BACKToday’s News: Glyndebourne appoints new artistic director. Spotify to offer users BBC podcasts. Sir Simon Rattle, Steven Isserlis and Véronique Gens shortlisted for Gramophone Awards 2018. Deutsche Grammophon and Apple Music partner on ‘essential’ classical platform. Classic FM Chart: Einaudi knocks Lord of the Rings off the top spot. An interview with Christian Girardin, manager of classical music label Harmonia Mundi. From composer Sofia Gubaidulina, the scene of contemporary serious music can always learn something new. Finnish festival Kuhmo Chamber Music receives Cremona Music Award in the projects’ category. In its third edition, Leif Ove Andsnes consolidates the Rosendal Festival as one of the most attractive summer events for lovers of chamber music.
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Glyndebourne appoints new artistic director
Stephen Langridge has been appointed artistic director of Glyndebourne, to take effect in spring 2019.
Music Week
‘This is a landmark moment’: Spotify to offer users BBC podcasts
Spotify has been busy making some significant deals as continues its post-IPO growth strategy.
Classic FM
Sir Simon Rattle, Steven Isserlis and Véronique Gens shortlisted for Gramophone Awards 2018
The shortlist for the prestigious Gramophone Awards has been unveiled ahead of a ceremony in London in September
Music Week
Deutsche Grammophon and Apple Music partner on ‘essential’ classical platform
Deutsche Grammophon and Apple Music have partnered on a long-term collaboration to take the label’s classical repertoire to a global music audience.
Classic FM
Classic FM Chart: Einaudi knocks Lord of the Rings off the top spot
After just one week in pole position, Howard Shore’s soundtrack for The Two Towers is unceremoniously displaced by Ludovico Einaudi.
The New York Times
A German Opera Spotlights the Refugee Crisis, With Refugees
“We tell the story of Moses because it is actually our story,” one teenager, a refugee from Afghanistan by way of Iran, said in the Hazaragi dialect to the German-speaking audience at the Bavarian State Opera here on a recent Sunday evening.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Es geht um künstlerische Ernsthaftigkeit
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Das Kreuz als Kompositionsauftrag
Ein mächtiges Œuvre mit tief religiöser Verwurzelung: Von Klanggärtnerin Sofia Gubaidulina kann die Szene der zeitgenössischen ernsten Musik immer wieder etwas lernen.
Fono Forum
Das finnische Festival Kuhmo Chamber Music erhält den Cremona Music Award in der Kategorie Projekte
Die Jury lobte das Kuhmo Festival, bei dem rund 100 Konzerte innerhalb von zwei Wochen stattfinden. In diesem Jahr in der zweiten Juli-Hälfte. Auch die Kombination bekannter Werke mit Entdeckungen sowie die Mischung der engagierten Musiker finden Anklang.
El País
En su tercera edición, Leif Ove Andsnes consolida el Festival de Rosendal como una de las citas veraniegas más atractivas para los amantes de la música de cámara.
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