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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…
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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…
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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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Feature review: BBC Symphony Orchestra Total Immersion: Lili and Nadia Boulanger [Barbican Centre, 6 April 2019]
Saturday, April 06, 2019Barbican Centre, London: Cinema 1, Milton Court Concert Hall, Fountain Room, St Giles Cripplegate & Barbican Hall 11 a.m. Cinema 1 Mademoiselle A film by Bruno Monsaingeon,…
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Edward Clark interviews Paavo Järvi regarding his Sibelius Symphony Cycle with Orchestre de Paris for RCA Red Seal
This interview with Paavo Järvi took place in London on 10 January 2019 IntroductionFrance is not widely known for much, if any, enthusiasm for the music of Jean Sibelius. The…
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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2018-19: Wagner’s Die Walküre [Showing on March 30]
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: Die Walküre Who wrote…
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Hector Berlioz: he died 150 years ago, on 8 March 1869 – a few personal messages – from Anderson to Woods, via Cowan, Falletta, JEG, Matthew-Walker, Orga, Rouse, Slatkin, and others
Colin Anderson Bumping into Hector, first-time. I know where I was (on the floor in front of my dad’s radiogram, music bug already bitten very deep) and I know what…
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BBC Symphony Orchestra – Total Immersion: György Ligeti – All events up to 5 p.m. [2 March 2019]
Saturday, March 02, 2019, Barbican Centre Cinema 1 and Fountain Room; Milton Court Concert Hall; St Giles Cripplegate Another full Saturday devoted to contemporary music at the Barbican Centre, courtesy…
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Hilde Zadek – 15 December 1917-21 February 2019 – An appreciation by Alexander Campbell
The career of German lyric-dramatic soprano Hilde Zadek, who has died at the age of 101, flourished in the years after World War Two, particularly in Vienna where she was…
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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2018-19: Donizetti’s La Fille du régiment [Showing on March 2]
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: La Fille du régiment…