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annual arts festival in St. Petersburg, Russia during the season of the midnight sun
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Can’t get you out of my head
Trove Thursday presents its own “White Nights Festival” Glinka double bill.
2020-04-30 07:40:48
Russian opera before Glinka: Karina Gauvin & Pacific Baroque Orchestra's Nuits Blanches on ATMA
[…] to make us wish he had lived to write more. Both arias are substantial affairs in rather stylish performances with Gauvin providing fine passage-work. This disc is very much a Canadian production, as Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin is joined by the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, a Vancouver-base period instrument orchestra founded in 1990, whilst the first version of the programme on this disc was co-produced by Early Music Vancouver and Vancouver Opera for their 2018 Russian White Nights Festival.Whilst Russian operatic tradition started in earnest with the 1836 premiere of Glinka's La Life of the Tsar, this disc shows us that this tradition had its feet in the 18th century with this Italian-inspired music by Russian composers. For all the fine performances of the Gluck, his inclusion in the recital seems to stretch things somewhat and you feel perhaps Armide is here because a famous name was preferred, rather than for […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-08-14 07:08:00
Christian Blackshaw plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Schubert (HD 1080p)
[…] Sonatas series was recorded for Wigmore Hall Live and released in four volumes. Critics have been unanimous in their praise, describing these "landmark" recordings as "captivating", "magical" and "masterful". Volume 4 was named as one of the Best Classical Recordings of 2015 in the New York Times in addition to Gramophone Magazine's Top 50 Greatest Mozart Recordings.Recent notable performances include the Mozart cycle in Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing, a return to the Stars of the White Nights Festival, St Petersburg and debuts at the Schwetzingen and Edinburgh International Festivals.During the 2018-2019 season he is an Artist in Residence at the Wigmore Hall. In 2019 he takes the Mozart cycle to Montreal and makes his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nezet-Seguin.He has been appointed an MBE in the New Year 2019 Honours List.Source: christianblackshaw.com More photosSee alsoChangyong Shin plays Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin & Enrique […]
2019-05-02 13:57:25
Today is Russian conductor Valery Gergiev’s 66th birthday! Maestro Gergiev has served principal conducting positions with the Mariinsky Theatre, Munich Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Proms and the White Nights Festival. VALERY GERGIEV | RAVEL | BOLERO | LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..