Posts Tagged ‘Lucerne Festival’
« Back to E-News

We are very excited to welcome the wonderful Baritone William Berger to our artist roster. William will be performing with La Nuova Musica at Kings Place this June in his L’Orfeo debut. He is also performing the role of Alcandro in Garsington Opera’s production of L’Olimpiade this June.

In September William will be releasing his debut recital disc Insomnia: A Nocturnal Voyage on Delphian Records. The programme for the recital was devised by William for the 2011 Lucerne Festival and describes an imaginary voyage through a restless night, with music by Mozart, Debussy, Fauré, Wolf, Vaughan Williams, Liszt and Strauss.

To keep up to date with William’s work, visit his facebook page.

(Written on April 27, 2012 )

Every day the WildKat team scan the newspapers and blogs online to bring you a digested list of the day’s classical music news.

The Times

St Matthew Passion at the Olivier, London SE1

Expect shreds and patches in Jonathan Miller’s dramatised Passion; but also expect to be seriously moved, says Geoff Brown.

Gramophone

Alisa Weilerstein named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow

The cellist, named one of 22 MacArthur Foundation Fellows for 2011, wins a prize fund worth $500,000.

Evening Standard

Christian Gerhaher/Gerold Huber, Wigmore Hall – review

No one who heard Christian Gerhaher as Wolfram in Tannhäuser at Covent Garden last year will easily forget it. By Barry Millington.

The Guardian

Everything to play for at the Tchaikovsky competition

It’s the fiercest, sweatiest, most nerve-shredding competition in the classical world. Tom Service reports from Moscow.

The Telegraph

Lucerne Festival, Switzerland, review

This year’s Lucerne festival in Switzerland explored the favourite topic of the romantics: night. 5 stars from Ivan Hewett.

The Independent

How the Royal Opera House helped a suburb find its voice

Rob Sharp visits a community choir as it takes the stage at Covent Garden.

(Written on September 21, 2011 )

ACCENTUS Music label launches with four world-class DVD recordings – and YOU can be in with a chance to win any one of the four DVDs!

Following 20 years experience at Euro Arts, Paul Smaczny and an expert team of directors, editors and producers have launched Accentus Music – the newest label producing outstanding quality DVDs and classical concert recordings. This winter, Accentus release four exceptional DVDs and are giving you an opportunity to win one. All you have to do is become a fan of Accentus Music on facebook, then write an interesting fact about any one of the featured musicians or composers from the DVDs (see below) on the fanpage’s wall by 5pm(GMT) on Friday 3rd December. The person who writes the best and most interesting fact will win a copy of the DVD!


The first ground-breaking DVD is a recording of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, led by Claudio Abbado. This is the only commercially available recording of this popular orchestra under Abbado’s direction, despite their ten-year relationship. The DVD was recorded at the 2010 Lucerne Festival at Easter, at a concert which itself received rave reviews. The concert features the outstanding young soloist Anna Prohaska performing Mozart’s Ach, ich fühl’s.


The release of Daniel Barenboim’s Warsaw Recital celebrates both the 60th anniversary of the world-renowned pianist’s stage debut, as well as the 200th anniversary of the Chopin’s birth. Recorded live at the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw on the eve of Chopin’s birthday, the program includes some of the composer’s best-known works.


The third DVD is a unique recording of Chopin’s Piano Concertos featuring the Russian star pianists Evgeny Kissin and Nikolai Demidenko. The concert provides a thrilling interpretation of Chopin’s masterpieces accompanied by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Antoni Wit in dramatic high-definition.


The final release is a celebration of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, the eldest son of the great JS, bringing his works back to the attention of the general public. The world-première recording of four of his cantatas marks the composer’s 300th anniversary. The concert was performed by Dorothee Mields, Gerhild Romberger, Georg Poplutz, Klaus Mertens, the Bachchor Mainz and L’arpa festante under the direction of Ralf Otto.

(Written on November 26, 2010 )