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Concert Calendar:
May 2013
Klassiknet
picks for Europe and North America
Daily updates!
News: 17 April 2013
Paris
Remembrance: Sir Colin Davis
1927 - 2013
Joel Kasow reflects on the British conductor's
career on the podium and in the recording studio.
CD Tip: 11 April 2013
New York
Milos:
Pasión
The 29-year-old Serbian guitarist brings plenty of
technique and personal charm to this seductive collection from the Latin
American repertoire.
Concert: 19 March 2013
Basel, Switzerland
Last Chance ! Songs
for a Mad King
Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s controversial
exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Basel pays homage to the neglected music
and provocative personality of the American musician, singer, and composer
Julius Eastman (1940 – 1990).
News: 19 March 2013
London
Opulent French Art Case
Piano Sells for $253,623 at Auction
Estimated at £100,000
– 200,000, the piano is in the distinctive fin de siècle style of
high-rococo fused with Art Nouveau.
Editor's Pick: 18 December 2012
Lisbon
New Year's Eve Te
Deum in Lisbon
If Srauss waltzes in gilded concert
halls, or massive crowds roaming and shouting about public squares are not
your idea of how to bring in the New Year, the sung Te Deum at
the Igreja de São Roque in Lisbon might be an alternative well worth
considering.
News: 29 October 2012
New York
Salvatore Sciarrino’s
Soundscape for 104 Flutes To Receive U.S. Premiere in Guggenheim
Rotunda
The one hundred migrating performers represent the
full scope of the New York flute community.
Editor's Pick: 23 July 2012
Stuttgart
It's John. John
Cage
A visual arts exhibition and concerts in
Stuttgart mark the 100th year of the birth of the avant-garde music
pioneer.
News: 21 May 2012
Paris
Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau (1925 - 2012)
Remembrances and
recommended lieder and opera CDs by the legendary German baritone who died
last Friday 10 days short of his 87th birthday.
Concert Review: 26 April 2012
New York
Double-Hearder for
San Francisco and The Thomashefskys
Joel Kasow reviews the
PBS television bash for the 100th anniversary of the San Francisco
Orchestra and The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the
Yiddish Theater.
News: 16 February 2012
Los Angeles
Grammy Winners 2012:
Classical Music
And the 2012 Grammy goes to...
Editor's Pick: 26 December 2011
Lisbon
New Year's Eve Te Deum
in Lisbon
If massive crowds roaming and shouting about
public squares is not your idea of how to bring in the New Year, the sung
Te Deum at the Igreja de São Roque in Lisbon might be an
alternative well worth considering.
Festival Review: 30 September 2011
Sceaux, France
Festival de
Sceaux
In the 17th century French atmosphere of its
exceptionally beautiful surroundings, the Festival de Sceaux attracts
locals, Parisians and international tourists in the know.
News: 8 August 2011
Cleveland, Ohio
German Wins $50,000 First
Prize at 2011 Cleveland International Piano
Competition
Past winners of the Cleveland piano contest
include Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Angela Hewitt, and Sergei Babayan.
Interview: 2 August 2011
Paris
Interview: Ildebrando
d'Arcangelo
Described as "the hottest thing in Opera these
days", Italian bass-baritone Ildebrando d'Arcangelo talks about Italian
politics, his favourite foods and his new CD, "Mozart" to be released in
September.
News: 4 June 2011
New York
Solti Archive Goes to Harvard
University
Recognizing his importance to Chicago, the
British-Hungarian maestro once said, "They should erect a statue to me."
News: 3 May 2011
Los Angeles
Russian Composer Sofia
Gubaidulina To Make Rare U.S. Appearance
Always at odds
with the Soviet regime in which she spent most of her life in near
obscurity, Sofia Gubaidulina is now regarded as the most important Russian
composer since Shostakovich.
News: 3 February 2011
Paris
Paris Festival Honors
Salonen
The prestigious free contemporary music festival
has invited the Finnish musician as composer and conductor.
News: 21 January 2011
London
The Queen’s Medal For
Music 2010 To Go To Emma Kirkby
The British Monarchy
acknowledges the English soprano's contribution in the field of early
music.
News: 9 January 2011
New York
Juilliard String Quartet to Receive
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Juilliard String Quartet is
the first classical ensemble to receive this award.
News: 14 November 2010
London
Henryk Mikolaj Górecki 1933 —
2010
As a result of Poland's increasing political emancipation in
the late 1980s, Górecki's music travelled more widely and attracted new
performers and audiences in the West.
News: 2 November 2010
New York
First
French-Built Pipe Organ for New York City Church
Three
years to design and build, entirely by hand, two months to install, five
months to voice and fine-tune.
News: 27 September 2010
Paris
Foucault as
Opera?
As unlikely as an opera on the life of Michel
Foucault may seem, it is all the more unlikely for not having a
listed composer.
News: 26 September 2010
New York
The Republic of
Georgia Cancels New York Philharmonic Concerts
Government
of Georgia cites budgetary constraints for the decision to rescind its
invitation to the American orchestra.
Concert Review: 23 September 2010
New York
Marsalis Swing
Symphony Receives U.S. Debut with New York Philharmonic
With this
six-movement piece, the American jazz artist and composer's intention was
no less than to trace the long and rich history of jazz
News: 1 September 2010
Copenhagen
Poul Ruder's
Dancing in the Dark To Recieve World Premiere in
Copenhagen.
Lars von Trier’s dark, disturbing film about
guilt, sex, fate and personal responsibility has served as a source of
gothic inspiration for the Danish composer Poul Ruders’ new opera.
News: 2 August 2010
Paris
In
Memoriam: Sir Charles Mackerras
Joel Kasow on the performance and
recording legacies of a leading conductor of Czech music.
Editor's Pick: 7 July 2010
New York
Varèse
(R)evolution at the Lincoln Center Festival
Complicated
to perform, the ingenious music of Edgard Varèse is always a risky affair
for a conductor, orchestra and soloists. New York takes up the challenge
of his complete works this summer.
News: 10 June 2010
Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig Bach Medal Goes
to Philippe Herreweghe
Uncanny in his ability to produce
exceptional beauty and clarity in the choral music of Bach, the director
of the Collegium Vocale Gent remains one of the most important advocates
of the historically informed performance of European baroque music.
Seen: 12 May 2010
Sydney
Piano
Found Guilty of Crimes Against Humanities
In an work by
Slave Pianos, a piano is ripped from its pianist, found guilty of
treachery, deported and brutally executed by hanging.
Concert: 14 April 2010
New York
To Hell and
Back: Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia
The Dutch
composer's 2008 'film opera' takes its New York bow at Carnegie Hall.
News and CD Tip:
17 February 2010
Leipzig,
Germany
A Happy Reunion
of Bach Materials
The far-flung components of a
Bach cantata — score, performing parts and libretto — are reunited in an
exciting new limited edition from the Bach Archive Leipzig. Also, a CD Tip
on Austrian pianist Till Fellner.
Seen: 27 January 2010
New York
Xenakis and Japan: The
Inner Lives of Ghosts
Xenakis considered the theatrical
form of Noh to be a supreme artistic achievement as well as emblematic of
his own vision in regard to musical drama.
Interview: 5 January 2010
Bonifacio, Corsica
Corsican Melodies: Music from the
Beginning of Time
Corsica is more than the birthplace of
Napoleon Bonaparte, white sand beaches and a resilient nationalist
movement. It is also home to one of the oldest singing traditions in the
Mediterranean.
Christmas Books: 22 December 2009
Paris
Secret Lives of Great
Composers
Just in time for the holidays, Joel Kasow reviews three
new books, providing a perfect set of options for those on your gift list
whom you regard highly, indifferently or hardly at all.
Travel Journal: 14 December 2009
Vienna
Strange
Bedfellows
The uneasy intersection of Tradition and Modernity is
made all the moreso in a city so invested in its imperial past. Alan Behr
recounts the good, the bad and the bewildering.
Concert Review: 6 November 2009
Paris
Dudamel in Paris:
An Unforgettable Debut
Venezuelan phenomenon Gustavo
Dudamel (along with more than 100 of his young countrymen and women) makes
his Paris debut, bringing a stunned and enraptured audience to its
feet.
Festival Review
Verbier, Switzerland
How to Ruin a
Perfectly Good Music Festival
Each year, Switzerland's
Verbier Festival is less about serious music and more about serious
wealth, under-rehearsed "stars" and questionable artistic choices.
Luckily, some true gems can still be found amidst the glittery mountain of
zircons.
Festival Review: 3 September 2009
Sceaux,
France
Rare
Treasure: The Festival de l’Orangerie de Sceaux
Our Patricia
Boccadoro sends a dispatch from that increasingly rare setting — a
successful and pleasant music festival where the focus remains on the
music.
News:
Salzburg, Austria
Two New Mozart Works
Discovered
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) wrote more than
600 works and still counting.
Seen
Brussels
Judas Iscariot: Archetype
of a Traitor
Christian Holy Week in Europe offers to
believers and agnostics alike a unique occasion to hear some of the
greatest masterworks of Western sacred music. |
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