
NEWS
On 4 April 2025, French oboist Céline Moinet will release her fourth album on the Berlin Classics label. On this album, Moinet presents an exquisite collection of chamber music works by the Salzburg masters Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Luigi Gatti. She is accompanied by her long-time musical collaborators Mahamed Hiber (violin), Sindy Mohamed (viola), and Tim Park (cello). Together, they open up a fascinating sound world for the listeners, featuring both well-known and lesser-known works by these two composers.
The local newspaper ‘Westfalenpost’ raved at Sergei Babayan’s latest appearance with Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra. “The merciless audience,” the newspaper writes, “would not let the soloist go until he played an encore.”
Oboist Céline Moinet joins Felsner Artists for worldwide general management. Ms Moinet is regarded as one of the finest oboists of her generation, making her highly in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and recitalist. She brings an extraordinary variety of tone colours and timbres to the art of oboe playing.
Conductor Felix Krieger did it again: Rave reviews keep coming in for his latest recording, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s one-act opera “Il segreto di Susanna” (Oehms Classic). The latest success underlined the extraordinary prestige that Felix Krieger built with his Berliner Operngruppe, an independent orchestra & chorus dedicated to bringing rare opera treasures on stage. This comes shortly after the worldwide success of the world premiere (!) of Gaetano Donizetti’s “Dalinda” under the artistic leadership of Felix Krieger, now also on Oehms Classic.
In a programme entitled “Two Masters Out Of Their Time”, Alexander Briger conducted the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Tours in the French Loire region, in a series of performances that turned out to be a highlight of the season, with Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, with Sergei Babayan as soloist. The legendary piano master and Deutsche Grammophon exclusive artist spends himself an important part of every year in Tours, and the debut with ‘his’ home orchestra has been a triumph. The deep musical understanding with Alexander Briger was palpable, and the reviews raved:
Limelight Magazine, the leading classical music magazine of Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, has announced that Andreas Scholl has received the International Artist of the Year - People’s Choice Award 2024.
Roberto Beltrán, music director of the Palermo Classica festival, sat down with leading Spanish music magazine Codolario to look back on his 11-year tenure as artistic director of the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, one of Latin America’s oldest orchestras - and an ensemble Beltrán has brought to levels of performance, stunning symphonic cycles, international recordings and awards that were unheard of for an orchestra in his home country of Mexico.
Pianist and composer Andrius Zlabys will perform his ‘Echoes of Light’ programme at the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid on 7 February 2025. He met with the esteemed magazine Melomano to talk about his work as a composing performer, Johann Sebastian Bach, César Franck and Luis Gustavo Prado.
Two pianists discuss Steinways, recording and share memories of Vladimir Horowitz
Last August Gramophone's James Jolly travelled to Montana in the USA, to sample the musical, artistic and architectural wonders of Tippet Rise, an arts centre created by Peter and Cathy Halstead on a 12,000 acre working ranch. As well as possesssing a wonderful concert hall, Tippet Rise also plays host to numerous large sculptures […]
Sergei Babayan spoke to prestomusic magazine about how the ‘Rachmaninoff for Two’ recording surpassed his wildest dreams, two of the pianists who have inspired him in his approach to transcriptions of symphonic repertoire, the early proposed recording of the Suites […]
Sergei Babayan in his new solo recital programme SONGS at Mannheim's baroque castle: "Lean back and savour! Sergei Babayan undertook a remarkable musical journey through the world of melody.”
Andreas Scholl’s 2024 album "Invocazioni Mariane" recorded with the Accademia Bizantina - Ottavio Dantone under the direction of Alessandro Tampieri has won the International Classical Music Award! The ICMA selected his recording for the prestigious award in the category ‘Baroque Vocal’.
Coming soon: Scott Yoo's breathtaking new Shostakovich recording with his Mexico-City Philharmonic Orchestra
Countertenor Andreas Scholl made a triumphant return to Australia with performances in Sydney …
Armenian-American piano virtuoso Sergej Babajan tackles one of the most challenging piano works in musical history with Sergei Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto.
22 November 2024: Brahms Pianco Concerto No. 2 with Sergei Babayan and the excellent Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra
A meeting of giants: Salle Cortot in Paris on 18 November 2024 saw Grigory Sokolov and Sergei Babayan come together for the first time in their careers …
Sergei Babayan and Daniil Trifonov receive the 2024 Diapason d'Or for their amazing recording "Rachmaninoff for Two".
Roberto Beltrán extends his contract as principal conductor of the Palermo Classica Festival. The leading Sicilian music festival announced …
On 31 October 2024 Sergei Babayan returned to Konzerthaus Dortmund with Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The pianist who had been the first Curating Artist appointed by the prestigious German concert hall had his audience spellbound
"Two decades ago German counter tenor Andreas Scholl made his Sydney debut singing with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. He was already a star, known for the muscular purity of his voice …
Thomas E. Bauer as Wotan (and Donner and Fafner and Hagen) and Maitre de conférence, Sarah Traubel as Brünnhilde (and Fricka and Woglinde and Helmwige and Waldvogel) and Ferdinand von Bothmer as Siegfried (and Siegmund and Loge and Froh) …
This week Sarah Traubel sang Gounod's Messe solennelle de Sainte Cécile at Berlin Philharmonie …
“A seminal new Deutsche Grammophon recording of the two-piano version, by Sergei Babayan and Daniil Trifonov, that realizes in full the magnitude of Rachmaninoff’s musical leave-taking.”
David Hurwitz of Classics Today on Claus Peter Flor's recording of Mahler symphonies 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano: "Flor really gets Mahler.”
Countertenor Andr4eas Scholl and his friends from Accademia Bizantina released their new recording “Invocazioni Mariane”.
Conductor Felix Krieger, artistic director of the Berlin Opera Group, earned standing ovations and rave reviews.
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