Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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London Philharmonic Orchestra releases live recording of Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust on 3 November 2023, launching new partnership with Apple Music Classical.
Edward Gardner’s recording will be exclusively available on the app for 3 months and on general release from 3 February 2024 The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is delighted to announce its partnership with Apple Music Classical, the streaming app...
Enescu Festival 2023 – George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Arnaud Arbet conducts Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.
György Ligeti (1923-2006) Sunday, September 17, 2023 The Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest Not many operas begin with a car-horn consort, but Ligeti's wacky, weird and wonderful Le Grand Macabre does, a prelude to a surreal score that keeps the ear guessing and sustained,...
Enescu Festival 2023 – Moldova Philharmonic Orchestra of Iași. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.
Sunday, September 17, 2023 Radio Hall, Bucharest, Romania This third of seven Enescu Festival events on this particular Sunday (not untypical in terms of numbers, the first of which was the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra playing in the Odeon Theatre) found this...
Many Happy Returns to radio/podcast host, and teacher, Eric Kisch, 86 today. For Eric – Richard Tauber sings Franz Lehár; Solomon plays Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata; Ida Haendel essays Saint‐Saëns’s Violin Concerto No.3; and Herbert Blomstedt conducts Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony.
Eric Kisch, resident in Cleveland, Ohio, was the host of a weekly classical musical programme, Musical Passions, on WCLV 104.9 between 2004 and 2020, and today teaches for Case Western University's Laura and Alvin Siegal Lifelong Learning Program. Eric's family...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Iannis Xenakis, Márton Illés, Karl Amadeus Hartmann (Christian Gerhaher performs Gesangsszene) and György Kurtág. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.
Márton Illés (born 1975) Saturday, September 16, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin "A concert full of orchestral force: Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s Gesangsszene from Sodom and Gomorrah – composed in 1962/63 under the shadow...
Renowned composer ‘thrilled’ to write Christmas carol for Church of England’s 2023 theme.
London, 15 September 2023: This Christmas, the Church of England is inviting choirs across churches, schools, and communities to ‘join the song’ alongside one of the country's leading choral composers in a new interpretation of the beloved carol 'The First...
Severance Music Center to present free Hispanic Heritage Month Community Concert.
Severance Music Center to present free Hispanic Heritage Month Community Concert Sammy DeLeon and Lydia Esparra CLEVELAND — Severance Music Center will present a free concert in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month on Saturday, October 14, at 7...
Enescu Festival 2023 – State Philharmonic Orchestra of Sibiu. Roderick Cox conducts Ligeti & Tchaikovsky, with Ioana Cristina Goicea playing Korngold’s Violin Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.
Saturday, September 16, 2023 Radio Hall, Bucharest, Romania Following Ligeti's Lontano - which put the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Sibiu on its mettle regarding dynamics, sustained notes and creating a suspenseful atmosphere, as well as something coming from afar,...
Enescu Festival 2023 – Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Tugan Sokhiev conducts Symphonies by Enescu (No.1) and Tchaikovsky (No.5). Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.
Tugan Sokhiev Friday, September 15, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania For the first of its two concerts at the Enescu Festival (the second is tomorrow), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Antonio Pappano, music director;...