Classical Music

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• Classical Music/Opera Listings

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
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• Dillon: Philomela: Komsi/Narucki/Peintre/Remix Ensemble, Porto/Hempel | CD review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  (Aeon, two CDs) Even by the standards of Greek tragedy, the story of Philomela is particularly gruesome. Philomela, sister of Procne, was raped by her brother-in-law Tereus, who then cut out her tongue to prevent her revealing his crime. When Philomela eventually managed to tell her sister what had happened, the two ...
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• Arias by Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner: Kaufmann/Mahler CO/Abbado | CD review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  (Decca) Discs of operatic arias seem to be ­proliferating at the moment, almost ­certainly because studio recordings of complete operas have become so expensive. But no other compilation that has crossed my path comes within striking distance of this collection taken from German-language stage works. Jonas Kaufmann ...
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• James Bowman on striking a high note

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Enough talk of a countertenor revival, says James Bowman; the falsetto voice has been steadily growing in popularity for half a century – just dont confuse it with the castrato The days of viewing the countertenor as an intriguing sideline are long gone. Perhaps I sound a little defensive, but all this talk of ...
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• Louis Andriessen | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Bates Mill, Huddersfield Louis Andriessen claims to have been the first person in the Netherlands ever to own a pair of blue jeans, brought back from America by his brother in the early 1950s. He was certainly the first Dutch composer to combine influences of big band swing, minimalism and even prog rock into a ...
  13 hours ago

• The Dream of Gerontius | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Royal Festival Hall, London Although Elgars orchestral works have occasionally attracted the attention of period-instrument pioneers, his choral works have resisted their advances, until now. This performance of The Dream of Gerontius by the Birmingham-based Ex Cathedra choir (part of its 40th anniversary season) was ...
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• CBSO/Nelsons | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Symphony Hall, Birmingham Magnus Lindbergs Clarinet Concerto was premiered in 2002 and, two years ago, was brought to the Proms by its dedicatee, the charismatic Kari Kriikku, a Finnish musician as striking as his name. Yet it is hard to imagine Kriikku giving a more gripping performance than this one with Andris ...
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• #4: The 99 Most Essential Tchaikovsky Masterpieces (Amazon Exclusive)

  
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  The 99 Most Essential Tchaikovsky Masterpieces (Amazon Exclusive) by Various Artists 2 days in the top 100 (6) Download: $1.99 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Bestsellers in MP3 Albums list for authoritative information on this product’s current rank.) Go here to read the rest:  #4: The 99 Most Essential ...
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• J Mervyn Williams obituary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Founder of Cardiff Singer of the World J Mervyn Williams, who has died aged 74, was head of music and arts at BBC Cymru Wales when he conceived Cardiff Singer of the World, the competition which in 1983 launched the career of Karita Mattila and, later, those of Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Bryn Terfel. The idea came to ...
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• The Woman in Whites 150 years of sensation

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 136
  Wilkie Collinss novel caused unprecedented excitement when it appeared in 1859, and has not lost its capacity to thrill One hundred and fifty years ago this week, Victorian readers opened Dickenss weekly magazine All the Year Round to find the concluding instalment of A Tale of Two Cities, and, immediately following ...
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• #6: The 99 Most Essential Tchaikovsky Masterpieces (Amazon Exclusive)

  
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  The 99 Most Essential Tchaikovsky Masterpieces (Amazon Exclusive) by Various Artists 1 day in the top 100 Download: $6.99 (Ranking is updated hourly. Visit the Bestsellers in MP3 Albums list for authoritative information on this product’s current rank.) Originally posted here:  #6: The 99 Most Essential ...
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• H. C. Robbins Landon, Haydn and Mozart Scholar, Dies at 83

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  H. C. Robbins Landon
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• Concert Review: Herve Duteil at the Organ at St. Thomas Church, NYC 11/15/09

  
  Lucid Culture — Authority: 470
  Herve Duteil trained as a classical organist, along the way winning and later judging international competitions. His dayjob appears to be finance, along with a position at NGO relief organization Fidesco USA . Good thing he hasn’t given up his other job as a concert performer: his recital at St. Thomas on the ...
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• Music Review | Richard Tucker Music Foundation: Opera’s Night to Take New Voices Into the Fold

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  With Fabio Luisi conducting on Sunday evening, Aleksandrs Antonenko performed “E lucevan le stelle” from “Tosca.”
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• Music review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic winning again at Disney Hall

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  The Berlin Brahms Bombers victory tour came to a premature finish Tuesday night. The leader of the Berlin Philharmonic , Simon Rattle, received a hero’s excited welcome. The Second Symphony proved smashing, as had the first night from this inimitable orchestra’s two-evening visit to Walt Disney Concert Hall. ...
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• The loneliness of the long-distance musician

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 807
  The life of a traveling musician forces a "monastic discipline of indifference," says the English pianist Stephen Hough.
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• Music: Debussy’s Homage to Poe, With the Blanks Filled In

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Phillip Addis and Ariadne Greif in the one-act opera “The Devil in the Belfry,” one of two incomplete works by Debussy.
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• Cecilia Bartoli | Classical review

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Barbican, London A Cecilia Bartoli concert is a package deal. You get a big personality, an extrovert show, a still-remarkable voice, and a lot of technically difficult vocal music on the margins of the repertoire from her latest CD. Plenty of people have had it with the Bartoli phenomenon. But a lot of others cant ...
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• Music Review | Kaija Saariaho: Finnish Composer Bursts Some of Her Own Myths

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  Kaija Saariaho Claire Chase playing in the Composer Portraitsseries at the Miller Theater.
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• In Conversation with Sting

  
  Sunday Arts Blog — Authority: 114
  I’ve been obsessively listening to “The Hounds of Winter,” one of the tracks on “If on a Winter’s Night,” Sting’s latest CD, a winter-themed album. The song isn’t new—it first came out more than a decade ago on Sting’s Mercury Falling—but it’s a superb new arrangement that pulls several ...
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