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  Dip Your Ears, No. 138 (Mendelssohn Organ Works)

  Posted: 18-May-2013, 10:30am EDT by jfl

  F.Mendelssohn-B., Organ Works Yuval Rabin (Braun/Mathis organ of St.Marzellus, CH) MDG Felix Mendelssohn B. was fond of organs and organ music and wrote idiomatically for the instrument. You just can?t hear it in his other compositions (think Bruckner, for contrast), and since you just about never hear Mendelssohn?s organ music in recital or concert either, that part of his output?limited
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  Summer Music Festivals: U.S.

  Posted: 17-May-2013, 1:23pm EDT by Charles T. Downey

  Soprano Angela Meade What would Ionarts be covering this summer if we had an unlimited travel budget? Here are our picks for the best performances of opera and classical music being presented by American summer festivals. CINCINNATI OPERA This may be the summer for my first visit to Cincinnati Opera, primarily because Angela Meade will be the Donna Anna in their production of Don Giovanni (
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  Classical Month in Washington (June)

  Posted: 1-May-2013, 12:44am EDT by Charles T. Downey

  Last month | Next monthClassical Month in Washington is a monthly feature. If there are concerts you would like to see included on our schedule, send your suggestions by e-mail (ionarts at gmail dot com). Happy listening! June 1, 2013 (Sat) 2 pm Markus Groh, piano WPAS Kennedy Center Terrace Theater June 1, 2013 (Sat) 7:30 pm National Chamber Ensemble With Carlos Rodriguez, piano Rosslyn
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  Classical Music Agenda (June 2013)

  Posted: 16-May-2013, 10:26am EDT by Charles T. Downey

  Summer is at hand, meaning that the pickings get slimmer in the monthly concert agenda for local events. On the other hand, we will also have a summer festival preview coming up, with some of the performances outside of Washington we most want to hear. Composer James MacMillan ORCHESTRAS: Happily the National Symphony Orchestra is extending its season at the Kennedy Center through June, until
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  Debussy's 'Jeux', 100 Years Later

  Posted: 15-May-2013, 8:37am EDT by Charles T. Downey

  Tamara Karsavina (first young lady), Vaslav Nijinsky (young man), and Ludmilla Schollar (second young lady) in Jeux, 1913 As you have doubtless heard by now, we are coming up on the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. The groundwork of that infamously riotous premiere was laid by the much less notorious debut of a ballet that was in many ways more
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  Martina Filjak @ Phillips

  Posted: 14-May-2013, 9:59am EDT by Charles T. Downey

  Charles T. Downey, At Phillips, pianist Martina Filjak offers unexpected interpretations of familiar works Washington Post, May 14, 2013 Soler, Keyboard Sonatas 1-15, M. Filjak (Naxos, 2011) Martina Filjak offered some surprises during her recital Sunday afternoon at the Phillips Collection. The Croatian-born pianist gave sometimes unexpected interpretations of familiar works, paired with
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  Farewell to David Finckel

  Posted: 13-May-2013, 1:26am EDT by Charles T. Downey

  Emerson Quartet: Haydn, String Quartets Bartók, String QuartetsDavid Finckel has left the Emerson Quartet, with whom he has performed as cellist since 1979. The group gave their last performance with Finckel on Saturday evening, the conclusion of their Smithsonian Associates concert series at the National Museum of Natural History. As Finckel explained in brief remarks before the second half,
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  In Brief: Call Mom Edition

  Posted: 12-May-2013, 3:12pm EDT by Charles T. Downey

  Here is your regular Sunday selection of links to online audio, online video, and other good things in Blogville and Beyond. (After clicking to an audio or video stream, press the "Play" button to start the broadcast.) From last month, John Eliot Gardiner leads a performance of Bach's B Minor Mass, with English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir at Royal Albert Hall. [
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  Dip Your Ears, No. 137 (Orchestral Suites Reconstructed)

  Posted: 11-May-2013, 10:30am EDT by jfl

  J.S.Bach, Orchestral Suites M.Huggett / Ensemble Sonnerie / G.X.Ruiz Avie Monica Hugget is one of the baroque music scene?s most cherished pioneer-veterans, co-founder of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra with Ton Koopman and founding member of the Academy of Ancient Music, she also worked with Trevor Pinnock and his English Concert and has led Toronto based Tafelmusik. She is currently the
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  For Your Consideration: 'Kiss of the Damned'

  Posted: 10-May-2013, 11:12am EDT by Charles T. Downey

  Truth be told, I love a good vampire movie: Nosferatu, Frank Langella as Dracula, Fright Night, Guillermo del Toro's Cronos, the Swedish Let the Right One In -- excellent examples have come in lots of different forms. That predilection means that I can also enjoy a truly bad vampire movie, and that is where Kiss of the Damned, the new feature from Xan Cassavetes, comes in. This is the first