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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2017-18: Puccini’s La bohème [Showing on February 24]
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. #6: La bohème Who wrote...
Feature Review – New World Symphony’s New Works: Michael Tilson Thomas conducts…
Saturday, February 03, 2018 New World Center, Miami, Florida The New World Symphony is an organization that doesn’t do anything halfway. A training ground for music conservatory graduates who are...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2017-18: Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore [Showing on February 10]
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. #5: L’elisir d’amore Who wrote...
Feature Review – BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Leonard Bernstein [January 27]
Cinema 3, Milton Court Concert Hall, Fountain Room, St Giles Cripplegate & Barbican Hall, London Saturday, January 27, 2018 Film: Leonard Bernstein, Young People’s Concerts – What Is Impressionism? Milton...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2017-18: David McVicar’s production of Puccini’s Tosca with Yoncheva, Grigolo & Lučić [Showing on January 27]
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: Tosca Who wrote it?...
Feature Review: From ICA Classics – BBC Legends box sets and Guido Cantelli, Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer
Two different brands, but the stables are adjacent and have a connecting door, linked through the release of archive recordings preserving the work of distinguished musicians no longer with us....
Year of Wonder, by Clemency Burton-Hill [book review]
Year of Wonder Clemency Burton-Hill ISBN 9781472251824 Headline Home Clemency Burton-Hill’s Year of Wonder has the subtitle “Classical Music for Every Day” and is a potpourri of the known and...
The music of Geraldine Mucha – a Prague concert and an Arco Diva recording
Geraldine Mucha The Tempest Overture; Carmina Orcadiana; Epitaph in memoriam Jiří Mucha; String Quartet No.1; String Quartet No.2; Intermezzo; En los Piňares de Jucar Petr Zdvihal & Libor Ježek (violins);...
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (1962-2017)
The Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who died on November 22 aged fifty-five, burst onto the Western operatic scene when he won the 1989 Cardiff Singer of the World competition. That...
Leading Tones by Leonard Slatkin [book review]
Leading Tones – Reflections on music, musicians and the music industry Leonard Slatkin ISBN 978-1-4950-9189-6 Amadeus Press Leading Tones, like its predecessor Conducting Business, as the flyleaf note confirms is...
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