Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra present selected winners of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition in London and Birmingham on 26 & 28 October 2015
Valery Gergiev presents winners from the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition in London and Birmingham on 26th and 28th October - including Mongolian baritone Ariunbaatar Ganbaatar, who picked up the $100,000 Grand Prix at the final Gala In St Petersburg on 3 July - with three Gold Medal Winners and self-taught piano sensation Lucas Debargue. As part of a worldwide tour with the Mariinsky Orchestra marking Tchaikovsky’s 175th anniversary, Gergiev, non-voting Co-Chair of the Organising Committee of the competition, has selected to introduce a range of winners, who enraptured the prestigious jury, avid audiences in Moscow and St Petersburg, plus 10 million viewers worldwide on Medici.TV
Read moreClelia Iruzun brings out new disc of music by Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth
Brazilian pianist Clélia Iruzun releases her latest disc of solo piano music by Afro-Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth at a recital at St James Studio on 20 May 2015. Her recital programme places the music of Ernesto Nazareth alongside his inspirations - Chopin and Gottschalk. Though extremely popular in Brazil since the turn of the 20th Century, Ernesto Nazareth’s music is little known and appreciated in Europe. Iruzun’s new disc is a collection of tangos, polkas and waltzes, merging some of Nazareth’s better-known works alongside debut recordings of Recordações do Passado, Marietta and Marcha Fúnebre.
Read moreLa Foce’s 27th chamber music festival Incontri in Terra di Siena returns with a cast of world-class musicians and artistic director Antonio Lysy
Included as one of the Telegraph’s Top Ten Italian cultural holiday destinations for 2015, La Foce’s annual chamber music festival Incontri in Terra di Siena welcomes a stellar line-up of international musicians for the 27th edition in memory of Antonio Origo and his wife Iris, the Anglo-American author of War in the Val d’Orcia.
Read moreHungarian virtuoso Gábor Boldoczki gives world première of Penderecki’s first trumpet concerto at Musikfestspiele Saar 2015 on 3 & 4 May
On 3 and 4 May Hungarian trumpet virtuoso Gabor Boldoczki gives the world premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki’s first trumpet concerto at the 2015 Musikfestspiele Saar, whose theme this year is Polish Music.
Read moreTenor Edgaras Montvidas on stage, cinema and TV: Sir David McVicar’s new production of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Glyndebourne & a new landmark BBC Two documentary on La Traviata
Young Lithuanian tenor Edgaras Montvidas returns to Glyndebourne Festival this summer to sing Belmonte in Sir David McVicar’s new production of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction in the Seraglio) set in an Ottoman harem.
Read moreConductor Thomas Blunt makes his Longborough Festival Opera debut in a new production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale by director Alan Privett
Young British conductor Thomas Blunt makes his conducting debut at Longborough Festival Opera in a new production of Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera Don Pasquale, directed by Alan Privett, from 3 - 19 July.
Read moreHarry Bicket leads a stellar cast for The English Concert’s first performances of Handel’s opera Hercules on tour across Europe
A stellar cast of soloists join The English Concert for their European tour of Handel’s Hercules, conducted by Harry Bicket. Matthew Rose takes the lead role of Hercules, alongside Alice Coote as Dejanira, Elizabeth Watts as Iole, Rupert Enticknap as LIchas and James Gilchrist as Hyllus.
Read moreCellist Raphael Wallfisch explores a season of British music on disc and in concert with the Philharmonia performing Tavener’s The Protecting Veil on 25 November
Firmly positioned at the forefront of championing British music of the 20th century, renowned cellist Raphael Wallfisch performs the late Sir John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall on 25 November in a tribute concert that includes the UK premiere of Tavener’s O Where, tell me where? for chorus and tubular bells.
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