Topic: RECORDINGS Anonymous 4, the best-selling early music vocal group, will reunite for a new album and tour next year, according to the group's label, Harmonia Mundi. The group announced in 2002 that it would end full-time touring at the end of the 2003-04 season so that members could pursue their individual interests. ...LINK to complete news story
Sunday, 18 September 2005
Releases by Domingo, Fleming highlight fall crop Topic: RECORDINGS
Among the most hotly anticipated titles is a new studio recording of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (EMI Classics), with a cast led by 64-year-old tenor Placido Domingo, who waited until this point in his long career to record the opera. Conducted by Antonio Pappano, this recording is a milestone -- and, if whispers are to be believed, perhaps it will be the last new studio CD set of an opera of such size and scope. ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 6 September 2005
Now Playing: By Michael Markowitz PLAYBILLarts Topic: RECORDINGS
Classical CD Highlights: September ...LINK to complete news story
Friday, 2 September 2005
How classical got its own indie scene Topic: RECORDINGS
It's time to stop regarding the big companies as the natural home for classical music. Just as rock and pop have a long history of independent labels, classical music has its own well-established independent sector, where labels such as Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Chandos, Opera Rara and the low-cost phenomenon Naxos have been releasing high-quality recordings for years. ...LINK to complete news story
Thursday, 1 September 2005
Gramophone magazine has announced the six finalists for its prestigious Record of the the Year award. Topic: RECORDINGS
The nominees are a recording of Bach's Cantatas led by conductor John Eliot Gardiner and released on his label; a collection of late Beethoven quartets by the Takacs Quartet; a DVD of Berlioz's The Trojans, also led by Gardiner; a recording of Haydn's The Seasons led by Rene Jacobs (who won last year with Le nozze di Figaro); a CD of Haydn's "Paris" Symphonies by conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and his Concentus Musicus Wien; and tenor Rolando Villazon's collection of arias by Gounod and Massenet. ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 30 August 2005
Topic: RECORDINGS
The latest organisation to take up the idea of self-branding CDs is one of London's best-loved and most intimate concert venues, the Wigmore, a hall that's as pleasing to the ear as to the eye. Next month sees the first releases in Wigmore Hall Live, with characterful recitals by Sir Thomas Allen and Dame Felicity Lott and two very different chamber music programmes. ...LINK to complete news story
Wednesday, 24 August 2005
Warner launches internet-only label Topic: RECORDINGS
Warner Music Group launched an internet-only music label, its chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr has announced. ...LINK to complete news story
Tuesday, 23 August 2005
Topic: RECORDINGS
ECM -- the German record label famed as the high-art home to such jazz stars as Keith Jarrett -- has showcased music by Eastern European composers ever since it launched the New Series imprint in the mid-'80s for Arvo Part's "Tabula Rasa." Since then, ECM has recorded Giya Kancheli, Valentin Silvestrov and Tigran Mansurian, among other contemporary voices. A trio of new albums keeps the door open. ...LINK to complete news story
Sunday, 21 August 2005
After recording 119 CDs, a hidden jewel comes to light Now Playing: Fans and critics have long overlooked pianist Joyce Hatto Topic: RECORDINGS Joyce Hatto must be the greatest living pianist that almost no one has ever heard of. Hatto, now 76, has not played in public in more than 25 years because of an ongoing battle with cancer.
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Friday, 19 August 2005
Topic: RECORDINGS
Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Ko?ena's Lamento made its first appearance on the Billboard classical chart this week at number seven.
The album, recorded with conductor Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Koln, is a collection of vocal works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his sons Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. ...LINK to complete news story