Benjamin Grosvenor, Hyeyoon Park and Raja Halder announce new classical music festival, September 17-20.
Benjamin Grosvenor, Raja Halder and Hyeyoon Park are proud to launch Bromley and Beckenham International Music Festival, a new festival bringing world-class classical music to the heart of Bromley. Benjamin Grosvenor [pictured]...
Barenboim conducts for Beirut.
On Thursday and Friday this week (August 13 & 14) in Berlin's Pierre Boulez Saal, Daniel Barenboim will conduct members of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in concerts "dedicated to the Lebanese people and the victims of the Beirut explosion." The repertoire...
VÍKINGUR ÓLAFSSON: NEWS & UPDATES.
BBC Radio 4 Front Row’s Artist-in-Residence, performing live each week for 3 monthsCreated and presented his own classical music series on Icelandic TVVirtual concerto performance from Iceland with Bergen Philharmonic in Norway “He’s got the keys to brighten the...
Many Happy Returns to conductor and teacher Jorma Panula, 90 today.
Philippe Jordan records Brahms’s Four Symphonies with Wiener Symphoniker for its own label.
The two Overtures and the Haydn Variations are not included leaving Brahms’s Four Symphonies to occupy a disc each, an extravagant arrangement given Nos.3 & 4, playing here for a total of just over seventy-five minutes, could easily be accommodated on a single...
Many Happy Returns to composer Alexander Goehr, 88 today.
Sad news: Erich Gruenberg, violinist, orchestra leader and teacher, has died at the age of 95.
Sergei Babayan records Rachmaninov for Deutsche Grammophon.
If there is a caveat for this release, it’s that the hour-long playing time is not enough – a measure of just how good this Rachmaninov recital is. Sergei Babayan has chosen fifteen pieces – mostly from the Preludes and Etudes-tableaux, adding, as a novelty, Volodos’s...
Michael Collins records Finzi & Vaughan Williams with the Philharmonia Orchestra for BIS.
Just a few days ago I wrote favourable words about Andrew Manze’s Onyx recording of Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony, mentioning imminent ones of it from Michael Collins and Martyn Brabbins. Here’s the Collins, his recording debut as a podium-standing conductor, and...