Nikolaus Harnoncourt Conducts
The late maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts his ensemble Concentus Musicus Wien, led by concertmaster Alice Harnoncourt.
The late maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts his ensemble Concentus Musicus Wien, led by concertmaster Alice Harnoncourt.
Check out this track from this recent release Tranquillity: Voices of Deep Calm. Liadov’s Tropar, the third of 10 arrangements made in 1909 of a collection of old Russian Orthodox liturgical chants), Op. 61. The CD includes other a capella Russian sacred works as well as the De Profundis by Paul Mealor. Read our interview with…
Brilliant, entertaining and lucid – baritone Thomas Hampson talks to BBC’s Hardtalk about understanding classical music.
On May 16th, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed the European premiere of an incomplete and forgotten by Dmitri Shostakovich – Orango, an opera originally commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre in 1932, but which became a satire on the Russian bourgeois press. The world premiere was given in December 2011, performed by the Los…
Australian saxophonist Amy Dickson paves the way for the saxophone in the concert hall with her new CD ‘Catch Me If You Can’. Hear excerpts from her CD and her insights on the project:
Soprano Greta Bradman’s new CD Grace on the Sony label, is for her, “a desire to take us on a journey to a place of innocent hope in life” she said to SoundsLikeSydney. Superficially, this may seems at odds with some of the selections on this, her second CD. (Her first CD Forest of Dreams was…
When Philip Glass handpicked some pianists to perform all of his Etudes together at the Barbican in London last year, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson was one of them. The Financial Times claimed: “Best of all was Ólafsson in the supersensitive stillness of Etude 5.” To celebrate the 80th birthday of Philip Glass, Deutsche Grammophon have released a…