Kimiko Ishazaka and Robert Douglass will be featured at Munich’s Classical:NEXT conference on 31st May, where they will provide a demonstration of the Open Goldberg Project. Audience members will have the capability to see every note played via their partners’; MuseScore and SampleSumo’s unique technology.

Previously, the public domain Goldberg Variations scores and recordings were extremely hard to locate or non-existent. The Open Goldberg Project (OGP) desired to produce a public domain score and recording that is easily accessible to all. MuseScore.com is creating a public version of the score using open source software, based on an open peer review process.

Thanks to Robert Douglass’ vision, the project is realised! Through the use of crowd-funding via Kickstarter, the OGP raised over $20,000. Embracing technology – from raising funds to online publishing to open peer review and sourcing – is a distinguishing feature of the project.

The score and recording will be available for digital download on 28th May 2012.

For more information on the Variations and the free download please visit the OPG website here

For more information on Classical:NEXT please visit their website here

For information on the new technolgy used please visit MuseScore’s website here and SampleSumo’s here

(Written on May 18, 2012 )

Die Debüt-CD “Pisendel – Violinkonzerte aus Dresden” des begabten Barockgeigers Johannes Pramsohler mit Werken von Händel, Fasch und Pisendel, erhielt in einer Rezension des Fono Forum Magazins jeweils fünf von fünf Sternen in den Rubriken ‘Musik’ und ‘Klang’. Unter der Leitung von Pramsohler spielten die ‘International Baroque Players’ unter anderem nie eingespielte Stücke von Händel und Heinichen.

Die Rezension von Richard Lorber lobt vor allem das perfekte Zusammenspiel Prahmsohlers mit den Hörner, die unglaubliche Präzision der Stücke und den weitläufigen Klang, der dem Hörer das Gefühl gibts, “als spürte man den Bogen oder die Lippen am Blatt”.

Lesen Sie die vollständige Rezension hier:

(Written on May 17, 2012 )

Kathleen Alder, WildKat PR’s Founder-Director, will be appearing at the global classical music conference, Classical:NEXT in Munich at the end of May. She has been selected to be one of four specialist mentors discussing different aspects of the classical music industry. Kathleen will be discussing PR and social media tools with her mentorees in pre-booked fifteen-minute sessions. Other mentors will include Penny King, of Arts Council England, Philip Krippendorff of Artefakt Classica and Michaela Ludyk of Monogenuss Records / Andy K. Productions oHG.

For more information on Classical:NEXT and its mentoring program, please click here

(Written on May 16, 2012 )

(Written on May 14, 2012 )

You can watch a new video about the exciting Open Goldberg Project on Youtube now. Pianist Kimiko Ishizaka talks about her involvement in the project and the passion that inspired it.

The Open Goldberg Project, which was funded entirely through the crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter and raised over $20,000, has made a recording of pianist Kimiko Ishizaka playing all of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. It will be available for everyone to download for free from May 28^th.

To visit the website, learn more about the Open Goldberg project and download the amazing recording please click here

To view the video (in Geman) please click below

(Written on May 11, 2012 )

WildKat PR are thrilled to welcome Emily Howard to its artist roster. A young British composer, with an Oxford degree in Mathematics and Computation, whose (already) varied body of work has taken the classical music world by storm. The musical structure of her compositions is influenced by techniques derived from mathematical principles and her themes are wide-ranging. Whilst ‘Magnetite’ and ‘Calculus of the Nervous System’ are informed by science, poetry, psychology and history, her latest work, the witty mini-opera Zátopek!, commissioned by New Music 20×12 for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, was inspired by a Czech long-distance runner by the same name.

Watch out for her work ‘Calculus of the Nervous System’, her BBC Prom debut, on August 21^st 2012.

For more information please visit her website and her Facebook page

(Written on May 4, 2012 )

We loved Unmissables, our series highlighting our favourite concerts. It gives us a chance to share the events which we are most looking forward to each month. We’ve relaunched the series over on our Pinterest page. We will regularly be selecting and sharing a few of our highlights from around the world, but don’t forget to share with us the concerts which you are looking forward to as well – we’d love your input!

(Written on May 3, 2012 )

For this year’s Spitalfields Music Summer Festival, Andrew Staples, with his company Vignette Productions, will be presenting a new staging of two trailblazing oratorios on the theme of Sacrifice.

‘Sacrifices’ sees Vignette collaborate with La Nuova Musica and their conductor David Bates for concerts on 14th and 15th June. It is focusing on two early oratorios: Carissimi’s Jephte and Charpetentier’s Sacrificium. The piece evolves from the questions of faith and ritual and what it is to sacrifice.

Click here to read David Bates’ interview with the BBC Music Magazine and visit the Spitalfields Music website for more information.

(Written on May 2, 2012 )

WildKat PR welcomes Classico Latino to its artist roster. The dynamic trio of violin, cello and piano fuse traditional Latin-American melodies and rhythms with classical techniques to produce a phenomenal sound. Upcoming engagements include a fixture at the House of Lords in conjunction with Earth Song, as well as a tour to Colombia in June.

For more information and to keep up to date with their latest news, visit their website http://classicolatino.com/blog/ or their Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/classicolatino

(Written on May 1, 2012 )

ACCENTUS Music releases its newest DVD: ‘Bruckner 5 – Claudio Abbado, Lucerne festival Orchestra’ in the UK today. Audiences and critics alike were taken by the performance,which was recorded live at the Lucerne Festival 2011, The Guardian wrote of Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra performing the repertoire in London: ‘The composer himself, one suspects, might have leapt to embrace Abbado as an ideal interpreter’.

For more information visit the ACCENTUS Music website  here.

To view the trailer please click below:

(Written on April 30, 2012 )