Music Review | London Symphony Orchestra : Haydn and Beethoven, in Epic and Intimate Colors
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When Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony, the results are almost always extraordinary, no matter the repertory, and this series was no exception.
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In a virtually unprecedented arrangement, the music label Naxos of America has commissioned new work, from the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.
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Lorin Maazel had a comparatively easy job last night in the first of this week's New York Philharmonic subscription programs. On the first half of the program, he led Mozart's Symphony No. 29 and the Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss. He then ceded the podium to Xian Zhang, an assistant conductor at the Philharmonic since 2002, when she won first prize in the Maazel/Vilar Conductors' Competition. Ms. Zhang's task was more rigorous: she led the world premiere of
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Britain's leading orchestras are to play concerts offices and homes for people unable to reach a concert hall.
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Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra played with flashes of brilliance, some rough patches and palpable tension on Tuesday at Carnegie Hall.
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By PHIL MILLER ARTS CORRESPONDENT  SCOTLAND'S national orchestra has made an overture to the power of the internet, by opening a new online service linked to nearly 60,000 musical recordings.
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Droll, perceptive comments from composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle set up the experience of hearing his complex instrumental and vocal works.
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The thriving art world has something to teach the classical music world.
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Conducting the Tehran Symphony Orchestra requires some adjustments. Money is scarce. The female musicians wear headscarves. An old favorite such as Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 could mean criticism from conservative quarters.
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The three leading orchestras of this major music capital are now going through changes in artistic leadership.
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Paul Oakenfold is famous as a DJ, but this week the pioneer of "trance" dance music assumed the unusual role of playing with a 75-piece orchestra for well-heeled, champagne-sipping classical music lovers.
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Verdiâs opera has two faces. It is spectacle on a royal scale, but also a love story wedding jealousy, honor and revenge to regime change.
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This year unusual clarity emerged for the future leadership of the nationâs leading orchestras.
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A title that conductor Alexander Mickelthwate devised for one of his contemporary music ensemble concerts was "Hysterical Lost Men." This concert included music by composers who went insane - from the ...
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The Kosovo Philharmonic is  rehearsing for the biggest performance in its short history,  Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
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'Live from Earls Court' in concomitanza con concerto Londra
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James Levine led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a rousing performance of Tchaikovskyâs Fourth Symphony.