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Feature Review: George Enescu International Festival [September 2015]
George Enescu International Festival Bucharest, Romania August 30th-September 20th, 2015 Introduction If this Twenty-Second Edition of the George Enescu Festival had something of a transitional feel, it may well have...
Feature Review: A Gesture of Friendship – The Tenth Malcolm Arnold Festival [17 & 18 October 2015]
A Gesture of Friendship The Tenth Malcolm Arnold Festival Royal & Derngate, Northampton, England Sunday, October 18, 2015 “A Gesture of Friendship” was the guiding principle behind the tenth Malcolm...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2015-16: Verdi’s Otello – Aleksandrs Antonenko, Sonya Yoncheva & Željko Lučić, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin [Showing on Saturday October 17]
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: Otello Who wrote it?...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2015-16: Verdi’s Il trovatore – Anna Netrebko, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Yonghoon Lee & Dolora Zajick [Showing on Saturday October 3]
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: Il trovatore Who wrote...
Jon Vickers – A Tribute
The Canadian tenor Jon Vickers (29 October 1926–10 July 2015) was one of the most important singers of the mid-to-late twentieth century, famous for his big heroic voice as well...
BBC Proms 2015 – Raymond Yiu introduces his new Symphony [Prom 54, August 25]
During Prom 54, on Tuesday 25 August, Raymond Yiu’s Symphony will be premiered by countertenor Andrew Watts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner. The programme also includes...
Feature Review: Speakers Corner and Tacet LPs – Beethoven’s Triple Concerto (Serkin/Laredo/Parnas) … Bizet’s Carmen (Marilyn Horne/James McCracken/Leonard Bernstein) … Mozart’s Gran Partita (Stuttgart Winds) … Schumann/Horowitz
Mozart Serenade in B flat, K361 (Gran Partita) Stuttgart Winds Recorded October 2012 Andreas Spreer – Producer & Recording engineer Tacet 180gm vinyl: TACET L209 Beethoven Concerto in C for...
Remembering Bill Newman
I learned of Bill Newman’s recent death through a colleague with great sadness. I understand he passed away sometime in June, and although the news of his death was a...
José Serebrier writes about the strange history of Dvořák’s First Symphony, The Bells of Zlonice
Dvořák composed his Symphony No.1 in C minor (Zlonické zvony, The Bells of Zlonice), in early 1865. He submitted the score to a competition in Germany and it was never...
Edward Blakeman’s Proms Blog for Classical Source
Posted Friday, July 17, 2015
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