Many Happy Returns to John Storgårds, 57 today.
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Post #1,150: Llŷr Williams at Wigmore Hall – Beethoven, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky [live webcast]
Monday, October 19, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London In place of the unable-to-travel Francesco Piemontesi, Llŷr Williams offered an enticing programme, opening with Beethoven’s Opus 101 A-major Piano Sonata. Beethoven is a signature composer of Williams’s (he has recorded...
Johanna Malangré is announced as the new music director of Orchestre national de Picardie.
MIRGA GRAŽINYTĖ-TYLA PRESENTS: ‘THE BRITISH PROJECT’.
Eighty years ago, Benjamin Britten caught the sombre mood of the times with his Sinfonia da Requiem. His concise three-movement symphony has often been recorded since its premiere but rarely with greater intensity or conviction than in its latest interpretation...
Many Happy Returns to composer Robin Holloway, 77 today.
The Met Stars Live: Diana Damrau & Joseph Calleja in Concert this Saturday, October 24 at 6pm (UK time).
The Met Stars Live in Concert series continues this Saturday 24 October at 6pm (UK time) with soprano Diana Damrau and tenor Joseph Calleja who will perform a live concert at the Royal Palace of Caserta, Italy. The recital, the sixth of 12 concerts in...
Kings Place receives Culture Recovery grant.
KINGS PLACE [London] has been awarded £562,000as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced. KINGS PLACE...
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Berliner Philharmoniker – Marc Minkowski conducts Haydn’s Fire & Beethoven’s Prometheus [live webcast]
Saturday, October 17, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Early-music man fronting mainline orchestra taking on Classical repertory. Most do well if with occasional eccentricities (Harnoncourt) or bared extremes...
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Stephen Kovacevich at Wigmore Hall – Bach & Schubert [live YouTube webcast]
Saturday, October 17, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London On the date of his eightieth-birthday, Stephen Kovacevich started his celebratory Wigmore Hall recital with J. S. Bach’s D-major Partita (BWV828). The opening ‘Ouvertüre’ was majestic and malleable, nimble too, later...