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German pianist (1905-1955)
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2024-03-16 13:00:47
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Bertrand de Billy conducts a live Staatsoper performance with Roberto Frontali, John Osborn, Maria Nazarova, Jean Teitgen, and Lisette Oropesa in David Poutney‘s production
2024-03-07 09:16:00
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2024, at the Royal Northern College of Music
[…] Composition Award for her acclaimed opera Innocence: a portrait of lives changed by a high school shooting (it was staged by the Royal Opera). Her son, Aleksi Barrière, who was the opera’s co-librettist, collected the trophy. l The BBC Singers were recognised for the quality, style and imagination they bring to a range of endeavour, receiving the Ensemble Award. l François-Xavier Roth received the Conductor Award for his work with the London Symphony Orchestra and his own ensemble, Les Siècles; the Chamber-Scale Composition Award went to Laurence Osborn for TOMB! premiered by the GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival; the Storytelling Award went to Leah Broad for Quartet, a book about four female composers; and the Young Artist Award was presented to mezzo soprano Lotte Betts-Dean. PS: Having once been part of a partly similar awards shindig myself, it was like a reminder of old times to see how these things are put together. You invite all your nominees and their friends to come to swell […]
2024-03-06 09:47:00
Congratulations to all the winners at the 2024 RPS Awards, and a special mention for Jasdeep Singh Degun, the first Indian Classical musician to receive the Instrumentalist award
Jasdeep Singh Degun at the RPS Awards 2024 (Photo: Robin Clewley)Congratulations to everyone who was involved in last night's Royal Philharmonic Society Awards in Manchester, both the winners and all those terrific names who were nominated. A significant highlight was the Opera and Music Theatre Award, awarded to Ukrainian composers Illia Razumeiko and Roman Grigoriv for their opera Chornobyldorf and they travelled specially from Ukraine for the event. Sitarist Jasdeep Singh Degun received the Instrumentalist award. The first Indian Classical musician and the first sitarist to receive this award. Degun was also shortlisted for the Opera award and the Large-scale composition award.Leah Broad received the Storytelling award for her book Quartet, about Doreen Carwithen, Dorothy Howell, Ethel Smyth and Rebecca Clarke. Composer Laurence Osborn received the Chamber-scale Composition award for TOMB! written for GBSR Duo and 12 Ensemble. Kaija Saariaho received the Large-scale composition award for her final opera, Innocence. Whilst this award […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2023-12-19 16:22:40
Locke’s List for 2023: Notable Operatic Recordings Plus
[…] Cardona photo)[/caption] Most notable in this early-nineteenth-century group are the best recordings yet of two works long recognized as major: Spontini’s 1807 La Vestale (with Marina Rebeka utterly superb in a title role that once belonged to Maria Callas; this recording just won the Premio Abbiati del Disco for best opera recording of the year) and Robert le diable (1831) by the aforementioned Meyerbeer. The generally superb cast in Robert includes Erin Morley and John Osborn, both of whom are widely loved thanks to their frequent performances at the Met. Since 1900: The other operas that I had a chance to review and that impressed me particularly were all composed in the twentieth century or later. The first-ever recording (1960) of Carl Nielsen’s Saul and David (1902) was re-released, coupled with a fascinating work by Helge Bonnén (whose dates are 1896-1983) for actors and orchestra: poems from Edgar Lee Masters’s […]
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