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The Pittsburgh Symphony, which earlier this year announced its return to commercial recording on the PentaTone label with an upcoming Brahms Symphony cycle, is seeing its efforts go on sale ahead of schedule. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that PentaTone has decided to release the first volume in the set on August 28 rather than wait until the complete cycle is recorded during the coming season.
Violinist Jaime Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson and pianist Joseph Kalichstein came together as a trio to perform at the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter in January of 1977. They've been together as the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio ever since, and they've been celebrating their 30th anniversary all year, at the 92nd Street Y (their longtime musical home in New York) and around the country......MORE... Background | Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson at Amazon
The Web site Japan's Classical Music Artists introduces promising local classical artists to the rest of the world in addition to carrying news related to concerts, festivals and competitions......MORE... http://japansclassic.com/top.html
Star tenor Luciano Pavarotti, suffering from cancer, has been hospitalised for tests, a media spokesman at the Modena University Policlinico in northern Italy says. The 71-year-old, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer a year ago and has since had at least five rounds of chemotherapy, was admitted on Tuesday, Gabriele Sorrentino said. The hospital will issue a formal bulletin later in the day ...Reports...http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=pavarotti&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn
Faced with the latest in a series of high-profile withdrawals, the two top officials of the Salzburg Festival spoke out in fury and frustration yesterday, one of them saying that the world's most prestigious classical music event is "not a stepping stone.
It's not that Marc-Andre Hamelin tore up the playbook on how to succeed as a classical pianist. It's that he never seems to have read it. After years of low-profile management and critics who pigeonholed him as a "mere" technical wizard, in 2000 Hamelin hired new managers and at age 45 is greeted with astonished cries of "Where has this guy been?"
...MORE... | GOOGLE LINKS | Marc-Andre Hamelin at Amazon.com
When Kathleen Ferrier died from cancer on 8 October, 1953, aged only 41, the English - and indeed the international - musical stage lost one of its greatest-ever natural singing talents. In a career lasting barely more than a decade, she went from being an ordinary Lancashire lass to an international singing star who captivated all who saw her perform. ...MORE...BBC... GOOGLE LINKS | Ferrier at Amazon
His operas sell out immediately. His theories changed classical music. His artistic legacy still divides his warring family. Millions either love him obsessively or hate him passionately......MORE...
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Glamorous young Dutch violinist Janine Jansen has withdrawn from the Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Memorial Concert this Sunday (August 5) with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Music Center in western Massachusetts. A statement released by the BSO Friday afternoon said that she is unable to perform due to illness. Replacing Jansen will be another talented young violinist: Stefan Jackiw
Masters and Commanders: Music from Seafaring Film Classics, a Telarc release by conductor Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, is this week's new arrival on the Billboard classical chart, making its debut at no. 9. This disc features selections from the scores of such films as (among others) Pirates of the Caribbean, The Sea Hawk, Mutiny on the Bounty, Captains Courageous, and, naturally, Master and Commander. Masters and Commanders is a swashbuckling musical portrait of valiant seamen, tempestuous captains, eccentric pirates, pious pilgrims and more.
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