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New releases from Naxos March-April 2012

New releases from Naxos March-April 2012

Happy listening  - We have added the following music for your enjoyment to the playlist this week. We have modern chamber music from Naxos, some lesser known composers we want to introduce you to, and Weiss lute sonatas. These and many other selections this week. Any of these discs or mp3 downloa...

Jeremy Denk Returns to New York for Finale of American Mavericks U.S. Tour, March 26 & 30

Jeremy Denk Returns to New York for Finale of American Mavericks U.S. Tour, March 26 & 30

Part of the San Francisco Symphony’s centennial celebration, American Mavericks kicked off on March 8 in San Francisco, where Denk performed works by Henry Cowell, including the composer’s Piano Concerto, which was recorded for release by the orchestra’s SFS Media label. Denk will also parti...

PARMA Recordings announces 2012 PARMA Student Composer Competition

PARMA Recordings announces 2012 PARMA Student Composer Competition

PARMA Recordings announces 2012 PARMA Student Composer Competition (Portsmouth NH) - PARMA Recordings is pleased to announce the inaugural PARMA Student Composer Competition, the first in a series of annual competitions for student composers. The official Call For Scores will be dis...

Ebène Quartet Returns   to North America for Nine-City Tour in March

Ebène Quartet Returns to North America for Nine-City Tour in March

Ebène Quartet Is Named NPR “Best of 2011” and Returns to North America for Nine-City Tour in March “France’s Ebène Quartet has fast become one of the hottest chamber groups in the world, with excellent reason: The youthful group’s warmth, vitality, deep curiosity and musical int...

Leif Ove Andsnes US Tour dates start in Boston

Leif Ove Andsnes US Tour dates start in Boston

Leif Ove Andsnes Returns to US in January for Beethoven Concertos with Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra, and Eight-City Recital Tour Feb 8 – 19 Continuing his multi-season “Beethoven Journey,” the celebrated Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes returns to the US early in the New Y...

SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES GRAND OPENING OF GREEN MUSIC CENTER

SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES GRAND OPENING OF GREEN MUSIC CENTER

SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES GRAND OPENING OF GREEN MUSIC CENTER ON SEPTEMBER 29 AND 30, 2012   INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED PIANIST LANG LANG OPENS WEILL HALL IN OPENING NIGHT RECITAL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012   SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY AND MUSIC DIRECTOR BRUNO FERRANDIS PRESENT INAUGUR...

FIVE GRAMMY® AWARDS FOR ARTISTS, ENGINEERS AND PRODUCERS FOR NAXOS OF AMERICA

FIVE GRAMMY® AWARDS FOR ARTISTS, ENGINEERS AND PRODUCERS FOR NAXOS OF AMERICA

Artists and producers from Naxos and its distributed labels were honoured with five Grammy Awards at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards from Los Angeles. Composer Robert Aldridge and librettist Herschel Garfein's opera Elmer Gantry won Best Contemporary Classical Composition. This Naxos recording wit...

New Music Additions this week

New Music Additions this week

Happy listening - we have the Lord of the Rings symphony, 2 Sibelius symphonies, Panufnik compositions, a box set of Simon Rattle conducting Berg and Schoenberg and much more this week. Any of these discs can be purchased on Amazon, with proceeds going directly to support the music. New Musi...

New Music Additions to the playlist this week

New Music Additions to the playlist this week

Happy listening - we have a box set of Oriental inspired music, post-war Russian violin concertos masterpieces historical recordings featuring Cziffra, Perlman, Rattle. Many other selections this week. Any of these discs can be purchased on Amazon, with proceeds going directly to support the musi...

Physics strikes the right note with classical musicians

Physics strikes the right note with classical musicians

Contact: Michael Bishop michael.bishop@iop.org 01-179-301-032 Institute of Physics Physics strikes the right note with classical musicians The combination of physics and music might usually prompt images of Brian Cox playing keyboards for D:Ream, but a new trio, consisting of a professor of physi...

New Music Adds This week

New Music Adds This week

Happy listening - we have Ivan Fischer conducting Schubert, some tangos for you dancers out there and a few soundtracks. Many other selections this week. Any of these discs can be purchased on Amazon, with proceeds going directly to support the music. New Music Adds This Week Schu...

New Music Adds This Week

New Music Adds This Week

Happy listening - we have ballet music,  and a LOT of keyboard: Martha Argerich and Friends live from the Lugano Festival, Vassily Primakov, Murray Perehia and many other selections this week. Any of these discs can be purchased on Amazon, with proceeds going directly to support the music. ...

New Music Adds This Week

New Music Adds This Week

Happy listening - we have Gypsy music, the crossover sensation 2 Cellos, some Johann Strauss, and many other selections this week. Any of these discs can be purchased on Amazon, with proceeds going directly to support the music. New Music Adds This Week Russian Gypsy Soul: Fiery Gy...

Jeremy Denk Headlines “Ives Project,” Makes Chicago Symphony Debut, Returns to Carnegie Hall, and More

Jeremy Denk Headlines “Ives Project,” Makes Chicago Symphony Debut, Returns to Carnegie Hall, and More

Jeremy Denk Headlines “Ives Project,” Makes Chicago Symphony Debut, Returns to Carnegie Hall, and More     “Denk, clearly, is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs, in whatever combination — both for his penetrating intellectual engagement with the music and f...

Alexander Melnikov North American Tour November 6 - 18, 2011

Alexander Melnikov North American Tour November 6 - 18, 2011

Alexander Melnikov North American Tour November 6 - 18, 2011 The Moscow-born pianist Alexander Melnikov will perform Dmitri Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87—a work rarely played in its entirety—at only two dates on this tour: November 12 at his San Francisco debut and in Middleb...

Leif Ove Andsnes’s “Beethoven Journey” begins this fall

Leif Ove Andsnes’s “Beethoven Journey” begins this fall

Leif Ove Andsnes 2011-12 schedule (North American dates in bold) Sep 6, 8, & 9 Hanover, Germany NDR Radiophilharmonie/Eivind Gullberg Jensen Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 Sep 13, 16, 17 Tokyo, Japan NHK Symphony Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 ...

Guitar Frets: Environmental Enforcement Leaves Musicians in Fear

Guitar Frets: Environmental Enforcement Leaves Musicians in Fear

Guitar Frets: Environmental Enforcement Leaves Musicians in Fear By ERIC FELTEN Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement...

The Elusive Maestro Why the process of finding a new conductor makes music lovers weep.

The Elusive Maestro Why the process of finding a new conductor makes music lovers weep.

The Elusive Maestro Why the process of finding a new conductor makes music lovers weep. By Jan Swafford Posted Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at 11:20 AM ET When the Boston Symphony announced in 2001 that James Levine would be taking over the orchestra in 2004, there was a mighty outpouring of "hmmmm" ...

Leif Ove Andsnes: upcoming tour dates 2010 2011

Leif Ove Andsnes: upcoming tour dates 2010 2011

Leif Ove Andsnes: upcoming engagements October 30 London, UK London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Nov 1-7 European tour with London Philharmonic / Vladimir Jurowski Brahms: Piano Conce...

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Alexandre Tharaud live at le poisson rouge April 9, 2012

On April 9, French pianist Alexandre Tharaud will give a sneak preview of his upcoming...

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