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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Rossini’s La donna del lago – The Lady of the Lake – with Joyce DiDonato, Daniela Barcellona, Juan Diego Flórez & John Osborn [Showing on Saturday March 14]
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: La donna del lago...
Feature Review: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Daniele Gatti at Carnegie Hall – Brahms’s Four Symphonies [27 & 28 February 2015]
Brahms The Four Symphonies: No.3 in F, Op.90 No.1 in C minor, Op.68 No.2 in D, Op.73 No.4 in E minor, Op.98 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Daniele Gatti Stern Auditorium, Carnegie...
Feature Review: Beethoven’s Piano Concertos – Leif Ove Andsnes & Mahler Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall [23 & 25 February 2015]
Beethoven Concertos for Piano and Orchestra: No.2 in B flat, Op.19 No.3 in C minor, Op.37 No.4 in G, Op.58 No.1 in C, Op.15 No.5 in E flat, Op.73 (Emperor)...
Interview with Llŷr Williams – “…I think in Beethoven there is an ideal marriage between the technical and the musical.”
Llŷr Williams is joining the elite company of Maurizio Pollini, Daniel Barenboim and John Lill, becoming the latest pianist to embark on a cycle of the 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas...
John McCabe remembered by David Wordsworth
John McCabe, 21 April 1939-13 February 2015 John McCabe was that rarity – the complete musician. The composer of well over 200 works of all kinds ranging from highly successful...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle – with Anna Netrebko & Piotr Beczala and Mikhail Petrenko & Nadja Michael [Showing on Saturday February 14]
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. #8: Iolanta / Duke Bluebeard’s...
Aldo Ciccolini remembered by Mark Bebbington
Aldo Ciccolini, 15 August 1925-1 February 2015 For me, studying with Aldo Ciccolini was both an honour and a privilege. Here was an immense artist who seemingly effortlessly pursued an...
Feature Concert Review: BBC Symphony Orchestra – Total Immersion: Percussion! [31 January 2015, including the UK premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Tutuguri conducted by Kent Nagano]
Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s & Barbican Centre, London Saturday, January 31, 2015 Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s Traditional Guinean – Wali Brian Ferneyhough – Fanfare for Klaus Huber Hugh...
Feature CD Review: String Quartets of Joseph Haydn performed by the Schneider Quartet [Music & Arts]
Haydn 46 String Quartets plus The Seven Last Words of The Saviour on the Cross and two movements from Op.64/1 The Schneider Quartet [Alexander Schneider & Isidore Cohen (violins), Karen...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann – The Tales of Hoffmann – with Vittorio Grigolo, Thomas Hampson, Erin Morley, Hibla Gerzmava & Christine Rice [Showing on Saturday January 31]
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. #7: The Tales of Hoffmann...
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