An update from Wigmore Hall.
Olivier Messiaen Due to scheduling issues, we are pausing our digital broadcasts for a few days and all upcoming live streamed concerts have been postponed. Tonight's concert from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective will be the last concert for the time being. We hope...
LSO statement regarding Simon Rattle.
Monday 11 January 2021PRESS STATEMENT:David Alberman, Chair, and Kathryn McDowell, Managing Director, London SymphonyOrchestra:“Sir Simon Rattle will extend his current agreement with the London Symphony Orchestraas Music Director until 2023. In view of the special...
Simon Rattle to Munich.
From Bavarian Radio website: Mariss Jansons’s successor as Chief Conductor of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Bavarian Radio Chorus has been chosen: Sir Simon Rattle will lead the two ensembles beginning with the 2023/24 concert season, having...
Andreas Haefliger records Piano Concertos by Ammann, Bartók and Ravel for BIS | Susanna Mälkki conducts the Helsinki Philharmonic.
Up first is Swiss composer Dieter Ammann’s The Piano Concerto (Gran Toccata), a half-hour score completed in 2019 and given its premiere during that year’s BBC Proms season, Sakari Oramo conducting. Ammann (born 1962) has created a terrific piece, a dazzling...
ISM calls for urgent statement in the House of Commons after shocking report that UK Government rejected EU offer to exempt touring musicians from bureaucratic work permits.
The ISM, the UK’s professional body for musicians, has called for an urgent statement in the House of Commons after the Independent reported (just hyperlink story rather than separate para) that the Government rejected a proposal from the EU to exempt UK touring...
Ida’s Lark gets better and better, flies ever higher…
In other words, Ida Haendel’s newly-issued if Eloquence-‘rescued’ recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, a wonderfully potent account: solace-giving, transporting and emotionally uplifting … it’s a musical wonder that continues to give, elevating a...
Many Happy Returns to organist David Titterington, 63 today.
Many Happy Returns to singer-songwriter Sir Rod Stewart, 76 today.
Post #1,600: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse – Robert Schumann – Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Fourth Symphony, Adam Laloum plays the Piano Concerto [live Medici webcast]
Maxim Emelyanychev Friday, January 8, 2021 Halle aux grains, 1 Place Dupuy, 31000 Toulouse, France Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev, born in 1988, studied in Nizhny-Novgorod with the veteran Margarita...