Friday, 19 March 2010
Asia’s oldest and most recognised orchestra conducted by one of the distinguished Chinese conductors. Together with eminent Chinese soloists – Jian Wang (cello), Xu Xiao Ying (soprano), and Xiaoyong Yang (baritone) – the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra will inaugurate 14th Ludwig and Beethoven Easter Festival on 21st of March ...
Thursday, 18 March 2010
The story of piano music that now covers more than two hundred years – from Bach’s Preludes and Fugues to Prokofiev’s Fleeting Visions – glitters with colours and hues, none of which can be ignored. This story, then, cannot exist without Mozart’s concertos and Schubert’s Moments musicaux, Schumann’s ...
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
The opening of the exhibition of manuscripts in the Jagiellonian library in Kraków on the coming Thursday, 18th March, opens this year’s Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. Although held in Warsaw since 2004, the festival is hosted also in Kraków. This time, the traditional exhibition of manuscripts presents Schumann’s ...
Monday, 15 March 2010
Nearly 2000 artists performing, 50,000 people in the halls, hundreds of tourists last year. These numbers speak for themselves. The Beethoven Festival, lead by Elżbieta Penderecka, its artistic director, is one of Poland’s most important: Warsaw’s smart calling card and highlight. It brings together famous artists, music lovers, ...
Sunday, 14 March 2010
To this day, Hector Berlioz’s Grande Messe des morts causes major interpretation controversies, which prove that their subject is a masterpiece. Conducting its performance by Sinfonia Varsovia: maestro Charles Dutoit, with Paul Groves (tenor) as a solist.
Hector Berlioz, one of the most powerful personalities of the ...
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
We have already become accustomed to juxtaposing Chopin with jazz, but not with fado – or at least not yet. Now, an innovative project – Our Chopin Affair – is being prepared by the famous Portuguese singer Mísia. She has been compared to the legendary singer of the fado, Amália Rodrigues. Flowing in her veins is ...
