The Opus Klassik awards are out this morning.
Unsurprisingly, the conductor of the year is the one with the most big jobs: Oslo, Paris, Amsterdam, Chicago.
Instrumental winners are Isabelle Faust (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello) and Lang Lang (media).
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From Steve Swartz in Baltimore: Baltimore, MD – Due to Sunday morning’s underground fire in downtown Baltimore and the resulting loss of electrical power, the Sunday matinee performance of composer Michael Hersch’s new opera, and […]
A mass performance by 2,500 singers in Montreal. Somewhat imperfect but strangely moving. The post Hallelujah as never before appeared first on Slippedisc.
When Ontario’s Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony went bust in September 2023, that seemed to be it. Orchestras are not great believers in self-resurrection. But this one is. When the players of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony were told in […]
