Six of the best audio streaming platforms for classical music in 2023
WEBApr 5, 2023 — Tidal – in my opinion, the best of the Spotify equivalents and the one that I use daily.It has options for higher quality audio and a substantial list of curated playlists, including classical ones. Amazon Music Unlimited – worth investigating to see what another tech giant provides.Its distinctive feature is relatively large album cover artwork in its search results: if the thing you ...
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WEBNov 24, 2023 — A star on the rise: Elise Bertrand. The leading music site for worldwide reviews and listings of classical concerts, opera, ballet and dance, 12,000 upcoming events, and 200 new reviews each month.
Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez : the pinnacle of the ... - Bachtrack
WEBSep 11, 2018 — Ask ten people what makes the Concierto de Aranjuez so special and you’ll get ten different answers, with a good place to start being Graham Wade’s description of it as “a wonderfully coherent statement, rich in local detail and loaded throughout with musical felicities of many kinds”. Three things, however, tend to get mentioned by everybody.
Ten works from the 20th century that shaped contemporary
WEBMar 13, 2018 — Watch on. 2 Alban Berg, Wozzeck, 1925. Contemporary music on stage would be unimaginable without the sound-world of Alban Berg’s 1925 opera, based on the play by Georg Büchner about the soldier whose world is annihilated. Berg’s opera sears with its high-wire lyricism, and its explosive climaxes leave one gasping for breath.
Bachtrack top ten: Waltzes
WEBDec 28, 2018 — 1 Johann Strauss II: Kaiserwalzer (Emperor Waltz) Unlike Mark, I’ve waltzed to almost every Viennese waltz that has ever been written. And although I love the sheer music of them, what makes them special to me is that I associate each waltz with a particular ball, a charming dance partner or even painful blisters caused by …
Behind the masks of Florestan and Eusebius: exploring Schumann's
WEBOct 1, 2017 — The eight fantasy-like pieces that constitute Kreisleriana were inspired by a fictional musician created by the great Romantic writer ETA Hoffmann.Like the emotionally unstable Schumann, Hoffmann's Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler “was drawn constantly to and fro by his inner visions and dreams as if floating on an eternally undulating sea, searching in vain for the haven which would grant ...
Top Six Women Baroque Composers - Bachtrack
WEBMar 8, 2017 — If anything, I think she is an excellent example that when a women composer was given the environment, she could thrive as well as her male colleagues. Isabella Leonarda (b.1620; d. 1704) Isabella Leonarda typifies the most common type of woman composer in the Baroque period, namely a nun who also composed. Isabella came from a wealthy family ...
Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan return to the BBC Proms
WEBAug 13, 2024 — Twenty-five years ago, a minor miracle happened in Weimar. Initiated by Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian-American academic Edward Said, a group of Israeli, Palestinian and other Arab musicians came together for a workshop, where they put aside ideological differences to seek common ground in music. The result was the formation of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.
Soaring orchestral themes, minimalist staging: Eugene Onegin
WEBSep 25, 2024 — Eugene Onegin. By David Karlin, 25 September 2024. We’ve had a long wait – nearly nine years – for the return to Covent Garden of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, so last night’s new production was eagerly anticipated. You can’t fault The Royal Opera for lack of adventure: this was a house debut for American director Ted Huffman and the ...
WEBProkofiev, Romeo and Juliet. Prokofiev, Cinderella. Adam, Giselle. Minkus, Don Quixote. Various, Revelations. Ellington, Night Creature. Marsalis, For Four. All the statistics are based on the performances which have been listed on …