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  • Bard Music Festival Weekend Two "Berg The European"
    Published: August 15, 2010

    “Berg the European,” the second and final weekend of the 21st annual Bard Music Festival, explores Berg’s developing career and the diversity of music between the wars, including the backlash against modernism.  The opening event, at 10 am on Friday, August 20, is a free symposium on “Rethinking the Modern” moderated by Garry Hagberg; the evening’s concert of vocal and chamber music presents works featured at Schoenberg’s Society for Private Musical Performances, including Berg’s Four Songs, Op. 2, and music by Ravel, Debussy, Bartók, Reger, Hauer, and Szymanowski.  

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  • EMI Classics & Virgin Classics August 2010 releases
    Published: August 10, 2010

    New Releases from EMI Classics for August Include Evgeny Kissin Performing and Leading Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 20 and 27 from Keyboard and New Works for Chorus and Orchestra by Composer Karl Jenkins. Paris-Based Ebène Quartet Perform at Four Summer Festivals in U.S. Including Mostly Mozart Late-Night Concert on August 18.

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  • Seraphic Fire's Vespers released August 10
    Published: August 10, 2010

    Led by conductor and founding artistic director Patrick Dupré Quigley, Seraphic Fire has returned the sound of Claudio Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610) to the composer's own age – the late Renaissance rather than the high Baroque of Bach or Handel most often heard on record. On its new recording of the Vespers – released August 10 via the Miami-based choir's own Seraphic Fire Media – the smaller forces and intimate atmosphere yield a version of Monteverdi's magnum opus that is finally in tune with the inscription on the score's title plate: "suited for the chapels and chambers of princes."

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  • “Berg and His World” – 21st Bard Music Festival, Weekend One opens Friday
    Published: August 09, 2010

    The 21st annual Bard Music Festival opens here this Friday, August 13 with Weekend One: Berg and His World – Berg and Vienna. After Huge Shreker Success at SummerScape Festival, Bard Turns to Berg:  21st Annual Bard Music Festival “Berg and His World” Opens This Friday, August 13. Second and Final Weekend of Bard Music Festival Follows on August 20 – 22

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  • Joyce DiDonato’s winning summer
    Published: August 05, 2010

    After a wildly successful season that included a critically acclaimed company debut with the Los Angeles Opera in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, after which the Los Angeles Times exclaimed that she “stole a show that was hard to steal”, and her role debut as Elena in La donna del lago with the Paris Opera, which the Financial Times hailed as “simply the best singing…heard in years,” mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato ends her 2009-10 season on a high note: nominated for a 2010 Gramophone “Artist of the Year” Award and winning a 2010 ECHO Klassik Award in the category of female “Singer of the Year” (tenor Jonas Kaufmann won the male equivalent). The prestigious award and nomination confirm DiDonato’s status as today’s “most user-friendly diva” (Opera News). 

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  • 2010 Opera News Awards winners announced
    Published: August 04, 2010

    The sixth annual Opera News Awards will be presented on Sunday, April 17 at The Plaza in New York, paying tribute to five extraordinary artists who have made an invaluable contribution to the art form: tenor Jonas Kaufmann,conductor Riccardo Muti, soprano Patricia Racette, soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. 

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  • “Berg and His World” – 21st Bard Music Festival, Weekend One (Aug 13-15, 2010)
    Published: August 02, 2010

    The 21st annual Bard Music Festival opens here on Friday, August 13 for Weekend One: Berg and His World – Berg and Vienna.  Leon Botstein, co-artistic director of the Bard Music Festival, delivers a pre-concert talk entitled “Alban Berg: The Path of Expressive Intensity,” which is followed by a chamber program tracing Berg’s stylistic development from early works like the Seven Early Songs (1905-08) to the maturity of his Lyric Suite (1925-26).  

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  • Tunes launches “Jeremy Denk Plays Ives” July 27
    Published: July 28, 2010

    If there is one composer in whose works Jeremy Denk has inspired nothing but frank and heartfelt praise, it is thorny American experimentalist Charles Ives.  Denk’s recital programs have long featured not only Ives’s famous and monumental “Concord” Sonata but also the far less familiar Sonata No. 1, impressing critics with “thrilling performances” (Anthony Tommasini, New York Times) that offer “an entire world” (Anne Midgette, Washington Post).  Now the pianist’s celebrated Ives interpretations have finally been committed to disc; due for CD release on October 12, Jeremy Denk plays Ives will be launched in advance in its entirety on iTunes, where it will be available for download from July 27.

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  • 21C Media Group's Classical Music Preview 2010-2011
    Published: July 27, 2010

    21C Media Group previews the highlights of its clients' 2010-11 season - including notable concerts, tours, CD and DVD releases, and special events. In a concise and chronological format, this is a useful guide and resource and a glimpse into what's in store over the coming year from some of the most important singers, instrumentalists, conductors, record labels, and arts organizations in the classical music world.

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  • Schreker’s "The Distant Sound" opens at Bard SummerScape on Friday
    Published: July 26, 2010

    The eighth annual Bard SummerScape’s opera presentation, Franz Schreker’sThe Distant Sound (“Der ferne Klang,” 1910), though familiar in Europe, has never yet – in the century since its composition – been fully staged in North America.  Schreker, whose music synthesized elements from Romanticism to expressionism, was hailed early in his career as the most significant musical dramatist since Wagner, and The Distant Sound is a key work of Viennese modernism.

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