Photo: Nora Roitberg
The ICMA jury gave the Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 to Aldo Ciccolini. The Jury says: « A pianistic legend in his own lifetime, Aldo Ciccolini has been performing all over the world for more than seventy years now. His numerous recordings, some of which offer a generous overview of a composer’s works, have gained ever-increasing critical…
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For his recording of Stravinsky’s ‘The Firebird (in the Melodiya box Les Ballets Russes) Dmitrij Kitajenko won the ICMA prize in the category ‘Historical Recording’. Backstage, Radio Orpheus’ Roman Berchenko made the following interview with Maestro Kitajenko.
Audite, ‘Label of the year 2013’ at the International Classical Music Awards, has been established 40 years ago in Germany and has developed since as a major classical label in Europe. In this interview made by ResMusica, Ludger Böckenhoff, General Manager of Audite, tells more about its history and its projects.
Photo: Melodiya
In the category Historical Recordings, Russian label Melodiya won an Award for ‘Les Ballets Russes’ (cat. 1001990) with Stravinsky’s The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring, played by Moscow Philharmonic, Moscow State Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra under conductors Dmitrij Kitajenko, Pierre Boulez and Vladimir Fedoseyev. While at the Award Ceremony…
Alessandro Mazzamuto (r.) and Epifanio Comis
Photo: ICMA/Bjoern Woll
Martha Argerich has invited ICMA’s ‘Young Artist of the Year’ Alessandro Mazzamuto to perform during her annual Lugano Project. On 21 June Alessandro will play Clementi’s Sonata op. 40/2, Rachmaninov’s ‘5 Morceaux de fantaisie’ op. 3 and Liszt’s Paraphrases about Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Evangelic Church in Lugano.
John Axelrod
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John Axelrod, who conducted the ICMA Gala Concerts 2012 and 2013 is to spearhead a multi-year exploration of the relationship between Brahms and the woman he loved, Clara Schumann, as depicted in their music. « If you listen to the Brahms symphonies, » says Axelrod, “each of them seems to inhabit a completely different, though connected, character….
From the left: Remy Franck, Elzbieta Penderecka, Martin Hoffmeister, Cornelia Much, Andrzej Sulek - Photo: Bruno Fidrych
ICMA’s Award Ceremony and Gala Concert will take place on Saturday 12 April in Warsaw and be part of the 18th Beethoven Easter Festival. Preparation for this event started already during this year’s edition of one of the musically richest festivals in Europe. Jury President Remy Franck and Board Member Martin Hoffmeister met the Festival’s…
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Just some days after his participation at the ICMA Gala Concert in Milan, Nicolas Altstaedt, ICMA-winner 2013 in the category Chamber Music, delivered a thrilling performance of Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Vladimir Fedoseyev at Warsaw’s 17th Beethoven Festival. Our photo shows Nicolas Altstaedt at a reception at…
