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2016-05-26 16:46:32
Label news: Counting the Costa farewell
[…] most recent role, he served as worldwide president of three major classical music labels: Philips Classics, Decca and EMI Classics. In 1999 Costa played an integral role in the merger of the Philips and Decca labels, leading the combined Universal Music owned group until 2006. Costa has been central to the signing and, or, the success of a great many classical artists at Universal Music including Valery Gergiev, Andrea Bocelli, Seiji Ozawa, Mitzuko Uchida, Hayley Westenra, Sir Neville Marriner and many others. His knowledge and input have been invaluable and imperative to Universal Music’s continued success with classical music and we have been lucky to have such a passionate and invigorating person on our side. I look forward to working with Costa in the future and I’m sure you will join me in wishing him all the very best for his next adventure. Thank you Costa for all your hard […]
2016-05-06 02:31:16
[…] and others. I have to scroll down several pages of the chart to find the first real specifically classical disc – a recording of Handel’s Messiah by Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. The top slots in the UK are dominated by mainstream choirs and ‘popera’ singers with an antiseptic repertoire of popular religious tunes – the theatrically cheesy Only Men Aloud, plus the usual selections by Russell Watson, Katherine Jenkins, Charlotte Church, Josh Groban, Hayley Westenra, Aled Jones, Rhydian and The Priests. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not in any way rubbishing the talent of those artists; they can all sing in a way that I can’t and I’m jealous of them. As a genre crossover is a fine way to introduce listeners to a ‘purer’ classical music which is, if we’re honest, something of an acquired taste. Anyone with a love of Mahler or Britten or Stravinsky will tell […]
2016-02-19 13:12:11
[…] in the Top Ten of the U.K. pop charts, entering at number 6. The album contains renditions of Keane’s “Bedshaped”, “Maria” from West Side Story, Stevie Wonder’s “All in Love Is Fair”, and a duet with Katherine Jenkins titled “You Are My Miracle”. The US version of the album was titled simply Vittorio. The US version of the duet “You Are My Miracle” features Nicole Scherzinger of The Pussycat Dolls. In 2007, Grigolo and Hayley Westenra, as Tony and Maria, recorded West Side Story in conjunction with the Leonard Bernstein Foundation, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the musical. West Side Story entered the UK Classic FM Chart at number 1. Grigolo released his second studio album, “The Italian Tenor”, in 2010. It was rated by David Mellor as among the best opera recordings of 2010 in Classic FM. 3 Premieres In 1881 Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 3 was premiered […]
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Royal Opera House
2016-02-04 13:37:11
Watch: Christopher Wheeldon on his new ballet Strapless – 'A very relevant story for today'
[…] was irreparably tarnished and she was ostracized from high society. The story has inspired Strapless , a new ballet by Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet Christopher Wheeldon . 'It’s a very relevant story for today in a sense because it’s about how they build you up and then they break you down', says the choreographer. 'There's something magnetic about it.' In creating the scenario for the ballet, Christopher enlisted the support of dramaturg Charlotte Westenra , whose background lies in theatre rather than dance. ‘It’s a new medium for me', she says. 'You have to tell the story in a different way,' Charlotte explains. 'In the theatre you have a lot of shortcuts, but in ballet you have to do it emotionally and with the music.’ The score comes from Mark-Anthony Turnage – a second collaboration between the composer and Wheeldon following their collaboration on The Royal Ballet's Metamorphosis: […]
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