Exaudi. This lunchtime recital, entitled
Chromatic Renaissance, intersperses 16th and 17th-century works with a selection of madrigals from contemporary composer James Weeks’s
Primo Libro. The program opens with four of Orlande de Lassus’s
Sibylline Prophecies
2 pm ET: Hamburg International Music Festival presents
Insula Orchestra & Laurence Equilbey. Laurence Equilbey conducts Insula Orchestra and Accentus Choir in an all-Schumann program comprising
Vom Pagen und der Königstochter Op. 140,
Des Sängers Fluch Op. 139,
Requiem für Mignon Op. 98b, and
Nachtlied Op. 108. View here.
2:30 pm ET: Wigmore Hall presents Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. Wigmore Hall’s 120th anniversary sees the Hall’s Associate Ensemble joined by soprano Mary Bevan for Fauré’s
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s
Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four
Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
May 14, 2021 | By Susan Elliott,
Musical America
Russian born billionaire Alexander Shustorovich is pretty much singlehandedly keeping IMG Artists afloat. By his own estimation, he has invested “tens of millions” in the company.
Shustorovich, alleged to be a 50-50 share holder with Barrett Wissman, is known to keep a low profile while executing brilliant backend and/or prescient deals that have made him a multi-billionaire and a Trump supporter whose links to Vladimir Putin figured into the 2017-19 Robert Mueller probe.
Billboard’s May 15 edition contains an in-depth interview with him and it may be the first and only ever published in English. Shustorovich speaks openly about his distrust of Wissman. Meanwhile, staff who have left since the Russian’s arrival in 2011 mostly out of distaste for his management style and his initial ignorance and distain for how the classical music business works speak on the record to help tell the story of how Shustorovich has become 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 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. With Eva-Maria Westbroek, Brian Jagde, Ambrogio Maestri, Zoryana Kushpler, and Isabel Signoret; Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, Ambrogio Maestri, Andrea Giovannini, and Sergey Kaydalov. Production from November 2020. Register for free and view here.
May 1, 2021 | By Brian Wise,
Musical America
Pianist Tiffany Poon may not be well known to a certain generation of classical music fans, but to followers of YouTube, she’s a star. The 24-year-old pianist has a YouTube channel that’s drawn 42 million views and some 290,000 subscribers interested in watching her practice Brahms and Bach, serve up audition tips, interview other musicians, and rehearse with guests including cellists Jan Vogler and Eric Jacobsen.
By comparison, Lang Lang trails her with a mere 23 million total YouTube views and 177,000 subscribers, while Daniel Barenboim only claims 96,000.
For Poon, her audience translates into ad revenues the traditional form of income for YouTube creators plus funding from 600 supporters through Patreon crowdfunding. She also manages the non-profit platform,