Mikhail Pletnev is acting in five roles at InClassica 2025 Festival in Dubai. Branimir Pofuk has more information. Read More →
Laurence Equilbey and Insula orchestra are launching Insula Camerata, an academy orchestra for young professional musicians playing on period instruments. The artists will be selected by an international jury at auditions in Paris, New York and two other cities in Europe. Read More →
Celestial Keys; Alessio Elia; Luminescences fĂŒr Klarinette & Ensemble + Disappearing rainbows + Dimensioni nascoste + Klarinettenkonzert Implicate Inklings + Celestial keys fĂŒr 2 Soprane & Ensemble; Marta Muranyi, Judit Szathmary, Marco Ortolani, Csaba Klenyan, Chigiana Academy of Music Ensemble, Concerto Budapest Ligeti Ensemble, Concerto Budapest Orchestra, National Hungarian Radio Orchestra, Mauro Bonifacio, Laszlo Tihanyi, Zoltan Racz, Gergely Vajda; # Brilliant Classics 97382; Aufnahmen 2005-2023, Veröffentlichung 06-13.12.2024 (66'36) - Rezension von Norbert Tischer ** (For English please scroll down)
Der 1979 geborene italienische Komponist Alessio Elia erlangte internationale Anerkennung durch seinen Polysystemismus, die gleichzeitige Verwendung verschiedener Stimmungssysteme. Demensprechend viel gibt es in seinen OrchesterstĂŒcken zu hören, die sich durch geheimnisvoll flirrende KlĂ€nge auszeichnen und akustisch BezĂŒge zu Unterwasserwelten oder intergalaktischen Weiten aufweisen. Read More →
Julian Jaeyoung Kim, a South Korea-born pianist will release a new Beethoven album on the HĂ€nssler Classic label, supported by Bechstein and BĂ€renreiter Verlag, set for release in March 2025. Also, he will be touring in Europe for two weeks in nine different cities with three Beethoven Sonatas. Remy Franck made the following interview with him.
As a Korean pianist, you have no roots in Europe. Yet, as so many Koreans you deal easily with European music. What do you have to pay attention to?
Regardless of the country or continent, musicians strive to explore and understand the composerâs intentions. We study works created over several centuries and seek answers through the composerâs lifetime, written sources, and scholarly approaches. That is why many Korean and other musicians engage deeply with European music, even though we may not share its cultural roots. Read More →
Jan Freidlin: Kafka Sonate + Mist Over the Lake - Antonio Giacometti: The Prideful Cry of Amazonian Forest - Roberto Sierra: Duo-Sonate fĂŒr Klarinette und Gitarre - Giacomo Susani: Sonate fĂŒr Klarinette und Gitarre; Andreas Hermanski, Klarinette), Ămilie Fend (Gitarre); # Naxos 8.579168; Aufnahme 12.2022, Veröffentlichung 06.12.2024 (66'10) â Rezension von Uwe Krusch ** (For English please scroll down)
Das Duo der Gitarristin Ămilie Fend und des Klarinettisten Andreas Hermanski spielt neben vorhandenem Repertoire fĂŒr seine Besetzung auch in Auftrag gegebene Werke. FĂŒr dieses Album haben sie Komponisten unterschiedlicher Provenienz zusammengestellt. Read More →
The San Francisco Symphony has reached an agreement with its musicians to extend their current collective bargaining agreement by some weeks, through Jan. 18. This temporary extension comes as talks continue between the Symphonyâs administration and Musicians Union Local 6 of the American Federation of Musicians, which represents the orchestra players. Both parties aim to finalize a new contract in the coming months.
After nine successful years the directors of the Festival Musical Durtal (Loire Region, France) just learned via a standard administrative letter that the âŹ10,000 subsidy requested for the 2025 edition has been withdrawn. Read More →
Bach au luth; Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite g-Moll BWV 995 + Partita c-Moll BWV 997 + PrÀludium, Fuge und Allegro in Es-Dur BWV 998; Diego Salamanca, Laute; # Seulétoile; Aufnahme 2024, Veröffentlichung 29.11.2024 (70'06) - Rezension von Norbert Tischer
Diego Salamanca spielt auf diesem Album drei Werke von Johann Sebastian Bach auf einer 13-chörigen Laute des chilenischen Instrumentenbauers Nicanor Oporto, einem Instrument, das zu Bachs Zeit ĂŒblich war und im musikalischen Umfeld des Leipziger Kantors hĂ€ufig gespielt wurde. Read More →
English composer Christian Mason, 40, will receive the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, the University of Louisville announced today. Read More →
After a five-year term, British conductor William Boughton, 75, conductor of the Yale Symphony Orchestra, or YSO, will bid farewell to the symphony at the end of the 2024-25 academic year. Read More →
