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2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] 1955 that his 11th symphony will commemorate the 50th anniversary of ‘Bloody Sunday’ when Czarist troops massacred peasants in a peaceful protest outside of the Imperial Palace in January 1905 thus causing a reaction that ignited the Russian Revolution. Therefore, Shostakovich 50 - one of the most comprehensive examinations of the works of Dmitri Shostakovich comes round in May/June 2025 - falls under the spell and artistic direction of Latvian-born conductor Andris Nelsons and Moscow-born conductor, Anna Rakitina, thereby offering a feast of Shostakovich like no other. God willing, I shall be there! Featured orchestras comprise the Gewandhausorchester, Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Festival Orchestra founded especially for the occasion. All the players have been carefully selected from members of the Mendelssohn Orchestra Academy and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. An unsurpassed roster of world-class performers includes Russian pianist/composer, Daniil Trifonov, Danish violinist/conductor, Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and Latvian violinist Baiba Skride. They’ll feature in the […]
2023-12-01 10:37:00
Monteverdi's first opera, the historically informed Ring Cycle continues, Bruckner's 200th birthday, composer Sven Helbig live - Dresden's 47th music festival
[…] in a performance of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. Other visitors include Abel Selaocoe and the Bantu Ensemble, violinist Eldbjørg Hemsing in Grieg Szymanowski, Faure and Ravel, pianist Hélène Grimaud and the Camerata Salzburg in Beethoven, Schumann and Mendelssohn, pianist Lang Lang, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann in Ravel and Debussy, violinist Daniel Lozakovich, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Manfred Honeck in Andrea Tarrodi, Sibelius and Dvorak, violinist Daniel Hope, cellist Jan Vogler (intendant of the festival), Deutsches Symphonie-orchester Berlin and Anna Rakitina in Florence Price, Tchaikovsky and Miklós Rózsa's Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Cello and Orchestra Op. 29, violinist Elen Urioste joins Chineke! for Fela Sowándé, Cassie Kinoshi and Max Richter. Jan Vogler joins the Philharmonia Orchestra and Santtu-Matias Rouvali for Anna Clyne's Cello Concerto. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Dresden Philharmonic are performing a group of concerts including music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev Countertenor Xavier Sabata will be joining the saxophone quartet Kebyart for everything from Handel to Gershwin and behond, soprano Simone […]
2023-08-07 14:59:19
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Anna Rakitina, conductor Joshua Bell, violin Eliza Bagg, Martha Cluver, and Sonja Dutoit Tengblad, vocalists July 30, 2023 LENOX – The Boston Symphony’s offerings on the weekend of the annual Festival of Contemporary Music dovetailed with its curation, lifting up female composers and, on Sunday, a conductor. Leading the orchestra on […]
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2023-02-15 16:57:09
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