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Concert Calendar:
February 2010
Klassiknet
picks for Europe and North America
Daily
updates!
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
Amsterdam
Varèse 360° Takes
Center Stage at Holland Festival
Known as the "Father of Electronic
Music", Edgard Varese's many fans and admirers included Frank Zappa and
jazz legend Charlie Parker. Performances of his complete works are part of
this year's Holland Festival in Amsterdam.
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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Concert Calendar:
January 2010
Klassiknet picks for Europe and North America
Daily
updates!
Interview:
Rome
Lady Susana
Walton
The wife of Sir William Walton talks to Paolo Petrocelli
about her life with the British composer, and their passion for their
island estate, La Mortella, off the coast of Naples, one of Europe's most
beautiful private gardens.
Interview
Paris
Christoph
Eschenbach
What could have possibly possessed the
German-born conductor to take on the Orchestre de Paris, an ensemble known
for its individualistic players and capricious performance
standards ? Plus, a look at the new Salle Pleyel.
Interview
Paris
Lang Lang
Chinese piano
virtuoso Lang Lang talks about growing up in China and the western
classical musicians who most influenced his career.
Interview:
St. Moritz
Corey Cerovsek
From
the alpine ski resort of St. Mortiz, Canadian fiddler and mathematician
Corey Cerovsek talks to CK about playing the "Milanollo" Stradivarius of
1728.
Concert Review Archive
Berlin
Virtual Bruckner:
Symphony No. 8
Ciarán McAuley reviews Bernard Haitink and the
Berlin Philharmonic's performance of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No.
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Interviews: Archives
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for interviews with leading composers, performers and conductors.
Visit our archives for interviews with such figures as Riccardo
Chailly , Thomas Hampson, Eduardo Lopez Banzo,
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Viktoria Mullova, Fazil
Say, Gavin Bryars, Lorin Maazel, and Ton Koopman.
Also in our archives:
101 Best
Classical Music CDs
Our guide to building a library of
indispensable discs in a field where 500 CDs appear every month.
Also
in French: 101 Meilleurs Disques de Musique
Classique (en français)
Compendium of
Baroque Musical Instruments
A guide to the authentic instruments
used to play during the Baroque period.
Le Guide
des Instruments Baroques
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