Klaus Döring's Classical Music/Klaus Döring's Klassische Musik

Leah C. Salterio - The Philippine Star David Pomeranz is presently working on a musical that has something to do with the Philippines. He cannot disclose any specific details about the musical. He says, ‘It’s something I’ve been working on for quite some time with Filipina book writer, Liza Magtoto, who wrote Rak of Aegis.’ In 1995, David also wrote The Little Tramp, a musical on the life of Charlie Chaplin. He went north of San Francisco and rented himself a room cottage and locked himself all alone for three months. MANILA, Philippines — “It’s not my 40th year in the music business,” balladeer extraordinaire, composer and lyricist David Pomeranz reiterated. “It’s my 40th year of performing in the Philippines.” Still touring at 72, David is in the Philippines anew to stage a series of concerts in Manila all the way to Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. The Coming Home tour is mounted for the first time by educator, entrepreneur and producer Dr. Carl Balita. To date, when hundreds of thousan...

Amadeus - all female string quartet : Andreea Runceanu - 1st violin ; Bianca Gavrilescu - 2nd violin ; Patricia Cimpoiasu - cello ; Naomi Anelis - piano. Credits : Hijo De La Luna - Mecano Written-By – J. M. Cano

by   Emily E. Hogstad Martha Argerich   is simultaneously one of the most celebrated and most enigmatic of classical music stars. Many people call her the greatest pianist of her generation – and others, the greatest pianist who ever lived! Today, we are taking a look at the life and career of this fascinating woman and looking at fifteen facts you might not have known about her. 1. Martha Argerich was a precocious child. Martha Argerich as a kid She began kindergarten before her third birthday. One day, a schoolmate teased her that she couldn’t play piano. She then proceeded to sit down and play a piece by ear that their teacher had just played for them. She was just three years old. 2. Her first piano teacher was Italian pianist Vincenzo Scaramuzza. He said of her that she may have been six, but she had the soul of a 40-year-old. 3. When she was a teenager, her family moved to Europe, and she began studying with one of the quirkiest pianists of all time. Friedrich Gulda and ...

Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakow: Capriccio espagnol ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony ∙ Pablo Heras-Casado, Dirigent ∙ Europa Open Air des hr-Sinfonieorchesters und der Europäischen Zentralbank ∙ 24. August 2017 ∙ Weseler Werft, Frankfurt am Main ∙

Christmas greetings from the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg: Harpist Anaëlle Tourret and her brass colleagues from the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra play "Le Cantique de Noël" by the French composer Adolphe Adam.

  Adolphe Charles Adam ; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire (1856), his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836) and Si j'étais roi (1852) and his Christmas carol "Minuit, chrétiens!" (Midnight, Christians, 1844, known in English as "O Holy Night"). Adam was the son of a well-known composer and pianist, but his father did not wish him to pursue a musical career. Adam defied his father, and his many operas and ballets earned him a good living until he lost all his money in 1848 in a disastrous bid to open a new opera house in Paris in competition with the Opéra and Opéra-Comique. He recovered, and extended his activities to journalism and teaching. He was appointed as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, France's principal music academy. Together with his older contemporary Daniel Auber and his teacher Adrien Bo...