Ten Debussy Premieres at the York Late Music Concert Series on 1 September
16/08/2018
TEN NEW DEBUSSYS PROJECT CELEBRATES DEBUSSY’S CENTENARY
Venue: St. Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel (York) – Saturday 1 September 2018, 7.30PM
Marking the centenary of Debussy’s death, on Saturday 1 September the York Late Music Concert Series presents Ten New Debussys, an evening of new music inspired and framed by works by the French composer. Read more
The Roman River Music Festival Returns This September
13/08/2018
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR ROMAN RIVER FESTIVAL 2018
FOR SEEN AND HEARD’S REVIEW OF THE CONCERT ON 29 SEPTEMBER
Starring over 80 world-class performers, Roman River Music presents a spectacular array of theatre, talks, music and debates, throughout a fun filled 10-day festival – taking place within unusual buildings across Colchester and the surrounding areas, between Thursday 20th and Sunday 30th September 2018. Read more
Opera Appreciation Talks this Autumn from Helen Astrid
12/08/2018
Opera Appreciation Talks
This autumn, opera singer Helen Astrid (formerly English National Opera) will reveal the beauty, fascination and myths surrounding one of the most celebrated of all art forms. Read more
Jonas Kaufmann: Under the Stars in Cinemas on 30 August
09/08/2018
JONAS KAUFMANN: UNDER THE STARS
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In Cinemas Across the UK & Ireland
Thursday 30 August 2018
CinemaLive, leading producers and distributors of Event Cinema, will bring Jonas Kaufmann’s spectacular ‘Dolce Vita’ concert from Berlin’s Waldbühne to cinemas across the UK and Ireland for one night only, on Thursday 30 August. Regarded as one of the world’s greatest tenors, Jonas Kaufmann has captivated audiences across the globe since his sensational 2006 debut in La traviata at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Read more
NEW! TENOR NICHOLAS PHAN IN CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTOPHER SALLON
09/08/2018
Holding the Key: Nicholas Phan talks to Christopher Sallon
Nicholas Phan
‘Music is for everybody, but the artist, alone, holds the key’ declares Nicholas Phan, one of the USA’s most accomplished lyric tenors. In a blog recorded in 2010, some eight years before our July interview in Tanglewood, he stood calmly before the camera and provided an ‘insider’s’ glimpse, as he prepared for his Carnegie Hall debut recital with accompanist Myra Huang. With a maturity and self-assurance which belied his years – he was then just 31 years old – he spoke of the need to take risks and proceeded to provide a key to his programme of songs by Benjamin Britten. Phan’s performance that night, particularly his account of Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, and the song cycle Winter Words, a setting of Thomas Hardy poems, garnered rave reviews, as did his Winter Words CD, released soon thereafter. Read more
NEW! THE PIANIST GEORGE HARLIONO IN CONVERSATION WITH GREGOR TASSIE
07/08/2018
George Harliono talks with Gregor Tassie
Valery Gergiev with George Harliono
Among the finalists for the 2018 Brit Awards was the brilliant young pianist George Harliono, unfortunately he didn’t win an award but certainly this seventeen-year-old has already been causing a stir in the classical music world. The young teenager George Harliono from Cambridge became a media celebrity a couple of years ago when he was invited to play with the Mariinsky Orchestra in Russia, and since which he has given several high-profile concerts in Russia and has played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, played at the Wigmore Hall, and this autumn will play at the Berlin Philharmonic. But he comes from a musical family for his older brother Joshua is studying violin at the Guildhall School of Music and his sister Adelaide plays cello in the National Children’s Orchestra. Read more
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01/08/2018
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A Major Work by Stanford to be Premiered – 99 Years Late!
20/07/2018
John Quinn discusses Stanford’s Mass Via Victrix, Op.173 with Adrian Partington
Adrian Partington conducting at the Three Choirs Festival,
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