Many Happy Returns to saxophonist John Harle, 64 today.
Alban Gerhardt records Shostakovich’s Cello Concertos for Hyperion | Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts.
Between them, Alban Gerhardt and Jukka-Pekka Saraste do a grand job on behalf of Shostakovich’s two Rostropovich-centric Cello Concertos (Opuses 107 & 126), the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra (WDR) also proving to be a protagonist of distinction. If the opening...
Many Happy Returns to organist & composer Arthur Wills, 94 today.
Key Conducting Competition Relaunched in Italy.
"MILAN--After lying dormant for 40 years, Premio Guido Cantelli, the competition that discovered Riccardo Muti in 1967, has been re-launched, honoring the centennial of its namesake, who died tragically in a plane crash at age 36. This year’s winner was Tianyi Lu...
Brookings Institute: U.S. Arts & Culture “Decimated”.
"Covid-19 'has decimated arts and culture in America,' according to the new report, 'wiping out as many as half of all jobs for performing artists and musicians, and nearly a third of jobs for those who work in the…arts, music, theater, design, entertainment, and...
The Petworth Festival Autumn Special – Friday 24 October-Sunday 1 November.
A superb line up of stellar names is promised for this year’s Petworth Festival Autumn Special (16th Oct – 1st Nov). Like so many events, the summer festival had to be cancelled, but the Petworth team has been able to pull the rabbit from the...
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Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Göteborgs Symfoniker – Shostakovich, Sibelius [live webcast]
Thursday, September 17, 2020 Göteborgs Konserthuset, Götaplatsen 8, Gothenburg, Sweden Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Neither Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony (1945) nor Sibelius's Third (1907) lived up to the anticipations of their first audiences. Following the end of the...
Grange Park Opera.
Grange Park Opera, Surrey, presents Benjamin Britten’s rarely performed ‘ghost opera’, Owen Wingrave, filmed on location in haunted houses in Surrey and London Owen Wingrave is part of the new Interim Season of 19 brand new events, all free to view online between...
Live performances with audience continue at Snape Maltings Concert Hall.
Martin Roscoe Live music-making continues at Snape Maltings Concert Hall in September and October with regular concerts for a live audience. Bringing together some of the musicians who would have performed during this year’s Aldeburgh Festival and Snape Proms, in...