Classical Crescendo

#Arts Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) opens applications for its Resident Conductor and Mentorship programs (Ottawa, Oct 6, 2025). Train with leaders from a top North American orchestra. Thinking of applying? Ask below. #ClassicalMusic #Canada

#Music New release review: “i love evil” by soprano Dory Hayley (Red Shift Records, 2025). Two discs—Feldman’s 67‑min Three Voices on Disc 1; four contemporary works on Disc 2. Immersive, exacting vocals for adventurous ears. Want the full review? Ask in the replies. #Classical #NewMusic

#Giveaway: Win 1 of 5 signed copies of Rachel Podger’s “Just Biber,” featuring Biber’s Sonata Violino Solo and the animal‑imitating Sonata representativa, with Brecon Baroque. Enter by Oct 12, 2025 (NY). Want details? Ask below. #ClassicalMusic #Baroque

#ClassicalMusic The London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano release Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 5 & 9 on LSO Live—war-shaped works from the Fifth’s hard-won hope to the Ninth’s resilient aftermath. Part of an ongoing RVW symphony cycle. Heard it yet? #LSO #VaughanWilliams

#ClassicalMusic Kronberg Festival wraps its Violin & Viola Masterclasses with eight prizewinners. €5,000 prizes shared by pairs incl. Jinzhu Li & Amira Abouzahra; Natsuho Murata & Shotaro Matsuki. Faculty incl. Blacher, Martin, Gluzman. Cello classes return in 2026. #KronbergFestival #Strings

#MusicNews Japanese composer Maho Ishizaka wins the 2025 Peter Tranchell Foundation Composition Prize for Tickle the Keys, a piano-organ duet inspired by Twice a Kiss. Premiere: Apr 18, 2026, St Paul's Knightsbridge with Tom Winpenny & David Doidge. Runners-up named. #ClassicalMusic #Awards

#ClassicalMusic Ying Li wins the New York Franz Liszt International Piano Competition—taking the new $25k Grand Prize and the Audience Award. Grand Finals at Carnegie Hall with Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Congrats to all the finalists! Got a favorite Liszt piece? Share below. #Piano #CarnegieHall

#ClassicalMusic Yura Lee signs with Nordic Artists Management, joining a roster with Isabelle Faust, Anna Agafia & Alexander Sitkovetsky. An Avery Fisher Career Grant laureate and 2013 ARD winner, she spans baroque to modern. Welcome aboard! Got a favorite Yura Lee recording? #Violin #ArtistNews

#Music New York hosts the Contemporary Violin & Bow Makers Exhibition, Oct 25–27, 10:30am–6pm at The Kosciuszko Foundation (15 E 65th St). Hosted by Julie Reed Yeboah & Yi‑Ping Yang. Try today’s finest violins, violas, cellos—no reservation needed. The Violin Channel reports live. #NYC #Violin

#ClassicalMusic Timothy Chooi has been loaned the 1714 "Dolphin" Stradivarius by Japan’s Nippon Music Foundation—an icon of Stradivari’s Golden Period once played by Jascha Heifetz. The violin will be heard in major debuts and tours through 2025/26. Thoughts? #Violin #Stradivarius

#Opera Polish Royal Opera names conductor Marta Kluczyńska deputy GM, succeeding Magdalena Kaczorowska. Former music director of Polish National Ballet (2021–24), she won the 2025 Jan Kiepura Award (Pinocchio) and leads the Nieborów summer opera festival. Thoughts? #ClassicalMusic #Conducting

#ClassicalMusic No first prize at the Henry Vieuxtemps Violin Competition 2025 (Verviers, Belgium). Second Prize (€1,250): Japan’s Rei Wakabayashi; Audience Prize (€500): Mahiro Kurasawa. Finalists: Clément Nazet, Daniel Neuburger. What do you think of the jury’s call? #Violin #Competition

#ClassicalMusic At Royal Festival Hall, Jennifer France lit up Abrahamsen’s let me tell you with the LPO and Edward Gardner—composer in attendance. Gardner’s Mahler 4 was detailed and songful, if a shade short on sweep. Were you there? #Mahler #LPO

#Music The Tallis Scholars lit up Melbourne with October concerts, blending Renaissance gems with Nico Muhly’s 2023 'A Glorious Creature.' Sunday’s set moved from Gombert and Crequillon to Victoria’s radiant Requiem—plus a last‑minute debut by local bass Lachlan McDonald. #ClassicalMusic #Choral

#Opera Victorian Opera turns 21 in 2026 with a bold season: Pirates of Penzance, Ned Kelly: The Musical, The Magic Pudding (tour), The Coronation of Poppea, Britten’s Turn of the Screw, and the world premiere of The Spare Room. Season via subscription; Pirates tickets on sale. #Melbourne #Arts

#ClassicalMusic Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis (1943) refashions Weber’s tunes into a four-movement tour de force: radiant Allegro, Turandot Scherzo, tender Andantino, and a rousing march. Born from an abandoned Massine ballet. Got a favorite recording? #Orchestra #Hindemith

#ClassicalMusic Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 — Glenn Gould with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. A landmark performance worth revisiting. Want a link to the recording? Drop a comment. #Brahms #GlennGould

#ClassicalMusic This Week (Oct 6, 2025): Verdi’s birthday—composer and Risorgimento voice; plus Schütz, Saint‑Saëns, Vaughan Williams, and pianists Fischer, Cherkassky, Kissin (labeled a 'foreign agent' by Russia after backing Ukraine). What are you revisiting? #Opera #MusicHistory

#Music Remember when Sting sang Mozart with Angela? A crossover performance that’s hard to forget—once heard, never erased. Have you watched it? Share your take in the replies. #ClassicalMusic #Opera

#ClassicalMusic Alon Kariv, 26, a Tel Aviv University student, wins the Kissinger Sommer Piano Olympiad. Past laureates include Behzod Abduraimov, Kirill Gerstein, Igor Levit, and Alice Sara Ott. Entry requires prior major competition prizes. Thoughts? #Piano #MusicNews

#ClassicalMusic Czech pianist Ivan Moravec, famed for his feather-light touch and thoughtful interpretations. A 1979 Atlanta recital/interview just surfaced online with only a few views—an overlooked gem. Seek it out and listen. Share your favorite moments. #Piano #IvanMoravec

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Northern Irish composer Amelia Clarkson debuts with Ulster Orchestra at Ulster Hall on 10 Oct, premiering The Rain Keeps Coming—new music on resilience and renewal. At 29, she’s the orchestra’s youngest female commissionee. If you’re going, tell us! #NewMusic #UlsterOrchestra

#ClassicalMusic Sacconi Quartet with clarinettist David Campbell at Conway Hall (28 Sep): Jago Thornton’s premiere, Study in Submersion—South London’s lost rivers and woods—alongside Shostakovich Op.110 and Coleridge-Taylor’s Clarinet Quintet. What did you think? #NewMusic #ChamberMusic

#Opera London Opera Company brings Wagner’s Götterdämmerung to Sinfonia Smith Square on Sun 19 Oct with full orchestra. Peter Selwyn conducts; Cara McHardy (Brünnhilde) and Neal Cooper (Siegfried). ROH-loaned Wagner tubas and Stierhorn promise epic sound. Planning to go? #Wagner #London

#Music A mysterious, seductive Delphian release, "everything you've ever lived": mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean and guitarist Dimitris Soukaras weave Ravel, de Falla, Britten, Bacharach, Sinead O'Connor, Polachek & more into a seamless dreamscape. Heard it yet? Share your standout track. #Classical #Guitar

#ClassicalMusic Historically informed Rossini lit up Cadogan Hall: Jakob Lehmann with Monteverdi Choir & ORR paired searing Ermione excerpts with a vivid, operatically tinged Stabat Mater. Standouts: Beth Taylor’s blazing Ermione, Alasdair Kent’s fearless tenor, incisive orchestral color. #Opera

#ClassicalMusic Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen debuts at the 10th London Piano Festival (Kings Place, 9–12 Oct 2025): a Reformation-inspired recital (Byrd, Gibbons, Bull, Sweelinck, Dowland/Adès) and the Two Piano Gala (Langer, Brahms). Who’s going? #Piano #London

#Opera Verdi’s Les vêpres siciliennes returns to Covent Garden in Herheim’s theater-within-the-theatre staging. Uneven production, but standout singing: Quinn Kelsey electrifies, Sara Cortolezzis compelling, Dytiuk and D’Arcangelo strong. Scappucci brings sweep and nuance. #Verdi #RoyalOperaHouse

#Opera English Touring Opera’s stripped-back The Rape of Lucretia at Hackney Empire lands with clarity and bite. Robin Norton-Hale spotlights war, nationalism and moral fallout; Presland, Morgan, Stafford and Rayner shine; Cornelius shapes a taut band. Were you there? #Britten #London

#Opera New from Ben Crick & Kamal Kaan: The Last Machine Breaker premieres 10 Nov at Bradford Opera Festival, then tours Skipton, Leeds and Marsden. Two timelines—2030 AI and 1813 Luddites—collide to ask who benefits from tech. Directed by Alex Chisholm. Planning to go? #AI #Bradford