Seiji Ozawa records Beethoven for Decca – Leonore 3 & Symphony 7.
Released to mark Seiji Ozawa’s eighty-fifth-birthday (on September 1), these two Beethoven performances, superbly recorded by Jonathan Stokes in 2016 and the following year, have about them a wonderful musicality, a labour of love for the conductor and a devoted...
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Wigmore Hall – Kirill Gerstein plays Debussy & Liszt [live on BBC Radio 3 & Wigmore livestream]
Friday, October 2, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga With a restricted audience and modest early viewing figures (swelling within hours, however, to five times the capacity of the hall) this recital by Kirill Gerstein – Soviet-born,...
Many Happy Returns to composer Steve Reich, 84 today.
Many Happy Returns to bass-baritone Ruggero Raimondi, 79 today.
Eight Songs From Isolation – the first opera written for a socially distanced world.
EIGHT SONGS FROM ISOLATION THE FIRST OPERA WRITTEN FOR A SOCIALLY DISTANCED WORLD CONDUCTOR OLIVER ZEFFMAN [PICTURED] COMMISSIONS EIGHT LEADING COMPOSERS, INCLUDING THOMAS ADES, JULIAN ANDERSON, HELEN GRIME & NICO MUHLY, FOR 40-MINUTE FILM DIRECTED BY BILLY BOYD...
RELEASED TODAY, October 2: Sir Mark Elder records Vaughan Williams’s Job for the Hallé label | Neal Davies sings Songs of Travel.
Recorded in July last year, preceding Job (A Masque for Dancing), which is one of Vaughan Williams’s truly inspired pieces, bass-baritone Neal Davies illuminates Songs of Travel (originally with piano, then co-orchestrated by the composer and Roy Douglas) to good...
‘NO TIME TO DIE’ Exclusive Tracklist Reveal Ahead of James Bond Day 2020.
DECCA RECORDS REVEALS COVER ART FOR ‘BOND 25’ & UNVEILS FULL TRACKLIST FOR ‘NO TIME TO DIE’ OST 25 NEWLY-RELEASED INSTRUMENTAL TRACKS CELEBRATING THE LEGACY OF JAMES BOND ACROSS 60 DECADES INCLUDING BILLIE EILISH’S TITLE THEME, ORCHESTRATED FOR THE FIRST...
Post #1,050: Many Happy Returns to organist & composer Francis Jackson, 103 today.
Barbican announces new online content as the Centre continues its reopening.
Following the reopening of the Barbican over the summer – with the Art Gallery, The Curve, the Cinema and the Conservatory all now open to the public, the Centre continues its re-opening welcoming live audiences back to the Hall and livestreaming concerts online....