BBC Proms announce programme for Last Night of the Proms.
In light of the recent speculation about the Last Night of the Proms, we are today announcing the programme for the concert. We very much regret the unjustified personal attacks on Dalia Stasevska, BBC Symphony Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor made on social media...
Royal Opera House announces Autumn Opera and Ballet Concerts.
The Royal Opera House is delighted to announce two packed evenings of opera and ballet, live from our stage in Covent Garden and available to view wherever you are in the world online. These autumn performances follow from the success of...
What is the value of digital art? Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment lets their audience decide the price of their new digital platform, OAE Player.
On Thursday 22 October 2020, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (OAE) launches a digital platform, OAE Player, which will feature over thirty new and visually stunning music performance videos including a masterclass with Mark Padmore and solo...
Presteigne Digital 2020: August 24-27.
Please click on the following link for details and to watch. https://presteignefestival.com/2020-presteigne-digital/
Cadogan Hall resumes indoor live performances with audience.
Cadogan Hall is resuming live indoor performances with socially distanced audiences from Wednesday 30 September. Throughout the rest of the year, the Hall will host a series of concerts and events with its usual range of genres and offer for everyone, including three...
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Gürzenich-Orchester Köln – François-Xavier Roth records Robert Schumann’s Spring & Fourth Symphonies [Myrios]
A light touch and clarity of detail are but two hallmarks of this (first?) volume of Schumann Symphonies from François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich Orchestra of Cologne. Other qualities include a wide, but not exaggerated, dynamic range, buoyant rhythms, eloquent...
Met announces three-week schedule for Nightly Met Opera Streams.
New York, NY—The Met has announced a specially-curated, three-week schedule for its Nightly Met Opera Streams,a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company website during the coronavirus closure. The schedule includes...
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Ateş Orga, Festival Wanderer – 3: Salzburg-Christian Thielemann-Vienna Philharmonic-Bruckner 4 [live webcast]
22 August 2020, Grosses Festspielhaus Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Christian Thielemann conducting Bruckner's Fourth Symphony at this year's Salzburg Festival was always going to be something to wait for. And so the second of his two morning performances in the Grosses...
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MusicaAeterna & Teodor Currentzis – Beethoven 5 [Sony Classical]
If you are looking for a Beethoven Fifth Symphony that is fast and furious (rhythmically vital if with some poetic and softly-spoken moments), detail liberated (not least the Finale’s contrabassoon), featuring rattling timpani, brazen horns, expressive woodwinds, and...