Bartoli for a Halevy DVD, Rene Pape for Wagner and Villazon for an album titled Mexico!
No surprises then among the opera pack.
This list of winners is tediously long, but there are a few good calls within:
Male singer of the year: Thomas Hampson for Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Mahler, DG)
Instrumentalist of the year (accordion): Teodoro Anzellotti for the Goldberg Variations, (Bach, Winter & Winter)
Conductor of the year: Andris Nelsons, for Stravinsky Firebird (with CBSO)
New conductor of the year: Robin Ticciati for Brahms Alto Rhapsody (with Bamberg SO)
Song recording of the year: Diana Damrau, Strauss.
Hilary Hahn, Lisa Batiashvili and Ray Chen are also among the instrumental winners.
Here‘s the full list. Awards ceremony in Octoberr.
Tania Stavreva is giving two recitals at the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, next week and she’s getting carefully kitted out for the occasion. Not just kitted. Body painted.
Tania has a creative relationship with body painter Danny Setiawan and will be displaying their latest work in recital. She has posted some new shots on her facebook page
and, if you happen to be her friend, you can see more there.
Here’s the full recital:
The Metropolitan Room Presents:”RHYTHMIC MOVEMENT”
A Modern View of the Classical Music Recital in the 21st Century
with multimedia collaboration featuring:
TANIA STAVREVA, Piano www.taniastavreva.com
DANNY SETIAWAN, Body Paint Art www.denartny.com
TIM DAOUST, live electronics www.timdaoust.com
PROGRAM:
Music and Body Paint multimedia art collaboration:
ERIK SATIE (1866-1925) – 3 Gnossiennes (1890)
http://www.youtube.com/wat?ch?v=9QF1UVwcLp8
ALBERTO GINASTERA (1916-1983) – Danzas Argentinas, Op.2 (1937):
-Danza del viejo boyero (“Dance of the Old Herdsman”)
-Danza de la moza donosa (“Dance of the Beautiful Maiden”)
-Danza del gaucho matrero (“Dance of the Arrogant Cowboy”)
NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN (b. 1937) – Two Jazz Concert Etudes:
– “Prelude”, No.1
– “Toccatina”, No.3
MASON BATES (b.1977) – “White Lies For Lomax” (2007) – with electronic elements
Music and visual art collaboration:
STAVREVA-CAGE (b. 1983) – 3’33 – “Silence” – World Premiere
SCOTT WOLLSCHLEGER (b.1980) – “Chaos Analog” (2007)
TIM DAOUST (b.1981) – “Moon, Tides, Cycles” (2011) – World Premiere
PANCHO VLADIGEROV (1899-1978) – “Rhythmic Movement” (1943)
ALEXANDER VLADIGEROV (1933-1993) – Variations on a Bulgarian Folk Song “Dilmano, Dilbero”, Op.2 (1954)
Cziffra-Korsakov (1921-1994) – Etude de concert No.1 – Le vol du bourdon (“The Flight of the Bumble-bee”)
Ticket Price: $15/ $12 Students & Seniors available at www.metropolitanroom.com(Tickets will be available on the web in few days)
(2 Bevarage Minimum)
For reservations: 212.206.0440
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In the thick of the biggest currency crisis for a generation, the German chancellor has found time to announce her personal sponsorship of the Baltic Youth Philharmonic. The orchestra consists of 90 students from around the seaboard. They are rehearsing Prokofiev 5th this week in Kaunas, Lithuania, ahead of a grand tour. Krystian Järvi is the founder and artistic director.
Angela Merkel’s personal support is a massive morale booster for the students and a money-raiser all the way round the region. It shows that the German leader really cares what her kids are getting up to this summer.
Anyone else care? Cameron? Sarkozy? Obama? I thought not.
(Oh, and let’s not forget
Scotland, where they’ve halved the youth orchestra’s subsidy. Is Alex Salmond bothered? Not a bit.)
The Department of Education has dropped cultural subjects from the proposed English Baccalaureate.
That seems so shortsighted when the creative industries are the nation’s biggest and fastest growing export. The Bacc will rank schools’ achievements in key subjects and eventually set the standard for school-leaving exams.
Here’s the breaking story. Not too late to change things.
Bombard Education Sec Michael Gove with your views.
It’s barely a year since he said that every child should have the right to learn to play an instrument at school.
And copy in Jeremy Hunt (if he’s still there after the Murdoch fiasco).
Or so the diva tells Der Stern today.
Also, she’s so fed up with Traviata, she never wants to hear it again.
Talk of biting the hand that feeds you…
The composer Joseph Horowitz is not as widely played as he ought to be.
Aside from one of the best string quartets of the past half century – his fifth (1969) – he has written a delightful Alice in Wonderland ballet and scored some of the most memorable television themes of recent times, including Rumpole of the Bailey. You see? Once heard, never forgotten.
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The composer Debbie Wiseman, herself an accomplished television and film (Tom and Viv) composer, will tell the world about Joe in a BBC Radio 4 documentary next Tuesday (July 26th). You’d hardly know about it from the Radio 4 publicity office, so I’m giving it a little boost here. Both Joe and Debbie are exceptionally accomplished composers. Versatile, too.
Debbie has a new CD out, by the way. I shall be listening. So should you.
The News of the World journalist who broke the prostitute story about Jeffrey Archer in 1986 has signed a deal to write a book about the rise and fall of the Murdoch empire, reports the Bookseller.
John Lisners, when he tired of doorstepping, retrained as a lawyer. But he can’t stay away from a hot story. He has worked for Rupert on three continents and knows the empire inside out. His publisher, John Blake, describes the book as “a human story, an affectionate portrait, and a story like something out of Shakespeare”.
Hmmmm… are we talking Macbeth, King Lear or Midsummer Night’s Dream?
