CD Reviews
MOZART Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat major, K.364; Violin Concertos – No.1 in B flat major, K.207*; No.3 in G major, K.216
This new release on Lara St. John’s Ancalagon label pairs the gifted violinist with her equally talented brother in Mozart concertos, individually and together.
In [...]
PASTORALE
As a provocation to generic orthodoxy, this latest offering from Manfred Eicher’s steadfastly esoteric ECM stable carries itself with a quietly disturbing – and [...]
WHITACRE Choral Music
In the last decade Eric Whitacre has quietly become one of the most performed American composers at home and increasingly so abroad, an impressive [...]
D’INDY Istar, Op.42; Choral varié, Op.55; Symphony No.3, Op.70; Diptyque méditerranéen, Op.87
If the music of Vincent d’Indy (1851-1931) is not as well known as that of some other French composers, not least those who were [...]
Sony secures rights to Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Day Concert
Sony Classical is to be the Vienna Philharmonic’s new recording partner for its traditional New Year’s Day concert.
The relationship will begin with the 2012 performance of the world’s most watched classical concert, with Sony committing to releasing the recording on CD, DVD and Blu-ray formats.
The announcement is the latest high-profile signing by Sony and follows exclusive recording agreements with pianist Lang Lang and conductors Alondra de la Parra and Kristjan Järvi.
The label already has some memorable recordings of an event that is broadcast annually from Vienna’s Musikverein to an audience of 40 million in 70 countries, including Herbert von Karajan’s only appearance in 1987 and Carlos Kleiber’s two legendary concerts in 1989 and 1992.
DVD Reviews
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Prima Donna, The Story of an Opera
The making of Rufus Wainwright’s debut opera Prima Donna would make a suitable subject for an opera in itself. Depicting “a day in the [...]
HUMPERDINCK Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel have grown a mean set of fangs over the years. In our current world of ironic wit and the wholesale slaughter [...]
WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen
More than a few stage directors have wrecked themselves on the shoals of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen by settling for an epic sound-and-light [...]
News
Chicago Symphony to greet Riccardo Muti’s arrival as Music Director with live recording of Verdi’s Requiem
The inaugural season of Riccardo Muti’s tenure as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s tenth music director is to be marked by the release of a [...]
JoAnn Falletta and Naxos release music by forgotten composer murdered in Auschwitz
Music by Marcel Tyberg, who was murdered by the Nazis in the Auschwitz concentration camp on New Year’s Eve 1944, is to be heard [...]
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