Met announces two-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams.
Curated theme weeks include Leading Ladies: Opera’s Greatest Heroines, featuring Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor with Anna Netrebko, Verdi’s La Traviata with Natalie Dessay [pictured], Bellini's Norma with Sondra Radvanovsky,...
Bergen Philharmonic WINTERMEZZO. Streaming Festival. 16 concerts in 4 weeks.
19. January - 12. February. Tuesday - Friday every week at 19.30 CEST at Bergenphilive.no. Artists: Lise Davidsen |Vilde Frang |Víkingur Ólafsson |Leif Ove Andsnes |Tine Thing Helseth | Ragnhild Hemsing | Sandra Lied Haga |Adam Walker | Nicolas Hodges |Edward Gardner...
Hallé Winter Season, Episode 3: The Event Horizon.
Simon Armitage (poet laureate) speaks, Jonathan Bloxham conducts (pictured; Hallé debut). Aaron Copland’s Quiet City (trumpet, cor anglais, strings) is first up, nocturnal reflections, emotions simmering – very well done in this recording from Hallé St Peter’s. There...
Many Happy Returns to Sir Simon Rattle, 66 today.
WIGMORE HALL ANNOUNCES NEW WEBCAST SCHEDULE.
Director of Wigmore Hall, John Gilhooly, today announces, ‘In response to the current state of the pandemic, we have taken the decision to pause most of the activity at Wigmore Hall for the time being. However, we are able to share with you a number of exciting new...
Hephzibah Menuhin world premieres on Warner Classics.
This January 22, Warner Classics releases Hephzibah Menuhin Homage – a new box set which sheds new light on the scope of her talentThe box set comprises 9 discs and 2 DVDs and has been curated by distinguished French filmmaker Bruno...
Sir James MacMillan launches new centre of excellence in the learning and teaching of composition, delivered by The Cumnock Tryst in partnership with Trinity College London.
Sir James MacMillan today launches a major initiative aimed at putting Scotland centre stage in the world of composition. As a composer with global acclaim, Cumnock will become a centre of excellence in the learning and teaching of composition, not limited to...
A Bavarian Radio concert in memoriam Mariss Jansons – Zubin Mehta conducts Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.
Mariss Jansons died on 30 November 2019 at the age of 76. At the time he was Chief Conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which on 15 January last year paid tribute to him with this concert given in the Gasteig, Munich, devoted to Mahler’s Symphony No.2...
Sad news: conductor Andrew Greenwood, mostly associated with opera, has died from cancer. Not sure of his age, early-sixties?
https://www.atholestill.com/artist/andrew-greenwood/