Beethoven sonatas - Jonathan Biss

In an exclusive excerpt from his Kindle Single 'Beethoven’s Shadow', Jonathan Biss recalls first encountering the works. Read MORE/in Gramophone

Jonathan Biss was born in 1980; his professional debut preceded this event by several months, when he performed, prenatally, the Mozart A Major Violin Concerto at Carnegie Hall, with the Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Lorin Maazel. Read More HERE/in Website

Links:

Jonathan Biss - Beethoven Piano Sonatas (YouTube)

Official site of Jonathan Bisse

Perfeito para o final de tarde - Hélène Grimaud

Artiste du mois - MEZZO

Hélène Grimaud  dans un voyage aux résonances intimes...

Un concert au Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, une carte blanche et un récital avec Thomas Quasthoff au Festival de Verbier. SUITE »

Videos:

Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata - Adagio sostenudo

Hélene Grimaud - Documentary, Living with Wolves

Hélene Grimaud plays the 'Adagio' from Mozart's Piano Concerto no 23

Héléne Grimaud - Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 1

Hélène Grimaud in Berlin

Links:

Interview - Helene Grimaud (in euronews)

Hélène Grimaud plays Chopin and Rachmaninov (Interview)

Peças para piano com Hélène Grimaud (in O Pensador Selvagem, blog)

The New Pavarotti?

In the role that shot Luciano Pavarotti to superstardom, tenor Lawrence Brownlee tossed nine high Cs to a Metropolitan Opera audience - in less than one minute. Read more HERE.

Watch Video: Tenor Lawrence Brownlee outsings Juan Diego Florez!!!

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Lawrence Brownlee is one of the most consistently sought-after artists on the international scene. He is lauded continually for the beauty of his voice, his seemingly effortless technical agility, and his dynamic and engaging dramatic skills. His schedule regularly comprises a varied array of debuts and returns at renowned music centers for appearances with the world’s leading opera companies, orchestras and presenting organizations.

Links:

Lawrence Brownlee, Iain Burnside, St John's, Smith Square (in the arts desk)

Lawrence Brownlee (Website)

Lawrence Brownlee "Una furtiva lagrima" L' elisir d' amore (YouTube)

Gounod's 'Faust' at the Met

Marina Poplavskaya and Jonas Kaufmann in a scene from the Metropolitan Opera's production of "Faust" (Video courtesy of the Met, in The New York Times)

Video HERE

Links:

Marina Poplavskaya: “I am a person of extraordinary ability" (in The Guardian)

Jonas Kaufmann (Official Website)

On the road with Stuart Skelton

Stuart Skelton has emerged as one of the finest heroic tenors of his generation, encompassing roles from Wagner to Strauss, Beethoven, Dvorak and Britten. He is acclaimed for his beautiful voice, intelligent musicianship, and his intensely dramatic portrayals.

The tenor talks about performing with the Berlin Phil and what it takes to be a Wagnerian tenor. Read More (in Classical Music).

Link:

Stuart Skelton (Website)

Le Cid-Opera of the Year Mezzo (english version)

Jules Massenet, Le Cid at the Marseille Opera

IF YOU WANT TO VOTE FOR THIS OPERA PLEASE VISIT WEBSITE MEZZO.TV from November 8th

Conductor Jacques Lacombe
Director Charles Roubaud

Casting
Roberto Alagna (Rodrigue)
Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Chimène)
Kimy McLaren (L'infante)
Francesco Ellero d'Artegna (Don Diègue)
Alain Vernhes (Le roi)

Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra

Link:
Le Cid-Opéra de l' Année Mezzo (Version française)

Gustavo Dudamel - "conducting animal"

Age is not the only thing that distinguishes him from the other guys: there is something about Dudamel that is primal, something that makes people describe him as a "conducting animal."

Click in Mahler, Sinfonia N.9, Gustavo Dudamel, IV mov.

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Visit www.iTunes.com/gramawards to download your free Gustavo Dudamel track

Links:

Gustavo Dudamel (Website)

Gustavo Dudamel - Biographie

Karita Mattila - Tango d'amor

The Irresistible Karita Mattila

Links:

Karita Mattila Discography - Home Page

Photos from the Metropolitan Opera's production, starring Karita Mattila and Thomas Hampson

It's a rare, and very precious gift

…whatever she plays, you always sense that Uchida has thought through the reasons for everything she does, but always in the best interests of communicating what she feels is the emotional essence of the music. It's a rare, and very precious gift.

 

The Guardian

Link:

Mitsuko Uchida - Official website

A muito justamente primma donna assoluta do Metropolitan

Listen ANNA NETREBKO - Live at the Metropolitan Opera here

Links:

Anna Netrebko Live at the Metropolitan Opera - review (in the Guardian, (by Tim Ashley)

Album: Anna Netrebko, Live at the Metropolitan Opera (Deutsche Grammophon) (in The Independent, by Andy Gill)

Apreciar Mariss Jansons

Apreciem Mariss Jansons e sintonizem o canal MEZZO, dia 8 de Dezembro, pelas 20.15, onde o maestro letão irá dirigir Holst e Schoenberg em Het Concertgebouw (Amesterdão).

Link:Mariss Jansons

Dmitri Hvorostovsky

Read Hvorostovsky signs to Ondine (in Gramophone)

BACH - Concerts avec plusieurs instruments [Café Zimmermann]

Extraordinariamente belo. Ouvir excerto aqui.

Pianist Christopher Taylor Ready for Musical Mecca Moscow

Read more: here
The Moscow Times

Link:

Double Keyboard Piano with Chris Taylor  (YouTube)

La voix d’ emotion has died

Montserrat Figueras has died

Early music soprano and wife of Jordi Savall 

Montserrat Figueras, the Catalan early music soprano renowned for performances of early music, and wife of Jordi Savall, has died aged 69. To read the full article click here

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MONTSERRAT FIGERAS - El Cant de la Sibil.la (extracte)

MONTSERRAT FIGERAS - La voix d' émotion

Secrets of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra’s success

James Inverne discovers the story behind the irrepressible rise of an Italian orchestra

‘Everything in this country today is going down the tubes,’ mutters the veteran BBC reporter, an Italy specialist, as we file into the concert. Then, looking up at the still-new auditorium of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, one of three towering, pod-like structures raised off the ground like alien spacecraft waiting to take flight, he checks himself. ‘Almost everything.’ Click here for more information