The Greek National Opera Announces Full Scale Live Productions in October-December 2020 Season.
Hugo de Ana’s celebrated Madama Butterfly opens season, the same Opera was the first ever performed by the GNO 80 years earlier · A special one-off Piano Recital as part of the Alternative Stage Piano Festival which...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Cancels Fall Period of 2020-21 Season.
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CANCELS FALL PERIOD OF 2020-21 SEASON AT SYMPHONY HALL, SEPTEMBER 16—NOVEMBER 28 (37 CONCERTS, 14 PROGRAMS), DUE TO CONTINUING CONCERNS ABOUT SPREAD OF COVID-19 A DECISION ABOUT THE BSO’S ABILITY TO RESUME LIVE PERFORMANCES...
BBC Proms 2020 – Hallé – Sir Mark Elder conducts Le Corsaire, Near Midnight & Eroica Symphony | Alice Coote sings Sea Pictures.
Sir Mark Elder photographed with feline and wine Thursday 30 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 7.30 p.m. Recorded at Royal Albert Hall on 09 August 2014 The following review was written by me, Colin Anderson, attending the concert for The Classical Source; it is republished...
The London Philharmonic Orchestra launches video series on ‘The Studio’, its online resource space for teenage composers.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra has released a video series on social media as part of The Studio, its online resource space for teenage composers. The first four episodes of the series focus on writing for film and dance, featuring prominent composers...
The Grange Festival presents Precipice, an outdoor promenade performance: 21-23 August 2020.
On 21, 22 and 23 August 2020, The Grange Festival will present Precipice, an outdoor immersive promenade performance using the many varied natural stages offered by the buildings and gardens at The Grange in Hampshire. Created by the critically-acclaimed director...
Ateş Orga, Festival Wanderer – 2.
Paavo Järvi, pictured Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Pärnu in Estonia, a Baltic resort on an inlet of the Gulf of Riga, is one of those places you read about in other people's biographies. It's temperate, lush, beautiful. In Soviet times, David Oistrakh and Shostakovich...
DREAMSTAGE – New Premium Ticketed Live Performance Video Streaming Platform.
New York, New York – July 30, 2020 – The livelihoods of musicians worldwide have been disrupted and incomes shattered by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. DREAMSTAGE is the next generation premium ticketed live performance audio/video platform and a...
On this date: George Szell died fifty years ago.
Click on the link below to watch George Szell rehearse the Cleveland Orchestra (he was its music director from 1946 until his death) in the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth. Szell was born in Budapest in 1897. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlyUti7BbCY
BBC Proms 2020 – Boston Symphony Orchestra – Andris Nelsons conducts Mahler 6 | Håkan Hardenberger plays Brett Dean’s Dramatis personae.
Wednesday 29 July 2020, BBC Radio 3 @ 7.30 p.m. Recorded at Royal Albert Hall on 22 August 2015 The following review was written by Peter Reed attending the concert for The Classical Source; it is republished here with a few small amendments... Welcome back! Following...