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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Franz Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe – The Merry Widow – with Renée Fleming [Showing on Saturday January 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. #6: The Merry Widow Who...
Christmas Boxes 2014 – A Lucky Seven Selection – Richard Strauss operas, Colin Davis, Claudio Abbado, James Galway, Pierre Monteux, Pierre Boulez and Benjamin Britten…
The boxing up of recordings, very often focussing on a particular musician, is currently very popular with companies, and these handsome packages can be found at attractive prices, giving an...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2014-15: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, directed by Otto Schenk, conducted by James Levine, with Michael Volle, Johan Botha, Annette Dasch & Johannes Martin Kränzle [Showing on Saturday December 13]
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: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg...
Feature Review: Panufnik 100 – A Family Celebration [30 November 2014, Kings Place, London]
Love Song My Father, the Iron Curtain and Me Vos Omnes Warsaw Cabaret Evening Sunday, November 30, 2014 Hall One & Hall Two, Kings Place, London Although the music of...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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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