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Gerald Finley sings Lieberson’s heartbreaking Songs of Love and Sorrow
Peter Lieberson's Songs of Love and Sorrow are not only emotionally direct, sincere, and unpretentious, but also heartbreakingly effective. The American composer Peter Lieberson composed the Songs of Love and Sorrow in difficult circumstances. He ...
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Pettersson and Sibelius with the Tampere Philharmonic
Under Rouvali's direction, Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 7 felt like a connected series of very long phrases, each executed with a single breath. In the past half-decade or so, the star of the ...
ICMA 2020: The finalists
In three rounds, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the releases competing in the finals for the awards 2020. « Our initial list with a total ...
Olari Elts in all-Russian program with the Finnish RSO
The Estonian conductor Olari Elts is a regular visitor to Helsinki and is often seen on the podium in front of both the Helsinki Philharmonic and the Finnish Radio Symphony ...
A Pettersson double-header with Christian Lindberg and the Norrköping Symphony
Christian Lindberg brought out the epic, almost Bruckner-like grandeur in the brass in Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 15. In the early 1990s the Swedish record label BIS began an ambitious project ...
ICMA Jury nominates 390 releases for the 2020 awards
The ICMA nomination list for 2020 is available. To see the list, just click on our Nominations button, which will lead you to lists sorted by labels or categories. For ...
The Finnish RSO celebrates Magnus Lindberg
Any given Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra performance of Lindberg's music is both idiomatic and definitive. Throughout his long and distinguished career as a composer of orchestral music, the Finnish RSO, Lindberg's hometown ...
For the composer Craig Shepard, the music is in the street
Craig Shepard is the « maître d’œuvre » for two events that are part of the Festival d’Automne : ‘ON FOOT: Aubervilliers’, 24 daily silent walks in the city’, and ‘TRUMPET CITY: ...
Intensity and commitment: John Storgårds and the Kamus Quartet play Pettersson
Pettersson requires superhuman concentration and virtuosity from the soloist and this is exactly what John Storgårds brought to the table. Like elsewhere in the classical music world, summer in Finland marks ...
Interview with Leif Ove Andsnes
The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is one of the most creative musicians of his generation; each of his recordings is a significant event. We met him in Stockholm to discuss ...
Love at first sight : Nicholas Collon and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
After the second date, it looks like the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Collon have a beautiful relationship ahead of them. The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (FRSO) has had a ...
Brad Lubman, the taste of the unexplored
He is one of the leading conductors of modern music in the world. He premiered a huge ensemble of pieces from Helmut Lachenmann, to Steve Reich, Régis Campo or Hilda ...
Stella Chen, First Prize at the 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition
Stella Chen is the beaming young musician who has just been awarded the First Prize of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, violin 2019. She delighted us with her ...
The pianist Eva Gevorgyan, Discovery Award of the ICMA
Young Russian pianist Eva Gevorgyan has already played on many prestigious stages. A student of the Central Music School in Moscow and a scholarship holder of the International Music Academy ...
Gustavo Gimeno in Britten and Shostakovich with the Finnish RSO
One of the most immediately appealing aspects of cellist Tomas Nuñez-Garcés' performance was his understated confidence and assured virtuosity. Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich were two of the greatest composers of ...
One thousand and one lessons from la Nilsson
This autobiography of Madame Bertil Niklasson, stage name Birgit Nilssson, written in Swedish, translated into Danish, then German, then English, is solid, frank, direct, never reckless, always spontaneous and witty. ...ICMA and Luzerner Sinfonieorchester announce terrific program for the Gala Concert
The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) and the Luzerner Sinfonieorchester have announced the program of the ICMA Gala Concert which will take place on 10 May 2019 at the iconic ...
Leonard Bernstein, Revealed
In the little game of drawing familiar analogies, always a bit foolish, it’s true, but still unavoidable, Charlie Harmon’s compilation quickly joins the leading ranks of works published in 2018 ...
Osmo Vänskä’s Americana with the Helsinki Philharmonic
Soloist Jonathan Roozeman handled Barber's fearsome technical demands with ease, particularly the seemingly inhuman left-hand acrobatics required in the outer movements. One of the highlights of the current Helsinki Philharmonic season is the focus ...
The Winners of the International Classical Music Awards – ICMA 2019
The Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) announced today the Awards for 2019. Brazilian pianist Nelson Freire is honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Spanish pianist Javier Perianes ...
Relishing the extremes : Hannu Lintu in Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 with the Finnish RSO
Both Lintu and the orchestra pulled out all the stops in the sprawling final movement. The winters are long and dark in Finland. Coincidence or not, Mahler's Symphony No. 6, the composer's ...
ICMA 2019 – The finalists
In several rounds, the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has chosen the releases competing in the finals for the awards 2019. « Our initial list with a total ...
ICMA Jury nominates 319 releases for the 2019 awards
The ICMA nomination list for 2019 is available. For the 2019 awards the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) has nominated 319 audio and video productions (321 in 2017, ...
Famous Father Girl, A powerfully successful Portrait of Leonard Bernstein
From the first lines of this Famous Father Girl, A Memoir of Growing up Bernstein, a passably inelegant, even frankly indigestible title, the reader quickly discovers little Jamie, oldest daughter ...
Outhere Chairman Charles Andriaenssen : « I am cautiously optimistic »
This year, the record label Alpha is Label of the Year of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA). Alpha belongs to Belgian music group Outhere (Alpha, Ricercar, Fuga Libera, Ramée, ...
Samuel Hasselhorn, First Prize at Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition 2018
Samuel Hasselhorn has just been awarded First Prize at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, Voice, 2018. The 27-year-old German baritone graduated from the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien ...
Florence Bolton, dreamy baroque
Since its foundation in 2004, the baroque ensemble La Rêveuse has recorded a wide repertoire of both instrumental and vocal music, not only from France, but also from England and ...
In Helsinki, Mälkki’s cool-headed intensity in Mahler’s No. 9
Susanna Mälkki's take on Mahler's final completed masterpiece focused on tight control coupled with clear, unsentimental intensity. Nearing the end of her second year as music director of the Helsinki Philharmonic ...
