NEW DATE: Maxim Vengerov celebrates 40 Years on Stage at the Royal Albert Hall and releases exclusive recordings with IDAGIO
World-renowned virtuoso violinist Maxim Vengerov marks 40 Years on Stage with a Gala Performance at the Royal Albert Hall, with guests Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky joining the violinist in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. On the rescheduled date of 20 April 2021, Maxim Vengerov celebrates 40 Years on Stage in a grand Gala Performance at the Royal Albert Hall, where he performs Beethoven’s Triple Concerto alongside the dazzling line-up of Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky, with Marios Papadopoulos conducting the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra.
Read moreYour chance to perform at home with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques with NomadPlay
A new venture between Les Talens Lyriques and mobile application NomadPlay lets music-makers pick up our instruments and become members of Les Talens Lyriques from the comfort of our own homes. Through the innovative app, Les Talens Lyriques transform into your own sophisticated instrumental backing track. With founder Christophe Rousset, the period ensemble have recorded instrumental Sinfonias to many of Bach’s Cantatas. Thirteen recordings are available now through the app, recorded at Baroque pitch, with regular new releases.
Read moreGöteborg Opera announces world premiere of Mytomania and premiere of Siegfried in Stephen Langridge’s ecologically-sustainable Ring cycle
Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the city of Gothenburg in 2021, the Göteborg Opera announces its 2020/21 season focused on moral ambiguities, including the world premiere of Mytomania on 20 February 2021, a new opera about an unscrupulous celebrity surgeon, by Paula af Malmborg Ward and Kerstin Perski. New productions of Nabucco directed by Jacopo Spirei and Don Giovanni directed by John Fulljames accompany the third instalment of Gothenburg’s ground-breaking Ring cycle, an epic four-year ecologically sustainable project, which continues on 29 November 2020 as director Stephen Langridge returns to Gothenburg to stage Siegfried.
Read moreLORELT releases Women’s Voices: vocal music by Maconchy, Lefanu, McDowall, Alberga, Tann and Jazwinski
LORELT champions women composers on disc with Women’s Voices, released on Friday 24 April 2020. The disc offers the first recordings of five recent song cycles by trailblazing women composers born in the 1940s/50s – Eleanor Alberga, Barbara Jazwinski, Nicola LeFanu, Cecilia McDowall, and Hilary Tann – paired with a cycle by Elizabeth Maconchy, who was a supporter of LORELT and attended the label’s first recording sessions in 1992, near the end of her life.
Read moreMaya Lasker-Wallfisch explores the transgenerational trauma of the Holocaust in her memoirs of her musical family
In her memoirs to be released by Suhrkamp, Maya Lasker-Wallfisch offers a unique exploration of the impact of the Holocaust on three generations of her family. The book, Letter to Breslau, interweaves stories from Lasker-Wallfisch’s life with those of her mother Anita, told through letters written to her grandparents, whom she never knew, because they were murdered in the Izbica concentration camp in 1942. Maya Lasker-Wallfisch is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and educator, specialising in transgenerational trauma. Her memoirs are released on Monday 15 June 2020 in German as Briefe nach Breslau, translated by Marieke Heimburger, with plans for the release of an English edition in due course.
Read moreNicolas Hodges releases three discs of music by Gerald Barry, Harrison Birtwistle and Helmut Lachenmann
Nicolas Hodges releases three discs of music by Gerald Barry, Harrison Birtwistle and Helmut Lachenmann, celebrating contemporary composers’ raucous diversity from metro-gnome to Marche Fatale
Read moreThe Bach Choir releases a new recording of Howells’s monumental Missa Sabrinensis
In a disc released on Friday 1 May, The Bach Choir champions Herbert Howells’s monumental Missa Sabrinensis with the BBC Concert Orchestra and soloists Helena Dix, Christine Rice, Benjamin Hulett, and Roderick Williams, conducted by David Hill. The Bach Choir returned the 1954 work to the public conscious in 1982 after the Mass had been declared ‘unperformable’.
Read moreNew Mascarade Opera Studio announces first participants
Mascarade Opera Studio announces its first ten Studio Artists following applications from ambitious opera talent from all over the world. From September 2020, the new opera studio launching in Florence will offer its nine-month training programme for eight exceptional young singers and two répétiteurs. Beyond the carefully-designed programme of enhanced opera skills training and continuing professional development, Mascarade Opera Studio Artists will become part of the international New Generation Festival network, with its connections and career opportunities. Held in the historic Palazzo Corsini al Prato in Florence, places on the programme for singers and répétiteurs are fully funded.
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