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The Independant - Features

March 22   -  The Independant - Features

Michael Church: Katya and the Vixen: Janacek at the ROH and ENO

Orchestrally speaking, Janacek is bringing out the best in our big opera houses. While Sir Charles Mackerras gallantly triumphs over age and infirmity to conduct a coruscating performance of ‘The Cunning Little ...

 

March 16   -  The Independant - Features

Debuting 22 March: Sondheim - In Good Company

Commissioned by Josef Weinberger Ltd. on the occasion of Stephen Sondheim’s 80th Birthday 'In Good Company' is a unique three-part collage of intimate conversations between the writer, ...

 

March 09   -  The Independant - Features

Independent Classical Podcast: Roger Vignoles

It may no longer be politic to call him "an accompanist" but Roger Vignoles has no problem being known as one. He has worked with some of the most illustrious names in Song and knows just how "finely tuned" ...

 

March 07   -  The Independant - Features

Yundi Li: 'I think I'm not a normal artist'

Which famous Chinese pianist was born in 1982? Easy: Lang Lang. But another Chinese pianist was also born in that year, whose victory aged 18 in the Warsaw Chopin competition earned him the title in China of ...

 

March 01   -  The Independant - Features

Opera North podcast: Howard Assembly room

Opera North's Howard Assembly Room is no longer a well-kept secret.

 

February 12   -  The Independant - Features

Observations: Casino morality at the opera

Ill-fated is an understatement for the tangled performance-history of Prokofiev's opera based on Dostoyevsky's The Gambler. He composed it in 1917 as a piece of musical dynamite to galvanise the sclerotic St Petersburg Imperial ...

 

February 11   -  The Independant - Features

Classical podcast: Mark Padmore

English tenor Mark Padmore has enjoyed a career that has seen him grow from a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, through membership of The Sixteen and Hilliard ensembles, to becoming ...

 

January 22   -  The Independant - Features

Observations: Just too many anniversaries

Time was when a composer's centenary felt like a significant event, but these days anniversaries are ten-a-penny, because they're such a wonderful crutch for programmers to lean on. When in doubt – and today's ...

 

January 22   -  The Independant - Features

A glass ceiling for women in the orchestra pit

Imagine how the conducting profession might look today if Herbert von Karajan had been a woman. Female conductors could have dominated podiums the world over, with a Herbertina to set the example. This isn't so, of ...

 

January 21   -  The Independant - Features

Classical podcast: The Bernstein Project

Listen to Leonard Bernstein’s assistant (1985 – 1990) Craig Urquhart speak about the iconic composer and conductor, with the Independent's Edward Seckerson in this podcast ...

 

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