Kent Nagano

After more tha n a decade as Music Director of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, two recordings with Kent Nagano and the OSM were released last year. Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion, which was recorded on the opening night of the prestigious Salzburg Festival at the Felsenreitschule Salzburg in July 2018, on BIS-Records and the album Ginastera – Bernstein – Moussa: Works for Violin and Orchestra with Andrew Wan, concertmaster of the OSM on Analekta.

Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczala at the Stadthalle Wuppertal with Met Stars Live in Concert (January 2021)

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczała will perform a live concert on Saturday, January 23, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. The program features popular arias and duets from some of the many classic operas they’ve performed at the Met and other world stages, including Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, Verdi’s La Forza del Destino and Luisa Miller, and Dvořák’s Rusalka. The singers will be accompanied by Vincenzo Scalera on piano. The recital will be streamed live via the Met website and will then be available on demand for 14 days.

More information can be found here.

Karin Kei Nagano’s new CD (January 2021)

In November 2020, Analekta will release a new CD by pianist Karin Kei Nagano. The CD Reincarnation: Schubert – Messiaen includes Franz Schubert’s Sonata in B flat major and Oliver Messiaen’s Première communion de la vierge from Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésu.

The CD will also be available in Europe from January 2021. As a stream, the album is available on the usual channels.

Jens Düppe via Livestreamkonzert on Dreamstage (January 2021)

On 16 January  10 pm CET, Jens Düppe will play a show which has has never been seen before on Dreamstage.live! Creative drummer sensation Jens Düppe will compose and create soundscapes performing live and simultaneously on the drums, piano and synthesizer. As a native of Cologne, Germany, his career started early in New York and Amsterdam. As a drummer, Düppe is grounded in jazz and improvised music by absorbing the essence of various musical styles and turning them into an intuitive and authentic way of drumming. He enriches all of his performances by self-designed percussion instruments. Fans can now join Düppe in ultra high resolution, studio quality audio livestream on Dreamstage. Buy your tickets now!

Program, all compositions by Jens Düppe:

• the beat
• birds
• dance I
• to the skies
• storm
• wave
• dance II
• dont’ stop
• come with me

More information can be found here.

Peter Gelb in conversation at the Musikjournal on Deutschlandfunk (January 2020)

“The impact is devastating”

The Metropolitan Opera has lost around 150 million dollars since the beginning of the corona pandemic, said its general manager Peter Gelb in the Dlf. Currently, the privately financed opera house has to rely almost exclusively on donations. “It is a struggle so that we can survive this crisis intact.”

Peter Gelb in conversation with Jochen Hubmacher, available to listen and read here.

Met Stars Live in Concert New Year’s Eve Gala rehearsal sneak peeks (December 2020).

More information about the New Year’s Eve Gala can be found here.

New Year’s Eve Gala: “Torna a Surriento”
Matthew Polenzani and Angel Blue sing an excerpt from De Curtis’s “Torna a Surriento” at the Parktheater in Augsburg, Germany, in rehearsal for the Met Stars Live in Concert: New Year’s Eve Gala: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcVu28DgaOA

New Year’s Eve Gala: Quartet from La Rondine
Angel Blue, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena, and Matthew Polenzani sing an excerpt from Puccini’s La Rondine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DJ7glYqBaQ

New Year’s Eve Gala: “Una voce poco fa”
Pretty Yende sings an excerpt from Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtQ4LsnG6W8

New Year’s Eve Gala: “D’amor sull’ali rosee”
Angel Blue sings an excerpt from Verdi’s Il Trovatore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kup8F4bwaPg

New Year’s Eve gala at Parktheater Augsburg (December 2020)

The Metropolitan Opera will present a live-streamed New Year’s Eve Gala on December 31, featuring performances by Met stars Angel Blue, Javier Camarena, Matthew Polenzani and Pretty Yende from the Parktheater Augsburg. The concert, part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series, will be streamed live on the Met’s website at 4:00 p.m. EST/ 10:00 p.m. CET and will be available for an additional 14 days thereafter. READ MORE

Daniel Ciobanu’s Debut-CD at WDR 3 TonArt (December 2020)

The debut CD of the Romanian pianist Daniel Ciobanu was reviewed by Hannah Schmidt in the broadcast on December 9th at WDR 3 TonArt.

“Technically demanding and with mental power, the busy pianist positions himself. His interpretations are orchestral and surprising. A musician with great contrasts”.

You can listen to it here.