In his IRCAM office in Paris, French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez received the ICMA trophy for the CD set ‘Ballets Russes’ on Melodiya. In this recording Boulez is conducting ...
This concert, starring violinist Julia Fischer and conductor Vasily Petrenko tackling two masterpieces of Russian music (namely Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 4) looked very promising. And indeed, ...
“Making music together is about trust: you open yourself in a way you would not do in a normal relationship”
ResMusica: You perform with David Zinman and Esa Pekka-Salonen, two conductors ...
In 2006, Kaija Saariaho takes a French topic with a universal appeal on again, on a booklet by Amin Maalouf. La Passion de Simone, an oratorio for solo soprano, choir, ...
Frank Delius’s enthusiasts often come up against the same questions: how to help his music to get played, which pieces to put forward so we can hear it again in ...
European Cultural Centre of Delphi
&
Shostakovich’ International Association
present :
WITH EXQUISITE MUSIC, VOICES
150th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF C.P. CAVAFY (1863-1933)
Wednesday 19th June 2013
ACROPOLIS MUSEUM, Open-Air Space - ATHENS (Greece)
Concert inspired by the poem
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The 2013 edition of the ResMusica Summer Festivals Guide invites you to discover 10 artists and 30 dance and classical music festivals in France, Europe and North America.
The guide opens ...
A rewarding initiative to groom young conducting talents.
A milestone in the development of
Chinese orchestral music.
The Second International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music will be held in 2013-14.
The Competition :
First Round ...
Théodore Dubois left only a small legacy to future generations of composers. His name has almost entirely disappeared from history and his work takes up very little space in encyclopedias ...
In his new ballet, Les Nuits (The Nights), Angelin Preljocaj presents a fantasised erotic vision of the Orient. Inspired by the One Thousand and One Nights, this show is a ...
“What is fashion? It is what is going out of fashion. Tout est là.”
His body bore the marks of a long life, but his mind remained bright, and Henri Dutilleux ...
The Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons is less a media stunt than his colleague Gustavo Dudamel. However, he is “the other" young conductor of the beginning of our century. At 35, ...
The French conductor François-Xavier Roth is the first to record the Suite n°1 by Claude Debussy. The musicologists Jean-Christophe Branger and Denis Herlin rediscovered the score in a library in ...
“This is torture. It looks glamorous from the outside, but why do you want to do this?”
ICMA: A violinist is to find his own personal sound, on the violin this ...
Denis Matsuev, an extraordinary pianist, offers, as part of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff an album that confronts the Concerto No. 2 with the Rhapsody in ...
János Starker. The great Hungarian-born American cellist has died on 28th April 2013 at the age of 88. The musician, who made a landmark in the history of interpretation, was ...
Oedipus-Rex is a curious work to celebrate a birthday. The opera-oratorio by Stravinsky with a libretto by Jean Cocteau translated into Latin by Cardinal Jean Daniélou (who died in the ...
ICMA : This evening you are playing Liszt’s transcription of Isolde’s Liebestod. When did you first come into contact with the music of Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’?
Aldo Ciccolini : In the opera ...
Because classical music is an essential part of our lives and a commitment beyond pure aesthetic issues, the Auschwitz Foundation and ResMusica initiate an editorial partnership to strengthen the links ...
“Everybody sees opera singers like Pavarotti, dressed the same. We are normal people!”
ResMusica: What events triggered you to become a tenor?
Juan Francisco Gatell: There were no musicians in my family, ...
As usual, around Easter, the Warsaw Beethoven Festival makes the polish music life more lively. At this edition, which was the 17th, the program was still very extensive, mixing genres ...
It was the last concert in the 2011-2013 Pollini Perspectives series, and the Maestro ended his Beethoven component with the last three sonatas (Pollini will record the complete cycle very soon ...
The Opéra de Lorraine, honoring its mission as a “national opera”, is acting as a commissioner of new work, it hosting the premiere of the stage version of Gerald Barry’s ...
Further to her early studies in Saint-Germain, she became a student of Marcel Dupré and Maurice Duruflé, from whom she obtained a first prize in five classes at the Conservatoire ...
This year’s annual gala of the International Classical Music Awards was held at the Milan Auditorium, where the laureates were treated to an enjoyable evening of music. The Symphony Orchestra ...
The Beecham House - named in honor of the British conductor Thomas Beecham - is in effervescence. Residents, retired former musicians and singers, prepare the annual gala, perhaps the last, ...
“In a competition, most important is having a strong personality.”
ResMusica : You have been awarded the Grand Prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in 2001. How have you been through ...
In the category Historical Recordings, Russian label Melodiya won an Award for the box 'Les Ballets Russes' (catalogue No. 1001990) with Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of ...
"Right now we are considering stopping streaming altogether"
ResMusica : You have won the "Label of the Year" of the International Classical Music Awards 2013, what does this award mean to ...
Maestro Riccardo Chailly, Conductor Laureate of laVerdi awarded the ICMA for the CD « Discovery » by Verdi (DECCA) with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi.
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