An opera in Paris, a new oratorio and Leon Kirchner’s birthday were among the highlights.
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Whistling While We Work
Whistling girls and cackling hens, Never make very good ends Such was the wisdom bestowed upon me by one annoyed adult at my childhood whistling…
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Concert Review: The Young Magician’s Guide to the Piano
Seong-Jin Cho plays Pictures at an Exhibition.by Paul J. Pelkonen The South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho returned to Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night.Photo by Harald…
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RECORD KEEPING | Pemi Paull’s Musicum Umbrarum Puts The Viola In Its Dark Place
What it lacks in hits, Pemi Paull’s Musicum Umbrarum makes up for as a treasure trove of intimate portraits played by the moody middling member…
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European church music prize goes to a Brit
The Preis der Europäischen Kirchenmusik 2019 is to be awarded to John Rutter for lifetime service to the genre. Founder of Collegium Records and the Cambridge…
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Death of an Italian experimentalist, 86
The composer Mario Bertoncini died on Saturday in Siena. A sought-after pianist, he began to mess with the insides of instruments and became the driving…
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Pleading His Case for the Guitar
The guitar is “the instrument of the people,” celebrated Spanish guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas argued Wednesday at the first of two Celebrity Series solo recitals…
View More Pleading His Case for the GuitarAnthropocene review – MacRae’s arctic adventure delivers operatic thrills
Theatre Royal, GlasgowStuart MacRae and Louise Welsh’s ensemble opera about an eerie Arctic expedition fuses dramatic flair, orchestral finesse and luminous vocals We are currently…
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Concertgebouw hints at next conductor
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra will launch its own European youth orchestra this summer. Given the ghastly title ‘RCO Young’ and made up of pan-European players…
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Berlin to release Furtwängler’s war records
The Berliner Philharmoniker will be putting out a 22-CD box set next month of the complete wartime recordings of Wilhem Furtwängler, its deeply compromised chief…
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