BACKClassical News
In today’s news, Welsh National Opera wins two categories in this year’s What’s on Stage opera poll, Radu Lupo tops the New Year Honours list and the IMSLP music library introduces paid membership. Also, violinist Mathilde Milwidsky has been shortlisted for the Menuhin Competition having learned to play on a borrowed violin and Gianandrea Noseda has been named the new Music Director of Washington DC’s National Symphony Orchestra
Classical Music Magazine
WNO’s I puritani dominates What’s on Stage opera poll
Welsh National Opera won two categories in this year’s What’s on Stage opera poll
BBC Music Magazine
Radu Lupu tops New Year Honours list
Romanian-born pianist is awarded the CBE
The Strad
IMSLP music library introduces paid membership
The new membership scheme is not mandatory and musicians may continue to use the sheet music downloading service for free
Gramophone
Known in the UK, and to record collectors, for his work with the BBC Philharmonic, he heads the NSO
The Guardian
Violinist who borrowed instrument is shortlisted for top music prize
Mathilde Milwidsky, 21, selected for Menuhin competition, having learned to play on a violin loaned by benefactor
klassik-heute
Alexander Gretschaninow 60. Todestag
Der russische Komponist Alexander Gretschaninow wurde am 25. Otkober 1864 als Sohn eines Kaufmanns in Moskau geboren
Der Tagesspiegel
Die Opéra de Lyon ist Frankreichs spannendstes Musiktheater – denn auf Jean Nouvels radikale Architektur reagiert das Haus auch künstlerisch
Klassik.com
Spielstätte der Salzburger Festspiele informiert über Karl Böhms NS-Vergangenheit
Der Karl-Böhm-Saal, eine Spielstätte der Salzburger Festspiele, soll nach österreichischen Medienberichten mit einer Hinweistafel ausgestattet werden, mit der über die Nähe des Dirigenten zum Nationalsozialismus informiert wird
New York Times
Gianandrea Noseda to Lead National Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda, an Italian conductor whose international career has recently taken off, has accepted his first major post with an American orchestra
Washington Post
Gilbert Kaplan, millionaire businessman and self-taught maestro of Mahler, dies at 74
Gilbert E. Kaplan, who amassed a fortune on Wall Street that enabled him to fulfill his fantasy of becoming an orchestral conductor, confining himself to a single work, Mahler’s Second Symphony, but stunning a skeptical musical world with his command of the daunting score, died Jan. 1 in New York City
MonteverdiChoir&Orch @mco_london We’re all #backtowork @mco_london and looking forward to rehearsals for our first tour of 2016 starting next week
The New Yorker @NewYorker Can a singing contest make life better for the migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates? http://nyer.cm/WzbMSG0
British Council Arts @BritishArts Five famous Shakespearean phrases explained: http://bit.ly/1Z2KTla #ShakespeareLives
Pianist Radu Lupu CBE/ BBC Music Magazine