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Symphony Hall, Birmingham Riccardo Chailly has as wide a repertoire as any conductor today, ranging from Bach right through to contemporary musi...
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Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century/Brüggen (Glossa, five CDs) Frans Brüggen and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century , the period-instrumen...
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"The tragedy of fate drives two people apart The husband's passion for his owrk leads him to overlook his wife's beauty, and the womnan herself che...
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Royal Albert Hall, London In this most surreal of summers – rain, diamond jubilee, Olympics, Paralympics, economic calamity, more rain – no one co...
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Seth MacFarlane brings out the battlers, the Broadway solo with added vavavoom and did you see the size of Mahler's hammer? The closing weeks of t...
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Royal Albert Hall, London After devoting the first of their two proms to Mendelssohn , the main work in Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewand...
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Have Riccardo Chailly and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra become one of those legendary pairings, like Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic ? C...
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Royal Albert Hall, London Saturday's Proms both aimed at changing the way we think. The afternoon found Cameron Carpenter redefining the organ r...
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Alma Schindler/Mahler/Gropius/Werfel was born on this day in 1879. As her first husband did not exactly encourage her compositional activities, her...
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"Again Martha?" you might say. Yes, again and again. YouTube is an endless spring of videos that put together reveal her entire career. An impress...
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Hillary Hahn’s taste for the unconventional has in recent years taken her career onto a trajectory unlike that of most violin prodigies. Last Octob...
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A collection of works by Ravel, Stravinsky, Weill and de Sabata feature the jazz pianist with the Gewandhausorchester
Following the success of...
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From choral monsters to period-instrument Debussy, Andrew Clements picks his highlights of this year's Proms concerts The BBC always keeps its sec...
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Part of the fun of the Proms is figuring out what trends prevail. Test your wits and knowledge of repertoire this year. This is part 2 of 2. For my...
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by Susan Elliott Health issues prevent his presiding over Strauss's "Ariadne" [...]
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The 1816 premiere of Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville" in Rome. Also on this day... The 1724 premiere of Handel's opera "Giu...
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South African born dramatic soprano hugely popular with audiences worldwide The internationally acclaimed dramatic soprano Elizabeth Connell, who ...
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It appears that the brilliant general director of La Scala, Stéphane Lissner , will stay in Milan until the end of 2015, and a list of their pr...
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Opera Divos and Divas
The greatest opera stars in the world – together in one 2-CD set.
This is a unique collection of all the great genuine o...
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(I’m joking, I’m joking … I do love working with conductors!) But … The first half of last night’s Boston Symphony Orchestra subscription program w...
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