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Joseph Calleja is tipped as the heir to Luciano Pavarotti
Plácido Domingo once called Joseph Calleja “the baby tenor” but as Calleja has grown on to the world’s greatest opera stages, another moniker has attached itself: the new Pavarotti?
Classic FM Online
Gramophone Awards 2013 winners announced today
We’ll have information on all 11 recordings crowned category winners at this year’s Gramophone Classical Music Awards as they are announced this morning
From the Back Desk – Gareth Davies, London Symphony Orchestra
The LSO’s principal flautist and host of The Show Must Go On on Classic FM, Gareth Davies, lets us in on some orchestral secrets – and tells us why he’ll always check his trousers before going on stage
Kobe Bryant plays Beethoven in new TV ad
Basketball player Kobe Bryant has appeared in a new TV commercial playing Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata on the piano
Gramophone
BBC Two and Four to present new 18th-century arts season
The series will include programming on Handel’s Messiah and the rise of British anthems
The Telegraph
No one is pulling Nicola Benedetti’s strings
Forthright violin virtuosa Nicola Benedetti, 26, on fame, beauty and the power of a fierce work ethic
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Erhabenes Ende einer Pilgerreise
Bevor sie ab nächstem Jahr die künstlerische Leitung des Beethovenfests in Bonn übernimmt, verbindet Nike Wagner im letzten Weimarer Kunstfest unter ihrer Federführung Schreckensmusikgedenken und Richard-Idyll
The Telegraph