Classical Music

This weekend the San Antonio Symphony and Music Director Sebastian Lang-Lessing conclude the 2011-2012 Classics series with Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 and Bruckner Symphony No. 7. Olga Scheps is the soloist in the Liszt. Click here to buy tickets from ...  

Franklin Keel knows how important a symphony can be. While a student at A.C. Reynolds High School in 1998, the cellist captured the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist competition with his performance of Saint-Saens’ Concerto No ...  

Carl St.Clair is winding up his 22nd season as music director of the Pacific Symphony this week, while the orchestra caps its 33rd, with performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. These musicians have performed the work together many times over ...  

The world’s favourite cello player, Yo-Yo Ma, made a fine show of his prodigious talents with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra at Roy Thomson Hall on Thursday night. The showcase piece on the program was Edward Elgar’s 1918 Cello Concerto, the same piece ...  

SPARTA -- NJ Conservatory, in honor of its 25th anniversary, has presented a series of special concerts this spring. For the final concert of this season, NJ Conservatory is presenting the monumental Beethoven's Ninth Symphony -- the Choral Symphony based ...  

Fans of Johann Sebastian Bach have a treat in store at the upcoming Raincross Chorale concert in Riverside. The 45-voice group will perform Bach’s Magnificat, with orchestra at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 3, at the Calvary Presbyterian Church ...  

The last Symphony Classics concert of the season is June 1 & 2. The concert will feature the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2 with Olga Scheps as the soloist. The second half of the program is Bruckner Symphony No. 7. Sebastian Lang-Lessing will conduct ...  

The Sydney University Symphony Orchestra (SUSO) will be joined by Timo-Veikko Valve, Principal Cellist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) in a special matinee concert on Sunday June 3. There's plenty to see and do near you! Browse through thousands ...  

Maestro Zukerman’s wife, Amanda Forsyth, has said, “The Brahms Double Concerto is the most important concerto for violin and cello. Pinchas and I have lived with and shared this concerto with each other, performing it together for fourteen years!  

Beethoven series boosts symphony’s books By david burger The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 25, 2012 06:22PM MDT The Utah Symphony orchestra is on the verge of completing its ambitious Beethoven experiment. Each of the composer’s nine symphonies has been performed this season, with the final concert Saturday at Abravanel Hall. Though final attendance and donation numbers are not yet available, the Beethoven symphony cycle apparently...  

Berliner Philharmoniker/Simon Rattle(EMI)Bruckner's Ninth Symphony is generally regarded as one of the great musical torsos, alongside other unfinished works such as Mahler's 10th Symphony and Elgar's Third, Mozart's Requiem and operas such as Berg's Lulu, Puccini's Turandot and Busoni's Doktor Faust. The Ninth is regularly performed as a three-movement work, ending with the huge Adagio, or sometimes with Bruckner's Te Deum as a choral finale...  

The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra will close out its 2011-12 season by performing Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony on Friday and Saturday. The program will also include Beethoven’s Fidelio Overture and the Emperor Concerto. Friday’s ...  

The last Symphony Classics concert of the 2011-2012 season starts with the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 2. It is no coincidence that the very first concert of the season included the Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1. This season marks the 200th anniversary of the ...  

And the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has a most welcome companion to conduct this pairing -- Peter Oundjian, who made a memorable ... ensuring a level of intensity from start to finish. He drew out the sense of mystery, even fear, in the first ...  

MILAN — Pope Benedict XVI will attend a concert of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim at La Scala on the first of three days of events focused on the family. The pope will greet the faithful in the square outside Milan’s ...  

The program will feature Luiz F. Coelho, clarinet soloist, on Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto in F Minor, Op. 73. Coelho is director of bands at Woodbury Elementary School and plays with the Blossom Festival Band. He earned a master ...  

The violinist Gil Shaham replaces the pianist Yefim Bronfman as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening, Mr. Shaham will play Brahms's Violin Concerto instead of the previously scheduled Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2.  

Bach Aria Soloists, founded by Elizabeth Suh Lane, are accomplished professional musicians and singers dedicated to presenting the miraculous arias from Johann Sebastian Bach's voluminous cantata collection as well as ...  

What composer wouldn’t relish the opportunity of two major premieres by two London orchestras in just three weeks? In April, Colin Currie premiered Finnish composer Kalevi Aho’s percussion concerto. Last night Alexander Vedernikov conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra as Jörgen van Rijen took the solo part in the first UK performance of Aho’s Trombone Concerto.  

On April 27 and 28, the American Symphony Orchestra and Music Director and Conductor Leon Botstein present the world premiere performances of [c.200]Howard Shore[]'s Mythic Gardens at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Commissioned by the Orchestra, thanks to a generous gift from Stuart and Linda Nelson, Shore composed the concerto for cellist Sophie Shao, who will premiere the work...  

How did classical pianist Lim Hyun-jung jump from near-obscurity to signing an eight-CD deal with top British music label EMI? That was the question on many critics' lips after she rocked the world of classical music by releasing a series of CDs of ...  

About J. C. Bach (from Wikipedia) “Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach’ or ...  

Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg will perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor with Seattle Symphony Orchestra May 18-19, 2012. Also on the program: Mozart's Requiem. Gerard Schwarz will conduct.  

Guest conductor Gregory Vajda, music director of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra in Alabama, appears with the Seattle Symphony for two more programs this weekend: "Hungarian Dances" on May 4 and another "Mostly Mozart" program on May 5.  

TORONTO - Classical pianist Stewart Goodyear is gearing up to make history by teaming musical skill and physical endurance in a 10-hour performance of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. To perform the 103 individual movements in one day has been a dream since ...  

Classical pianist Stewart Goodyear is training like an athlete for an unusual marathon he'll attempt next week: performing all 32 of Ludwig van Beethoven's sonatas in the order they were composed in a single day. Stewart Goodyear: The Beethoven Marathon is ...  

“Requiem,” the piece that Amadeus Mozart was working on when he became ill and died in 1791, will be presented with selections by Johann Sebastian Bach and Gustav Holst, during the final concert of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra’s 34th season.  

Globe and MailPolish orchestra plays Mozart's Requiem in protestSeattle Post IntelligencerThe orchestra, choir and soloists of the Chamber Opera that specializes in Mozart's music perform his Requiem, the Funeral Mass in front Presidential Palace vis a vis of the Culture Ministry in Warsaw, Poland on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 to protest recent ...Polish orchestra plays Mozart's funeral Requiem to protest budget cutsWashington Postall 124 news...  

Beethoven Boot Camp is over. Apparently it’s been a commercial success for the Utah Symphony: Ticket revenue is up, and orchestra officials give music director Thierry Fischer’s season-long Beethoven symphony cycle some of the credit. More important ...  

WARSAW, Poland - A Polish opera house has played Mozart's Requiem — a funeral ... If the story moves you, compels you to act or tells you something you didn’t know, mark it high. If you thought it was well written, do the same. If it doesn’t meet ...  

A few months ago, Sebastian Lang-Lessing spoke about Bruckner and this concert. TWO DAYS MEET THE CHALLENGE The San Antonio Symphony League offered the community a $25,000 challenge grant in May. They said they would match new donations to the Symphony one ...  

WARSAW, POLAND (AP) - A Polish opera house has played Mozart’s Requiem _ a funeral piece _ in front of the Culture Ministry in Warsaw to protest cuts to its budget. The Chamber Opera’s orchestra, choir and soloists performed Tuesday to the ...  

WARSAW, Poland — A Polish opera house has played Mozart’s Requiem — a funeral piece — in front of the Culture Ministry in Warsaw to protest cuts to its budget. The Chamber Opera’s orchestra, choir and soloists performed Tuesday to the hearty ...  

On May 11, 2004, Booker Rising was born. In honor of today's occasion, here is "Symphony No. 8". From Wikipedia: "Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 is a symphony in four movements composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1812. Beethoven fondly referred to it as 'my little Symphony in F,' distinguishing it from his Sixth Symphony, a longer work also in F. The Eighth Symphony is generally light-hearted, though not lightweight, and in many places...  

A group of remarkable musicians of the Salaya Modern Ensemble (SME) will perform a classical concert entitled "SME: Mendelssohn Violin Concerto" at Goethe Institute Bangkok on June 7 at 7:30pm. The concert features highly talented violin soloist ...  

As the CPO’s enthusiastic brochure tells us,  “Calgary’s Brightest Classical Stars, Exquisite Guests and the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach Come Together in the CPO’s Three-Day Festival, Steven, nine years with the Calgary Philharmonic ...  

Enjoy this video of Classical Minnesota Public Radio's 2011-2012 Artist in Residence, Chad Hoopes. If you would like to see him in person, Hoopes will perform at Sundin Music Hall, on the campus of Hamline University on Thursday, May 24, 2012, at 7 p.m.  

THE Beecroft Orchestra will present a concert at St Alban’s Church, Epping on Sunday, June 3, featuring masters student Jacky Wong as soloist performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3. The program will also include Haydn’s (London) Symphony 104 and ...  

Watson, Wyn-Rogers, Kennedy, Opie, Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Hill(Naxos)Delius's music is everywhere this year, the 150th anniversary of his birth. The Proms are doing him proud with a generous helping of the major works, but not his vast Mass of Life. You'll have to go to the Edinburgh festival if you want to hear it live, or stay at home and listen to this sumptuous new recording by David Hill and the Bach Choir. The singing...  

He makes his Cleveland Orchestra debut at Blossom Music Center on Saturday, Aug. 4, under conductor James Gaffigan in a work that helped him win the trifecta of international piano competitions: Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1.  

To close its official concert season, Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra has turned itself into the Tafelmusik Almost Modern Orchestra as it delves into the symphonic worlds of Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn. The performance at Koerner ...  

Over the past 10 years, Café Zimmerman has recorded Bach’s “concertos for multiple instruments” on the Alpha label. These works include the harpsichord concertos, the Brandenburg concertos, the orchestral suites (overtures), as well as the many concertos for violin, oboe, flute or other instruments. Last year, they released this in a 6-CD set: Concerts avec [...]  

Johann Sebastian Bach was the ultimate Lutheran, so it's somewhat surprising that he wrote a full-length setting of the Roman Catholic Mass. In fact, it's one of the most brilliant settings of the Mass ever written. The Spire Chamber Ensemble and the Rebel Baroque Orchestra will present an authentic period performance of the Mass in B minor at 7 Sunday night at Trinity Lutheran Church, 5601 W. 62nd St. in Mission.  

HA NOI — Classical music lovers will be able to hear pianist Roger Muraro perform at the Ha Noi Opera House on June 19. Muraro will play pieces by Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt. Born in 1959 in France, Roger has won numerous international music awards ...  

Hot tickets: Utah Symphony’s Beethoven season closer, plus Ballet West’s ‘Innovations’ and ‘Aliens (The Puppet Musical)’ Published May 24, 2012 11:00PM MDT On sale now “Wicked” • Broadway Across America — Utah presents the national touring musical July 18-Aug. 26 (best availability for Sunday shows); $100-$195 (plus fees) at www.arttix.org or 801-355-2787 (best availability for Sunday shows). St. Regis Big Stars, Bright Nights...  

This exciting artist was the soloist in three contrasting works: a Mozart Adagio for violin and orchestra (K. 261, written as an alternative slow movement for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, K. 219); Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor ...  

Samsung needed an ad that would simultaneously promote the new Galaxy Note smartphone and their sponsorship of the upcoming Olympics, so they enlisted the help of footballer David Beckham and agency Cheil USA to create a memorable, fun spot.  

Baltimore SO/Alsop(Naxos)Marin Alsop has already recorded Bartók's two ballet scores, The Miraculous Mandarin and The Wooden Prince, as well as his only opera, Bluebeard's Castle, for Naxos, with the Bournemouth Symphony. But perhaps it's appropriate that she should record his best known orchestral work, the Concerto for Orchestra, with the Baltimore Symphony, for the work was written for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which first performed...  

LUDWIG VON BEETHOVENAS SEEN ON:'Saturday Night Live'AS PLAYED BY:Jimmy FallonFrom About.com:Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Op. 125, D Minor “Choral”Beethoven’s last symphony, Symphony No. 9 marks a triumphant and glorious end. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 was completed in 1824 when Beethoven was completely deaf, and was premiered on Friday, May 7, 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. Beethoven was the first composer to include the human voice at...  

The Utah Symphony will conclude their and countdown of all nine Beethoven symphonies with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 on Friday, May 25, and Saturday, May 26, led by and Music Director Thierry Fischer. Richard Strauss’ tone poem, “An Alpine ...  

The music is consistently engaging in its imaginative scope, stylistic freedom and technical fearlessness Rather than confining the three Op.2 sonatas to a classical straitjacket, he acknowledges the undercurrents of Beethovenian temperament, investing the ...  

The concert will be performed at the Atkinson Recital Hall at New Mexico State University ... "The Last Spring," which will feature pianist Ross Palmer with Stephanie Robinson performing the vocals; "Peer Gynt Suite No. 1," and "Piano Concerto in A minor ...  

Ms. Gagnon will perform the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra at The Music Hall on June 3, 2012. A homeschooled eleventh grader from Hooksett, Ms. Gagnon began playing Suzuki violin at age three.  

Violinist Augustin Hadelich, a favorite of Seattle audiences, will appear with Seattle Symphony Orchestra on April 12-14, 2012. The program will include Tchaikovsky's famous Fourth Symphony and Dvorák's Violin Concerto in A minor.  

Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto is a tricky work. It is the gentlest and most thoughtful of his scores in the form, yet it contains enough fancy passage work to tempt soloists to push it in the direction of the flamboyant "Emperor" Concerto, the Fifth.  

Special for The Willits News "The British Are Coming," May 19 and 20, as the Ukiah Symphony offers its fourth concert of the season in the Mendocino College Theatre. Cellist Joel Cohen is the featured soloist for "Cello Concerto in e minor, Op.  

Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto, J. Ehnes, Philharmonia Orchestra, V. Ashkenazy Paganini, Caprices, J. Ehnes [Review] Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, J. EhnesMusic has potentially terrifying power to move listeners, to push them over an emotional edge, to shift sympathies, to warm or cool hearts. Every once in a while, and probably less often for a person who listens to so many  

by mv-voice.comMusic: Stanford Symphony Orchestra Soloist Livia Sohn will join the Stanford Symphony Orchestra for Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major at an 8 p.m. concert tonight, April 26. The Dinkelspiel Auditorium performance will also feature Debussy's Premiere Rhapsodie for clarinet. $10 general, $9 seniors, $5 students. Community: Israel Independence Day Live music, film, Israeli dancing, food and drink, a fashion show and...  

J. S. BACH: Concerto In E Major for Violin and Orchestra, BWV 1042 Adolf Busch, violin The Busch Chamber Players 01 I. Allegro 02 II. Adagio 03 III. Allegro assai Columbia 78rpm Set M-530 (XCO 31458 - 31462) Recorded in 1941 Digital transfer by F....This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.This item has files of the following types: Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, VBR MP3  

When the Straight reaches him by phone, he’s in Minneapolis, Minnesota, fresh from his debut performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491—which he’ll be bringing to the Orpheum stage with the Vancouver Symphony ...  

BOONE— Eduardo Vargas conducts the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra in an April 27 performance. The concert begins at 8 p.m. in Broyhill Music Center’s Rosen Concert Hall. Admission is free. The performance will feature student soloists who won the Hayes School of Music’s Concerto-Aria Competition. They are pianist Jonathan Asbell and percussionist Benjamin Russell. Asbell will perform the [...]  

A review of Seattle Symphony's May 18 performance that included guest violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg on Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, as well as Mozart's Requiem with Seattle Symphony Chorale. Program repeats May 19.  

Pianist Yefim Bronfman joins conductor Franz Welser-Möst and the orchestra for Brahms' Second Piano Concerto plus the Shostakovich Sixth and the New York premiere of Kaija Saariaho's 'Laterna Magica.'  

Tchaikovsky's "Waltz from Eugene Onegin" and "Symphony No. 2 in D major, Opus 43" by Sibelius will be among the pieces on the final Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra concert of the 2011-2012 season.The show — sponsored by Illinois  

People know me as: Thomas Kasdorf, freelance collaborative pianist, coach and musical theater director. Coming up next: I’ll be performing Mozart’s Concerto in A Major with Middleton Community Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Middleton ...  

The Princeton Symphony Orchestra gets reflective for its final concert of the 2011-2012 season. Presented under the title “Spun Beauty,” the program will include Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 and Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G.  

Review: Utah Symphony Chorus shines in Mozart Requiem By Catherine Reese Newton The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 27, 2012 10:51PM MDT The Mozart Requiem is one of music’s most tantalizing enigmas. Exactly how much of it was written by Mozart has been a matter of heated conjecture over the two centuries since the composer’s death. (And who can forget the deathbed dictation scene in “Amadeus”?) The version completed by Mozart’s pupil...  

$20 for a seat in the tweeting section of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Ticket includes a world premiere of Matt Haimovitz playing the Philip Glass Cello Concerto No. 2 "Naqoyqatsi." best of today's listening: Morton Subotnick. Silver Apples of the...  

Guest soloist Shai Wosner will play the Gyorgy Ligeti Piano Concerto, and Schumann's Symphony No. 2 completes the program. World-renowned cellist Lynn Harrell is guest artist for the Feb. 7, 2013, program, playing the Lutoslawski Cello Concerto.  

He will join the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, beginning tonight among the soloists in Bruckner's Te Deum and Beethoven's ... with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Peter Oundjian.  The remaining soloist are soprano Mary Phillips ...  

This spring in Spokane has been fertile for fanciers of fine cello playing. The Northwest Bach Festival concluded on March 18 with a performance of J.S. Bach’s cello suites 1-3 by Zuill Bailey that left everyone present slack-jawed in wonder at how much beauty could emanate from an old wooden box. Just last Monday, Israeli cellist Amit Peled joined the Gonzaga Symphony Orchestra in a performance that alerted everyone to the presence of a...  

Classical music: Bach made easy Through May 12. The Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado makes beautiful music. Even better, the period instrument ensemble makes it easy to attend its concerts. Pick the speed, style and sound you like from the venues set for the upcoming program of Brandenburg Concertos:  

And the orchestra continues its season of popular classics at Hertford Theatre this weekend with a concert featuring Mozart’s Magic Flute Overture and Clarinet Concerto, along with Mahler’s magnificent Symphony No.1. Saturday’s concert showcases the ...  

The new Richard Wagner museum in Graupa, near Dresden, will open on January 12th, 2013 with a concert of music by Wagner, Liszt, Mendelssohn and possibly one of the composers exiled by the Nazis. The concert will be played by the Neue Jüdische ...  

Chopin / Liszt / Ravel, B. Grosvenor (released on February 28, 2012) Decca 478 3206 | 75'15" Charles T. Downey, Benjamin Grosvenor, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel The Classical Review, May 11 When Benjamin Grosvenor won the keyboard award at the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2004, the British pianist was all of 11 years old. His performance was so striking, so composed for someone so  

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Classical German pianist Andreas Staier has packed not one but two revelations into his extraordinarily great new recording of Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations. The more astonishing one is his performance of the work itself, which...  

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonLook! No Conductor! was the title of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's concert. Since modern ensembles (with few exceptions) are so dependent on the (almost invariably) man up front with the baton, it's worth recalling that when the three pieces in this programme were premiered - Mozart's Third Violin Concerto in Salzburg in 1775, Haydn's 104th Symphony in London in 1795, Beethoven's Triple Concerto in...  

Kol Ami series to showcase Beethoven’s chamber music By Celia R. Baker Special to The Tribune Published May 4, 2012 10:54AM MDT Utah Symphony fans have been hearing a lot of Beethoven this year, as music director Thierry Fischer has conducted a backward cycle of the German composer’s symphonies. The second and first symphonies will be performed later this month, concluding what’s known as the orchestra’s Beethoven Boot Camp. As great...  

SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Symphony and Music Director Thierry Fischer will conclude their 2011-2012 season, Masterworks Series and countdown of all nine Beethoven symphonies with Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 on Friday, May 25, and Saturday, May ...  

The Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra announces violinist Laurel Gagnon as the winner of its first annual Young Artist Concerto Competition. Gagnon will perform the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Portsmouth Symphony ...  

The program will feature outstanding young violinist Soran Sophia Lee in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. In addition the orchestra will play Honegger's Pastorale d'été and Tchaikovsky's beautiful Fifth Symphony. This will be another in a series of free ...  

"It took Bach for me to figure out there was something mighty and substantial in classical music," Thile said before the concert, sitting with mandolin in hand, his left foot resting over his right, alongside conductor Jeffrey Kahane. "It always seemed to me that it wasn't grooving – which is very simplistic. It grooves, in a different way. To me, it was a revelation; it was mesmerizing to my core." The desire to learn Bach's solo Sonatas and...  

In his work with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, music director Andrew Sewell has shown a fine sympathy for the music of Mozart and Haydn, but also of Beethoven. His lucid performances of a number of Beethoven's symphonies over the last few seasons have been helped by the more appropriate balances a smaller ensemble allows.  

Two of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's long-range recording projects take another step toward the finish line this week as the orchestra completes its 2011-12 classical season with a program that seems designed to show off the sweeping palette ...  

Pianist Simon Trpceski performs Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major with the Seattle Symphony on April 19 and 21, with Susanna Mälkki conducting. He'll play Brahms with symphony musicians and guests in a chamber performance April 22.  

It would be easy to quibble with almost any performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis."   After all, this famous - and seldom performed - musical setting of the Roman Catholic Latin Mass is long, technically difficult and musically deep.   Nevertheless, the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, four guest choirs and four soloists led by music director George...  

Last month | Next month Classical Month in Washington is a monthly feature. If there are concerts you would like to see included on our schedule, send your suggestions by e-mail (ionarts at gmail dot com). Happy listening! May 1, 2012 (Tue) 12:10 pm Noontime Cantata Series [FREE] Bach, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 Washington Bach Consort Church of the Epiphany May 1, 2012 (Tue) 7:30  

Steven Osborne (piano) (Hyperion)Beethoven wrote his Op 119 Bagatelles – 11 short pieces each lasting no more than a minute or two – when he was working on two of his biggest works: the Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony. His Leipzig publisher complained that they were such insignificant trifles no one would believe they were by Beethoven: not only slight but on the whole easy too. The joy of having a player of Steven Osborne's spare...  

Even with only 9 symphonies, Beethoven is one of the most famous classical music composers the world has ever known.  To this day, 185 years after his death, his music is just as powerful as it was when it was created.  Learn about the life of Beethoven in this Beethoven profile.  For even more about Beethoven, read these helpful facts about Beethoven: fact 1 - the European Union; fact 2 - Patron Archduke Rudolph; fact 3 - Symphony No. 4; and...  

Einstein on the Beach finally reaches Britain, Daniel Barenboim brings Bruckner to London, and a 50th-anniversary performance for Britten's War RequiemThe Bruckner ProjectDaniel Barenboim's latest London residency with the Berlin Staatskapelle focuses on the last three symphonies by Bruckner. Barenboim pairs two, the Seventh and the Ninth, with Mozart piano concertos (the C minor K491, and the E flat K482) that he will direct from the keyboard...  

All nine symphonies in a week? As he prepares for his Proms extravaganza, Daniel Barenboim reveals how to make Ludwig sound modern – and why music isn't there to help us relaxIs classical music a means of escape from the world and all the worries it causes? It's a notion conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim would resist. "For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life," he says. "People have a difficult day at the...  

May is turning out to be a great month for the Baltimore Symphony. A week after a potent combination of a Ravel concerto and a Shostakovich symphony, the orchestra has put a Rachmaninoff concerto and an Elgar symphony together to form another ...  

The Second Concerto in F major follows the first in being scored for a full ensemble and featuring four soloists who are integrated into the themes of each movement, including BSO Principal Trumpet Andrew Balio. The concerto has a celebratory feel in the ...  

String Concerto Competition winner Jillian Bloom performs Shostakovich's fiery Cello Concerto No. 1; guest conductor Tim Laughlin presents the world premiere of "I and the Night Sky: Nocturne for Orchestra" by BSOM graduate student composer Zack ...  

I managed slightly more than five events in four days: — Paavo Järvi conducting the Orchestre de Paris in Haydn's Symphony No. 85, Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Radu Lupu), and Brahms's Symphony No. 4, at Salle Pleyel; —...  

Featured San Francisco Symphony soloists for the performances of the Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 2, 3, and 6 led by Glover include Nadya Tichman, violin; Jonathan Vinocour and Yun Jie Liu, viola; Barbara Bogatin and Marie Dalby, viola da gamba; Robin ...  

Seattle Symphony Orchestra conductor laureate Gerard Schwarz returned to Benaroya Hall for a program of Mozart and Mahler, with pianist John Lill. The series continues at noon April 6 and 8 p.m. April 7.  

The performance will feature the Overture to Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber, Cello Concerto in A minor by Robert Schumann (Nikolai Renedo, cello), and Symphony No. 8 in G Major by Antonin Dvorak. The Granoff Music Center is at 20 Talbot Ave. on Tufts ...  

On Friday, April 13, when the Main Line Symphony Orchestra presents its third concert of the season, one highlight will be Brahms' Violin Concerto. “It's one of my favorite concertos,” says longtime music director and conductor Henry Scott ...  

Charismatic pianist, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, plays the Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto ... under the baton of Henry Hadley, and Michael Tilson Thomas led the most recent performances in September 2010. The Fifth Piano Concerto by the late-Romantic French composer ...  

The Clarice Smith concert will get an extra dose of star power with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves as guest artist. The soloist slot for the Maryland Hall performances will be filled by pianist Rachel Franklin, playing a Beethoven concerto.  

TEENAGER James Morely has been given a rare opportunity to perform with the Mitcham Orchestra this weekend. James, 15, will perform Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto in A minor at the Mitcham Orchestra’s production of Romantic Gems on Sunday (May 27).  

Robert Weiss, artistic director and CEO of Carolina Ballet (http://www.carolinaballet.com), has announced that the company will debut its revival of the fairy tale classic Beauty And The Beast as well as perform the world premiere of his Beethoven ...  

"You can't deny when you look at the repertoire, we don't have any of the major composers - Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius. On the other hand, the International Viola Congress we're bringing to...  

The talented young violinist, Shulah Oliver, will be the soloist with Hitchin Symphony Orchestra in Gerald Finzi's Violin Concerto at St Mary's Church, Hitchin, on Saturday 12 May 2012. Born in Worcester, Shulah is a graduate of both The Royal College and ...  

There is a $10 student rush ticket (with current ID) one hour before the show. A 20 percent discount is available for groups of 10 or more. For more information, visit http://www.carolinaballet.com or call (919) 719-0800. Carolina Ballet is a world-class ...  

The Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra will wrap up its season May 19 with two highly charged works: Schubert’s Symphony No. 8 and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. “This is kind of an unusual program with two symphonies back to back,” says Peter ...  

The 39th annual Bach Week Festival takes place in Evanston through May 6. It's a musical rite of spring in Chicagoland. Baroque music lovers can enjoy solo, concerto, orchestral, and choral performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.  

The San Antonio Symphony divides its 14-concert Classics series into two packages — a 7-concert Ovation series and the 7-concert Applause. Both are performed on Friday and Saturday nights at the Majestic Theatre. There is no musical difference between ...  

When Kayson Brown, a music professional in American Fork, heard Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for the first time, he said he lost consciousness, as he was unprepared for the emotional onslaught that characterizes the piece. Brown, a music director at American ...  

The Cincinnati May Festival continues its second weekend of choral masterpieces in Music Hall. • Tonight: The festival’s choral and orchestral forces, led by James Conlon, will perform “The three B’s: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.”  

Today the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a concert featuring three pieces by Aram Khachaturian Piano Concerto, Violin Concerto and Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra. The show will mark the ...  

But since the piece is a concerto for orchestra, the composer provided many jewel moments for individuals, and it was here that the Curtis Symphony Orchestra gave away its conservatory status. Perfect playing isn’t enough; personality is essential.  

Nhan Dan – Acclaimed Singaporean piano soloist Lim Yan will join the ‘Emperor's Night’ concert being staged by the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra at the Workers Theatre in Hanoi tonight. The pianist will play the ‘Emperor’ piano Concerto No ...  

When you're only 15, two years is a long time, apparently. That's why it's easy for Kelly Lanzafame to view Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto (Op. 14) as something akin to an old friend. "It's one of the first concertos I learned," said the North ...  

That’s a good calling card for guest conductors of the Utah Symphony in a season dominated by Beethoven Boot Camp, as players have dubbed music director Thierry Fischer’s Beethoven symphony cycle. Labadie will conduct the orchestra and Utah ...  

Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra launches soloist competitionWicked LocalCape Cod Symphony Orchestra Artistic Director and Conductor Jung-Ho Pak explains details of the New England Concerto Competition, The Soloist. By NICOLE MULLER If you're an amateur musician who's dreamed of performing onstage with a professional ...  

Violinist Ilya Kaler will be one of the soloists with at the Lake Forest Symphony’s Beethoven Concerto Fest at 8 p.m. May 19 at the James Lumber Center, 19351 W. Washington St., Grayslake. Pianist Alon Goldstein and cellist Amit Peled will also perform ...  

Delius: Sea Drift Thomas Hampson (baritone) BBC National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox (conductor) c. 2.25pm Sibelius: Tapiola BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jac van Steen (conductor) c. 2.45pm Sibelius: Violin Concerto Akiko Suwanai (violin ...  

Under the baton of conductor, Paul G. Davis, the Webster University Symphony Orchestra  presents the 2011-12 season finale concert–"Beauty and Fate." The concert features Webster University’s concerto competition, pianist Matt Pankratz, and aria ...  

The Chinese pianist’s performance of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra can only be described as electrifying. A flashy, percussive work that poses immense technical difficulties, it was the perfect ...  

On this day in classical music: Dimitri Shostakovich’s “Piano Concerto No. 2,” which was composed for his son Maxim, received its premiere in Moscow in 1957. Its central Andante is one of the composer’s most poignant and wistful creations.  

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is in chamber-orchestra formation this week — appropriately so for two 18th-century symphonies and a 19th-century homage to the 18th century. Music director Jaap van Zweden has given the DSO chameleon-like ...  

Last night at Davies Symphony Hall, the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) gave the first concert in its two-part series featuring the six “Brandenburg” concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach (BWV 1046–1051) and some of the best-known orchestral ...  

Nov. 10: East Meets West, featuring violinist Rachel Barton Pine. She returns for the fifth time with the symphony to perform Violin Concerto No. 2 (II Campanello). Jan. 19: Arrival to the Modern Age, with the symphony performing Stravinsky’s “The Rite ...  

The first-time guest conductor was Paul Watkins, originally from Argoed, who was once the youngest principal cello of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The soloist in Haydn's Cello Concerto in C was another South Walian, Steffan Morris, a protegé of Heinrich ...  

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is set to play works by Mozart and Bruckner at Edinburgh's Usher Hall next month. (TRAVPR.COM) UK - May 2nd, 2012 - The Usher Hall in Edinburgh is set to stage a performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto by the BBC ...  

Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is really a double concerto for piano and trumpet. So on Friday morning, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra audience had a double treat when two soloists, a sensational French pianist named Lise de la Salle ...  

Bookended by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Russian Easter Overture” and Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique” will be Sergei Prokofiev’s “Violin Concerto No. 2,” the program’s centerpiece, written in 1935, before Prokofiev’s ...  

The Rockford Symphony Orchestra will hold a concert titled "Beethoven Live!" for home school students at 11:30 a.m. April 25 at Coronado Performing Arts Center, 314 N. Main St., Rockford The concert will feature RSO music director Steven Larsen as Herr ...  

The pint-sized prodigy who spent his childhood wowing the courts of Europe with his musical prowess. The tormented genius supposedly poisoned by a jealous rival. The musical visionary who - along with Beethoven and Haydn - established the classical music ...  

The Usher Hall in Edinburgh is set to stage a performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Leading clarinettist Martin Frost will play the famous work, backed by the orchestra and its chief conductor Donald Runnicles ...  

The effect worked like a charm, as he had the audience hanging by a thread for each note…” Read the full review #2 – Mark Houghton – Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 11 “The performance of Richard Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 1 in E ...  

WALLINGFORD — The Wallingford Symphony Orchestra will host an annual family concert on Sunday, April 29, at the Paul Mellon Arts Center at Choate ... also include a performance by 2012 Polly Shulga Noonan Concerto Competition winner Jasper Hahn, a ...  

The Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra is hosting an open concerto competition for Cape musicians later this year. With its audience-voting portion, you could call it "American Idol" with violins. The contest, called The Soloist: New England Concerto ...  

Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and newly appointed Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Peter Oundijan will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society in Beethoven’s monumental Ninth ...  

Over the four decades that Bernard Haitink has been conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra he has earned an affectionate and loyal following among the city’s musical public. But Haitink’s annual return to Symphony Hall, typically near the ...  

will lead the orchestra in his New West Symphony debut. Brahms’ popular Symphony No. 1, profoundly emotional and melodic, is frequently performed as one of the most cherished pieces in the orchestral literature. Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 ...  

Modern Romance," Feb. 9-10. The orchestra's Valentine's Day program features David Singer, principal clarinet with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, in Robert Aldridge's "Concerto for Clarinet." The program also features Ravel's lush "Daphnis and Chloe."  

On June 6, Voices Chamber Choir New Zealand and the Vector Wellington Orchestra join forces to present Mozart's tremendous final work, his Requiem. The candlelit performance promises to be highly atmospheric, especially in the soaring spaces of St Paul's ...  

Sun 20 May at 7.30pm. Acclaimed British clarinettist Sarah Williamson takes centre stage to perform Mozart’s ethereal and beautiful Clarinet Concerto. This magnificent concerto is framed by two equally well-loved works: Mendelssohn’s sunny ...  

Hi. This is my first opus for this series; thanks to Dumbo who offered me the chance to do it. I contacted him about not including Beethoven's Violin Concerto in the violin concerto mini-series poll, and he pointed out to me that he had somewhat ...  

And Leonard Slatkin, the music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, went head-to-head with Kid Rock, as Rock conducted his ... creating a good energy inside the Fox. Cameras swooped over the stage and the orchestra throughout the evening ...  

His double bass playing father gave him his early musical training. He began playing the piano at age seven and also studied the cello. His first symphony was premiered in 1876 and it quickly earned the nickname of Beethoven’s 10th. It is always fun to ...  

The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven's. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart's jewel, is ...  

Led by Music Director Marin Alsop, Baltimore-based and world-renowned pianist Leon Fleisher will perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, May 3 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 6 at 3 p.m. at the Joseph ...  

Lovers of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ample catalogue will have multiple chances to enjoy his works over the weekend, starting with a concert on Friday featuring the Madison Symphony’s Overture Concert organ and concluding with two performances by the ...  

Lovers of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ample catalogue will have multiple chances to enjoy his works over the weekend, starting with a concert on Friday featuring the Madison Symphony’s Overture Concert organ and concluding with two performances by the ...  

LONDON (Reuters) - Classical music fans know that American violinist Hilary Hahn plays a wicked concerto, knocking out the fiendishly fast final bars of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, for example, faster and with more sheer energy than pretty ...  

Charles Dutoit is devoting the opening program of his two-week podium engagement with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to big crowd-pleasers by Richard Strauss ("Don Quixote") and Sergei Rachmaninov (Third Piano Concerto). Such repertory ...  

THE MOST famous of symphonies, one of the greatest piano concertos, Vasily Petrenko at the helm, and a renowned soloist, guaranteed a full house. The opening of Beethoven's Fifth, forever later associated with the World War 11 Morse Code signal of V for ...  

-- Noc Majawa by Tadeusz Miciński. Szymanowski may be a new name for some people here. He is more well known, revered, in Poland, where he is ranked among the most important Polish composers after Chopin. The World War I era violin concerto we ...  

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Leader, Malcolm Latchem will be joined by Catherine Hayek in Bach's much-loved Double Violin Concerto, Jonathan Watts will play Bach's A major Keyboard Concerto, a work made popular by its delightful Arioso slow movement, and David Shead takes the solo ...  

The Moore County Choral Society (MCCS) will perform "Requiem," by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in all its grandeur, with orchestral accompaniment and renowned soloists, for its 37th Annual Spring Classical Concert Sunday, April 29, at 4 p.m. in Robert E.  

Pianist Lang Lang made his Cleveland Orchestra debut at Blossom Music Center in August 2000 as soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Jahja Ling conducting, and first appeared with the Orchestra at Severance Hall in September 2002, as soloist in ...  

The program will include Bach's Easter Oratorio BWV 249, Adagio and Sinfonia, plus a Brandenburg Concerto (No. 1) and a new Brandenburg by Aaron Jay Kernis ("Concerto with Echoes"). Performances are at 7:30 p.m. in the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts ...  

German conductor Günther Herbig will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and pianist ... Jonathan Biss, who was born in 1980, represents the third generation in a family of professional musicians that includes his grandmother Raya Garbousova, one ...  

He discovered how things turned out a few weeks ago at the Lucerne festival where Frang, now 26, played Bartók's first violin concerto with him and his world famous Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. "I have so much respect for British ...  

Last night, May 10, the concert by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra included works of Beethoven, Clara Schumann, William Henry Fry, and Gilad Rabinovitch. The programming challenged me to think past learned conventions and reflect upon women ...  

But it's not that clear cut here. We are just in a new section. The violin vanishes and the full orchestra with angry brass and drums again asserts control. They play a new theme based on a part of the previous theme just heard, (which was based ...  

But Indian conductor-violinist Abraham Mazumder sees little difference and believes "the grammar of music is universal". Mazumder, who has studied at London's Trinity College of Music, says audiences of all classes are "receptive to good music".  

Music of the Baroque is steady with Bach MassChicago TribuneJohann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B Minor is so imposing a monument bringing together so many different styles of music that performances always are an occasion. Sunday night's sold-out performance by Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque had the ...Music of the Baroque conveys the joyous element of Bach's Mass in B minorChicago Classical Reviewall 3 news articles »  

And it's a family matter that brings them together for these concerts at Orchestra Hall. Zlotkin will play Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Cello Concerto, written for the 1946 classical-music-with-murder film "Deception." The concerto — or more ...  

new music and chamber music to concerto appearances with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. On April 20, a panel of international judges will name the APA's 2013 Christel DeHaan Classical Fellow, "a musician ...  

The trumpet section will be in the spotlight for Handel’s Second Suite, from Water Music. Mozart’s 17th Piano Concerto will also be performed. After the interval Weber’s rarely-heard First Symphony, which spans the classical/romantic divide ...  

The Mid-Somerset Orchestra, leader Hywel Jenkins conductor Stephen Smith, presents its spring concert "Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet" Brahms "Tragic" Overture, Tchaikovsky "Romeo and Juliet" Beethoven 3rd Symphony “Eroica” Ticket prices: £11 Full ...  

May 26 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore. Also on the program is Bruckner’s Te Deum; a setting of an early Christian hymn for orchestra, chorus and vocal soloists. This unique concert, dedicated to great choral masterpieces of the 19th century ...  

ROCHESTER -- "Missa Solemnis," Beethoven’s inspiring and profound work for vocal soloists, chorus, and large orchestra, will be presented at 8 p.m. Friday in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. Performed by the Eastman Rochester Chorus and ...  

Garrett pays homage to the great composer Ludwig Van Beethoven with his performance of “Violin Concerto in D Major” which is, in Garrett’s own words, the “ultimate masterpiece of the violin repertoire.” Garrett’s performance of the concerto is perfect.  

The next San Antonio Symphony Classics concert on May 4 & 5 is called Mozart in Old Style. This title refers to the fact that Barry Douglas will be featured as both the guest conductor and piano soloist–just like Mozart did when he premiered his own piano concertos.  

A quartet of soloists will join Auckland Choral and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra to perform Anton Bruckner's Great Mass in F minor at a concert next month ... soprano Amanda Winfield and tenor Ravil Atlas who will be making their Auckland debut.  

The orchestra will perform Dvorak's aria "Song to the Moon" from "Rusalka," excerpts from Manuel de Falla's "Siete Cancions Populaires Espagnolas," Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" and the "Allegro Moderato" from Weiniawski's "Concerto No. 2" in D ...  

VERO BEACH — Indian River Charter High School and ... The evening will feature the orchestra, jazz, dance, drama and choral performances inspired by works of the Classical Era from Mozart, Shakespeare and Beethoven. The second half of the ...  

In a performance themed "Death and Heaven," Senior Lecturer in Music Tony Antolini will lead the Bowdoin Chorus and the Mozart Mentors Orchestra in a range of pieces including the New England premiere of Karl Jenkins' "Requiem." After premiering ...  

Fifteen-year-old pianist Anshuman Das of Bedford — winner of Indian Hill Music School’s Student Concerto competition — will perform the first movement of Shostakovich’s “Piano Concerto No. 2.” The diverse program will also feature Copland’s ...  

Complementing Prokofiev’s famed symphony on the program are two shorter works: Camille St. Saens’ Cello Concerto and “Un Sourire” by Olivier Messiaen. Like the Prokofiev Symphony, Messiaen’s composition is a product of the 20th century.  

Mainly Mozart brings chamber music under festival umbrellaU-T San DiegoAnd Harrell is also soloist on the orchestra's June 6 opening orchestra program (in Tchaikovsky's “Variations on a Rococo Theme”). “One of my key things is just because you put two great players onstage doesn't mean they are going to make magic.  

The Wilmington Symphony wraps its 2011-12 season with a concert featuring one work. Indeed, if one work is all music director Steven Errante were allowed, then there could, arguably, be none better than the ninth and last of Beethoven's symphonies.  

But Friday's concerts by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra went a long way to giving ... The concerts were conducted by WSO assistant conductor, Peter Wiebe. The concerts will be repeated tonight at 7: 30 p.m. at Leamington United Mennonite Church ...  

The evening will feature the combined efforts of Pacific's Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, members of the Philharmonic orchestra and instrumental faculty members under the direction of Professor and choral activities director Scott Tuomi ...  

Beethoven's "Choral Fantasy" for piano, chorus and orchestra doesn't get performed much, partly because it's not essential Beethoven and partly because hiring a solo pianist and chorus requires a significant investment of resources for a rather ...  

Kolkata: He regaled masses at the Kolkata film fest inauguration last year and will on Wednesday blend Tagore with masters such as Bach before highly discerning listeners at Germany’s annual Munich Philharmonic Orchestra festival. But Indian ...  

PORTLAND — The Portland Symphony Orchestra will present a concert of "Bruckner, Beethoven and More" on Sunday, April 15, at Merrill Auditorium. Music Director Robert Moody will conduct the at 2:30 p.m. program featuring pieces by Anton ...  

The Three B’s, they’ve been done. Make room for the three M’s. The Camerata di Sant’ Antonio, the chamber orchestra in residence at St. Anthony of Padua Church (160 Court St.), pays homage today (May 6) to Mozart, Mendelssohn and Molinelli.  

The newest one is 21-year-old pianist Behzod Abduraimov from Tashkent, Uzbekistan, whose first disc for Decca glories in the sort of pyrotechnic revelry that classical piano audiences have thrilled to since the 19th century. When you hear ...  

Portland Cello Project is not a novelty, although they can come dangerously close sometimes. A rotating cast of cellists, winds, brass, and percussion, the PCP are part of the new vanguard of classical performers who combine Beethoven with ...  

The Herbert work is his Cello Concerto No. 2 in E minor Op. 30. That’s right, a classical concerto by the composer of “Naughty Marietta,” and “Babes in Toyland.” Herbert was a virtuoso cellist with strong classical training.  

Alexandria — Min Ji Lee won first prize playing one of the most challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire — Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor. Lee participated with 11 other aspiring young ...  

For the Masterworks program, "A Musical Feast," pianist James Tocco will perform the U.S. premiere ... In addition to Franck's elusive concerto, the April program also includes Weber's "Oberon," Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream ...  

While Armstrong's exuberance was largely absent from the slow ... but Beethoven's career-long theme of emerging from tragedy triumphant came through in heart-filling fashion. Rob Hubbard can be reached at rhubbard@pioneerpress.com.  

Auckland stuff.co.nzBaton change at the Melbourne Symphony OrchestraHerald SunLast year, the Scottish-born conductor did just that in a series of pre-concert talks at Melbourne Town Hall, where he directed all nine of Ludwig Van's symphonies with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. But Boyd was momentarily lost for words when an ...Review: NZSO Alpine SymphonyAuckland stuff.co.nzSarasota Orchestra 2012-13 season features guest conductors, music...  

LPO crests powerfully in season-capping concert with Symphony Chorus of New ...NOLA.comBy Chris Waddington The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra unleashed a great, Mississippi flood of music on Saturday, bringing its 2011-2012 season to a triumphant, high-romantic conclusion with Mahler's 9th Symphony, the Austrian titan's last-completed ...and more »  

Letting Jazz Have a Turn Interpreting the PoetsNew York TimesIt presented two major large-ensemble pieces by members of its orchestra, neither very well known as composers, for a three-night run at the Rose Theater: “God's Trombones,” by the trombonist Chris Crenshaw, and “Inferno,” by the saxophonist Sherman ...  

Roanoke Symphony Orchestra launches drive for fundsRoanoke TimesBy Mike Allen The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra already was facing funding issues when it learned in April that it would not receive a Taubman Foundation Sustainability Grant. That development, compounded by reduced government funding and tighter grant ...  

The Star-Ledger - NJ.comA guest to remember: Konig leads the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in ...The Star-Ledger - NJ.comBy Ronni Reich/The Star-Ledger Noah K. Murray/The Star-LedgerConductor Christoph König leads the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and soprano Olga Peretyatko during a performance Thursday at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.Soprano Olga Peretyatko living the dreamExaminer.comall 2 news articles »  

In one Egyptian orchestra, blind women memorize note by noteWashington PostCAIRO — Just from hearing it, it's like any professional orchestra. But the assembly of white-veiled Egyptian women in matching black gowns has a startling difference. Every woman in the orchestra is blind. The women in Cairo's Egyptian Blind Girls ...and more »  

Wired NewsSymphony of the Goddesses : A Black Tie, Green Tunic AffairWired NewsThe symphony's second moment, a Wind Waker suite, was a personal highlight from a game that's cell-shaded style originally turned off many Zelda purists. Its lushly layered strings and punctuating brass hits not only evoked the strong classical ...Zelda's “Symphony of the Goddesses” on TourTheGamersHuball 2 news articles »  

al.comAdrian Symphony Orchestra concerts showcase 11-year-old cellist's talents ...Adrian Daily TelegramSujari Britt, cello, performs with the Adrian Symphony Orchestra during “Chasing a Dream,” a Casual Classics concert Friday at Father Williams Hall at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Adrian. By Arlene Bachanov At the age of 11, most kids are into hanging ...Alabama Symphony: Carnegie Hall success needs to translate to support at homeal...  

Wall Street JournalA Classical Trio With Room for a Little GN'RWall Street JournalWhile the ensemble's repertoire includes original compositions and works by Jethro Tull, Guns N' Roses and Charles Mingus, Project Trio is best known for its arrangements of classical-music favorites. "Extended techniques definitely drove our style," ...