- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalTelemann, Wishart, Handel. Chi-chi Nwanoku (double bass), Frances Kelly (harp), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Kati Debretzeni (director/violin), Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. 12.5.2015...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThousands turn out for LSO Trafalgar Square performance Classical Music Anna-Line Massot (@nanafromparis) tweeted: 'Fantastic #LSOopenair event on Trafalgar today. Thank you & congratulations to @londonsymphony for great performa...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Classical Life
Review: Mark Morris’ ‘Dido and Aeneas’ turns opera into dance. The Orange County Register, May 17, 2015.
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
A pianist of fine sensibilities and distinctive colors, Russian pianist Sofya Gulyak (b. 1979) concluded the 2014-2015 series for the Steinway Society, Sunday, May 17 at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto. A decidedly g... - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukBirmingham had the chance to hear what Bayreuth will enjoy in this meticulous and radiant interpretation of a musical edifice Continue reading...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalBerlioz, Bliss: Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Samuel West (orator), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor), Barbican Hall, London, 15.5.2015 (AS) Berlioz: Les Troyens – Chasse royale et orage La mort...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTKirill Gerstein, Wigmore Hall London Bartók Two Pieces from Mikrokosmos Book VI, Bach 15 Sinfonias BWV 787 - 801; Liszt Etudes d'execution transcendante S139 (publ. 1852) Programming Liszt's complete Transcendental Stu...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalAdams, Lunn, Pärt, Green, Kúrtag, Wallace, Ayres: Antoine Françoise and Robin Green (pianos), *David Childs (euphonium), *Patrick King (timpani). Penarth Pier Pavilion, Cardiff. 16.5. 2015John Adams (b.1947) – Hallelujah Junction (19...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Artists at the opera house in Lviv (Lvov) say their company is being torn apart by a sudden spate of draft orders from the Ukraine military. We present their appeal verbatim, in a translation by the pianist Valentina Lisitsa: From the ar... - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Slipped Disc
We’re delighted to hear that Dr Alejandro Martínez of Codalario magazine spoke to the great tenor this morning and found him in good spirits. We erroneously reported Nicolai Gedda’s death yesterday, based on independent messa... - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The Welsh bass-baritone has been running through his qualifications to perform Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. He told Richard Morrison of the (London) Times that he grew up with Topol’s recording of the musical echoing around the fa... - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Women are at the heart of this year's London Festival of Baroque Music, says Ivan Hewett
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalBrahms Schubert, Arcadi Volodos piano). Sala Santa Cecilia, Parco della Musica, Rome 13.05.2015 (JB) Arcadi Volodos last played in Rome in May 2001. Here is what I wrote on that occasion: Arcadi Volodos. Piano. Accademia di S Cecila ...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Slipped Disc
My album of the week on sinfinimusic.com is a rare five-star. It’s a set of the six Ysaye sonatas by the UK-Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova who, in my view, imposes herself on the sonatas with an authority that is arrestingly qu... - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music St John's Smith Square announces 2015/16 young artists Classical Music St John's Smith Square has named Tabea Debus (recorder), Joo Yeon Sir (violin), the Ligeti Quartet and the Gesualdo Six as the latest addition...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The Colorado MahlerFest in and around the city of Boulder is one of the boldest musical initiatives of modern times. Founded in 1988 by Robert Olson and apply intense immersion to one symphony each year, it has become a byword among Mahl... - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The Philharmonia Orchestra has ‘bid a fond farewell to our Principal Timpanist Andy Smith, who has just retired after 42 years in the Orchestra.’ While lifelong tenure is common in US orchestras it is less usual in London, wh... - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukPhotographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalDresdner Musikfestspiele 2015 – Albert Schnelzer, Sibelius, Berlioz: Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Daniel Harding (conductor), Semperoper, Dresden, 15.5.2015. (MC) Albert Schnelze...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukTown Hall, Birmingham A bold change from standard recital programming fitted in nine composers, challenging performer and audience with its abrupt stylistic shifts Continue reading...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukBack to direct his first opera in Australia since his infamous ‘tizzy fit’, the self-confessed dissident director on the future of opera and leftwing politics Continue reading...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music Record-breaking first day of ticket sales for BBC Proms Classical Music Edward Blakeman, director of the BBC Proms 2015, said: 'We're delighted that so many people have booked tickets and look forward to welcoming...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Seen and Heard International[flag code=”ca” size=”24″ text=”yes” Sibelius, Prokofiev, and Bruckner: Katherine Chi (pianist), Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell Tovey (conductor), Orpheum Theatre, Vancouver, 2.2.2015 (GN) Sibe...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicMichael Vincent Waller The South Shore ; XI Records Reviewed by Robert Hugill on May 8 2015 Star rating: 4.0 Music which has modes at its centre, by young American composer This two-disc set The South Shore on XI Records offers a wide se...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicCarolyn Sampson Canto delle dame and Music for Marie Fel ; Maria Cristina Kiehr, Concerto Soave, Jean-Marc Aymes, Carolyn Sampson, Matt Barber, Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore; Day two of the London Festival of Baroque Music at St John's S...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music Songs of Praise school choir of the year winners named Classical Music Music director Jo Williamson said: 'Words cannot express how happy I am for the girls – I'm so proud of them and I want to thank them from the...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsScranton Times-Tribune Ekumen Chorale shares classical music from Eastern Europe Scranton Times-Tribune JAKE DANNA STEVENS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Patrick Marcinko Jr. conducts the Ekumen Chorale during a recent rehearsal. This season, the ...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicJAM is back in July with another JAM on the Marsh festival on Romney Marsh, with concerts and events between 9 July and 19 July 2015, curated by composer Paul Mealor. And for those not able to get to the area, one or two key concerts are...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukMcCartney and Mars, Queen and Karajan, and Billy Budd on a boat – baritone Jacques Imbrailo on the music that inspires him How do you listen to music? Mostly when travelling, so it’s often on my iPhone with headphones. Continue reading...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Idaho Statesman Boise teenager Gabriel Ball: A life of classical music The Idaho Statesman It marks the time when he was about 12, dutifully taking piano lessons every week, and recognized that it was a piece of music he could play, ...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
Greek virtuoso Leonidas Kavakos performing Prokofiev’s […] The post NEW TO YOUTUBE | Leonidas Kavakos – Prokofiev G Minor Concerto [VIDEO] appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & ... - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukThe Norwegian composer is now in his sixty–third year, and the present foreign tour is understood to be the last he intends to make Continue reading...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
May I begin by reminding the reader of how festive a live concert band, notwithstanding the limitations of beginning and intermediate student musicians, can be. However perfect professional orchestras might sound, they can be hard presse... - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsBoston Globe (subscription) Phoenix relaxes orchestral attitude, but not its performance Boston Globe (subscription) The movement to pry open the experience of classical music from its stuffy confines has left one establishment largely u...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from Music and VisionThe Usher Hall organ impresses Gerald Fenech. 'John Kitchen oozes out every sound possible from this monster of an organ ...'
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from parterre box
Celebrating Simon Keenlyside , the most popular artist on your alte Jungfer’s Mixcloud Web site. - Monday, May 18, 2015 from Boulezian
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 1926, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, CA. She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had been kidnapped. - Monday, May 18, 2015 from BarihunksAndré Courville (left) and Jared Bybee (right) Barihunk André Courville won the Loren L. Zachary Vocal Competition for Young Opera Singers in Los Angeles today. Five of the ten finalists were baritones this year, including fellow barihun...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from BarihunksEzio Pinza Ezio Pinza (Fortunato Pinza) was one of the most popular and important basses of the twentieth century. Born in Rome in 1892, he originally wanted to make a career in sports, or perhaps engineering, but after discovering his v...
- Monday, May 18, 2015 from BarihunksErik Larson as Billy Bigelow We first met Erik Larson busting out of his pants two years ago and we instantly fell so in love with the Midwestern barihunk. Now he's singing "So In Love" for the first time ever as Billy Bigelow in Rodgers...
- Sunday, May 17, 2015 from parterre box
On this day in 2015, parterre.com was offline for almost five hours due to a server error. - Sunday, May 17, 2015 from Eye Bags[Kate Lindsey giving Count Victor a run for his money as Composer in Richard Strauss “Ariadne auf Naxos”, Glynebourne 2013. – Photo Credit: Alastair Muir] … Chorus Boy [#1]: [watching ‘Victor’ rehearse...
- Sunday, May 17, 2015 from opera, innit?As one advances on their opera journey new objects of adoration spring up. Works, composers, singers but also places. In my case Bayerische Staatsoper has slowly morphed into a mythical temple of music. I know, I know, corny – but,...
- Sunday, May 17, 2015 from BarihunksThere will be two opportunities to see the highly successful production of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride at the 2015 Whitsun Festival at Salzburg, which still has two performances remaining on May 22 and 25. If you can't make the current ...
- Sunday, May 17, 2015 from Joyce DiDonatoThe Broad Stage
- Sunday, May 17, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsThis flat-footed operatic adaptation of JM Barrie's classic won't do Peter Pan's reputation any favours, says Rupert Christiansen
- Sunday, May 17, 2015 from Opera TodaySix people, dressed in ordinary clothing, sitting in a row at desks adorned only with microphones and glasses of water, and talking for ninety minutes: is it opera?
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from Opera TodayThe spring concert of Rising Stars in Concert, sponsored by and featuring current members of the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, showcased a number of talents that will no doubt continue to grace th...
- Saturday, May 16, 2015 from BarihunksCraig Verm's photo from the 2015 Barihunks Calendar Barihunk Criag Verm, who was featured in our 2015 Barihunks Calendar, will perform a free recital on May 23 at the Dallas Museum of Art. The recital is sponsored by the Dallas Opera, wh...
