Die rumänische Pianistin Alexandra Dariescu und der aus Singapur stammende Dirigent Darrell Ang – er hat den Dirigentenwettbewerb von Besançon gewonnen – warten mit einer spannungsvollen und prägnanten, auf einer klugen Mischung von Spannung und Entspannung aufbauenden Interpretation von Tchaikovskys Erstem Klavierkonzert auf. Read More →
In der Reihe der Beethovenaufnahmen des gleichnamigen Beethovenorchesters Bonn mit seinem 2016 ausgeschiedenen Chefdirigenten Stefan Blunier erscheint die zweite Symphonie gekoppelt mit den Ouvertüren zu Schauspielmusiken und der ‘Zur Namensfeier’. Read More →
Der Italiener Andrea Sanguineti (*1983) wird seinen Vertrag als GMD des Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theaters Görlitz-Zittau und Chefdirigent der Neuen Lausitzer Philharmonie nach Ende der Spielzeit 2017/2018 nicht verlängern, teilte das Theater mit. Sanguineti ist seit 2013 auf diesem Posten.
Chinese-American conductor Lan Shui, 59, has announced today, that he will quit his job as Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in January 2019, after the orchestra’s 40th anniversary. He is Music Director of the orchestra since 1997. The Straits Times reports that Shui wants to spend more time with his wife and two sons, aged 11 and eight months. Read More →
Architects Dragan Marcetic, Milan Maksimovic and her associates are the winners of the competition for the design of a new concert hall for the Belgrade Philharmonic. 34 projects were in competition. The new performing arts centre will consist of a large concert hall with 1,500 seats and a stage of 500 square meters, plus one multipurpose hall with up to 400 seats.
Hamburg’s ominously expensive and highly mediatised Elbphilharmonie had serious security lacks in the online ticket shop, German media report. Apparently it was quite easy not only to visualize tickets bought before by patrons, but also to reprint them. So if during the next months there will be two or more people wanting to sit one particular seat, the question will be who was the original buyer. Maybe patrons should take their credit card receipts with them… According to the arts centre, the security gap has been repaired a few days ago.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and its 87 musicians yesterday announced the ratification of a new contract, more than eight months prior to the current contract’s expiration on August 31, 2017. Read More →
Bei dem belgischen Klavierbauer Chris Maena hat sich Daniel Barenboim einen speziell für ihn konzipierten Steinway-Flügel bauen lassen. Read More →
Im Jahre 1840 erhielten Robert und Clara Schumann ein Conrad Graf Pianoforte als Hochzeitsgeschenk. Read More →
Professor Ekaterina Iofel died in Krasnoyarsk today, aged 94. Among her pupils were, among many others, baritones Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Nikolai Putilin. Ekatarina Iofel was a practising teacher until 2015. In her youth she sang leading roles for mezzo-soprano at various opera houses in Russia.