Mahler Competition Prizewinners.
PRESS RELEASEBamberg, 5th July 2020Announcement of the prize winners of the sixth Mahler Competition On Saturday 4th July 2020, the jury of the 2020 Mahler Competition announced the winnersof the competition immediately after the final. Prize (€ 30.000) Finnegan...
The NHS is 72 today, July 5. Thank-you very much!
I know from my own recent experiences just how caring, skilled and dedicated NHS staff are. Hip Hip. Colin
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Beethoven 250: Sonatas for Piano & Violin, Volume One – Huw Watkins & Tamsin Waley-Cohen [Signum Classics]
At first I thought the recorded balance did something of a disservice to Huw Watkins’s piano – not because Beethoven gives the instrument pride of place in titular terms, but because these are duo-Sonatas – although I have come to the conclusion that the sound...
Many Happy Returns to Paul Daniel, music director of Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and principal conductor & artistic director of Real Filharmonia de Galicia, 62 today.
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Inon Barnatan at Caramoor premieres his solo piano arrangement of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances [delayed webcast]
Thursday, July 02, 2020 [performance] Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts Music Room, Rosen House, Katonah, New York 10536 Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga While the United States was in the grips of the Great Depression, Walter Rosen, a Berlin-born international banker...
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Rob Keeley Orchestral Music [Toccata Classics]
Rob Keeley, a Welshman born in 1960 and “immersed in London musical life since boyhood”, has a sophisticated composing technique that he uses to create engaging music. This Toccata Classics release of first recordings proves to be an ideal introduction to Keeley’s...
Sad news: composer and pianist Nikolai Kapustin has died at the age of 82.
"It is with great sadness that we share with you that on Thursday July 2nd, 2020, our beloved Maestro Nikolai Kapustin passed away after a long lasting illness. "Maestro Kapustin was a respected composer and pianist who left us 161 Works for all of us to remember him....
Patrick Hahn is appointed General Music Director of the Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester GmbH.
At just 24 years of age, Patrick Hahn from Austria will succeed Julia Jones in the 2021/22 season, becoming the youngest General Music Director in Germany. Wuppertal, July 3, 2020 Bursting enthusiasm for music combined with extraordinary conducting precision...
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Emil Tabakov, Complete Symphonies, Volume Five [Toccata Classics]
I really must find more time to listen to music! 24/7 seems to not be enough when there are new pieces to be discovered and old friends to be experienced again. Here, for example, is Volume Five of Emil Tabakov’s Complete Symphonies, courtesy of the...