Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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BBC Proms 2023 – Souvenir photo of Prom 9: Mariza Sings Fado. Friday July 21 @ Royal Albert Hall.
Photo, Chris Christodoulou Mariza Luís Guerreiro Portuguese guitarPhelipe Ferreira guitarJoão Frade accordionAdriano Alves ‘Dinga’ bass guitarJoão Freitas percussionLondon Contemporary Orchestra https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nnzb
DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON AND THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL ENHANCE THEIR GLOBAL MEDIA PARTNERSHIP.
STAGE+ will present the international online premiere ofJay Scheib’s new production of Parsifal (26 July) Conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado, the superb cast of Parsifal is headed byElīna Garanča and Andreas Schager STAGE+ is also offering the...
Sad news: Tony Bennett – vocalist, champion of the Great American Songbook – has died aged 96.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCWu3UFyOtI
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 8: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Josep Pons conducts Falla & Debussy, and Ravel’s Boléro, with María Dueñas playing Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Chris Christodoulou Thursday, July 20, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London María Dueñas has been globetrotting with Lalo’s five-movement Symphonie espagnole, including...
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 7: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Tadaaki Otaka conducts Beethoven’s Fifth and Rachmaninov/Respighi Études-tableaux, with Elena Urioste playing Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Andy Paradise Wednesday, July 19, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Following a thirty-five-year association Tadaaki Otaka is now Conductor Laureate of BBCNOW, a meaningful rapport that enhanced Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which ended the concert in C-major light,...
NEWS RELEASE: OVER 1,100 SIGN LETTER CALLING ON EDUCATION SECRETARY TO REFORM SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES THAT DEVALUE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY SUBJECTS.
Today, the #SaveOurSubjects campaign, including representatives from the Independent Society of Musicians (ISM), the Edge Foundation, NSEAD, Action for Children’s Arts, the Sixth Form Colleges’ Association and One Dance handed in a letter to the Department for...
Pärnu Music Festival – Estonian Festival Orchestra – Paavo Järvi conducts Jüri Reinvere’s On the Ship of Fools, Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, with Mirjam Mesak singing Berg’s Seven Early Songs. Webcast.
Jüri Reinvere Sunday, July 16, 2023 Pärnu Concert Hall, Aida 4, Pärnu, 80011 Pärnu maakond, Estonia Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Jüri Reinvere's On the Ship of Fools, commissioned by Paavo Järvi and the Estonian Festival Orchestra, premiered July 15, is a winning...
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 6: BBC Philharmonic. Mark Wigglesworth conducts Grace-Evangeline Mason’s Ablaze the Moon & Mahler’s First; Sir Stephen Hough plays Rachmaninov. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Chris Christodoulou Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Performances, broadcasts and recordings of Mahler's First Symphony are ubiquitous, to its detriment, so a performance quite unlike the many previously heard was needed, however eccentric, if...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra Appoint Three Assistant Conductors.
Conducting Fellows Austin Chanu and Tristan Rais-Sherman promoted to assistant conductors, effective immediatelyNaomi Woo to serve as assistant conductor beginning in the 2024–25 season (Philadelphia, July 18, 2023)—Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and...