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Elena Kats Chernin is at work on a new composition:
A preview of Zubin Kanga’s Sydney concert
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/dont-try-this-on-the-new-steinway-kids-20120812-242p3.html
Elena Kats Chernin is at work on a new composition:
A preview of Zubin Kanga’s Sydney concert
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/dont-try-this-on-the-new-steinway-kids-20120812-242p3.html
Norwegian lyric dramatic soprano Lise Davidsen has released her debut album Lise Davidsen with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen pn Decca. Winner of The World Opera Competition, Placido Domingo’s Operalia and the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, both in 2015, Lise was the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year in 2018 and makes…
Composer Philip Glass is interviewed this week by The Guardian’s Laura Barnett. He talks about fame, inspiration and people he would like to work with. Click here to read.
Wunderkind violinist Christian Li, just 13 years old, will release his debut album in August 2021 on the Decca Classics label. Featured on this album is the classic Meditation from the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet, which has been released as a single.
Decca Classics has released a compilation album of the Takács Quartet performing its award-winning recordings of the complete String Quartets of Beethoven. This anthology comprises a multi-media presentation of the Beethoven quartets on 7 CDs, 1 Blu-ray Audio disc, and a bonus DVD. The release of this package presages the Takács Quartet’s August 2017 tour to…
Hyeseoung Kwon as Fiordiligi. Image Jeff Busby Terrific news from soprano Hyeseoung Kwon who has announced that she will be singing the role of Cio-Cio San in the Raymond Gubbay production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at the Royal Albert Hall in early 2015. Hyeseoung Kwon covered the role for Opera Australia in 2012 and she…
The Classical Brit Award winners for 2013 have been announced with albums devoted to or influenced by film music, dominating the selections. Established in 2000 to ‘honour and recognise all forms of classical music from contemporary to crossover, opera to soundtracks, traditional to theatre’ the awards are organised by the British Phonographic Industry, the trade association which represents…