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Vaughan Williams is the perfect composer for our turbulent times A new CD captures an exceptional performance of the composers Sixth Symphony, recorded the night before concert halls went dark in 2020 Flawless and ferocious: conductor Antonio Pappano Credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke Sir Antonio Pappano has, for almost 20 years, been Music Director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. I have lost count of the number of times that his brilliant musicianship has saved an otherwise grim opera product...

Cleveland Orchestra announces 2021 Blossom Music Festival: See the concert schedule The summer concert series is making its return to Blossom Music Center with COVID-19 safety precautions in place for all guests. Author: Ryan Haidet Updated: 6:16 AM EDT April 12, 2021 CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio — If you’ve been missing live music, the Cleveland Orchestra is announced their return to Blossom Music Center this summer. That’s right! The Blossom Music Festival is bac...

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Brahms Listen as Carlos Santana, Branford Marsalis and others pick their favorites of the moody master of 19th-century music. Credit...Angie Wang April 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the music of Johannes Brahms (1833-97), master of stirring symphonic exclamations and moody piano solos. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your favorites in the comments. ◆ ◆ ◆ Isata Kanneh-Mason, pianist The ...

Published: April 7, 2021 at 3:46 pm Malcolm Arnold did not hold back on the percussion when writing his Fourth Symphony – alongside the usual symphonic forces, the orchestra includes bongos, tom-toms and maracas – and, as the composer himself explained in 1971, the 1960 work’s distinctive Afro-Caribbean flavour had been prompted by recent events and their aftermath. Advertisement ‘I was appalled that such a thing could happen in this country,’ wrote Arnold about the 1958 Not...

Rescue, as well as traditional and popular songs. View here for three days. 7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s Luisa Miller. Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 14, 2018. View here and for 24 hours. 8 pm ET: Seattle Opera presents The Big Opera Show. A journey through Seattle Operas upcoming season featuring special gues...

Google Nest Hub (2nd gen) review: The new Nest Hub is a yawner, literally The Nest Hub’s successor arrives with a virtually identical design, plus the ability to monitor your sleep without a wristband. Credit: Ben Patterson/IDG If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That seems to be the idea behind the second-gen Google Nest Hub, which—at first glance, anyway—could easily be mistaken for the original. This new Nest Hub keeps the first’s slim, fabric-covered base and “floating�...

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...

Berlin Philharmonic/Harding/Nelsons/ Dudamel/Nézet-Séguin/Petrenko/Rattle/ Haitink/Abbado (Berliner Philharmoniker, 10 CDs & 4 Blu-ray Discs, or download) This mammoth undertaking, of all of Mahler’s symphonies with different conductors over the last decade, brings variable musical results The Berlin Philharmonic with conductor Sir Simon Rattle perform without an audience at the Berlin Philharmonie, March, 2020. Photograph: Stephan Rabold/AP The Berlin Philharmonic with conductor Si...

Sibelius: A life in 10 masterpieces All products and recordings are chosen independently by our editorial team. This review contains affiliate links and we may receive a commission for purchases made. Please read our affiliates FAQ page to find out more. Sibelius: A life in 10 masterpieces Published: ‘The English like vogues for this and that. Now it’s Sibelius, and when they’re tired of him they’ll boost up Frederick Delius’s remark, made in the early 1...

This edition of concert hour takes you to the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival for Bruch and Beethoven, performed by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and conducted by Paavo Järvi.