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Vaughan Williams is the perfect composer for our turbulent times A new CD captures an exceptional performance of the composer's 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 production there. He is a superb conductor, and his understanding of Wagner ranks him with Kempe, Keilbert...

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 back with 11 concerts planned for Blossom Music Center between July and September (see the full schedul...

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 beginning of Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is one of my favorite concerto openings. It’s got dra...

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 Notting Hill race riots. ‘The fact that racial ideas have become increasingly strong in this country ...

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 Opera's upcoming season featuring special guests and a performance by tenor, Lawrence Brownlee, who got his start in Seattle Opera’s young arti...