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Arturo Toscanini conducts Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies & Missa solemnis – Pristine Audio’s revelatory transcriptions of Studio 8H & Carnegie Hall concerts, 1939-1940
Some twelve years ago I reviewed a Music & Arts box featuring Arturo Toscanini’s celebrated 1939 cycle of Beethoven’s Symphonies – all bar the ‘Choral’ recorded at Studio 8H –...
English Haydn Festival 2019
Wednesday 5 June-Saturday 9 June, Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England For a quarter of a century the English Haydn Festival has used the deconsecrated St Leonard’s Church in Bridgnorth as the principal...
Feature Review: Two days at Aldeburgh Festival 2019
Three concerts in two days provided a brief glimpse of this year’s Aldeburgh Festival and a welcome chance to catch up with one of its artists-in-residence, Thomas Larcher. On Monday...
Feature Review: Three days at Swaledale Festival 2019 – Music, Arts & Walking in the Yorkshire Dales [May 25-June 8]
Swaledale plays host to one of England’s most northerly festivals. Turn left off the A1 near Richmond and the villages of Grinton, Gunnerside and Reeth (there’s even a Crackpot) appear...
Final of inaugural China International Music Competition – Piano – Beijing’s National Centre for the Performing Arts, 20 May 2019 [live webcast on amadeus.tv via YouTube]
With Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in the final, an unprecedented amount of prize money on the table – US$150,000 to the winner – and, endeavouring to refute charges...
Doris Day – 3 April 1922-13 May 2019 – an appreciation
One of America’s great movie actresses and singers, Doris Day has died from pneumonia at the age of ninety-seven. Born Doris Ann Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, to music teacher William...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2018-19: Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites [Showing on May 11]
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. #10: Dialogues des Carmélites Who...
Feature Review: International Spring Orchestra Festival, Malta – Recital Round Up [April 27-May 1]
Saturday, April 27, 2019 Grand Salon, National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta, Malta Monday-Wednesday, April 29-May 1, 2019 Palazzo de La Salle, Malta Society of Arts, Valletta, Malta Four concerts, four...
Heather Harper 8 May 1930-22 April 2019 – an appreciation
Belfast-born Heather Harper was a confident, versatile creamy-voiced soprano who was a regular feature of UK musical life for some four decades and who then continued to pass on her...
Feature LP Review: Abbado, Harnoncourt and Mainardi – Three Boxed Sets
Claudio Abbado’s Final Concert with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night's Dream – Overture, Op.21 & Incidental Muisc, Op.61; I: Scherzo; III: Song with Chorus “You spotted snakes...
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