George Enescu’s Romanian Poem Premieres on FestivalEnescu.ro in Celebration of Romania’s National Day.
The George Enescu International Festival invites music lovers to the première of Enescu’s Romanian Poem on www.festivalenescu.ro, to celebrate the Romanian National Day. The Romanian Poem was performed for the first time at the Enescu Festival...
TEODOR CURRENTZIS AND MUSICAETERNA PRESENT A NEW PROJECT WITH SONY CLASSICAL: ‘FRAGMENTS’.
Set Reminder to watch film premiere here https://teodorcurrentzis.lnk.to/traviata The ‘Fragments’ project features a series of iconic opera scenes recorded during lockdown at musicAeterna’s home residence, Dom Radio in St Petersburg. With their signature...
Berliner Philharmoniker update.
The Philharmonie Berlin will remain closed to the public in December – weekly livestreams in the Digital Concert Hall will continue to take place.Cellist Nicolas Altstaedt makes his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker in a livebroadcast in the Digital Concert Hall...
Stories for Christmas on the Eloquence label.
Christmas sentiment to the fore in this 100-minute collection featuring a galaxy of celebrated talent from yesteryear (recorded between 1941 and 1949), six beautifully told tales by those detailed on the cover, add to which, whether speaking or making music, Charles...
Many Happy Returns to Semyon Bychkov, 68 today.
Many Happy Returns to (recently retired) pianist Radu Lupu, 75 today.
Lupu (right) pictured with Sir Colin Davis
Rudolf Buchbinder records Beethoven for Deutsche Grammophon.
This civilised performance of the C-major Piano Concerto No.1 (from Berlin concerts in December 2016) is led-off by a dapper and nuanced introduction from the Philharmoniker and Christian Thielemann, the orchestra captured wide and deep, timpani hard-right, basses...
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Wagner at Wahnfried [Deutsche Grammophon]
July 25. It should have been the opening night of this year’s Bayreuth Festival. It was not to be. Indeed, the whole season was “silent”. Instead the conductor and selected instrumentalists decanted to Haus Wahnfried – once the Wagners’ villa and now a museum devoted...
50/50 in Munich; full-on in Vienna. UPDATE ON NOVEMBER 28.
If the Vienna Philharmonic's website is up to date, then current concerts with Christian Thielemann and Zubin Mehta are going ahead in the Musikverein, including the former's Bruckner 3 just this morning, also tomorrow's matinee, presumably without an audience or with...