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2013
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June
- OBE for Alan Opie in Queen’s Birthday Honours List
- William Kerley returns to Opera Philadelphia for new Adès production
- The Cardinall's Musick: BBC Radio 3 "Building a Library" winner
- Major new Birtwistle song-cycle premieres in Aldeburgh
- Julia Sporsén: "vivid" debut as Nedda in Opera Holland Park’s Pagliacci
- Triumphant second festival for Laurence Cummings in Göttingen
- Andrew Parrott's Orfeo "most beguiling Monteverdi opera recording for years"
- New artist: Pianist Louis Lortie
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May
- Rayfield Allied artists feature strongly as ENO's new season announced
- Ensemble 360 win at the RPS Awards
- Peter Bronder debut as Rienzi in Frankfurt
- Julia Jones makes “welcome return” to the Royal Opera House
- May Festival 2013 begins for Ensemble 360
- New York Times praises Jessica Walker’s bewitching performance
- Philipp von Steinaecker steps in for Abbado to conduct Orchestra Mozart
- Kate Valentine's "deliciously ardent" debut as Mimì
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April
- La Périchole for NYCO 'brilliantly' conducted by Emmanuel Plasson
- New Artist: Cellist Natalie Clein
- Hila Plitmann “outstanding” in Melbourne Thomas Adès celebration
- Rayfield Allied artists in BBC Proms 2013 Season
- Pierre-André Valade appointment with Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain
- New artist: Conductor Julia Jones
- Ensemble 360 to feature in BBC Radio 3 lunchtime concerts
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March
- Mhairi Lawson takes on Handel's Rival Queens
- Marcus Barcham-Stevens joins the Fitzwilliam String Quartet
- Oscar-winner Bruce Beresford set to direct Bonnie & Clyde miniseries:
- Countertenor Ainslie "excels" as Eliogabalo in New York
- New Artist: German conductor Philipp von Steinaecker
- Nicholas Mulroy and Matthew Brook star in Gramophone and BBC Music “Recordings of the Month"
- The orchestra of the Royal Opera House is conducted "very stylishly" by Emmanuel Plasson.
- "Excellent" Eddie Wade sings with "style and panache"
- Rayfield Allied announces new conductor: Mikhail Agrest
- Steve Reich world premiere in London
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February
- Pamela Helen Stephen and Phillip Rhodes an "ideal match" as Dido and Aeneas
- The Navarra String Quartet is awarded the very first ChamberStudio Mentorship
- Stunning reviews for The Cardinall's Musick's latest recording
- Ya-Fei Chuang triumphs at Boston piano recital
- David Sawer premiere by BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Grammy Awards: Winner for Best Opera Recording
- Birtwistle and Reich appear in major new BBC Four Series
- Conductor Geoffrey Paterson releases debut recording for Opera Rara
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June
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2012
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- November
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- September
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July
- Eddie Wade makes Wagner debut: a Gunther “worthy of any international stage”
- Mahan Esfahani returns to the Proms with a Bach premiere
- “Fragrant and luxuriant”: The Prince Consort’s debut at Cheltenham Festival
- Katie Bray receives prestigious prize from Royal Academy of Music
- Alan Opie: a “world-class” Gianni Schicchi
- Steve Reich at Bloc Festival: “A towering titan of musical exploration"
- Mhairi Lawson's 'Venice by Night' is Classic fM “CD of the Week”
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May
- “Unmissable”: Diana Moore’s tribute to Kathleen Ferrier
- Pride of place at Thames Pageant for David Parry and LPO
- Harrison Birtwistle: “his music is a vital, essential, life force which you need to hear"
- Exciting New Era at Göttingen International Handel Festival
- Outstanding reviews for the “mercurial fingers of Robert Levin at the fortepiano”
- Ensemble 360 live on BBC Radio 3 from the National Portrait Gallery
- New CD Release: David Parry conducts Il Pirata
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April
- English National Opera announce 2012/2013 Season
- 2012 BBC Proms season announced
- New Artist: soprano Hila Plitmann
- Mahan Esfahani completes triumphant US tour
- Recording featuring Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook and Annie Gill “a winner"
- Harrison Birtwistle wins 2012 BBC Music Magazine Award
- Pierre-André Valade is appointed Artistic Co-Director of Athelas Sinfonietta
- House debuts for Alexander Briger and Peter Sidhom at the Théâtre du Châtelet
- The Cardinall's Musick - Byrd Tour 2012 begins...
- March
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January
- The Fitzwilliam String Quartet celebrate Delius’ 150th Birthday
- ‘The unstoppable talent of Mahan Esfahani’: Early Music Today interview
- Outstanding reviews for Pamela Helen Stephen's Giulio Cesare
- Gustav Leonhardt (1928 - 2012)
- Two live recordings at Wigmore Hall: Christian Blackshaw and Antonio Meneses
- New Artist: tenor David Alegret
- Nicholas McGegan's latest CD nominated for Grammy
- 2011
- News Archive
Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts the Iceland Symphony
09 September 2011
Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts the Iceland Symphony Orchestra for two concerts. The first concert sees an all Russian programme, with Viktoria Postnikova (pianist) joining him for Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2, followed by Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Thursday 15 September.
The second concert takes place on Thursday 22 September with a programme of Mozart, Sibelius & Janacek.
For more information on this concert, please visit the Iceland Symphony Orchestra’s website.
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