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The RPO, in its first live concert with Andreas Delfs as music director, played for an audience again Thursday after a year's absence.

András Schiff/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (ECM, two CDs) Having gone back to the original manuscripts, Schiff’s work belongs in the front rank of recent recordings Blending beautifully ... András Schiff, centre, and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian Blending beautifully ... András Schiff, centre, and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian Thu 3 Jun 2021 13.30 EDT “With the present...

Saratoga Performing Arts Center announced today that the Philadelphia Orchestra will return to its summer home for its residency on Aug. 11-14…

Verdi’s Nabucco. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Günter Krämer. With Plácido Domingo, Freddie De Tommaso, Riccardo Zanellato, Anna Pirozzi. Production from January 2021. Register for free and view here. ** 8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Timothy Ridout & Tom Poster. 2019 New Generation Artist Timothy Ridout joins Tom Poster from Wigmore Hall’s Associate Artists, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, to bring the world première of Kurt Schwertsik’s Haydn lived in Eisenstadt, wri...

The performances run for about an hour in venues throughout the Dallas area.

BBC News By Mark Savage image copyrightAnthony Payne image captionThe composers death comes a month after that of his wife, soprano Jane Manning Composer Anthony Payne, who famously completed Elgars unfinished Third Symphony, has died at the age of 84. One of Britains most-respected writers, he was also a renowned critic, whose books on Schoenberg and Frank Bridge became standard texts. His death comes just a month after that of his wife, the soprano Jane Manning. "They were inseparable in lif...

William Dart: The Classicist by Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra - review 25 Apr, 2021 06:00 PM 2 minutes to read Thursdays longish offering, titled The Classicist, had Giordano Bellincampi and his musicians outlining a symphonic coming of age, writes William Dart. Photo / Adrian Malloch Thursdays longish offering, titled The Classicist, had Giordano Bellincampi and his musicians outlining a symphonic coming of age, writes William Dart. Photo / Adrian Malloch NZ Herald Courageous musicians provi...

James McCarthy Friday, April 23, 2021 Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin embark on Schuberts Winterreise, Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth tackle Beethovens Eroica Symphony, Herbert Blomstedt records a live Brahms Second Symphony in Leipzig, and more... Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Why not register to...

Citizen Kane is overrated – but this Orson Welles classic isn’t Orson Welles’s masterpiece was The Magnificent Ambersons, a thoughtful epic about American wealth and the motor car. But there’s a snag… Anne Baxter arm in arm with Tim Holt in a scene from The Magnificent Ambersons Credit: Bettmann I avoid lists of the 100 greatest books, plays, paintings or films because they are inevitably meaningless. People have short memories and so rank the more recent above the antique. If strict ...

Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Barrie Kosky’s new staging with Marlis Petersen (Die Marschallin), Samantha Hankey (Octavian), Katharina Konradi (Sophie), Christof Fischesser (Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau), and Johannes Martin Kränzle (Herr von Faninal). The new production will be performed in the arrangement by Eberhard Kloke which transcribes the score to match the orchestration of Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos. View here. 12 pm ET: IDAGIO Global Conce...