Latest and Breaking Classical Music News and Top Stories - July 2
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A selection of highlights from across the UK over the coming week
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She was to have sung Carmina Burana in Orange in a fortnight, but the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva has informed the organisers she is ‘awaiting a happy event’.
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They’re advertising auditions for next season, if there is one. Click here.
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In tough economic times, the Casa da Musica in Porto has landed an outstanding interpreter of modern works, Baldur Brönnimann.
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It wasn’t until seventh grade that I met my first violin teacher; before then, I was largely self-taught. I recall sitting in the back of my school orchestra (third-to-last chair of the second strings!) literally ecstatic about being sur...
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The weekly Nielsen numbers are in and they are even worse than usual. The top-selling album, with 1,789 sales, is Casey Cresczendo of The Dear (sic) Hunter with a release called Amour and Attrition. It is described as a symphony – ...
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Beethoven and Messiaen:Steven Osborne (piano), Cynthia Miller (ondes-Martenot), London Symphony Orchestra, Jonathan Nott (conductor). Barbican Hall, London, 29.6.2014 (MB) Beethoven – Symphony no.2 in D major, op.36 Messiaen – Turangalî...
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Opera Holland Park, London This classroom setting suits the Holland Park stage, with strong performances from singers and instrumentalists alike As if Britten's Turn of the Screw needed to be made any creepier, Annilese Miskimmon 's new ...
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Highlights from July 1 to 8 Tuesday, 5 pm: Music with Minnesotans: Carol Rudie, docent at The Museum of Russian Art. Tuesday, noon: Regarding Broadway. Thursday, 3 pm hour: Regional Spotlight: The Ancia Saxophone Quartet, from the Weisma...
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Crucible, Sheffield The dark set and amplification of Wilson's voice serves as a reminder that Beckett's play is one of the earliest examples of a sound installation The great irony of going to see Richard Wilson in Krapp's Last Tape is ...
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McFadden/Zavalloni/Willems/Beckman/Dutch National Opera/Asko|Schönberg Ensemble/De Leeuw (Nonesuch, two CDs and DVD) Louis Andriessen 's most recent large-scale music theatre work was first performed by the Dutch National Opera in Amster...
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First Vienna, then Chicago, now Berlin. Barenboim’s State Opera has announced that it achieved 88 percent capacity across the season, attracting 183,000 visitors. Still gloomy, Peter Gelb?
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Luiza Borac, the pianist, met Alice Herz-Sommer the pianist some years ago, when Alice was "only" 106. Read more about their meeting here on Evan's blog, Comments on Culture . (Read the whole piece there) (photo courtesy Luiza Borac) ".....
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Nearly eighty years ago, in 1937, the Nazis confiscated Peters Edition in Leipzig from its Jewish owners, the Hinrichsen family, and handed it to one of their own, a man called Johannes Petschull. Sixty-five years ago, the Communists con...
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Know your Sylvan Esso from your Future Islands, or Ana Tijoux from André Laos? Test your knowledge of current music in this puzzler and discover the year's best songs.
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It’s Justin Way, a Covent Garden staffer with a mass of experience. Other Proms changes: Prom 12 (Saturday 26 July) Andrew Kennedy has had to withdraw from this Prom. Benjamin Hulett will now sing the tenor role in J. S. Bach’s St ...
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Handel Siroe ; Yosemeh Adjei, Anna Dennis, Aleksandra Zamojska, Gottingen Festival Orchestra, Laurence Cummings; Accent Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jun 14 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Lovely dramatic feel to Handel's rarely done 1728 opera Han...
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Interactive bikes play music in Fordham Park, South East London
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Brigitte Fassbaender, the Octavian and Orlofsky of our times, is still hard at work as a stage director and coach. Here’s her birthday interview with Sebastian Scotney. photo (c) Lebrecht Music&Arts
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With tertiary education going up in smoke, it will take more than just fiddling to save this musical Rome.
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Need a second viola for the afternoon session at Abbey Road? Extra bass for a wedding? Georgia Meyers has launched a connection service for musicians who live and work in the north London borough of Brent. Cool idea. Contact here.
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The Wall Street Journal has been analysing the Met’s box-office take on recent productions. The widely-scorned and technically faulty Wagner Ring cycle, staged by Robert LePage, bombed on its return run, achieving just 48 percent o...
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Giant portrait of the Romantic great lasts half a day before being washed away by the incoming tide.
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How did an anonymous song become classical music's greatest hit?
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Songs by Felicien David; Tassis Christoyannis, Thanassis Apostolopoulos; Aparte Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jun 24 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Rarely performed songs by the interesting 19th century French composer This disc from the Greek bar...
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Second Movement 's Rough for Opera returns to the Cockpit Theatre , Gateforth Street, London, NW8 8EH on Sunday 6 July, 2014. The event presents snapshots from three operas in progress, along with the opportunity for a Q&A after each...
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Kaija Saariaho Picture credit: Priska Ketterer Saariaho, Sibelius: Latry, Batiashvili, Philharmonia Orchestra, Salonen; Royal Festival Hall Reviewed by Hilary Glover on Jun 26 2014 Star rating: 5.0 All Finnish evening, with Saariaho prem...
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Legendary soprano Jessye Norman talks weight, race and what it really takes to be an opera star
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Until a few years ago York Bowen would have been a name known to precious few listeners, even those committed to British music. A number of people may have recalled his sterling work as a teacher and examiner at the Royal Academy of Musi...
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Mahler: Symphony No 8.Soloists, Philharmonia Voices, Tiffin Boys’ Choir,Rodolfus Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London, 26.6.2014. (JPr) Judith Howarth (soprano): Magna P...
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Innovation and Accessibility at Bristol Proms (28th July – 2nd August). A Preview Launched last year, the Bristol Proms strike a new path towards the future of classical concerts that combine musical excellence and innovation in p...
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There may have actually been “greater” Salomes in recordings of “Salome;” Hildegard Behrens is, arguably, more insightful; Montserrat Caballé more kittenish and vocally opulent, but Nilsson is in a class by hersel...
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Young Musicians at the 2013 Festival Each spring the Carmel Bach Festival holds auditions to select young instrumentalists, up to age 19, to perform in the Festival’s Young Musician Showcase Concert at Sunset Center. This is a very speci...
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BEETHOVEN CD 1 Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 CD 2 Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 CD 3 Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 CD 4 Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 CD 5 Symphony No. 9 Gwyneth Jones, Hanna Schwarz, René Kollo, Kurt Moll Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staat...
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There are arguments to be made in favor of both versions of Don Carlo, in four or five acts (never mind French or Italian), although either way it remains a very long opera. Karajan’s EMI recording of the four-act edition, with a v...
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Music for cello and guitar, heard by Howard Smith. '... the entire concert is alive with a myriad textual and sonic possibilities.'
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Watch: an acclaimed production of Mozart's Don Giovanni from Glyndebourne - available to view from 3pm on July 6
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England's theatres, orchestras, galleries and museums learn how much Arts Council England will be giving them in 2015-18 English National Opera is to have its regular public funding cut by £5m a year, one of the highest-profile los...
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(This one is a little late for the blog; you no longer have the chance to hear the concerts Ms. Blumenstock is talking about.) Baroque Music Festival keeps it fresh. Orange County Register, June 19, 2014.
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A performance of "Carmen" this month will include titles projected to the audience via cellphone and other connected devices.
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In music, "ground" is a term that refers to an underlying bass pattern over which a melody is laid. Minneapolis resident Brad Peterson has added a new layer of meaning to that term, composing a "Lawn Mower Opus in G" over the drone of a....
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By Laurie Niles: The viola, with its deep tone, its repertoire that tends toward the dark and contemporary, can be a source of truly inspirational music-making. Certainly the young artists who performed in the Primrose International Viol...
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Values are your qualities of intrinsic worth and the principles that run your life. Core values help to define who you are and what is truly important to you. In the words of one musician: “Values will help you to create your ident...
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David Gordon has written a valuable and eminently readable book that is a history of two extraordinary women, Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous, without whose influence the Carmel Bach Festival, the Carmel Music Society and the Monterey Symph...
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Royal Festival Hall, London Esa-Pekka Salonen held together the gargantuan forces of Mahler's Eighth Symphony for a balanced interpretation Mahler's Eighth Symphony brought the Philharmonia 's season to a close in a performance under the...
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Barbican, London Jonathan Nott and the LSO achieve impressive precision in Messiaen's challenging Turangalîla Symphony Since the announcement of Valery Gergiev's forthcoming departure from the London Symphony Orchestra, every guest-condu...
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Dvorak: Rusalka, Soloists, Opera Frankfurt Chorus, Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Johannes Debus (conductor), Opera Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 28.06.14 (RP) Cast: Rusalka: Karen Vuong The Prince: Zoltán Nyári The Foreign Pri...
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There's a new culture out there. Can classical music adapt?
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Set designer Anthony McDonald speaks about tackling Mozart's less well-known opera
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The English National Opera was the highest profile loser as its grant was slashed a third in the Arts Council’s three year funding shake up, while concerns were raised over the number of regional organisations to lose funding.
