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.
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.
On
28 October at 9 pm on Classic FM – the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Manfred Honeck. The program includes the Polovtsian Dances from Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, before the Canadian violinist James Ehnes takes the podium for Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 and the Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Here you can listen to the concert in the program “Classic FM Concert” with John Suche, available until 4 November.
Program
Camille Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Violin: James Ehnes
Alexander Borodin, Polovtsian Dances (From Prince Igor)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin Concerto No.4 in D major K.218
Violin: James Ehnes
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
Omer Meir Wellber returns to the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig with a special program. On October 25 and 26 he will present Eight Seasons together with the Sinfonietta Leipzig and the mandolinist Jacob Reuven. He will conduct the Seasons of Piazzolla and Vivaldi himself on the accordion and harpsichord. The same concert will also be presented on October 29 at the Semperoper Dresden.READ MORE
As one of the world’s preeminent soloists, the violinist Midori has been performing on premier stages around the globe for over 35 years. Warner Classics will release a recording of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and his two Romances for Violin and Orchestra by Midori and the Festival Strings Lucerne on October 16th to celebrate the composer’s 250th birthday in December 2020.READ MORE
In his letter to Beethoven, conductor Kent Nagano takes himself back to the Hamburg of the composer’s time – and draws many parallels to the present day. What seems certain for Nagano even then: “Your voice will continue to sound in the hearts of our descendants for a long time to come.”
You can read and listen to the letter here.
The Start-Up Dreamstage offers a digital platform for live concerts that works like a virtual concert hall – access is only possible with a purchased ticket. All genres are to be represented in the medium term – at the start there were mainly classical concerts.
You can listen to the article on Deutschlandfunk here.
Find more information on dreamstage.live
Polo G and Chief Keef announced a partnership with live concert platform DREAMSTAGE for an exclusive concert on Friday, October 23 at 7PM EST. The concert marks a major foray into hip-hop for DREAMSTAGE, the new cross-genre premium platform for ticketed live concerts. For this initial week of sales, as a special superfan pre-order price, tickets are selling for just $14.99. Ticket costs will increase a week from today.
Chicago rapper Chief Keef, a pioneer of Chicago’s drill style rap, was named an icon by Complex with a cult following, receiving massive success since the release of his 2012 debut Finally Rich. While fellow Chicago rapper Polo G was recently named a XXL Magazine 2020 Freshman of the year and Rolling Stone named his 2019 album Die A Legend the top spot on their “20 Best Hip Hop Albums of 2019.”
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra announced that Front Row: The PSO Virtual Experience will premiere on October 19, 2020, with the first of five episodes that will traverse the region and will offer classical music, popular music, and Holiday Pops as the series unfolds. All five episodes will be made available free to the public on the Pittsburgh Symphony’s website: pittsburghsymphony.org.