BBC announces Soundscapes for Wellbeing – aiming to bring nature to everyone.
The BBC has today announced Soundscapes for Wellbeing, a project which aims to connect audiences with nature through creative programming on BBC Radio 3, 6 Music, BBC Sounds and BBC Two’s Winterwatch, as well as through new access to the BBC Sounds Effects archive. It...
63 COMPETITORS ANNOUNCED FOR THE 20TH LEEDS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION.
Pianists, aged between 20 and 29 and representing 28 countries, have been carefully selected to compete in the first ever Virtual International First Round, taking place in London, Berlin, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, New York, 6-10 April 2021 Second Round,...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Daniele Gatti conducts Stravinsky’s Apollon musagète and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony [live webcast]
Saturday, January 23, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Daniele Gatti last conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker in September 2017, his programme featuring Hindemith and Brahms. For the...
Howard Shelley records Piano Concertos by Stéphan Elmas for Hyperion.
Hyperion’s The Romantic Piano Concerto series reaches volume eighty-two, which showcases the first two (of three) Piano Concertos by Armenian composer, pianist and teacher Stéphan Elmas (1862-1937). Both three-movement works (in respectively G-minor and D-minor)...
Chicago Symphony Orchestra on TV – recorded February 25, 1962 – Walter Hendl conducts Sinigaglia’s Le baruffe chiozzotte & Stravinsky’s 1919 Firebird Suite, and Frank Miller plays Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No.1.
Worth catching for the exuberant concert-opener that is the Sinigaglia* overture. Frank Miller (1912-86, pictured) is superb in the Saint-Saëns, in my opinion. Walter Hendl (1917-2007) concludes with colourful Stravinsky....
Many Happy Returns to singer-songwriter Neil Diamond, 80 today.
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Paavo Järvi conducts Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams Symphony [live Idagio webcast]
Friday, January 22, 2021 Konzertsaal Tonhalle Maag, Zürich, Switzerland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga In the midst of high-profile cancellations, starved of music-making these past months, hungry to get back, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under its music director Paavo...
The Met celebrates Black History Month with upcoming Nightly Opera Streams.
The Met celebrates Black History Month with two weeks of Nightly Opera Streams featuring great performances by African-American singers New streaming titles include the classic telecasts of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with Kathleen Battle [pictured];...