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I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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Enescu Festival 2023 – happening now, an afternoon performance of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants.
Sunday, September 24, 2023 The Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest LES ARTS FLORISSANTSLE JARDIN DES VOIXWILLIAM CHRISTIE musical directorWILLIAM CHRISTIE și PAUL AGNEW co-directors of Le Jardin des Voix academyMOURAD MERZOUKI stage director and...
Many Happy Returns to composer-conductor John Rutter, 78 today.
Berliner Philharmoniker – Herbert Blomstedt conducts Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen & Ludwig van Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.
Saturday, September 23, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin While the Enescu Festival was hosting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, with Klaus Mäkelä (Debussy, Faune and La mer) and Yuja Wang (both of Ravel’s Piano Concertos), the venerable...
Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestre National de France. Cristian Măcelaru conducts Enescu’s Third Symphony & Romanian Rhapsody No.1, with Kirill Gerstein playing Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.
George Enescu with Yehudi Menuhin Friday, September 22, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania Following their Rachmaninov encore last night,...
‘Callas – Paris, 1958′ – Celebrating Maria Callas’ Centenary, her historical performance is fully restored in colour for the first time.
Title: CALLAS - PARIS, 1958 Released in cinemas this November and December 2023 Visit MariaCallas.Film for all global release dates Director and Producer: Tom Volf Production & Restoration: Samuel Francois-Steininger ...
Many Happy Returns to Sir John Tomlinson, 77 today.
Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestre National de France. Cristian Măcelaru conducts Boulez’s Notations & Stravinsky’s Rite, with Augustin Hadelich playing Dutilleux’s L’Arbre des songes. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.
Thursday, September 21, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania Opening with the five Notations (I-IV & VII; 1945) that Pierre Boulez expanded from the aphoristic yet fertile piano originals (the plan was for him to do all twelve) and scored...
Enescu Festival 2023 – happening now, an afternoon performance of Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons, Giovanni Antonini conducting Il Giardino Armonico.
Thursday, September 21, 2023 The Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest IL GIARDINO ARMONICOGIOVANNI ANTONINI conductorNFM CHOIRLIONEL SOW artistic director of the choir Haydn The Seasons Hob XXI:3 ANETT FRITSCH Hanne...
BBC Young Composer 2023 winners announced.
Six composers have been selected out of over 350 entrants for the BBC’s biennial composition competition for 12 to 18 year olds In March, the BBC invited young music-makers of all technical abilities, musical backgrounds and styles from across the UK to enter a...