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Sofya Gulyak triumphs in Leeds
Sofya Gulyak has triumphed over almost 200 applicants to win the 16th Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. The 29-year-old Russian impressed the panel of judges - including Beaux Arts Trio pianist Menahem Pressler and 1981 Leeds first-prize winner Ian Hobson – with her performance of Brahms’s First Piano Concerto with Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé in the final. She receives the Princess Mary Gold Medal and a cash prize of £15,000.
14th Sep 2009
Petrenko extends Liverpool Philharmonic contract
The successful partnership between the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko was yesterday cemented further as the young conductor signed a three-year contract extension. Petrenko, who has been credited with attracting fresh, younger audiences to classical music, will now remain in Liverpool until 2015. His title will change from principal conductor to chief conductor in recognition of the new commitment.
10th Sep 2009
This week's Specialist Classical Chart is now online
Select "This week's chart" from the menu above to download the chart for the week ending September 5.
7th Sep 2009
Obituary: Geoffrey Tozer, pianist
The Australian pianist, Geoffrey Tozer, has died aged 54. He was best known to the wider musical public for his pioneering recordings of Medtner’s piano music for Chandos, which garnered much international praise including a Diapason...
4th Sep 2009
Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops conductor, has died
If Arthur Fielder was the king of pops conductors, Erich Kunzel rightly earned the title “Prince of Pops”. For more than three decades, Kunzel presided over the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, touring the world and making 85 recordings for the Telarc label. Their discs won Grammy awards and sold more than 10 million copies.
4th Sep 2009
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1st Sep 2009
Kennedy's Four Seasons gets birthday repackage
To mark the 20th anniversary of Nigel Kennedy’s Four Seasons recording, EMI is releasing a special anniversary edition on September 7.
1st Sep 2009
Early Scottish music discovered
Scotland’s Stirling Castle has yielded an unlikely musical discovery. Possibly the oldest surviving example of written Scottish instrumental music has been identified on the border of one of the Stirling Heads – carved wooden roundels used to decorate the ceiling of the royal palace. It is thought the series of 16th century notations in the form of Os, Is and IIs might have been played on harps, viols, fiddles and lutes. Far from precise scores, the markings would provide a guiding sequence of chords as the basis for improvisation.
28th Aug 2009
Gramophone teams up with EMI and the Berliner Philharmoniker
One of the world’s great orchestras and one of the world’s greatest record labels team up with Gramophone to give a preview of Sir Simon Rattle’s long-anticipated Brahms symphony cycle in the Gramophone Listening Room. And, as a special gift to visitors to the Gramophone Listening Room, the Berliner Philharmoniker is offering a free concert in its acclaimed Digital Concert Hall.
24th Aug 2009
Ana María Martínez falls off Glyndebourne stage
It's a bit of a running joke that, whenever my best friend Nick and I go on our adventures, extraordinary things always happen. So perhaps we should have warned the Glyndebourne management I was taking him for his first visit there on Friday.
24th Aug 2009
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