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Feature Review – English Haydn Festival 2016
Wednesday, June 8-Sunday, 12 June, 2016 Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England The English Haydn Festival, founded in 1993, offers ‘authentic’ performances of his music. It is a convention to give each Festival...
An Aldeburgh Aviary – Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays Olivier Messiaen’s complete Catalogue d’Oiseaux [Aldeburgh Festival 2016 and live on BBC Radio 3, June 19]
Sunday, June 19, 2016 – There must have been a flap on, for although I can be something of a night owl, I was on this occasion an early riser,...
The Fifth International Bamberg Mahler Competition
From Friday, May 6 until Friday, May 13, 2016 at Joseph-Keilberth-Saal, Bamberg, Bavaria Bamberg Symphony Orchestra [Bamberger Symphoniker/Bayerische Staatsphilharmonie] Jury: Jonathan Nott (president), Marina Mahler, Marcus Rudolf Axt, Jiří Bělohlávek,...
Make American Music Great again!
And while we're at it let's Make America Great Britain Again! We’re bringing dodecaphony back! Nothing but the 2nd Viennese School, 24/7. No more of this PC tonality. It’s weak....
Preview: George Enescu’s Oedipe at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden [opens 23 May 2016]
This month sees the UK stage premiere of one of the 20th-century’s best kept operatic secrets, when George Enescu’s Oedipe is given at the Royal Opera House (London) in a...
Feature Review – BBC Symphony Orchestra – Total Immersion: The Magical Soundworld of Henri Dutilleux [30 April 2016]
Cinema 2, Milton Court Concert Hall & Barbican Hall, London Saturday, April 30, 2016 Cinema 2 L’amour d’un femme; directed by Jean Grémillin; music by Henri Dutilleux Milton Court Concert...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2015-16: Patrice Chéreau’s production of Richard Strauss’s Elektra – Nina Stemme, Adrienne Pieczonka, Eric Owens, Waltraud Meier; conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen [Showing on Saturday April 30]
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. #10: Elektra Who wrote it?...
Feature Review: Speakers Corner LPs – Dvořák String Quintet … Rostropovich/Boston Symphony/Ozawa … Balalaika Favorites … Horowitz returns to Carnegie Hall
Dvořák String Quintet in G, Op.77 Boston Symphony Chamber Players [Joseph Silverstein & Max Hobart (violins), Burton Fine (viola), Jules Eskin (cello) & Henry Portnoi (double-bass)] Recorded June 1971, Symphony...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2015-16: David McVicar’s production of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux – Sondra Radvanovsky, Matthew Polenzani, Elīna Garanča, Mariusz Kwiecień; conducted by Maurizio Benini [Showing on Saturday April 16]
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. #9: Roberto Devereux Who wrote...
One day at Subcarpathian Spring 2016
Subcarpathian Spring, which is actually a series of concerts organized by Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Philharmonic Society, is generally reckoned to be one of the outstanding music festivals in Ivano-Frankivsk, an historic...
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