BACKThe Guardian
Sergei Rachmaninov symphony manuscript to go under the hammer
Sotheby’s estimates 320-page document detailing composer’s second symphony will fetch up to £1.5m at auction in May
The Telegraph
James Levine: ‘I doubted I’d ever make it back’
America’s greatest conductor, the Metropolitan’s James Levine, tells John Allison how he beat paralysis to return to the podium – in a wheelchair
The Messiah: Handel’s gift to the poor of London
One of the world’s greatest choral works has its roots in the composer’s compassion for the shamed and destitute
Classic FM
Julian Lloyd Webber awarded ISM’s Distinguished Musician Award
The British cello star picked up the award from the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) in partnership with Classic FM at the ISM conference in Birmingham Conservatoire this afternoon.
BBC Music Magazine
Royal Opera House’s Les Vepres siciliennes named Best New Opera Production at the Olivier awards
The Royal Opera House and English Touring Opera are both awarded prizes
Die Welt
Klassik-Borschtsch mit regimetreuen Künstlern
Mit kräftiger Putin-Unterstützung: In Novosibirsk möchte der dort geborene Geiger Vadim Repin ein großes Kunstfestival etablieren. Doch man erfährt dort mehr über russisches Dasein als über Musik.
ONLINE-INTERVIEW: In der Welt von… Martin Stadtfeld
In unserer Reihe „In der Welt von…“ begleiten wir, vernetzt durch Smartphone und Social Media, Künstler auf Reisen, zu spannenden Projekten und besonderen Ereignissen.
Classical Music on Twitter
Gramophone: @GramophoneMag Richard Egarr, AAMorchestra music director, tells us about recording Bach’s St John Passion in our new podcast: http://www.gramophone.co.uk/news/exploring-bachs-st-john-passion-the-new-gramophone-podcast
Classic FM: @ClassicFM Great story from Neville Marriner – the perfect recording that never was. Coming up my Album of the Week johnsuchet1 pic.twitter.com/wxl36W8T0o
Classical:NEXT: @ClassicalNEXT social action through music – listen to the El Sistema session at Classical:NEXT 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-E_Ld_dsU …
BAFA: @BritArtsFests New BBC initative Ten Pieces: introducing a generation of children to classical music as a stimulus for creativity http://bbc.in/1irXpbV
Neue Musikzeitung: @musikzeitung Lammert nennt SWR-Orchesterfusion “unsensible Fehlentscheidung… http://goo.gl/fb/mHBfb
The Guardian