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Published: 03 February 2012
Antoine Tamestit will be touring North America during February. He will give a series of master classes at the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia and the New England Conservatory, Boston on the 7th and 10th February and then travel to Canada for a recital in Pollack Hall, Montreal on 12th February. He will also give master-classes at the Montreal Conservatory of Music. Tamestit’s programmes will include Brahms Viola Sonata in E flat, Schumann...
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Published: 03 February 2012
After a busy month of rehearsals in January, February will see Rory Macdonald give five performances of Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia with Houston Grand Opera (February 3 to 11).
The following week, Rory will return to the Hallé Orchestra with whom he will give six performances over the course of ten days, including three concerts at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. The programmes will include orchestral works by Mozart, Sibelius and...
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Published: 02 February 2012
Giancarlo Guerrero makes debuts with the Monte Carlo Philharmonic and Strasbourg Philharmonic during February. He begins in Strasbourg, conducting Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Gershwin on 3 February. The programme will also include Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, which was released by Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra on Naxos in 2010.
Guerrero will then conduct the Monte Carlo Philharmonic at home before taking them...
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Published: 01 February 2012
Ingrid Fliter makes her debut with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra on 2 February, playing Beethoven Piano Concerto No3 with Juanjo Mena in a celebratory inauguration concert for the concert hall’s new Steinway piano.
Fliter will then bring the same concerto to the UK for a performance with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner on 9 February. Beethoven has been a focus for Ingrid Fliter this season, following the...
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Published: 01 February 2012
Joshua Weilerstein returns to Europe for three important debuts this month. On 3 February he leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony in a programme of Mendelssohn, Ravel, Tchaikovsky Francesco da Rimini and Wagner Siegfried Idyll. The concert will be broadcast live on Hessischer Rundfunk and relayed again on 14 February.
On 16 February, he will conduct the Oslo Philharmonic in a demanding programme of Beethoven Triple Concerto and Lutoslawski’s...
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Published: 01 February 2012
Debussy
Complete Orchestral Works
Emmanuel Ceysson, Alexandre Doisy, Paul Meyer,
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Leipzig MDR Radio Choir
Orchestre National de Lyon
Jun Märkl
Naxos 8.509002
This collection contains all Debussy’s works for orchestra as well as many orchestral arrangements of his piano music. Together these display a rich panorama of Debussian sound and a remarkable insight into the composer. Established arrangements by...
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Published: 31 January 2012
"When Swiss conductor Baldur Brönnimann was a student 25 years ago, "if you had more than 30 people at a concert it was a failure because it was populist crap". Today, there are growing signs that contemporary classical music is shrugging off its elitist reputation, with audiences flocking to work previously regarded as austere and impenetrable."
"It's the weirdest pieces which get the strongest reaction," says Brönnimann. "Prometeo by Nono is...
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Published: 31 January 2012
This month, Denis Kozhukhin makes his debut with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop. Kozhukhin will give three performances of Rachmaninov’s Variations on a theme of Paganini, including a concert at the Lighthouse in Poole on 1 February, which will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.Click here to listen again on the BBC website.
Later this month, Denis Kozhukhin returns to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, where he...
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Published: 31 January 2012
Leonidas Kavakos returns to the Wigmore Hall on February 1 for the second recital of his 2011/12 Beethoven sonata cycle with renowned America pianist, Emanuel Ax. The duo will complete their cycle with a recital in April.
With his regular collaborator, Enrico Pace, Kavakos continues his Beethoven sonata cycles on tour in Italy: in Florence (February 5 and February 26), in Venice (February 6) and in Milan (February 7).
On February 15...
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Published: 30 January 2012
Following his great success at the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival (BBC Northern Ireland) in October 2011, Eugene Ugorski returns to Belfast on 31 January 2012 to perform with the Ulster Orchestra. This concert will be broadcast live at 2pm by BBC Radio 3 as part of their programme ‘BBC Invitation Concerts, Russian Greats’. Ugorski will perform Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.2. Conducted by the orchestra’s Principal Conductor, JoAnn Falletta, the...
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