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Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2018-19: Nico Muhly’s Marnie [Showing on November 10]
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: Marnie Who wrote it?...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2018-19: Puccini’s La fanciulla del West [Showing on October 27]
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: La fanciulla del West...
Montserrat Caballé – 12 April 1933-6 October 2018
Montserrat Caballé was a lovable, extrovert soprano for whom the sheer joy of singing was always evident; striving to reach vocal and technical perfection were an innate part of her...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2018-19: Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila [Showing on October 20]
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: Samson et Dalila Who...
The Power and the Glory – Kenneth Woods & English Symphony Orchestra, with Roman Kosyakov [Concert of Schumann, Sibelius and Liszt, 7 October 2018]
Kenneth Woods has re-energised the English Symphony Orchestra to a point where it is one of the finest orchestras in England. Evidence of his superior planning and execution of concerts...
Metropolitan Opera Live HD Broadcasts 2018-19: Verdi’s Aida with Anna Netrebko [Showing on October 6]
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. #1: Aida Who wrote it?...
Feature LP Review: Speakers Corner, Analogphonic, Deutsche Grammophon and RCO Live – Sibelius/Oistrakh/Ormandy, Beethoven/Francescatti/Casadesus, Milstein/Pommers, Elman/Seiger, Fournier/Crowson, Dvořák/Janáček Quartet, Schubert/Rostropovich
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D-minor, Op.47 Lemminkäinen Legends, Op.22 – II: The Swan of Tuonela David Oistrakh (violin) Philadelphia Orchestra Eugene Ormandy Recorded December 1959 and January 1960 at the...
Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts [August 2018]
Thursday, August 23-Tuesday, August 28, 2018 The Welsh border town of Presteigne has had its annual makeover, the six-day feast of artistic events transforming a rural idyll into a cultural...
Inge Borkh: 26 May 1921-26 August 2018
The dramatic soprano Inge Borkh was one of the leading dramatic sopranos of her day, perhaps best-known for her portrayals of the heavier Richard Strauss roles and for Puccini’s Turandot.She...
Wonderfeel 2018
Friday, July 20-Sunday, July 22, 2018‘s-Graveland, The Netherlands I have to believe that the ambitious annual Wonderfeel Festival, held just outside of Amsterdam on July 20, 21 & 22, is...
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