Naxos has closed its streaming service ClassicsOnline « since our technology partner ceased operating the platform used for », the website announces. Yet, there is also a financial reason, since Naxos’s CEO Klaus Heymann says: « ‘I don’t feel that terrible about it because nobody offering streaming is making money. » Read More →
The Symphony Orchestra of Torrevieja (Costa Blanca, Spain) has announced that it will temporarily suspend its activities due to the impossibility to pay the rental cost of the Auditorium where it usually performs, the local radio station reported. The orchestra intends to continue the dialogue with the administration, in order to find a solution.
The 21st Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival will run in Warsaw, 2 – 14 April under the motto ‘Beethoven and the Fine Arts’.The festival audience will be able to experience a concert performance of Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake’s Progress, and in the series of Unknown Operas Georges Bizet’s opera Djamileh will be presented. Otherwise the program comprises an impressive number of works by Ludwig van Beethoven, overtures, symphonies and concertos. Read More →
Der Geiger David Garrett (36) erhält den diesjährigen Frankfurter Musikpreis, teilte die Musikmesse Frankfurt mit. Die Jury ehre den Geiger, weil er durch Crossover-Projekte zahllose Menschen an die klassische Musik heranführe und gleichzeitig mit Kammermusik- und Orchesterkonzerten die Neugier für Klassik wecke. Read More →
Sofia Gubaidulina
Photo: Remy Franck
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina (*1931) is the recipient of BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award in contemporary music. The Foundation says: « Sofia Gubaidulina is an outstanding example of a composer who has pursued her own distinctive voice and followed her conscience despite extremely difficult political circumstances. Read More →
Ensemble Esperanza
Das ‘Ensemble Esperanza’ hat gestern beim ‘Festival Next Generation’ in Bad Ragaz das Publikum mit einem Valentinskonzert begeistert. Read More →
‘Give Music a Future’, a cooperation project of the European Union of Music Competitions for Youth (EMCY), co-funded by the culture programme Creative Europe of the European Union, pays an ‘Homage a Heifetz’. On 2 February, they started ‘Homage a Heifetz’, with celebrations for the birthday of the famous Vilnius born virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Read More →
In a press release, Fort Worth Opera is profusely thanking their General Director « for his 16 years of dedicated service » and at the same time the board fires him over different views for the future. As Schiller would say: The Moor has done his duty, the Moor can go. Darren K. Woods will be replaced by a new General Director the search of which has already started.
3,1 Millionen Menschen musizieren in Deutschland in einem Chor, einer Instrumentalgruppe oder einem Orchester. Das geht aus einer neuen Statistik hervor, die das Statistische Bundesamt in Wiesbaden veröffentlicht hat. Dem entsprechend machen also 3,8 Prozent der Einwohner des Landes Musik, entweder professionell oder als Laien.
Der Satz ‘Das fließt wie eine Brahms-Symphonie’ gilt natürlich auch für die Kammermusik des Komponisten und insbesondere für das ja doch sehr symphonische Klavierquintett op. 34. Beim ‘Festival Next Generation’ in Bad Ragaz hatten sich fünf Musiker zusammengefunden, die wirklich alles gaben, sich komplett investierten, um diese Musik ins Fließen zu bringen. Read More →
