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7. December 2020

BRYN TERFEL at Met Stars Live in Concert (December 2020)

Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel will perform a holiday program with special musical guests, on Saturday, December 12, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Brecon Cathedral in his native Wales, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert pay-per-view series. Terfel will be joined by two rising Welsh singers, soprano Natalya Romaniw and tenor Trystan Llŷr Griffiths, as well as by harpist Hannah Stone, pianist Jeff Howard, and the Welsh traditional folk group Calan. The recital will be streamed live via the Met website and will then be available on demand for 14 days.
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1. December 2020

Mari Kodama’s Letter to Beethoven on Deutschlandfunk (December 2020)

“Dear Ludwig, the world today would be so different without your music”

Since early childhood, Beethoven’s music has played an important role in the life of the pianist Mari Kodama, she writes in her letter to the composer in the series “Letters to Beethoven” of Deutschlandfunk. Even after 40 years of engagement with his music, she is still surprised by discoveries time and again.

Here you can read the letter and have Mari Kodama read it to you.

1. December 2020

Omer Meir Wellber’s debut with the Wiener Symphoniker (December 2020)

With their “Living Room Concerts”, the Wiener Symphoniker present concerts “at home” for their audience. Omer Meir Wellber will lead the traditional Vienna orchestra for the first time on this occasion. The Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, and Music Director of the Teatro Massimo Palermo, will conduct works by Mozart and Kodály as well as tangos by Piazzolla, and will also play the accordion.

Friday, December 4, 2020, 20.15
OMER MEIR WELLBER, conductor & accordion
WIENER SYMPHONIKER

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ouvertüre zur Oper „Die Zauberflöte“ KV 620
Zoltán Kodály: „Tänze aus Galanta“
Astor Piazzolla: „Libertango“ und „Oblivion“

You can watch the “Living Room Concerts” on the Facebook page of the Wiener Symphoniker and on the streaming page of the website.

20. November 2020

Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” conducted by Kent Nagano published as an audiobook (November 2020)

In connection to the World Children’s day, PENTATONE is delighted to announce the release of its most important classical music children’s album as audiobooks.

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, in which a young boy catches a wolf and brings him to the zoo, is arguably the most famous children’s story with classical music. Once designed to introduce young audiences to the workings of an orchestra and its instruments, it showcases the composer’s superb ability to bring a simple story to life, giving each character a recognizable motive and instrumental colour. This Grammy-winning recording was made in 2003, as a charitable work for orphanages, performed by the Russian National Orchestra under the baton of Kent Nagano. We are now releasing the English and Spanish versions as audiobooks narrated respectively by star actors Sophia Loren and Antonio Banderas.READ MORE

20. November 2020

Metropolitan Opera announces New Year’s Eve Gala “Met Stars Live in Concert” (November 2020)

Met Stars Live in Concert: New Year’s Eve Gala
with Angel Blue (Soprano), Javier Camarena (Tenor), Matthew Polenzani (Tenor) and Pretty Yende (Soprano) on December 31st at 16:00 EST/22:00 CET live from the Parktheater in Augsburg, Germany

The Metropolitan Opera announced plans today to live-stream a pay-per-view New Year’s Eve Gala, featuring performances by Met stars Angel Blue, Javier Camarena, Matthew Polenzani, and Pretty Yende, from the Parktheater, a stunning example of neo-Baroque architecture situated in Augsburg, Germany. The concert, part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series, will be streamed live on the Met’s website at 4pm EST/10pm CET, and then be available on demand for 14 days.

18. November 2020

Livestreamconcerts “Met Stars Live in Concert” in the upcoming weeks (November 2020)

The livestream series “Met Stars Live in Concert” of the Metropolitan Opera in New York is currently set to continue until February 2021. Below you will find the current dates and further information on the individual concerts with the leading opera stars. Further information can also be found here.READ MORE

10. November 2020

Mari Kodama’s Album Launch (November 2020)

Mari Kodama will release the new CD “MON AMI, Mon amour – French Repertoire for Cello and Piano” together with Matt Haimovitz on November 6, 2020 on PENTATONE. The works of Francis Poulenc, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Darius Milhaud.

The vibrant musical palette of cellist Matt Haimovitz and the graceful insight of pianist Mari Kodama exquisitely meld in MON AMI, Mon amour.

The Virtual Album Launch will take place on Friday November 13th at 16.00 – LIVE on Facebook.

Here you can also listen to the album.

1. November 2020

Midori’s Beethoven CD is “CD of the week” (November 2020)

Midori’s latest album with Beethoven’s violin concerto and two romances, recorded with Festival Strings Lucerne in March 2020, is “CD of the week” on NDR kultur. You can find the CD review here.

29. October 2020

Omer Meir Wellber conducts the premiere of “Die Zauberflöte” (October 2020)

Omer Meir Wellber will lead the premiere of the new production of “Die Zauberflöte” on November 1, 2020. This grand opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was newly staged by Josef E. Köpplinger.

Beforehand Omer Meir Wellber spoke with the dramaturg Johann Casimir Eule, the interview can be found here.

“Die Zauberflöte” overview:

November 1, 2020, 18.00 Dresden, Semperoper
Staatskapelle Dresden
Mozart: Zauberflöte Premiere

More information can be found here.

28. October 2020

Omer Meir Wellber and the BBC Philharmonic release new CD (October 2020)

Omer Meir Wellber, together with the BBC Philharmonic, soprano Claudia Barainsky and clarinetist John Bradbury, will release a recordings by Paul Ben-Haim at Chandos on October 30.READ MORE