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Québec: La Damnation de Faust, in an astonishing staging
The Québec Opera Festival has attained a new level of achievement, offering festival attendees a work reputed to be difficult, and which usually does not attract many people to the ...
The Elektra-shock in Aix
The shock begins with the opening chords. The Orchestre de Paris, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, explodes. Tonight, the violence contained in Strauss’ work is magnified, the orchestra gives its best, ...
Pierre Boulez, composer and conductor
« That is an exceptional moment in my musical life ; I’m happy this recording has been kept. » ResMusica : You have recorded the Rite of the Spring many times. ...
San Francisco’s Tales of Hoffman is Right on Target with Natalie Dessay
Let’s be clear right from the start: the joint effort of Barcelona, San Francisco and Lyon, vocally powerful in this production, is right on target. Because quite simply, precise, explicit, ...
‘Label of the Year’ Audite celebrates its 40th Anniversary
ICMA’s ‘Label of the Year 2013′ Audite celebrated it’s 40th anniversary yesterday in Berlin. With music performed by Audite artists ‘Mandelring Quartett’ and ‘Klavierduo Bard’ the official celebration consisted essentially ...
ICMA Trophy for Pierre Boulez
In his IRCAM office in Paris, French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez received the ICMA trophy for the CD set ‘Ballets Russes’ on Melodiya. In this recording Boulez is conducting ...
Julia Fischer and Vasily Petrenko: phenomenal!
This concert, starring violinist Julia Fischer and conductor Vasily Petrenko tackling two masterpieces of Russian music (namely Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 4) looked very promising. And indeed, ...
Julia Fischer, violonist
“Making music together is about trust: you open yourself in a way you would not do in a normal relationship” ResMusica: You perform with David Zinman and Esa Pekka-Salonen, two conductors ...
La Passion de Simone by Kaija Saariaho
In 2006, Kaija Saariaho takes a French topic with a universal appeal on again, on a booklet by Amin Maalouf. La Passion de Simone, an oratorio for solo soprano, choir, ...
American masterworks by Bo Holten, the best introduction to Delius
Frank Delius’s enthusiasts often come up against the same questions: how to help his music to get played, which pieces to put forward so we can hear it again in ...
Shostakovich International Association Concert – 19th June, Acropolis of Athens
European Cultural Centre of Delphi & Shostakovich’ International Association present : WITH EXQUISITE MUSIC, VOICES 150th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF C.P. CAVAFY (1863-1933) Wednesday 19th June 2013 ACROPOLIS MUSEUM, Open-Air Space - ATHENS (Greece) Concert inspired by the poem « ...
The 2013 edition of the ResMusica Summer Festivals Guide
The 2013 edition of the ResMusica Summer Festivals Guide invites you to discover 10 artists and 30 dance and classical music festivals in France, Europe and North America. The guide opens ...
The Second International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music
A rewarding initiative to groom young conducting talents. A milestone in the development of Chinese orchestral music. The Second International Conducting Competition for Chinese Music will be held in 2013-14. The Competition : First Round ...
Festival Classica : Aben-Hamet, resurrection of an impressive score
Théodore Dubois left only a small legacy to future generations of composers. His name has almost entirely disappeared from history and his work takes up very little space in encyclopedias ...
Angelin Preljocaj’s Oriental Nights
In his new ballet, Les Nuits (The Nights), Angelin Preljocaj presents a fantasised erotic vision of the Orient. Inspired by the One Thousand and One Nights, this show is a ...
Tribute to Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013)
“What is fashion? It is what is going out of fashion. Tout est là.” His body bore the marks of a long life, but his mind remained bright, and Henri Dutilleux ...
Andris Nelsons conducts Antonín Dvořák
The Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons is less a media stunt than his colleague Gustavo Dudamel. However, he is “the other" young conductor of the beginning of our century. At 35, ...
François-Xavier Roth conducts Debussy
The French conductor François-Xavier Roth is the first to record the Suite n°1 by Claude Debussy. The musicologists Jean-Christophe Branger and Denis Herlin rediscovered the score in a library in ...
Carolin Widmann, Artist of the year ICMA 2013
“This is torture. It looks glamorous from the outside, but why do you want to do this?” ICMA: A violinist is to find his own personal sound, on the violin this ...
Denis Matsuev in New York
Denis Matsuev, an extraordinary pianist, offers, as part of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff an album that confronts the Concerto No. 2 with the Rhapsody in ...
Tribute to János Starker
János Starker. The great Hungarian-born American cellist has died on 28th April 2013 at the age of 88. The musician, who made a landmark in the history of interpretation, was ...
In Paris, Happy Birthday Sir Gardiner
Oedipus-Rex is a curious work to celebrate a birthday. The opera-oratorio by Stravinsky with a libretto by Jean Cocteau translated into Latin by Cardinal Jean Daniélou (who died in the ...
Aldo Ciccolini, Lifetime Achievement ICMA Award 2013
ICMA : This evening you are playing Liszt’s transcription of Isolde’s Liebestod. When did you first come into contact with the music of Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’? Aldo Ciccolini : In the opera ...
Cooperation between the Auschwitz Foundation and ResMusica
Because classical music is an essential part of our lives and a commitment beyond pure aesthetic issues, the Auschwitz Foundation and ResMusica initiate an editorial partnership to strengthen the links ...
Juan Francisco Gatell, tenor
“Everybody sees opera singers like Pavarotti, dressed the same. We are normal people!” ResMusica: What events triggered you to become a tenor? Juan Francisco Gatell: There were no musicians in my family, ...
17th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw
As usual, around Easter, the Warsaw Beethoven Festival makes the polish music life more lively. At this edition, which was the 17th, the program was still very extensive, mixing genres ...
Last Pollini Perspectives concert in Pleyel : a culmination
It was the last concert in the 2011-2013 Pollini Perspectives series, and the Maestro ended his Beethoven component with the last three sonatas (Pollini will record the complete cycle very soon ...
The Importance of Being Earnest, world premiered on stage in Nancy
The Opéra de Lorraine, honoring its mission as a “national opera”, is acting as a commissioner of new work, it hosting the premiere of the stage version of Gerald Barry’s ...
