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I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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Vasily Petrenko launches 2021-22 season with first concerts in charge of RPO, Svetlanov Symphony.
Vasily Petrenko launches 2021-22 season with first concerts in charge of Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’ Conductor’s guest engagements include returns to Liverpool, Montreal and Oslo and dates in...
THE START OF A NEW ERA: RPO AND VASILY PETRENKO PERFORM SPECTACULAR CONCERT AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL TO LAUNCH ANNIVERSARY SEASON.
“After 18 months of restrictions, when the future of live music has been in the balance, the sheer scale of this concert marks a new era of recovery and hope – and celebrates the crucial importance of orchestral music in enriching lives at this critical...
Sad news: bass-baritone Norman Bailey, especially associated with Wagnerian roles, has died at the age of 88.
Below is a link to Bailey as Hans Sachs, in Mastersingers (a role he recorded for Decca in Vienna under Solti), here sung in English, conducted by Reginald Goodall on Feb 10, 1968, at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgV_5d4TH2g
The Met announces free simulcast of the Opening Night performance of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones in Marcus Garvey Park.
For the first time, the company’s season-launching transmission will expand from Times Square to Harlem New York, NY (September 15, 2021)—The Metropolitan Opera announced today that it will present a free, live simulcast of the Opening Night performance...
Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko on tour in Northern Europe.
The Berliner Philharmoniker and their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko give their first concertstogether in Denmark and Sweden from 16-20 November, plus a concert at the [pictured] Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. The Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko will be...
HarrisonParrott launches new music publishing service.
HarrisonParrott & Polyarts Launches New Music Publishing Service for composers – Birdsong · International classical music management company, HarrisonParrott and Polyarts, has launched a new music publishing service,...
St Martin-in-the-Fields announced as new London Home for the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras.
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Founder and Artistic Director of the Monteverdi ensembles, to conduct three concerts in first season at St Martin-in-the-Fields. St Martin-in-the-Fields today announce that it will be the London Home of...
FIVE YOUNG PIANISTS FROM ISRAEL, JAPAN, KAZAKHSTAN, UKRAINE AND THE UK ARE THROUGH TO THE FINAL OF THE 2021 LEEDS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION.
The Leeds International Piano Competition, one of the world’s leading music competitions which has launched many international careers, announces details of the five pianists who will perform in the Finals of the 20th Edition of the Competition in Leeds this weekend...
Sad news: Giles Easterbrook – “musical polymath” (composer, promoter, publisher…) – has died at the age of 72.
Giles was a welcome regular at concerts of British and contemporary music. Wearing his Arthur Bliss Society hat, Giles once told me that when Bliss's forty-minute Metamorphic Variations was premiered (1973, LSO/Vernon Handley, Fairfield Halls, Croydon) it had to be...