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Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.coms weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep track of your favorite artists, as well as find some new ones to add to your listening!

Welcome to "For the Record," Violinist.coms weekly roundup of new releases of recordings by violinists, violists, cellists and other classical musicians. We hope it helps you keep track of your favorite artists, as well as find some new ones to add to your listening!

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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...

Friday, May 7, 2021 Jennifer Johnston has just appeared, as Waltraute, on the new BR-Klassik recording of Wagners Die Walküre conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. She talks to James Jolly about her decade-long association with the Bavarian State Opera and its Generalmusikdirektor, Kirill Petrenko, about music in her home city of Liverpool and memories of Christa Ludwig with whom she studied as a student. Gramophone Podcasts are presented in association with Wigmore Hall, where the ...

8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE 1...

  John Gilhooly, Director of Wigmore Hall said, ‘Since its auspicious opening in 1901, Wigmore Hall has become the international headquarters of chamber music with a diverse roster of artists and repertoire.  At this time of renewal, we are keen to continue our search for new and unjustly neglected voices on stage.  I am particularly looking forward to our Learning Festival, which explores how the pandemic has challenged but also strengthened our sense of community.’ Tickets for all 25 ...

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Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective Whether full or empty, Wigmore Hall always feels like a natural home for Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. It’s a piece that creates its own breathless hush in any halfway decent performance. This one was assuredly better than that. Appropriately for the name of the ensemble, Kaleidoscope majors on collective unanimity and sensitivity rather than individual brilliance, although Matthew Hunt’s clarinet stood out for its poetry of reserve even before th...

Screenshot from the Virtual Sessions Following the Virtual Sessions in May last year, the  Global Violin Sessions: A Cultural Exchange Part One and the Christmas Sessions, the Benedetti Foundations is kickstarting 2021 with the New Year Sessions on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 January; as well as mini-sessions, which will run until March. There will be three different sessions across the weekend for beginner, intermediate and advanced string players of school age, all delivered live on Zoom. Beg...