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Deutsche Grammophon and the Bayreuth Festival : long term collaboration
2016-08-01 06:01:00 UTCMany notable Bayreuth Festival productions have been released by Deutsche Grammophon, including Patrice Chéreau’s “Centenary Ring” and the legendary staging of Tristan und Isolde starring Birgit Nilsson and Wolfgang Windgassen. Today the Yellow Label is happy to announce that DG and Bayreuth will once again be joining forces in a… -
Tonight (29/07/2016) on BBC 4 : Mahler with B.Haitink
2016-07-29 07:19:00 UTCOn the shores of the Attersee in Upper Austria, the hut still stands in which Gustav Mahler set about creating one of the most overwhelming visions of nature in all art. The composer’s Third Symphony harnessed the expanse that surrounded him. Horns bray and trombones growl in the face of… -
Paul Kletzki in Lucerne : Brahms, Schubert and Beethoven
2016-07-27 06:42:00 UTCA rediscovery of a master: a leading podiumstar during his lifetime, Paul Kletzki, born Paweł Kleckiin the Polish city of Łódź on 21 March 1900, nowadays is considered an insider’s tip amongconnoisseurs. Volume 9 in theLUCERNEFESTIVAL Historic Performances series presents a live recording from thesummer of 1946 as a first… -
Gergiev in Munich, the Munich Philharmonic launches its own record label: MPHIL
2016-07-27 06:18:00 UTCOn 30 September 2016 the Munich Philharmonic and Music Director Valery Gergiev release the first two albums on its own label: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 – heartland repertoire for the Orchestra and its conductor. The releases come one year after the launch of the Munich… -
Gergiev in London : Rachmaninov and Balakirev
2016-07-27 06:10:00 UTCRachmaninov’s music reveals Gergiev at his best and his exploration of the composers’ somplete symphonies on LSO Live has received widespread acclaim. This September, the London Symphony Orchestra complete the cycle with a “full blooded and engrossing” performance of Symphony No1, coupled alongside another Russian masterpiece, Balakirev’s Tamara. Outstanding as… -
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore (YSTCM)
2016-07-27 06:03:00 UTCYSTCM offers a unique and adventurous 21st century Asian environment to train and educate performers, composers and recording engineers. Most talented young musicians come to the Conservatory from over 20 countries and each of them is offered full scholarship. The Conservatory is distinctively international in terms of its faculty, student… -
Benoît Mernier : La grâce exilée (Grace in exile)
2016-07-04 06:04:00 UTCCyprès presents a new CD « Grace in exile » with a trilogy of concertos by Belgian composer and organist Benoît Mernier, associated on this project with three different orchestras and conductors, and two great soloists.The first concerto for violin and orchestra, written in 2015, is dedicated to violinist…
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Naoko Yoshino : Harp Concertos
2016-07-04 05:59:00 UTCAparte Music presents this CD of the greatest harp sound of Naoko Yohino and Orchestre d’Auvergne with Robertoo Forés Veses, principal conductor and artistic director of the orchestra since 2012. Naoko Yoshino is a harpist on a great international level, acclaimed for her beautiful sound. She played with numerous orchestras… -
Satie : the Indispensable
2016-06-27 15:55:00 UTCOn the occasion of Erik Satie’s 150th anniversary, Durand-Salabert-Eschig (Universal Music Publishing France) and the City of Arcueil commissioned Music&Arts Networks to create a web documentary on the iconoclast composer. This 16 minute short film explores the place of Satie in Music History and discusses his life as citizen for… -
Julien Szulman talks about Christian Ferras
2016-06-22 13:46:00 UTCBrilliant French violinist, great soloist at the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Julien Szulman is also the founder and vice president of the association Les Amis de Christian Ferras, whose mission is to maintain the legacy of this legendary violinist. Since Deutsche Grammophon recently edited the album that… -
The Veremonda Resurrection
2016-06-15 06:35:00 UTCThe journalist Allison Zurfluh created together with a well-known photographer Michel Juvet a book called Veremonda Resurrection that follows a long creative process of transforming a manuscript of an ancient Venetian opera into a modern-day stage production. Allison Zurfluh, born in California, is a chief editor of two business and… -
Innovative discography of Liège Royal Philharmonic
2016-06-07 11:56:00 UTCRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège is exploring new interesting ideas to enrich its discography. The orchestra together with Bis label and chief conductor John Neschling, release the volume of total symphonic pieces of Respighi. This new CD is dedicated to the monumental Sinfonia Drammatica and the flaming prelude to the… -
Conductor Iván Fischer pays the price for his criticism of Orbán regime
2016-06-07 11:50:00 UTCThe Budapest Festival Orchestra is led by the Founder and Music Director Iván Fischer, internationally renowned and respected conductor, as well as an outspoken critic of growing antisemitism in Hungary and of the policies of the Orbán government. As the Hungarian Free Press informed, Mr. Fisher wrote in 2011 a… -
Monia Rizkallah, founder of El Akademia
2016-06-03 07:31:00 UTCMonia Rizkallah is the founder of El Akademia: project dedicated to young musical talents of Morocco. Monia Rizhallah, active musician at the Berliner musical scene, talks about her journey and ambitions. Can you present yourself and your musical journey? How did you pick violin as your instrument? Everything started in… -
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia 2016-2017
2016-06-01 07:36:00 UTCAntonio Pappano and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia have unveiled their programme for the 2016/17 season. Following up on the last season, the orchestra will focus i.a. on Beethoven, opening their season with Fidelio (along with Accademia di Santa Cecilia’s Chorus), and later presenting also his Piano Concertos no.3, 4… -
Manfred Honeck about the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
2016-06-01 06:13:00 UTCManfred Honeck and the legendary Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra are on tour across Europe. Music&Arts Networks met Manfred Honeck. You are from a very musical family. You have been yourself player in the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra, the most “traditional” orchestra in the world. Does the concept of “tradition” still make sense… -
Chen Zhangyi, composer and fine gourmet
2016-05-30 17:12:00 UTCThe piece of young Singaporean composer Chen Zhangyi was performed by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra during their European Tour of 2016. We met Chen before the concert in the Foyer of the Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall. Can you tell us about your piece « An Ethereal Symphony »? I started… -
Mason Bates : music of the 21st century
2016-05-30 05:55:00 UTC“Mason Bate’s exuberantly inventive music expands the symphonic palette with sounds of the digital age, animating large-scale narrative forms reminiscent of the nineteenth-century sound. A symphonist whose reach extends from the concert hall to beyond (and back), Bates employs a huge stylistic canvas to tell big stories, an approach he… -
Ravel by Lionel Bringuier
2016-05-26 12:07:00 UTCThe young French conductor Lionel Bringuier made his recording debut at the podium of his orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Lionel Bringuier took on a quite ambitious project as he confronts himself to the symphonic works by Maurice Ravel, that represent the high level standard reference for all French conductors. We were… -
The SERGEI RACHMANINOV INTERNATIONAL AWARD
2016-05-22 11:20:00 UTCThe SERGEI RACHMANINOV INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2015 was awarded on Tuesday night, May 17th, 2016 in Moscow. The Award is conferred on the individuals who take a special interest in Rachmaninov’s work and spirit and is intended to support and pay tribute to their work. Throughout the 2015 year the selection… -
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on tour and on Medici.tv
2016-05-21 12:40:00 UTCOn Friday, 20 May, the tour start of the big Europe tour of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeckwill take place in Kuppelsaal in Hannover, Germany. The orchestra will play 14 concerts in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland. Soloists will be percussionist Martin Grubinger, pianist… -
The Satie Project by Music&Arts Networks Day 2
2016-05-19 06:26:00 UTCThe Satie Project by Music&Arts Networks continues Yesterday, the team met some artists and musicologists for interviews : the pianists Bertrand Chamayou and Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, the musicologist Ornella Volta (the most important specialist of Erik Satie), and Emmanuel Hondré (Headmaster for the Concert Department- Philharmonie de Paris). CR :… -
The Satie Project by Music&Arts Networks Day 1
2016-05-18 06:51:00 UTCMay 17th 2016 was the day of 150th anniversary of the birth of Erik Satie. The French city of Arcueil (where Satie lived during almost 30 years), in the suburbs of Paris, was celebrating his most famous citizen. Commissioned by Universal Music Publishing France and the Council of Arcueil, Music&Arts… -
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason wins BBC Young Musician Award 2016
2016-05-17 11:42:00 UTCA 17-year-old cellist from Nottingham has been named as the winner of BBC Young Musician 2016. Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a Year 12 pupil at the comprehensive Trinity Catholic School and the Royal Academy of Music, said winning was “a wonderful feeling”. Dobrinka Tabakova, chairman of the judges, paid tribute to his… -
BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms 2016
2016-05-17 11:19:00 UTCAs has been the tradition for over 120 years now, the 2016 edition of BBC Proms, the world’s largest music festival, will offer a wide selection of concerts, spanning over 8 weeks. Opening and closing the festival, BBC’s own Symphony Orchestra will perform 12 concerts in total, offering a varied…