Classical music

Stella debuted with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra last February to celebrate the Lunar New Year. "A virtuosity that radiates sensitivity, soul and originality" - The string of the violin A graduate of Harvard University, the…

A funeral march is a slow, stately piece of music, usually in a minor key and in double or quadruple time, which mimics the feel and rhythm of a funeral procession. Designed to be used as part of a real procession, early funeral marches…

It was in 2011 that the BBC first unveiled frozen planethis latest epic series on the weight tracks of blue planet and Earth all presented by the irreplaceable David Attenborough. Given the massive popularity of both Blue Planet II and…

Pianist Krystian Zimerman is among the recipients of the 2022 award Praemium Imperiale Awardpresented annually by the Japan Arts Association.The prizes are awarded by the Association under the honorary patronage of SAI Prince Hitachi,…

Trumpet and cornet are brass instruments that are similar in appearance but differ in tone and shape. How is a trumpet different from a cornet?Although the trumpet is now the standard brass instrument - as in the highest voice - in…

There are several iconic names in classical music: Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and many more. Arguably, however, there is none more famous than the mozart, Vivaldiand in more contemporary times Ennio Morricone. This September you…

Classical music trio playing in concert Published on: Sunday September 11, 2022 Text size: Credit: medium.com (for illustrative purposes only) Kota Kinabalu: Classical music lovers are in for a delightful experience with…

Sometimes Emanuel Ax dreams of doing something more on the piano.…

After two years of disrupted seasons and great uncertainties, we look forward to ending the 2022/23 season on a high. After the Irish Chamber Orchestra's last performance at Drogheda with Sheku Kanneh-Mason in 2019, they return with…

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When creating a piece of music, composers have certain frameworks in which to develop their ideas - they will select particular keys and use the tonic (the first note of the scale in any key) as the center point from from which to create…

By COLLEEN CURRAN Richmond Times-Dispatch The Richmond Symphony Orchestra has a promising season ahead, starting with a free Community Concert at Pocahontas State…

Classical music fans won't just have to put down roots at the brand new San Antonio Philharmonic, with a slew of local bands gearing up for their 2022-2023 seasons. A dozen groups have announced new seasons: Agarita, Camerata,…

Today, the 72 recordings that form the second round of the Gramophone The 2022 Classical Music Awards are unveiled in a free digital magazine. From this list of famous recordings, one album will be chosen as the…

PARK RIDGE, Ill. (WLS) -- A staple of classical music on the North Shore, the Discover Symphony gave its last concert Sunday afternoon in Park Ridge."I think music is temporary in nature. You know, I mean, it's like a flower that's going to…

Pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja will soon play at the Beethoven festival in Bonn, the composer's native town, so it is a stroke of brilliance for the Machynlleth festival to have selected her for the same program, namely the last three of her…

What is a countertenor?Generally speaking, the musical scales are divided between soprano, alto, tenor, and bass, with the soprano scale containing the highest notes and the bass containing the lowest notes. Since men's voices tend to be…

HHere's another crazy-at-first-sight album, brilliantly curated by guitarist Sean Shibe. He describes Lost and Found as "an emporium of curiosities", and all exhibits are for electric guitar. This does not mean that all music is modern.…

We have been lucky enough to enjoy many great music festivals this summer. Last weekend saw the successful return of the Charlemont Reggae Festival, and even more music is on the way before the leaves change color and the cool weather…

CLASSICAL music returns to Marbella from September 1 to 10 thanks to the VII Marbella International Music Festival. There will be a cycle of classical concerts, music masterclasses and a new edition of the traditional…

In 1976, pianofortist Richard Burnett, who died aged 90, opened the Finchcocks Living Museum of Music in Goudhurst, Kent. For the next four decades, it housed more than 100 ancient keyboard instruments and their music, performed by…

Quotas should be introduced to widen the range of classical music composers featured in concerts and on radio stations, says a BBC presenter. Kate Molleson, who presents a program on the BBC's classical music station Radio 3, told the…

The Franco-Swiss violist talks about the freedom and innovation he unlocked by transcribing for his own instrument. Let's be honest, the viola repertoire is small. So small, in fact, that in the life of a…

Violin by Ri Butov (CC0C/Pixabay) The Banff Center for Arts and Creativity is currently hosting the third edition of the Canadian Indigenous Classical Music Gathering (ICMG), led by professors Cris Derksen and Eliot Britton. The first…

By Jonathan Blumhofer A portion of the essence of John Corigliano's music: a blend of old and new, radical and traditional that has made him such a singular force in American music for the past fifty years. "Beethoven's music", as Friedrich…

Summer isn't over, and neither are street events and city festivals. Here are seven Chicago-area festivals with music, food, family-friendly activities and more this weekend. Chicago Little Italy Fis Little Italy Festa…

ShostakovichSymphonies Nos. 6 and 9BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Steven Lloyd-GonzalezFirst hand FHR120 60:18 min Each unique in its symphonic structure, these two symphonies are as remarkable as the other true…

Breadcrumb Links New Local News Rafael Payare's first Classical Spree as conductor of the OSM will focus on music from the Americas and will be accompanied by a concert at the Big O. "It's important that we…

Monday, August 8, 2022, 10:42 a.m.Press Release: Michael Hill International Violin Competition There's good news for the classical music sector today, as two events originally tailored as…

The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs at the Music in the Summer Air concert in Shanghai. Photo: Courtesy of the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Mille Li painting of rivers and mountains by Wang Ximeng, artist of the Northern…

MUMBAI: Kamakshi and Vishala Khurana, co-founders of The Sound Space, aim to break down stereotypes and provide students with an enjoyable and accessible way to learn. During an exclusive interview with Radioandmusic, the co-founders of…

The great legacy left by Anton Bruckner is his symphonic cycle, although people tend to love or hate his music. The Austrian composer wrote eleven symphonies in all, but only nine have been officially numbered. Thus, for this list, the…

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With a moving rendition of the Ukrainian national anthem, the first concert of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra ended in Warsaw late Thursday evening to thunderous applause from a packed house at the Polish National Opera. It was hard to…

When Feng Jianpeng started as a music vlogger in April 2020, he never imagined he would have 300,000 subscribers. The Connecticut-based percussionist and music teacher…

Pt S Ballesh Bhajantri will kick off the Vasantrao Deshpande Festival with a shehnai performance on July 28Nagpur: This year, the Dr. Vasantrao Deshpande Memorial Music Festival will feature a mix of classical singing, classical dancing and…

"Orpheus and Eurydice." Painting by Frederic Leighton, 1864. The Miami Beach Classical Music Festival continued its ninth season with Claudio Monteverdi's The Orfeo, played Saturday afternoon at the Faena Forum. Created in 1607 in the…

Comment this storyCommentIt's been really nice to get back to an approximation of normal in the performing arts for the past few months. Patrons are once again filling the rows of concert halls and theaters, and a full-on fall season is…

Sometimes it takes a pressing deadline to get the creative juices flowing. In August 1914, Ravel had been working on a piano trio for four months and had recently taken several weeks off and relaxing. He was apparently in no particular…

Floorstanding speakers dominate most living rooms, yet deliver great sound across a wide soundstage. Cheaper models can be incredibly loud, but can cause unpleasant vibrations if design angles have been cut. The best designs have internal…

In the Sunday Telegraph this weekend, Stephen Pollard slammed the BBC Proms, saying the recent expansion of its repertoire has betrayed its purpose as a classical music concert series. I can't agree - in fact the opposite is true. The…

Jhe Psappha ensemble is a tireless champion of new music and, as usual, the program it presented at the Cheltenham Festival consisted entirely of premieres. Three of the four works were heard for the first time in the world: shared…

Event name: Tribute 2022About the event: Two days of classic musical tribute featuring jugalbandis, the concert will include performances with Monica Shah – prominent disciple of Padma Vibhushan Girija Devi – on vocals, solo tabla by Hiren…

Thinking about the summer concert of the Helios Ensemble, founder and conductor Benjamin Hansen had an idea: what if he took movements from masses composed throughout classical music - from the Renaissance to today today -…

Image by Gerd Altmann/CCOC Pixabay The world of pop music and that of classical music are generally presented almost as opposing each other. In many pop culture films, if a character is hip, he despises Western classical music in…

A Laura Bowler's bald description of Distance would be chamber music for soprano and quintet. But when that soprano is the fearless Juliet Fraser breaking sound barriers, collaborating with members of the fearsome New York-based Talea…

Sthe dubious magic of witchcraft rarely casts a spell over modern, skeptical audiences, setting the stage for Handel's opera of sorcery Alcine (1735) can be a serious challenge. Glyndebourne's new production offers a solution: moving the…

ProvidedLeah Thomas is curator of the Classical on Cuba festival, July 22-24.Born in the UK and raised in Wellington, Leah Thomas is a clarinetist and advocate for classical music, who aims to perpetuate the genre by bringing it to new…

Do you ever find yourself lacking in melodic inspiration? Writing engaging and memorable melodies can be one of the hardest parts of songwriting and music production. We dare say it's a trickier task than constructing rhythms and chord…

For almost any type of music, there's a bar in Portland where you can experience it live. From near-night jazz at 1905, dark wave DJs at Coffin Club, to DIY punk shows at High Water Mark, our city has its bases…

The Prairie Saxophone Initiative kicks off its interprovincial Going for Baroque tour, which includes Saskatoon and North Battleford. NORTH BATTLEFORD — Canada's newest saxophone duo will be touring major cities and towns across the…

The story of the evolution of classical music in the 20th century is notoriously difficult to tell. In the early years, the narrative pretty much makes sense. Yes, there are the non-conformists and the foreigners, but the Austro-German…

The word privilege is a lightning rod in American culture. For some it indexes systemic inequalities shaped by race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality, while for others it represents a “woke” vocabulary used to enforce…

For forty years, Music in the Mountains has brought world-class entertainment to Nevada County with an emphasis on classical and choir music. In July, the organization is bringing something new to the area, delivering a live-action!-->…

Why do professional classical musicians do it? Why do they memorize entire pieces, from violin partitas to piano concertos, from sonatas to symphonies? All those thousands of notes, each of them entering the brains and bodies of soloists,…

BThe past lineup of co-director cellist Alice Neary and violinist David Adams makes their four-day summer festival a most enticing event and it's clearly also a factor that attracts fellow musicians from all over to join them. Chamber…

The Silence of the North: Journeys into Nordic music and cultureby Andrew Mellor, Yale University Press £18.99/$30The Nordic lands have become a musical powerhouse, from Grieg and Sibelius to Björk and Eurovision…

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The Colorado Music Festival has been held for 46 years in the shadow of the Boulder Flatirons. This year, the festivities span six weeks at the Chautauqua Auditorium, from Thursday, June 30 through Sunday, August 7, showcasing some of…

The theatre, on stage and off stage, marks the beginning of an enterprising festival. Fflur Wyn (Photo: Lorne Campbell / Guzelian) Those of us who were lucky enough to be present at Glyndebourne's 1996 production of Handel Theodora…

Who is Sally Beamish?Sally Beamish is a composer and former violist from Stirlingshire, Scotland, who writes highly evocative music, often influenced by her love of Scotland, its landscape and its culture. She has written for opera,…

16 June 2022, 12:29 Arthur Fry, inventor of the Post-it Note, found inspiration in the pages of his hymn. Image: Getty…

SAPPORO--This northern town will host its annual Pacific Music Festival, an acclaimed summer for the first time in three years now that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have subsided. The!--googleon:index-->…

The 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which runs June 2-18 in Fort Worth, Texas, has named the six finalists who will compete for its top prize of $100,000.Hailing from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, South Korea and the United…

Event date: June 27, 2022 - 7:00 p.m. Monday, June 27 at 7 p.m., Chyornii & Dorado will…

Who is Laurent Power?Lawrence Power is an internationally renowned British alto player, known for the richness of his sound, the elegance of his interpretations and his adventurous approach to programming - someone who, by his own…

The Dallas City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to transfer management of WRR-FM (101.1), the city-owned classic station, to public television and radio operator KERA, ending a tumultuous process of a year which saw the station face…

Was Jóhann Jóhannsson?He was a prolific Icelandic composer and multi-instrumentalist – one of the most acclaimed film composers of recent decades – who wrote music for a variety of media and skillfully blurred the boundaries between musical…

Classical music has a universal appeal that adapts to a variety of emotional situations and cinematic images. It can elevate a show to a higher artistic level when used correctly, and vintage pieces by previous composers often don't…

CouldFuneral music by rcell for Queen Mary, like Albinoni's Adagio and Allegri Miserere, belongs to the category of ancient compositions shaped by modern hands. Scholar Bruce Wood suggests that the piece as generally performed, a…

Rebecca Roudman began playing cello as a child at Terra Linda, performed with the Marin Youth Orchestra, studied classical music in college, and is now a member of the Santa Rosa and Oakland Symphonies. Everything is fine. But being a…

Are you a classical music lover looking for warm performances this winter? So look no further. A winter season of favorite symphonies will warm the hearts of classical music lovers on Thursday evenings June 9-30, 2022 at the Wits Linder…

What is the recitative?Most often used in opera and oratorio, the recitative is a type of singing in which the soloist adopts the rhythm and flow of ordinary speech to advance the plot. The singer is guided by the free rhythm of the…

We are delighted to share with you Piano talks' special episode featuring the great Russian-born pianist and conductor Vladimir Feltsman. Feltsman made his debut with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 11 and caught…

An Argentinian Stravinsky or Bartók? Argentinian Falla, Debussy or Villa-Lobos? Alberto Ginastera has been called all this and more, in an attempt – born out of an unwitting Eurocentrism, perhaps – to classify his music…

Daniel Bae (Image courtesy of Stulberg International String Competition) Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Stulberg International String Competition recently celebrated its 47th season. Open to players of all stringed instruments,…

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What does the besieged Ukrainian nation most urgently need? Weapons? Humanitarian aid? International war crimes investigators? A performance of Rossini's comic opera, The Barber of Seville? The answer is probably all of them - and…

The British-Iranian composer, artist and record player Shiva Feshareki is at home in many musical disciplines, embracing all varieties of technology and harnessing them, with relentless invention, to his own extensive classical…

by Ian Maksin cello for peaceRenowned multilingual cellist, composer and singer Ian Maksin returns to the…