BACKEvery day the WildKat team scan the newspapers and blogs online to bring you a digested list of the day’s classical music.
The Independent
How Xbox fans could save classical music
Rebecca Armstrong tunes into orchestral renditions of video game soundtracks.
The Times
Hvorostovsky/Ilja at the Barbican
The Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky is certainly a hard act to upstage. Yet the Estonian pianist Ivari Ilja all but succeeded in doing just that at their latest Barbican recital.
The Times
LSO/Davis/Noseda at Lincoln Centre, New York
New York’s musical public is famously hard to impress. But three times in five days the audience at Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, surged to its feet to give a standing ovation to the London Symphony Orchestra
Gramophone Blogs
The Dvorák you don’t know- but should
Time for a focus on the rest of the quartets and symphonies.
The Evening Standard
No British opera company has done more to establish Handel in the modern repertoire than ENO.
