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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…