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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
When he fled to Milan from the Salzburg Festival, Alexander Pereira was placed on probation for a year, after revelations that he had prettied up the Salzburg accounts through production sales to La Scala. Pereira’s term was due to... -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
We have received news of the death of Anne Koscielny, who won a major Chopin contest in New York and received a medal of honour at the Warsaw competition. She had a far-flung performing career in chamber music, working with the Guarneri ... -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSt John’s College Divinity School, Cambridge Composer Robin Holloway’s riffing on Schumann and Schubert is seamless, ambitious and deft Continue reading...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsCleveland Scene Weekly Five Classical Music Events You Shouldn't Miss This Week Cleveland Scene Weekly The editors of ClevelandClassical.com will drop by every week to highlight five of the best events in that arena. They'll also...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukPianist famed for his nimble fingerwork and devotion to less familiar music, particularly from France Continue reading...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
And the winner is in! The […] The post Juzek #100 Student Violin, Bow an Case Winner Announced appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source . -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
One day last week, the ‘world’s leading classical label’ signed a sweetheart deal with an online upstart. Naxos of America licensed its entire catalogue to Pandora, an internet radio service that has been eating away at... -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalRachmaninov, Shostakovich: Alexander Ghindin (piano); London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vassily Petrenko. Royal Festival Hall, London, 13.2.2015 (CC) Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40 (original version) Shostakovich...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukMillennium Centre, Cardiff This revival of Mozart’s Singspiel for Welsh National Opera has worn well, but there are still moments of awkwardness and embarrassment Continue reading...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalMachaut, Martin, Odeh-Tamimi:Audi Jugendchorakademie; Die Singphoniker; Ensemble Mixtura; Berlin, 12.02.2015 (HR) Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame Frank Martin: Mass for Double Choir Samir Odeh-Tamimi: Aus der Tiefe der Zeit E...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Ivan Hewett rejects Simon Rattle's claim that London needs a new concert hall where orchestras can 'flourish'
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTSimon Rattle has been conducting Mahler's Second Symphony since he was a teenager. He's conducted it with the Berliner Philharmoniker many times, also with the same opener, Helmut Lachenmann's Tableau for Orchestra , and also with the sa...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
The Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players returned to Sunset Center in Carmel on Sunday afternoon to charm us with a variety of selections, all the more novel, because the program contained three major works that we were not hearing in th... -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
On Sunday, February 15, at Peace United Church in Santa Cruz, Phil Collins, Music Director of the Santa Cruz New Music Works presented a program of “contemporary” works for solo piano featuring the eminent pianist Sarah Cahill. Ms. Cahil... -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
After a slew of Russian-school pianists who bang like road hammers and pedal faster than Lance Armstrong, it’s a huge relief to come across a keyboard artist who treats the modern piano like Meissen china. His latest release is m... -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Schubert might have been a bit younger when he started playing the piano, but Lionel Kelly is giving it a shot in his seventies
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The veteran crooner Joseph Kobzon, a popular purveyor of smooch for the past half-century, has been added to the EU sanctions list for his outspoken support for Russian actions against Ukraine, according to the Moscow Times. Kobzon, 77, ... -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Slipped Disc
We understand that a leading PR firm has been commissioned to press the case for a new concert hall in the east of London. The LSO and Barbican are for it, as well as the broadsheet print media. But the political response has been total ... -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Conductor Gianandrea Noseda didn't conduct the music, so much as flay it onwards mercilessly, says Ivan Hewett
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukOn the Sunday of his London Residency , Sir Simon Rattle conducted the first-ever Young Orchestra for London – 100 Londoners aged 11-21, of mixed abilities, representing each of the city’s 33 boroughs Continue reading...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukRoyal Festival Hall, London Helmut Lachenmann’s startling Tableau was perfectly suited to the clarity of Simon Rattle’s style, while Mahler’s Second became genuinely awesome Simon Rattle ’s London residency with the Berliner Philharmonik...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Classical-Music.comCompetition Dates: 16 February 2015 - 9:00am - 8 March 2015 - 11:59pm Rating: 0 We are giving away a pair of tickets to Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s next recording session with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroq...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Classical-Music.comJohn Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique live at Cadogan Hall Beethoven composed his Second Symphony between 1801 and 1802, at the time he discovered that he was going deaf. In 1801 he wrote to his friend,...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Arts Desk Kožena, Royal, Berliner Philharmoniker, Rattle, RFH The Arts Desk It's all over: the final note of the Berliner Philharmoniker's London Residency, for which many music -lovers bought tickets about a year ago, has ri...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Korea Herald Classical music stars line up for Seoul concerts in March The Korea Herald The conductor, who serves as music director of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra in Venezuela, is also in his sixth season as the music direct...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music John McCabe, composer and pianist: 21 April 1939-13 February 2015 Classical Music John McCabe the man will be missed as much as John McCabe the musician. No ivory tower on earth could have enticed him inside, as fellow pe...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicKitty Whately credit Natalie J Watts and the Royal College of Music Mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately's debut disc, with pianist Joseph Middleton , comes out next month on the Champs Hill Records label and we met up to chat about the disc. Cal...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICALThe post Can You Name These Classical Composers? Take the Quiz! appeared first on CMUSE .
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukBoulez, Blake and Beyoncé... composer Nico Muhly shares his musical passions How do you listen to music? In general, I listen at home on my big speakers. When in transit, iPhone with headphones. On the road, via satellite radio tuned alm...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: "There are no two words in the English language more harmful than ‘good job.’" This is what the sadistic jazz professor Terence Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) tells young drummer Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller) during a defining s...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicWilliam Kunhardt and Arensky Chamber Orchestra The Arensky Chamber Orchestra , under conductor William Kunhardt , is launching a new concert series at The Forge in Camden , with a trio of concerts, spanning works from Bach to Mahler and ...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Alex Ross: The Rest Is NoiseWizards of Sound. The New Yorker, Feb. 23 and March 2, 2015.
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicAdam Wiltzie (left) and Dustin O'Halloran A Winged Victory of the Sullen; Kings Place Reviewed by Hilary Glover on Feb 6 2015 Relaxing meditation - ambient minimalism A Winged Victory for the Sullen took to the main stage at Kings Place ...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicBrundibar - Mahogany Opera Group Hans Krasa Brundibar ; Mahogany Opera, dir: Frederic Wake-Walker, cond: Alice Farnham; Imagine Festival at Purcell Room Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Feb 13 2015 Imaginative and vivid performance of Krasa'...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Latest Classical Music VideosMy Tuba at Home – Musicians of the SSO, Episode 2 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Principal Tuba Steve Rossé has been in love with the tuba ever since picked up the instrument for the first time when he was 15 years old. In our se...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalNielsen, Berwald, Schubert. Berlin Philharmonic Octet [Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Romano Tommasini (violin), Amihai Grosz (viola), Christoph Ingelbrink (cello), Esko Laine (double bass), Wenzel Fuchs (clarinet), Stefan Dohr (horn), Mor...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Latest Classical Music Videos[Naxos 8.573160] ALBENIZ Piano Music Vol 7 The seventh volume in this acclaimed series is devoted to two works of Albéniz's early maturity. The 12 Piezas características is a cycle of exquisite miniatures encompassing a...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsYoung musicians helping others to appreciate music. http://fb.me/77LC58ydK
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsOur box office will be CLOSED on Monday, February 16. Got questions? Email tickets@nashvillesymphony.org or tweet at us!
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsMy next destinations are colder than Alaska! No complaints though, I'm from Chicago... http://instagram.com/p/zJbVciP35M/
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweetshttp://fb.me/1V5cnOT7Y
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsOn stage, warming up for tonight's Paganini 24 Caprices in Anchorage. (Thanks for the pic, Zuill Bailey!) http://instagram.com/p/zJZ8eQv33b/
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsThanks @lang_lang! We're super excited to celebrate Chinese New Year with you! http://bit.ly/1IZDPQ8 http://instagram.com/p/zDJM8Fp5zC/
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsRT @NowatNPL: NPL's LEGO Contest is coming! More info at: http://ow.ly/ILGHd #lego #nowatnpl #legocontest2015
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets@wigmore_hall - Top #communication video, a lesson in #marketing , NOT only 2 the #ArtWorld: #business #Politicians -
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsI'm gossiping too much over dinner. STOP!!!
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsValentine's Day free concert from @MelbSymphony hits a romantic note http://bit.ly/1FQBIw3 pic.twitter.com/owpSOVZwXf
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsThe Danube Music Festival, 20-27 August 2015 - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wpDFVPHJFyU …
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsCan't make the concert this Saturday? Join us Friday night for our "Behind the Scenes" series in an open... http://fb.me/2Koi1SbMW
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsMeet Dawn Hartley, @nsomusicians' Assistant Principal Bassoon: http://ow.ly/J6eOi pic.twitter.com/PooPYeGBku
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Opera TodayHenri Dutilleux’s music has its devotees. I am yet to join their ranks, but had no reason to think this was not an admirable performance of his song-cycle Correspondances.
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from The Earworm
Lied: Guten Tag! Ich bin ein art song. Puritanism: Are you a psalm? L: Nein. P: Would you please speak English. Or, alternately, Latin. L: Ich bin kein Psalm. P: I conclude from your strange behavior and stretchy meter that … Conti...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from parterre box
James Levine turns 72 this year. Even though his health has improved considerably in the past year and he may continue to conduct for a decade or more, it seems inevitable that he will step down as the Met’s Music Director sometime in th... -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from parterre box
The key to enjoying Bellini’s I Capuleti e Montechi is to do a hard factory reset and reformat your brain to forget all other works based on Romeo and Juliet . -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Boulezian
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from parterre box
I really wanted to post Victoria de los Angeles ' Met performance of Elisabeth, but this recording is a more than acceptable substitute. -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1950, the longest-running prime-time game show What's My Line premiered on CBS. -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from The Ballet Bag
Do you ever wonder, when watching a ballet performance, how the dancers change their costumes so quickly? Seeing the dancers emerge effortlessly in every... The post Costumes Backstage at the Ballet appeared first on The Ballet Bag . -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Latest Opera & Ballet VideosHofesh Shechter rehearses his debut Royal Ballet work Hofesh Shechter is bringing visceral, urgent language to The Royal Ballet in his first work for the Company. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/new-hofesh-shechter-by-...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Royal Ballet School » Latest news
Click photos to enlarge On Thursday and Friday evening last week we showcased two key strands of our work, […] The post Advancing Creativity appeared first on Royal Ballet School . -
Monday, February 16, 2015 from Latest Opera & Ballet VideosScottish Ballet: A Streetcar Named Desire - Making of In the 65th anniversary year of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Scottish Ballet presented vibrant new take on A Streetcar Named Desire, collaborating with theatre...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsSingers from the Royal Opera Chorus will serenade #MothersDay tea @RoyalOperaHouse 15 March. Book now: http://ow.ly/J5gLo
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsHow can it possibly be #Monday already? Well, at least there's this to brighten your day... #holdme #fermata pic.twitter.com/21H2IO70Zr
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsGo Behind the Scenes of Swan Lake! Our dancers in class & a coaching session, live on stage. http://ow.ly/J6Czq pic.twitter.com/QGW4liicZz
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Regie, or Not Regie?OK to be fair, this is not new news. JDD posted this photo last fall. But when one of my favorite bass-baritones appears to be stalking one of my (and the world's) favorite mezzo-sopranos, who can resist sharing this classic photo? (Don’...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Latest Opera & Ballet VideosSydney Opera House: An Introduction to MADE MADE by the Opera House is a Multidisciplinary Australian Danish Exchange program. Each year, ten students in the fields of architecture, engineering and design (in the built environment) will....
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Latest Opera & Ballet VideosSydney Opera House: MADE - Aalborg Study Trip 2015 A video diary entry by Alasdair Mott: “This is a visual documentation of our study tour to Aalborg, beginning with a tour of the old Spritten Schnapps factory, the newly completed ...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsWhat happens when you're the 1st female Minister for Men & you have to face the press? Ep 1. http://youtu.be/pUPWoEEipSc pic.twitter.com/onWOFSNYNY
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsA photo of Alexei Timofeyev in the role of Ivan the Fool in yesterday’s performance of The Little Humpbacked Horse: http://fb.me/2qcycw70t
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsUnique prize: a chance to join the cast of Aida in @OperaAustralia biggest ever onstage performance. http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/02/16/4180650.htm?site=newcastle …§ion=competitions
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsThe Gipsy Kings are ready to party with you! http://youtu.be/_T8hP9sETlc Buy tickets here! http://bit.ly/1AcX1WA
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsCongratulations to @VictorianOpera for "revolutionary" Flying Dutchman. Find out more in this @RNBooksAndArts report http://ab.co/19dDoFe
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet Tweets50 shades of grey. #kergen21 #kergencabin http://instagram.com/p/zJjksBv-EG/
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsWhen will the prince come? #lacenerentola #opera @AucklandLive @_berrycakes_ @Wellington_NZ pic.twitter.com/f6EmTjrwxf
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsReview | D'Arcangelo anchors well-sung 'Don Giovanni' http://bit.ly/1zFLVG5 pic.twitter.com/GCuUTSKnk7
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsMerola alum Susan Graham stops by our Facebook with some musical musings http://dld.bz/cAEHG #opera #music
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsNEW VIDEO: thanks to everyone who came out for our summer course auditions! http://bit.ly/1A5qwtE
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsGlad to see Opera Man making a cameo on #SNL40 !
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsArt inspiring art. RT: @JaneSaidThat: Amazing. Refreshing. Haunting. #BelleReduxATX pic.twitter.com/DXnUmF1KUB
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from opera, innit?Hearing Monteverdi in Venice – what a cool idea! Private performances (230 participants) of the complete works plus “a newly restored” L’Arianna1. But they come with side dishes, all adding up to ~£3,000. I wonder...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from Latest Opera & Ballet VideosFaust at the Sydney Opera House: Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car and Teddy Tahu Rhodes We interview Michael Fabiano, Nicole Car and Teddy Tahu Rhodes about Opera Australia's lavish production of Gounod's Faust. https://opera.org.au/w...
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Monday, February 16, 2015 from The Earworm
Theodora: drink every time someone says “Heav’n”. I’m not doing this myself, because I have work to do, but you should.
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from The Earworm
Viz.
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Latest Opera & Ballet VideosJessica Pratt I Puritani Mad Scene 2015 From: coloraturafan Views: 0 0 ratings Time: 16:11 More in Music
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Eye Bags[In case you’d wish to do something classy with blindfolds this weekend (and you did not think I would pass up on the chance to take it to the floor again, did you?): Maite Beaumont as Ruggiero in Handel’s “Alcina”...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Latest Opera & Ballet VideosAida II Act - Marcia Trionfale / Triumphal March (Teatro alla Scala) Aida Stagione 2014/2015 Nuova produzione Teatro alla Scala Dal 15 Febbraio al 15 Marzo 2015 Musica di: Giuseppe Verdi Direttore: Zubin Mehta Regia: Peter Stein Scene: F...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from parterre box
" Renée Fleming , like Krannert Center , embraces the art of our past, our present, and our collective future." -
Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Boulezian
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from parterre box
The last day of December a parcel arrived in the mail containing an absolute delight: “Semiramide—La Signora Regale.” One of best vocal recordings of 2014, this sumptuous 2-CD set on Deutsche Harmonia Mundi features the marvelous Italian... -
Sunday, February 15, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1686 Jean Baptiste Lully’s Armide premiered in Paris. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSiWmUU4gM Born on this day in 1891 tenor Dino Borgioli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oalaXRBSSng Born on this day in 1896 sopran... -
Sunday, February 15, 2015 from parterre box
Now that everyone (who is everyone) is here, cher public, proceed with the off-topic and general interest discussion! -
Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Opera Today
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Opera TodayIn 1980, the Metropolitan Opera commissioned composer John Corigliano to write an opera celebrating the company’s one-hundredth anniversary. It was to be ready in 1983.
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Opera Today
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from BarihunksDan Kempson in A Streetcar Named Desire with Townsend Opera Today's matinee marks the third an final day of André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire, which was done in collaboration between the Fresno Grand Opera and Townsend Opera in Mod...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsThis double bill showed the Met at its most artistically ambitious, says Rupert Christiansen
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from LietoFineLondon
Review – Farinelli and the King (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Thursday 12 February 2015) Philippe V – Mark Rylance Farinelli – Sam Crane & Iestyn Davies Isabella Farnese – Melody Grove De la cuadra – Edward Peel Doctor José Cervi Mestata...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsRupert Christiansen laments the declining popularity of the cheap seats at the opera
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Sunday, February 15, 2015 from Neil Kurtzman
The Met sent an unusual duo around the world this afternoon – Tchaikovsky’s last opera Iolanta and Bartok’s only opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle; the Met omitted Duke from the title. This run of the Tchaikovsky was ...
