted and sensitive young man who was consumed by an impossible love for Charlotte. This anguish...Saturday, May 2, 2026 from Classical Voice North America
PERSPECTIVE – The formidable conductor, who died at 81 on April 22, always exuded a childlike enthusiasm and wonder for whatever came his musical way. To some, he was "our Elvis." To me, he was simply Michael. I’m sure that I’m not...Friday, May 1, 2026 from Classical Voice North America
BOSTON – The Boston Baroque orchestra plus chorus and a half-dozen soloists, led by David Bates and focused by Bill Barclay’s insightful direction, explored the king's return from the Trojan War and the effect of his vows en route. The...Friday, May 1, 2026 from ArtsJournal
Keith Lockhart, longtime conductor of the Boston Pops, said Wednesday “there is a lot of blame to be spread around” for the turmoil that has engulfed the Boston Symphony Orchestra, noting that the BSO for years has been “living on...Friday, May 1, 2026 from ArtsJournal
“These experiences allow people with money but little musical ability to roleplay composer and conductor — for a price. This development flows naturally from this era’s extreme inequality as well as classical music’s precarious state,...Friday, May 1, 2026 from Classical music | The Guardian
Purcell Room, London Works by Kaija Saariaho, Imogen Holst and Chaines were woven into Manchester Collective’s concert that blended music with dance, theatre and multimedia, with cellist Laura van der Heijden at its heart Collaboration...Friday, May 1, 2026 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
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'Focusing on the Next Generation', our May 2026 PDF newsletter, has just been publishedFriday, May 1, 2026 from Classical music | The Guardian
De Profundis/Hollingworth (Coro) Aiming to perform Renaissance music as it was originally heard, De Profundis find richness and precision in the Spanish composer’s finely wrought settings The Spanish composer Cristóbal de Morales,...Thursday, April 30, 2026 from Classical Voice North America
NEW YORK – In Poulenc's orchestral setting of Cocteau's intimate scenario of a woman breaking up with her lover by telephone, Barbara Hannigan successfully pushed the risk factor by doubling as vocalist on the podium with the NY...Thursday, April 30, 2026 from Classical music | The Guardian
Paul Watkins/Alessio Bax Signum Classics Cellist Watkins’ career-long immersion in the composer pays dividends in his pairing with Alessio Bax’s unfussy virtuosity As cellist of the Nash Ensemble and the Emerson Quartet, Paul Watkins has...Thursday, April 30, 2026 from ArtsJournal
“In 1944 during the German army’s retreat, the 1719 ‘Lauterbach’ Stradivari violin was looted from the Warsaw Museum in Poland. … The violin’s value is estimated at €10 million. … Now, more than 80 years later, notice has been taken of...Thursday, April 30, 2026 from Classical music | The Guardian
Royal Festival Hall, London Featuring music that inspired the designer, this show brings together Le Gateau Chocolat, dancers in body stockings and a formal orchestra to mild effect The small print tells us this show has no connection to...Thursday, April 30, 2026 from Music and Vision
Roderic Dunnett previews this year's edition of the world's longest running choral festival in Gloucester, UKThursday, April 30, 2026 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
“One might describe [my style] as a patchwork: you can really find the seams when you’re browsing through the embroidery,” Kavyesh Kaviraj told me over Zoom. “It’s pretty similar to what I feel like as a human being; I wear all my...Thursday, April 30, 2026 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical music
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from Classical Voice North America
PHILADELPHIA – In the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty, the curse is cast, but one kiss changes everything, and everyone lives happily ever after. In Gregory Spears' Sleepers Awake, the girl and townsfolk ask what this guy's doing in...Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from Classical music | The Guardian
Wigmore Hall, London The Stockholm-based chamber ensemble, led by violinist Hugo Ticciati, brought a programme that linked Auerbach and Janáček to Golijov – with clarinettist Christoffer Sundqvist the hypnotic soloist - and Mahler A solo...Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from ArtsJournal
There’s a slight change to the all-tickets-for-$11-or-name-your-price scheme for next year: subscribers get first crack at tickets. And what is this “timely” Gershwin show? It’s Let ‘Em Eat Cake, about a...Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from Classical music | The Guardian
Opera needs big money: opera chiefs need big donors. New York’s Metropolitan Opera has just lost a $200m investment, but should it have accepted it in the first place? Opera’s stories of power aren’t only played out on stage. The...Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from ArtsJournal
The new two-year agreement, effective Sept. 1, includes a 2.5% salary increase each year as well as what are described as “temporary changes to hiring practices” in order to reduce expenses by $2 million. – Pioneer Press...Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from ArtsJournal
Boston Baroque was founded back in 1973 by harpsichordist/conductor Martin Pearlman, who stepped down as artistic director last year. His successor, as of this coming season, is Marc Minkowski, who has amassed an estimable discography...Wednesday, April 29, 2026 from Music and Vision
Mike Wheeler welcomes the Narratio Quartet's freshness in three Beethoven quartetsWednesday, April 29, 2026 from I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Hannah Kendall expresses her fascination with a multi-dimensional rainbow of timbre through her retelling of plantation history and her unearthing of the hope that both inexplicably and inevitably rose out of that horror. Simply put,...