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2024-04-17 06:39:00
Southbank Centre's new season: Schoenberg's 150th, the OAE in Bruckner, Joyce Didonato in Berlioz, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim
[…] Chineke! perform music by Florence Price (the UK premiere of her Symphony No. 4!), Eleanor Alberga, Valerie Coleman and Brian Raphael Nabor, the London Symphony Orchestra pairs Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 with Schoenberg's A survivor in Warsaw, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will be burning the candle at both ends, presenting all of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos and performing Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 (not in the same programme!).The London Sinfonietta is celebrating Schoenberg's 150th anniversary, with Jonathan Berman conducting the Ode to Napoleon (no, I've never heard that live either) and Chamber Symphony. They will be joined by the Royal Academy of Music's Manson Ensemble for a performance of Morton Feldman's For Samuel Beckett. The Philharmonia Orchestra's Music of Today will feature conductor Chloe Rooke and soprano Ella Taylor in Saariaho’s Semafor and Hans Abrahmsen’s Two Inger Christensen Songs. The London Philharmonic Orchestra's season will include Evan Williams’ Dead White Man Music (Concerto for […]
2024-01-26 02:31:44
A professor at the Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, Italian pianist Martina Frezzotti studied with Lazar Berman, and later with Elisso Virsaladze at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Moscow, where she earned her doctorate. She follows up her marvelous Piano Classics solo debut CD devoted to Fanny Mendelssohn’s music with a well-curated Amy Beach program that represents […]
2023-11-14 10:11:00
Celebrating Franz Schmidt: Jonathan Berman's recordings of the symphonies reach completion for the composer's 150th anniversary
Franz SchmidtThe Austrian composer Franz Schmidt was born 150 years ago next year and in anticipation of the event, Jonathan Berman's Franz Schmidt project reaches completion with the boxed set of all four of Schmidt's symphonies being released digitally on Accentus on 17 November 2023 with Berman conducting the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (the physical release is 1 December).But it isn't just about the symphonies, Berman has been researching Schmidt for some years and his Franz Schmidt Project website presents the fruits of this research along with interviews with Fabio Luisi, Wayne Marshall, Simone Young and Franz Welser-Möst about Schmidt's music. The website also has an upcoming performances page, though you will have to travel if you want to hear one of Schmidt's symphonies, no UK performance are listed.Schmidt remains something of an unsung hero, his relatively conservative music is strongly in the Austro-Hungarian tradition. Born in what is now […]
2022-07-11 10:07:41
The young Italian-Serbian-French violinist Luka Faulisi has signed with both IMG Artists and Sony Classical, with both appointments being announced in tandem. Currently just 20 years old, Faulisi began learning the violin aged three and initially studied with Boris Belkin at the Conservatorium Maastricht in the Netherlands. He is now learning from Pavel Berman at […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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