Orchestra audiences up now
According to a new report by the Association of British Orchestras, orchestra audiences in the UK have grown by 16% since 2010 with over 4.5m people now attending an orchestral concert every year.…
Osmo Vänskä with the Minnesota Orchestra win the 56th Grammy Awards
The Minnesota Orchestra, which earlier this month emerged from a lengthy dispute with its musicians, won the Grammy for orchestral recording for its album of Sibelius’ Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4, conducted…
Abbado & Argerich’s Mozart Piano Concert
The partnership of Claudio Abbado and Martha Argerich goes back a long way – to classic recordings of concertos by Ravel and Prokofiev from nearly five decades ago. But even by their standards, this collaboration, together with Abbado’s…
Abbado & Argerich’s Mozart Piano Concert
The partnership of Claudio Abbado and Martha Argerich goes back a long way – to classic recordings of concertos by Ravel and Prokofiev from nearly five decades ago. But even by their standards, this collaboration, together with Abbado’s…
16 people play the same piano simultaneously
A group of 16 students from the Royal Northern College of Music have broken the Guinness World Record. The group of 16 musicians performed a five-minute piece composed especially…
Christophe Rousset plays Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier on Harmonia Mundi
How do you like your Bach? Performed on piano, harpsichord or some other keyboard instrument? I have a secret fondness for Ralph Kirkpatrick’s 1963 recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, played…
Christophe Rousset plays Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier on Harmonia Mundi
How do you like your Bach? Performed on piano, harpsichord or some other keyboard instrument? I have a secret fondness for Ralph Kirkpatrick’s 1963 recording of The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, played…
Edward Gardner will be a new appointment as Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
He is to leave the English National Opera in September 2015. Gardner will be succeeded by conductor Mark Wigglesworth, who will take up the ENO baton in September 2015. “Ed Gardner has been…
Barenboim will perform Beethoven’s funeral march in Abbado tribute
Barenboim was a close friend of Claudio Abbado and joined him on stage at La Scala when Abbado made his comeback in 2012 after a bout of ill health. The…
Free watch on digitalconcerthall dot com , all the Abbado-Berliner Philharmoniker concerts
To comemorate its former Chief Conductor Claudio Abbado, who died yesterday, the Berliner Philharmoniker has made available many of the concerts they recorded together at no charge. The Digital Concert Hall, which…