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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Rossini’s The Barber of Seville with Christopher Maltman, Lawrence Brownlee, Isabel Leonard, Paata Burchuladze and Maurizio Murano [Showing on Saturday November 22]
The Classical Source once again brings you a handy guide to all ten of the Metropolitan Opera productions included in this season’s international broadcast series. #4: Il barbiere di Siviglia...
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An Interview with Nikolai Lugansky – UK Tour and Rachmaninov with the LPO on November 7 – “I love this piece, it is so honest and it is music of his soul, very tragic.”
When I call Nikolai Lugansky, the Russian pianist is preparing for a typically varied recital in Nantes. “Tonight I am playing Franck, Schubert and some Liszt”. Our reason for talking...
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Leonard Slatkin @ 70 Celebration at New York’s SubCulture
SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street, New York City Wednesday, October 29, 2014 Leonard Slatkin’s friends and family – both musical and personal – turned out at SubCulture for an evening of...
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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Bizet’s Carmen with Anita Rachvelishvili, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ildar Abdrazakov & Anita Hartig [Showing on Saturday November 1]
The Classical Source once again brings you a handy guide to all ten of the Metropolitan Opera productions included in this season’s international broadcast series. #3: Carmen Who wrote it?...
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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with Ildar Abdrazakov, Peter Mattei, Marlis Petersen, Amanda Majeski and Isabel Leonard [“It’s about sex”, says Richard Eyre: Showing on Saturday October 18]
The Classical Source once again brings you a handy guide to all ten of the Metropolitan Opera productions included in this season’s international broadcast series. #2: The Marriage of Figaro...
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Interview with Sakari Oramo – Carl Nielsen’s Six Symphonies performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra – “It will illuminate Nielsen’s relation to things that happened in music around him and will take him out of his isolation as a Danish maverick…”
Interview on 12 September 2014 – BBC Symphony Orchestra, Delaware Road, Maida Vale, London Concerts between 11 October 2014 & 23 May 2015, Barbican Hall, London, and broadcast on BBC...
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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Verdi’s Macbeth with Anna Netrebko, Željko Lučić, Rene Pape & Joseph Calleja [Showing on Saturday October 11]
The Classical Source once again brings you a handy guide to all ten of the Metropolitan Opera productions included in this season’s international broadcast series. #1: Macbeth Who wrote it?...
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Feature Review: Lahti Sibelius Festival 2014 – Original Sibelius [Okko Kamu, Ilya Gringolts, Folke Gräsbeck; 4-7 September 2014]
Ilya Gringolts (violin) Folke Gräsbeck (piano) Lahti Symphony Orchestra Okko Kamu Sibelius Hall, Lahti, Finland Thursday-Sunday, 4-7 September, 2014 Before I begin my thoughts on "Original Sibelius" may I mention...
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Carlo Bergonzi (1924-2014) – The Greatest?
There have been many fine – yet very few great – spinto Italian tenors, but if I were asked to choose one for the desert island, then it would be...
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Remembering Sandy Wilson, composer of The Boy Friend
The name of the English composer and lyricist Sandy Wilson, who has died aged 90 (on 27 August 2014), will always be indelibly associated with his show The Boy Friend...
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