Gramophone

Jordi Savall Honoured By The York Early Music Festival

Viol player receives Lifetime Achievement Award.

Jessica Duchen’s Classical Music Blog

You Know Those TV Phone-In Votes?

Have you ever wondered what happens to the money from those expensive TV phone-in votes for BBC talent shows? It might be going on some pretty good causes.

Intermezzo

Herheim Rusalka Free Streaming

To add to this week’s free laptop viewing, La Monnaie are streaming a recently recorded performance of Rusalka on demand from Tuesday 27 March to Monday 16 April.

Arts Journal: Slipped Disc

Watch This: Serious Pianist, Canadian, Makes It Onto US Prime Time TV

Marc-Andre Hamelin is a pianist’s pianist, an artist for the keyboard connoissuer. So what was he doing on US prime time last night?

Readers ‘Often Know More Than I Do’: A Critic Redefines His Job For The Online Age

Anyone who is concerned with the formation of received opinion and artistic canon must read this.

Want To See Dudamel’s Record-Breaking Mahler 8?

Over 1,000 musicians, more than 20 countries and 1 symphony: Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, “Symphony of a Thousand” comes to cinema screens across Europe in April 2012

http://www.artsjournal.com/slippeddisc/2012/03/want-to-see-dudamels-record-breaking-mahler-8.html

(Written on March 22, 2012 )

JDCMB 

Director Sergio Morabito talks about THAT PRODUCTION of Rusalka

The Wieler-Morabito production of Rusalka at Covent Garden has proved a lot more controversial in terms of critical response than The Death of Klinghoffer at ENO.

NY Times 

Royal Shakespeare Company Bringing Dahl’s ‘Matilda the Musical’ to Broadway

The Royal Shakespeare Company announced on Tuesday that its production of “Matilda the Musical” will open on Broadway in early 2013.

Red Holloway, Swinger of the Sax, Dies at 84

‘His powerful, brassy notes and chunky vibrato swung, regardless of the genre.’

The Guardian 

Backstage at rehearsals for Aida at the Royal Albert Hall

Sarah Lee was allowed backstage access to photograph final rehearsals.

BBC Music Mag 

Listen to the DVD BBC Music Magazine Awards podcast

Learn more about the three recordings nominated in the DVD category

Gramophone 

Philips engineer Onno Scholze has died

The man behind the sound of many magnificent recordings

Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva signs to Decca Classics

First album released in February 2013

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/russian-soprano-julia-lezhneva-signs-to-decca-classics

(Written on February 29, 2012 )

NY Times 

What Happens in Vegas Will Also Happen at the Met Next Season

Look for Vegas flash at the Metropolitan Opera next season.

Kay Davis, Coloratura, Soared in Wordless Songs, Dies at 91

“She was a classically trained coloratura,” Phil Schaap.

Kurt Masur Withdraws From Performances With Boston Symphony Orchestra

The conductor Kurt Masur, 84 and increasingly frail, has withdrawn from performances of Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

JDCMB

Cats and mermaids take over Covent Garden

Jessica Duchen went to have a sneak peek behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House the other week, where they were rehearsing Rusalka 

The Guardian

Why Oramo is great news for the BBCSO

Conductor Sakari Oramo will raise the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s game and put a smile on their faces, writes Fiona Maddocks.

BBC Music Magazine 

Colin Murray

The TV and radio sports presenter gets ready to make his conducting debut with the BBC Philharmonic.

LA Times 

Lorin Levee, principal clarinetist with L.A. Phil, dies at 61

Lorin Levee, the principal clarinetist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has died at age 61, the orchestra announced Thursday.

 

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/02/lorin-levee-principal-clarinetist-with-la-philharmonic-dies-at-62.html

(Written on February 24, 2012 )