August 11, 2020 • 9:06 pm Comments Off on John Adams: Live Score Reading and Chat
This Thursday at 3pm EST, join John Adams and conductor David Robertson for a real-time discussion of Doctor Atomic Symphony. They’ll give a close reading of the score, using a recording by the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Adams himself. This is part of the live-score chat series hosted by Boosey & Hawkes.
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August 11, 2020 • 6:02 am Comments Off on Tippet Rise at Home: Stephen Hough in Recital
On Thursday, 13 August, at 6pm MT, Tippet Rise continues its monthly streaming series, Tippet Rise & Friends at Home, with a recital featuring pianist Stephen Hough. His program: Stephen Hough/Sonata No. 4 (Vida Breve); Franz Liszt/Funérailles, S. 173; Bach/Gounod/Hough: C. Gounod Meditation on the Prelude by Bach (Ave Maria); Frédéric Chopin/Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2.
Listeners can access the stream here.
Here is last month’s stream, in which Behzod Abduraimov played music by Liszt and Mussorgsky:
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August 9, 2020 • 9:24 am Comments Off on Don Giovanni at Finnish National Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2GumUO9Lbk
Here’s a new production staged by Finnish actor-director Jussi Nikkilä for Finnish National Opera, with Patrick Fournillier conducting.
Cast
Don Giovanni: Tuomas Pursio
Donna Anna: Hanna Rantala
The Commandant: Koit Soasepp
Donna Elvira: Tamuna Gochashvili
Don Ottavio: Tuomas Katajala
Leporello: Markus Suihkonen
Masetto: Henri Uusitalo
Zerlina: Olga Heikkilä
August 6, 2020 • 10:13 am Comments Off on Sneak Peeks of Kate Soper’s Opera Romance of the Rose
The extraordinary composer, performer, and writer Kate Soper has completed an opera titled Romance of the Rose, which was to have had its world premiere in April at Montclair State University’s Peak Performances.
Romance of the Rose is named after a medieval French poem. As Soper explains, the opera and poem “start off pretty much the same way: a narrator warns us not to underestimate the significance of dreams.” See her latest discussion of the work here, which includes two sneak peeks of the music.
The clip above, meanwhile, is the first part of her five-part web series SYRINX, which is “about a woman who wakes up one day with an unusual affliction.”
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August 1, 2020 • 4:59 am Comments Off on Archipelago: PassMúsica’s Prize for Best Album of Classical Music 2020
Hearty congratulations to Luís Tinoco and Drumming GP for winning this year’s award for Best Album of Classical Music in the recently announced Prémios da Música Portuguesa (Portuguese Music Prizes).
I reviewed the album, Archipelago, here last year. Delighted to see my high opinion of this music corroborated by the jury.
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