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Feature Review – BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion – Heitor Villa-Lobos [08 March 2014]
Villa-Lobos Chamber and Vocal Music Guildhall School Musicians Choral and Guitar Music Sean Shibe (guitar) BBC Singers Celso Antunes Uirapurú Descobrimento do Brasil – Suite No.4 Bachianas brasileiras No.5 Chôros...
Feature Review: Vienna: City of Dreams – Beethoven’s Complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano – Leonidas Kavakos & Enrico Pace in Zankel Hall [02-04 March 2014]
Beethoven Sonatas for Piano and Violin: in D, Op.12/1 in A, Op.12/2 in E flat, Op.12/3 in A minor, Op.23 in F, Op.24 (Spring) in A, Op.30/1 in C minor,...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2013-14: Werther [15 March 2014]
The Classical Source brings you a quick guide to all ten of the Metropolitan opera productions included in this season’s international broadcast series. #7: Werther Who wrote it? The French...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2013-14: Prince Igor
The Classical Source brings you a quick guide to all ten of the Metropolitan opera productions included in this season’s international broadcast series. #6: Prince Igor Who wrote it? Prince...
An interview with Michel Tabachnik – Brussels Philharmonic at Cadogan Hall [21-23 February 2014]
The Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra and its principal conductor Michel Tabachnik are increasingly regular visitors to Cadogan Hall. This year marks their busiest residency at Sloane Square thus far, with a...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2013-14: Rusalka
The Classical Source brings you a quick guide to all ten of the Metropolitan opera productions included in this season’s international broadcast series. #5: Rusalka Who wrote it? Antonin Dvořák,...
Edward Greenfield’s Portrait Gallery [book review]
Portrait Gallery A Life in Classical Music Edward Greenfield ISBN 978-1-90965-358-0 Elliott & Thompson Edward (Ted) Greenfield has been at the forefront of musical criticism in the UK for 50...
Interview with Stuart Skelton – Peter Grimes returns to English National Opera on 29 January 2014 – “It seems to have struck a chord with pretty much everyone… We are all very excited to get this thing on its feet and get that curtain up!”
Stuart Skelton Interview 22 January 2014 – The Coliseum, London David Alden’s production of Benjamin Britten’s most successful opera, Peter Grimes, is returning to ENO, five years after it was...
In Praise of Paul Hindemith, 1895-1963, on the 50th-anniversary of his death, 28 December 2013 – Where is ‘art’ in all this? And more pertinently to our heading, where is the art of Paul Hindemith?
From time to time the subject of fashion in music arises: how it is that the music of one composer, or even what might be termed a ‘school’ of composers,...
A “BBC Radio 3 In Tune Christmas Special” Blog [Sean Rafferty, Suzy Klein, Jeremy Paxman, Tom Poster, Brabant Ensemble, Man Overboard … Hark the Herald Angels Sing]
Friday 20 December 2013 – We gathered at Broadcasting House, the site now a mix of the ancient and modern, the new building open for business. We were greeted by...
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