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June, 29, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukGreat Hall, Aberystwyth Arts Centre This concert unearthed valuable links between emigre composers and mid-Wales communities, but the programme lacked continuity Many Belgians forced to flee their country during the first world war came ...
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June, 29, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukGlyndebourne, Lewes Mozart's early opera may lack the hits of his later works, but this production tries too hard to entertain Mozart has been the patron saint of Glyndebourne since the festival opened its doors 80 years ago with The Mar...
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June, 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Results are in from Cincy. Moye Chen, currently finishing a doctorate at the University of Illinois, was the outright winner. The crowd favourite Reed Tetzloff shared bronze with Feng Bian. l-r: Director Mark Ernster with Tetzloff... -
June, 29, 2014 from Culture » Michael WhiteSound the trumpets, strike the drums, let fanfares echo through high places: we have a new Master of the Queen’s Music. Or is it Mistress? I seem to remember that when gender equality hit the Church of England and the substantive issues ...
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June, 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Harry Shapiro, the Boston Symphony horn player who became a brilliant personnel manager, has died aged 100. Dianne Winsor writes: He was an impeccable figure of authority during my student years in Boston & at Twood, supervising all ... -
June, 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Depressing press release: (Chicago, IL – 6/27/2014) The Chicago Chamber Musicians (CCM) announced today that CCM will discontinue all artistic activities as of the close of its current fiscal year on August 31, 2014 and will not present ... -
June, 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
At the Mikkeli Festival in Finland, Valery Gergiev has given an interview (in English) to Vesa Siren on the issues of the day. He ignores the Russian-sponsored corruption of the last Ukrainian government, calls the new regime ‘fasc... -
June, 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Hours after he announced that he was quitting Valencia because government cuts had provincialised it, Zubin Mehta let it be known that his parting gift would be a Turandot recording with the pop tenor, Andrea Bocelli. ... -
June, 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Most music cities make do with a Conservatoire, or conservatory, or just a plain old music school. Sydney, being a classical kind of place, has a Conservatorium. It is seldom a happy place. Despite the medieval exterior. The American bas... -
June, 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
First, the Establishment leaked to the Daily Mail. Now it has followed up with a tip to the Sunday Times that Judith Weir is to be the next Master of the Queen’s Musick, the first woman to hold that post. We’re delighted, and... -
June, 29, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicMarie et Marion; Anonymous 4; Harmonia Mundi Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jun 20 2014 Star rating: 5.0 Most recent disc from the a cappella quartet explores the sacred/secular dichotomy in the Montpellier Codex On this new disc from Anon...
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June, 29, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicKelly Mathieson and Timothy Nelson Rossini La gazzetta ; Royal College of Music< Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jun 27 2014 Star rating: 4.0 Lively account of one of Rossini's neglected comic operas Rossini's comic opera La gazzetta was...
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June, 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Chicago psycotherapist (and music fanatic) Dr Gerald Stein has some thoughts on the phenomenon. And a warning: The next time you find yourself at a garage sale, an estate sale, or an antique shop, stop for a moment. Where did these thing... -
June, 29, 2014 from The Classical Piano and Music Education BlogThe thirty fourth interview guest in my Classical Conversations Series is BBC Young Musician 2014, Martin James Bartlett. Martin is a student at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and is about to start an undergraduate degree a...
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June, 29, 2014 from Limelight - NewsMeet the young pianists, instrumentalists, singers and conductors taking classical music into the future.
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June, 29, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Our violinist friend Antonia Azotei has been spurred by the death of a friend’s baby to attempt a marathon fundraiser for the Lullaby Trust. Do help her in any way you can She’s holding open house in West Hampstead. Antonia w... -
June, 29, 2014 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Britain's most successful composer is at pains to tell Lucy Cavendish why he is not a mere choirmaster
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June, 29, 2014 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Chalet, a small family-run restaurant in Mayfair that became popular with the some of Britain's most famous names, has shut after more than 50 years in business
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June, 29, 2014 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost ContentI recently wrote an appreciation of Arthur Butterworth’s excellent tone-poem The Path across the Moors , in which I suggested that in spite of it having been issued on a ‘light music’ CD, it had considerable depth and emotional content b...
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June, 28, 2014 from Classics TodayMaurice Duruflé preferred the grandly orchestrated large-ensemble version of his Requiem to the organ solo or chamber editions, but there have been remarkably few excellent recordings of it–starting with the composer’s own, w...
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June, 28, 2014 from Music and VisionShostakovich and Schnittke string quartets, heard by Howard Smith. '... vivid sonic immediacy.'
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June, 28, 2014 from Violinist.comBy The Weekend Vote: Some people are night owls, others are early-risers. Often times, our busy schedules don't allow us to choose the optimum time for practicing. But if you could choose any time of day, what would be your best practice...
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June, 28, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukGarsington Opera, Wormsley; Wigmore Hall, Royal Opera House, London Claire Booth was a force of nature as the vixen in Janáek's opera, while Iestyn Davies led an evening of soul-searching It's hard to imagine a more perfect setting for&n...
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June, 28, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukLawrence Power, violin and viola; Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano (Hyperion) Shot down in 1917 by Hermann Goering a flying ace in the first world war poor Arthur Benjamin had later to endure another shooting down at the hands of critics w...
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June, 28, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukNetherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic (Challenge Classics) These varied chamber works by James MacMillan are keenly concerned with Scottish identity, whether in the two-part From Ayrshire, written for violinist Nicola Benedetti and here...
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June, 28, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukSeattle Symphony/Schwarz (Naxos) As quixotic ideas for undramatic ballet go, a series of scenes from the life of St Francis of Assisi takes some beating. But that was Hindemith 's response to a 1936 commission from the choreographer L&ea...
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June, 28, 2014 from Classics TodayThat opening chorus!–a nearly 12-minute marvel of Klempererian engineering–of musical forces and Bach’s complex yet perfect design–whose conception and extraordinary execution uniquely captures the profundity and ...
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June, 28, 2014 from Classics TodayRemember these? For a good couple of decades these recordings were lauded as reference versions of the Brahms piano concertos, but they seem to have slipped below the horizon in recent years. Indeed, Gilels’ reputation has waned si...
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June, 28, 2014 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTMendelssohn Symphony No 1, with Elliott Carter's Instances for chamber orchestra (2012), written shortly before his death aged 103. Trust Oliver Knussen to come up with a programme that blends Mendelssohn, Dallapiccola, Carter, Web...
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June, 28, 2014 from Music Genre: ClassicalWatch the innovative musician play his mini Stratocaster of a violin in pieces that celebrate complex textures — and NPR News themes.
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June, 28, 2014 from Slipped Disc
Michael Haas has written a fascinating post on Eugenie Schwarzwald, founder of a school that educated Anna Freud, Helene Weigl, Vicki Baum and hundreds more young women who were liberated from patriarchal tyranny. She was also an importa... -
June, 28, 2014 from Limelight - NewsHow did a Sydney boy end up Master of the Queen's Music, and how did it all go so horribly wrong?
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June, 28, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicIestyn Davies (c) Benjamin Ealovega Cantatas and concertos by J.S. Bach; Iestyn Davies, The Dunedin Consort, John Butt; The Wigmore Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jun 24 2014 Star rating: 5.0 Lovely selection of Bach's concertos and c...
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June, 28, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicPicture credit: Simon Wall, Tall Wall Media Discussing death and life with Thomas Guthrie and friends in Toynbee Studios . Spitalfields Music, which runs the biannual Spitalfields Festival , means more than just the festival to the commu...
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June, 28, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicHandel 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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June, 28, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicThe Salomon Orchestra at their 50th anniversary concert at St John's This year's centenary celebrations for Andrzej Panufnik are provoking something of a reassessment. But the centenary has not called for quite such a torrent of Panufnik...
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June, 28, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicPianist Mei Yi Foo is performing in three concerts tomorrow (29 June) at the Forge , Camden under the general heading Musical Toys . At 1.15pm she is giving a piano recital, with Debussy's Children's Corner and works by Gubaidulina, Lige...
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June, 28, 2014 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicNiamh Cusack Stroud Green, in London's N4, is launching its own music festival. Based around Holy Trinity Church , Granville Road, Stroud Green, London N4 the festival runs from 2 to 6 July 2014 and features a wide variety of performers ...
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June, 27, 2014 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST" Janáček started The Cunning Little Vixen on the cusp of old age in 1922 and there is something deeply elegiac about it. In a letter to Kamila Stösslová dated the 10th of February that year he writes wistfully “I have begun writing The ...
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June, 27, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalBach, Schoenberg, Mozart, and Mendelssohn: Arianna Zukerman (soprano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Pinchas Zukerman (violin, conductor). Cadogan Hall, London, 27.6.2014 (MB) Bach – Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 Schoenbe...
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June, 27, 2014 from Classics TodayThis box comes with a glowing review on the back published in BBC Music Magazine. That the featured orchestra is the BBC Symphony should give listeners pause, just as a positive review of a MET performance in that house’s organ Ope...
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June, 27, 2014 from Classical Voice North AmericaBy Richard S. Ginell CHICAGO – What does a good concert hall sound like? I pondered that as I made my way toward venerable -- some would say fabled -- Orchestra Hall to hear this city's orchestra on its home turf for the first time.
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June, 27, 2014 from Music and VisionPurcell sonatas, recommended by Gerald Fenech. '... irrepressibly elegant and restrained.'
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June, 27, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalStephen Sondheim, Company: RNCM Opera, The RNCM Ensemble / Julian Kelly (music director), MMU Capitol Theatre, Manchester, 25.6.2014 (MC) Cast: Joseph Dexter (Robert) Stephanie Stanway (Sarah) Matt Mears (Harry) Juliet Montgomery...
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June, 27, 2014 from Seen and Heard InternationalSaariaho, Sibelius: Olivier Latry (organ), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, London 16.6.2014 (GDn) Saariaho: Maan varjot (UK première) Sibelius: Violin Concerto Symph...
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June, 27, 2014 from Classics TodayHere’s a disc that many of you may have missed, even Markevitch fans: his collection of preludes, intermezzos, arias, and choruses from eleven Zarzuelas, both familiar and unfamiliar–71 minutes in all. The Zarzuela repertoire...
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June, 27, 2014 from Classics TodayIn 1998 Dutch pianist Ivo Janssen launched the Void Classics label with a fleet, witty, and intelligently ornamented interpretation of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Over the next eight years Janssen recorded the rest of Bach’s keyboard wor...
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June, 27, 2014 from Classics TodayIn these days of mega-disc boxed sets, it’s easy to overlook the best individual performances of specific works, but these two discs of Mozart concertos, originally recorded for Hänssler Classic (and still available there too), sta...
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June, 27, 2014 from Classical Music: latest news, reviews, composers, concerts, download, mp3Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's latest concerto is conventional by her standards, but no less powerful, says John Allison
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June, 27, 2014 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukLlandinam Village Hall, Powys The soldiers who travelled from the Severn to the Somme were remembered with poignant and powerful results War has been the theme of this year's Gregynog festival, and baritone Christopher Maltman 's recital...
