News topics of the month - August 2021
Every month, soclassiq analyses the web media for you and identifies those who have made the news. Here are the results for August 2021
These rankings can be very different from one country to another. Discover the ones the press is talking about elsewhere. Sometimes the areas of interest are very different.
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August 2021
Composers, Conductors, Performers & Lyrical singers (803)
Claudio Abbado
Mark Adamo
Johann Adolph Hasse
Thomas Adès
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Yasushi Akutagawa
Eleanor Alberga
Isaac Albéniz
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Marin Alsop
William Alwyn
Alexander Alyabyev
Pasquale Amato
Alicia Amo
Gilbert Amy
Marian Anderson
Leif Ove Andsnes
Giovanni Antonini
Malcolm Arnold
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Kurt Atterberg
Lera Auerbach
Milton Babbitt
Johann Christian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tadeusz Baird
Martin Baker
Rose Bampton
Ryan Bancroft
Samuel Barber
Daniel Barenboim
Edward Barnes
John Barry
Jamie Barton
Rachel Barton Pine
Béla Bartók
David Bates
Mason Bates
Édouard Batiste
Amy Beach
Sally Beamish
Harold Bedoya
Ludwig van Beethoven
Joshua Bell
Vincenzo Bellini
Adriana Ferrarese del Bene
Nicola Benedetti
George Benjamin
Alban Berg
Hector Berlioz
Lazar Berman
Benjamin Bernheim
Frieder Bernius
Leonard Bernstein
Walter Berry
Sophie Bevan
Kristian Bezuidenhout
Heinrich Biber
Michael von Biel
Gilles Binchois
Hildegard of Bingen
Jonathan Biss
Georges Bizet
Daníel Bjarnason
Easley Blackwood, Jr.
Angel Blue
Stephanie Blythe
Alfie Boe
Ruthilde Boesch
Florian Boesch
Carl Bohm
William Bolcom
François Borne
Jacques Bosch
Giovanni Bottesini
Lili Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Pierre Boulez
Adrian Boult
Trevor Eliot Bowes
James Bowman
Orla Boylan
Ina Boyle
Martyn Brabbins
Katarina Bradić
Johannes Brahms
Dennis Brain
Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu
Charlotte Bray
Benjamin Britten
Daisy Brown
Max Bruch
Anton Bruckner
Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Giles Bryant
Gavin Bryars
Isobel Buchanan
Ole Bull
Kenji Bunch
Khatia Buniatishvili
Edward Bunting
Joe Burke
Margaret Burke Sheridan
Richard Burkhard
Harry T. Burleigh
Karla Burns
Iain Burnside
Ferruccio Busoni
Britta Byström
Oscar Byström
John Cage
Maria Callas
Sethus Calvisius
Renaud Capuçon
Karen Cargill
Joana Carneiro
Enrico Caruso
Pablo Casals
Francesco Cavalli
Tito Ceccherini
Sergiu Celibidache
Thomas Hardie Chalmers
Cécile Chaminade
Jacques Charlot
Helen Charlston
Ernest Chausson
John Cheek
John William Cherry
Luigi Cherubini
John Chest
John Chetham
Susan Chilcott
Unsuk Chin
Erik Chisholm
Timothy Chooi
Frédéric Chopin
Franz Christoph Neubauer
Wong Kah Chun
Jeremiah Clarke
Thomas Clayton
Joy Clements
Van Cliburn
Grant Colburn
Dan Coleman
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Xavier Coll
Nadine Conner
Sarah Connolly
Aaron Copland
John Corigliano
Viorica Cortez
Ramiro Cortés
Louis Couperin
François Couperin
Jean Cox
Régine Crespin
William Croft
William Crotch
Lucy Crowe
Octave Crémieux
Theodoros Currentzis
Lorenzo da Da Ponte
Johan Dalene
Guy Danel
Nicholas Daniel
Richard Danielpour
Lise Davidsen
Ilana Davidson
Iestyn Davies
Andrew Davis
Emilio de De Marchi
Brett Dean
Claude Debussy
Frederick Delius
Lea Desandre
Bryce Dessner
Clarence Dickinson
Stephen Dickson
Simone Dinnerstein
Tom Dobson
Diana Doherty
Ernő von Dohnányi
Gaetano Donizetti
Peter Donohoe
Jonathan Dove
John Dowland
Finnegan Downie Dear
Julius Drake
Paul Dresser
George Dreyfus
Stanley Drucker
Théodore Dubois
Gustavo Dudamel
Guillaume Dufay
Susan Dunn
Henri Duparc
Lawrence Dutton
Antonín Dvořák
John Eaton
James Ehnes
Susanne Ehrhardt
Ernst Eichner
Karólína Eiríksdóttir
Hanns Eisler
Mark Elder
Edward Elgar
John Eliot Gardiner
Maxim Emelyanychev
George Enescu
Mahan Esfahani
Karlheinz Essl
Julio Estrada
Péter Eötvös
Michael Fabiano
Hila Fahima
Manuel de Falla
Richard Farnes
Louise Farrenc
Gabriel Fauré
Isabelle Faust
Morton Feldman
José de Ferrer
Kathleen Ferrier
Daniel Ferro
Liza Ferschtman
Catrin Finch
David Finckel
Iván Fischer
Julia Fischer
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Rob Fisher
Eliot Fisk
Renée Fleming
Carl Flesch
Juan Diego Flórez
Josephine Fodor
Xavier Foley
Mina Foley
Hippolyte Sazerac de Forge
Georg Forster
Lukas Foss
Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Zino Francescatti
César Franck
Vilde Frang
Joan Fresco
Dorothy Fuller
Sam Furness
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Ivan Galamian
Baldassare Galuppi
Elīna Garanča
Pasquale Gargiulo
Susana Gaspar
Gianluigi Gelmetti
Valery Gergiev
Elena Gerhardt
George Gershwin
Angela Gheorghiu
Alexander Gibson
Michael Gielen
Owen Gilhooly
Patrick Gilmore
Gustavo Gimeno
Ruth Gipps
Mauro Giuliani
Wallis Giunta
Barbara Giuranna
Philip Glass
Alexander Glazunov
Christoph Willibald von Gluck
Tito Gobbi
Karen Gomyo
Randall Goosby
Henryk Gorecki
Johann Gottlieb Naumann
Glenn Gould
Charles Gounod
Gary Graffman
William Grant Still
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Maurice Greene
Eleanor Greenwood
Edvard Grieg
Asmik Grigorian
Hélène Grimaud
Daniel Grimwood
Charles Groves
Edita Gruberová
Sofia Gubaidulina
Francisco Guerrero
Giancarlo Guerrero
Mónica Guillén
Mikołaj Górecki
Monroe H. Rosenfeld
Augustin Hadelich
Richard Hageman
Hilary Hahn
Matt Haimovitz
Bernard Haitink
Charles Hallé
Marc-André Hamelin
George Frideric Handel
Vernon Handley
Howard Hanson
Daniel Harding
Jeffrey Michael Harrington
Anja Harteros
Miguel Harth-Bedoya
John Hawkins
Joseph Haydn
Catherine Hayes
Battison Haynes
Emmanuelle Haïm
Johann David Heinichen
Anny Helm
Pablo Heras-Casado
Anna Herbst
Saioa Hernández
Philippe Herreweghe
Sarah Hicks
Jennifer Higdon
Paul Hindemith
Hanna Hipp
David Hite
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Peter Holder
Eugene Holmes
Gustav Holst
Johann Holzer
Daniel Hope
Jascha Horenstein
Joseph Horovitz
Yvonne Howard
Herbert Howells
Paul Huang
Eve-Maud Hubeaux
Robert A. Hudson
Ramón Humet
Engelbert Humperdinck
János Hunyadi
Peter Hänsel
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Steven Isserlis
Charles Ives
Ildikó Iván
Gordon Jacob
René Jacobs
Marek Janowski
Janine Jansen
Leoš Janáček
Georg Jarno
Charles Wesley Jarvis
Sofi Jeannin
Adolf Jensen
Guy Johnston
Andrew Johnston
André Jolivet
John Jones
David Junghoon Kim
Vladimir Jurowski
Paavo Järvi
Kristjan Järvi
Neeme Järvi
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Heinrich Kafka
Vasily Kalinnikov
Carlos Kalmar
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Nikolai Kapustin
Kirill Karabits
Herbert von Karajan
Elizabeth Karani
Richard Kaufman
Jonas Kaufmann
Ida Kavafian
Simon Keenlyside
Herbert Kegel
Barbara Kemp
Willem Kes
John van Kesteren
Aram Khachaturian
Dmitry Khvorostovsky
David Kim
Bomsori Kim
Erich Kleiber
Carlos Kleiber
Otto Klemperer
August Klughardt
Anastasia Kobekina
Jennifer Koh
Christiane Kohl
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Viktor Kosenko
Iosif Kotek
Alfredo Kraus
Fritz Kreisler
Gidon Kremer
Ernest Krähmer
Pekka Kuusisto
Ilkka Kuusisto
Dane Lam
Joseph Lamb
Lang Lang
Alison Langer
Bethan Langford
Agustín Lara
Tessa Lark
Winifred Lawson
Mhairi Lawson
James Lee III
Alain Lefèvre
Jean-Xavier Lefèvre
Dieter Lehnhoff
Kenneth Leighton
François Leleux
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Simon Lepper
Hermann Levi
James Levine
Eugene Levinson
Igor Levit
Andreas Lidel
György Ligeti
Magnus Lindberg
Hans-Martin Linde
Kate Lindsey
Hannu Lintu
Jan Lisiecki
Franz Liszt
Elizabeth Llewellyn
Grant Llewellyn
Alexander Lonquich
Johann Ludwig Krebs
Vicente Lusitano
Angharad Lyddon
José Antonio López
George M. Cohan
Yo-Yo Ma
Hamish MacCunn
Jeanette MacDonald
James MacMillan
Stuart MacRae
Guillaume de Machaut
Alexander Mackenzie
Lucas Macías Navarro
Gustav Mahler
Gian Francesco de Majo
Otto Malling
Michael Mann
Horace Mansion
Bruno Mantovani
John Mark Ainsley
Karel Mark Chichon
Wynton Marsalis
Joseph Martin Kraus
Malcolm Martineau
Bohuslav Martinů
Pietro Mascagni
Jules Massenet
André Mathieu
Colin Matthews
John McCormack
Ali McGregor
Marie McLaughlin
Délfor Medina
Alexander Melnikov
Leigh Melrose
Juanjo Mena
Felix Mendelssohn
Elena Mendoza López
Quirino Mendoza y Cortés
Simone Menezes
Olivier Messiaen
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Myron Michailidis
Joseph Middleton
Irena Milkevičiūtė
Nathan Milstein
Marilyn Mims
Aoife Miskelly
Florian Mock
Michael Mofidian
Meredith Monk
Maria Montana
Claudio Monteverdi
William Henry Montgomery
Philip Moore
Thomas Moore
Michael Morgan
Nina Morgana
Elsie Morison
Catriona Morison
Thomas Morley
Ennio Morricone
Hannah Morrison
Theodore F. Morse
Johannes Moser
Edda Moser
Stephen Mould
Leopold Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Nico Muhly
Gráinne Mulvey
John Murphy
Ann Murray
Thea Musgrave
Riccardo Muti
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Klaus Mäkelä
Étienne Méhul
Kent Nagano
Minnie Nast
Robert Nathaniel Dett
Kenneth Neate
Benedict Nelson
Andris Nelsons
Anna Netrebko
Heinrich Neuhaus
Olga Neuwirth
Ginette Neveu
Gemma New
Eric Paul Nichols
Carl Nielsen
Nikolay Matveevitsj Nikiforov
Alexey Nikolayevich Titov
Joaquín Nin
Raimund Nolte
Luigi Nono
Roger Norrington
Gianandrea Noseda
Vítězslav Novák
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Russell Oberlin
Elizabeth Ogonek
Garrick Ohlsson
David Oistrakh
James Oldfield
Sakari Oramo
Jakub Józef Orliński
Rafael Orozco
Andrés Orozco-Estrada
Tadaaki Otaka
Alex Otterburn
Seiji Ozawa
Mark Padmore
Niccolò Paganini
Andrzej Panufnik
Antonio Pappano
Eugenie Pappenheim
Anna Patalong
Stephen Paxton
Rafael Payare
Anthony Payne
Francesco Pennisi
Itzhak Perlman
Marlis Petersen
Kirill Petrenko
Gregor Piatigorsky
Astor Piazzolla
Trevor Pinnock
Ignaz Pleyel
Juliette Pochin
Ferdinand Poise
Maurizio Pollini
Lily Pons
Christoph Poppen
Tom Poster
Francis Poulenc
Jorge Luis Prats
Jessica Pratt
Giuseppe Prestini
Florence Price
Nick Pritchard
John Pritchard
Anna Prohaska
Sergei Prokofiev
Georges Prêtre
Giacomo Puccini
Henry Purcell
Sabina Puértolas
Arvo Pärt
Ailyn Pérez
Junping Qian
Thomas Quasthoff
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Walter Rabl
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Anita Rachvelishvili
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Suzanne Ramon
Thomas Randle
Simon Rattle
Maurice Ravel
Anton Reicha
Roger Reynolds
Sviatoslav Richter
Max Richter
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Rick Robinson
Peter Robinson
Pierre Rode
Richard Rodney Bennett
Natalya Romaniw
Alexander Romanovsky
Sergey Romanovsky
Hans Rosbaud
Aemilian Rosengart
Antonio Rosetti
Bob Ross
Gioachino Rossini
François-Xavier Roth
Daniel Roth
Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Arthur Rubinstein
Alexander Rudin
Maxim Rysanov
Kaija Saariaho
Xavier Sabata
Victor de Sabata
Yutaka Sado
Chevalier de Saint-George
Camille Saint-Saëns
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Richard Salter
Carolyn Sampson
Ignatius Sancho
Ruth Sandhoff
Alice Sara Ott
Emil von Sauer
William Savage
John Savournin
Pierre Schaeffer
R. Murray Schafer
Konstantin Scherbakov
András Schiff
Michael Schneider
Arnold Schoenberg
Franz Schubert
Mark Schultz
Klaus Schulze
Clara Schumann
Robert Schumann
Ignaz Schuppanzigh
Gerard Schwarz
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Alexander Scriabin
Dominic Sedgwick
Friedrich Seitz
Abel Selaocoe
Peter Selwyn
William Shakespeare
Caroline Shaw
Allen Shearer
Vissarion Shebalin
Arthur Shepherd
Simon Shibambu
Sean Shibe
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius
Joseph Silverstein
Gabriela Sima
María José Siri
Dmitry Sitkovetsky
Stanisław Skrowaczewski
Leonard Slatkin
Bedřich Smetana
Artur Penha Soares
Antonio Soler
Kian Soltani
Georg Solti
John Philip Sousa
Farren Soutar
Michel de Souza
Nicky Spence
Toby Spence
Gaspare Spontini
Anton Stadler
Andreas Staier
Simon Standage
Ilia Staple
Andrew Staples
Ethel Stark
Dalia Stasevska
Catherine Stephens
Joseph Stephenson
Andrew B. Sterling
Isaac Stern
John Stevenson
Katie Stevenson
Noah Stewart
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mark Stone
Nancy Storace
John Storgårds
Alessandro Stradella
Antonio Stradivari
Oscar Strasnoy
Stuart Stratford
Richard Strauss
Johann Strauss II
Igor Stravinsky
Alessandro Striggio
Josef Suk
Arthur Sullivan
Gemma Summerfield
Atli Heimir Sveinsson
Jonathan Swensen
Joseph Swensen
Marguerite Sylva
Yi-Kwei Sze
Karol Szymanowski
Franz Xaver Süssmayr
Dobrinka Tabakova
Otar Taktakishvili
Georg Tales
Thomas Tallis
Antoine Tamestit
Karen Tanaka
Georg Philipp Telemann
Bryn Terfel
Alexandre Tharaud
Jacques Thibaud
William Thomas
Cédric Tiberghien
Robin Ticciati
Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tippett
Vincenzo Tommasini
Michael Torke
Francesco Paolo Tosti
Donald Tovey
Joan Tower
Gilles Tremblay
Robin Tritschler
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Eva Turner
Mitsuko Uchida
Yoshie Ueno
Floro Ugarte
Juraj Valčuha
Jos van Van Immerseel
Julien Van Mellaerts
Tibor Varga
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Christopher Ventris
Giuseppe Verdi
Shirley Verrett
Roger Vignoles
Jory Vinikour
Antonio Vivaldi
Ilan Volkov
Bogdan Volkov
Edo de Waart
Richard Wagner
Adam Walker
Sarah Walker
William Walton
Yuja Wang
Huw Watkins
Paul Watkins
André Watts
Franz Waxman
Carl Maria von Weber
Joseph Webster
Alisa Weilerstein
Kurt Weill
Mieczysław Weinberg
Franz Welser-Möst
Hans Werner Henze
Paul Whelan
Paul Wiancko
Camilla Wicks
Jörg Widmann
Henryk Wieniawski
Ryan Wigglesworth
Mark Wigglesworth
Simon Wilding
Dora Wiley
Adrian Willaert
John Williams
Harriet Williams
Roderick Williams
Lawrence Winters
Zun-Hin Woo
Henry Wood
Julia Woolf
Édouard Woolley
Shai Wosner
Frank Wyatt
Robert Xavier Rodriguez
Ye Xiaogang
Dingle Yandell
Adrian K. Yee
Thomas Zehetmair
Jeffrey Zeigler
Dante Zucchi
Pinchas Zukerman
Joachim a Burck
Víkingur Ólafsson
Luka Šulić
Orchestras & Ensembles (134)
Academy of Ancient Music
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
American Bach Soloists
American Composers Orchestra
American Youth Symphony
Anima Eterna
Ars Antiqua Austria
Attacca Quartet
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC Philharmonic
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Glasgow)
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra (London)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Bampton Classical Opera
Baroque Orchestra
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bavarian State Opera (Munich)
Bavarian State Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
British Youth Opera
Britten Sinfonia
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Camerata Salzburg
Canadian Opera Company (Toronto)
Cappella Coloniensis
Chamber Domaine
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Chanticleer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
City of London Sinfonia
Cleveland Orchestra
Collegium Vocale Gent (Ghent)
Concerto Copenhagen
Concerto Köln (Cologne)
Danel Quartet (City of Brussels)
Deutsche Oper Berlin (Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf)
Emerson Quartet
Emerson String Quartet
English National Opera (London)
Hanover Band
Harlem Quartet
Houston Symphony
Il Giardino Armonico
Il Pomo d'Oro
Imani Winds
International Contemporary Ensemble
JACK Quartet
Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
Kammerorchester Basel
Kansas City Symphony
Kremerata Baltica
Latvian Radio Choir
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Les Arts Florissants
London Mozart Players
London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra (Barbican Centre)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Manchester Camerata
Metropolitan Opera (New York City)
Minnesota Orchestra (Minneapolis)
Monteverdi Choir
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Munich Chamber Orchestra
NFM Wrocław Philharmonic
NHK Symphony Orchestra
National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.)
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
Navarra String Quartet
New Century Chamber Orchestra
New Japan Philharmonic
New World Symphony (Miami Beach)
New York Chamber Symphony
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Northern Sinfonia
Oakland Symphony
Opera Atelier (Toronto)
Opera Holland Park (Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea)
Opera North (Leeds)
Oratorio Society of New York
Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur
Orchestre Métropolitain
Orchestre National de France
Orchestre de Paris
Oregon Symphony
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (New York City)
Oslo Philharmonic
Pacific Symphony (Santa Ana)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Rolston Quartet
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
San Diego Symphony
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony Chorus
Santa Fe Opera
Sarasota Orchestra
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Seattle Symphony
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
Silent Opera
Silk Road Project
Sitkovetsky Trio
Southbank Sinfonia
Springfield Symphony Orchestra
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
The Little Orchestra Society
Tonhalle Orchester Zürich
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Tête à Tête
Ulster Orchestra
Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
Utah Symphony – Utah Opera
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Vienna State Opera (Innere Stadt)
Vienna Symphony
Zehetmair Quartet
hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt)
Opera houses, Concert halls & Festivals (52)
Aldeburgh Festival Alhambra (Genève-Cité) Alte Oper (Frankfurt) Bing Concert Hall (California) Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunswick) Bregenzer Festspiele Buxton Festival Cadogan Hall (London) Carnegie Hall (Manhattan) Colorado MahlerFest Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) Early Music Festival (Utrecht) Edinburgh International Festival (City of Edinburgh) Elbe Philharmonic Hall (Hamburg-Mitte) Festival de Lanaudière Festival de Peralada Gewandhaus (Zentrum) Grimeborn (East London) Handel Festival (Halle (Saale)) Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles) Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe International Beethoven Festival Bonn Komische Oper (Berlin) Komische Oper Berlin (Berlin-Mitte) La Scala (Milan) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Manhattan) Lucerne Festival Mariinsky Theatre (Saint Petersburg) Memorial Opera House (Valparaiso) Nevill Holt Opera (Leicestershire) Notre-Dame de Paris Olympia (9th arrondissement of Paris) Oper Frankfurt Peralada Castle Ravinia Festival (Illinois) Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro) Royal Albert Hall (City of Westminster) Royal Opera House (City of Westminster) Sage Gateshead Salzburg Festival Snape Maltings Tanglewood (Massachusetts) The International Chamber Music Festival in Plovdiv The Proms (London) Usher Hall (City of Edinburgh) Verbier Festival Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles) War Memorial Opera House (San Francisco) Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall Washington National Opera (Washington, D.C.) Wigmore Hall (City of Westminster) York Early Music Festival