(Credit: The Gramophone) The Gramophone has announced the winners of its Classical Music Awards 2020. Recording of the Year prize went to Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica for the recording of Mieczysław Weinberg’s Symphonies No. 2 & No. 21. Israeli-American violinist and conductor Itzhak Perlman was presented with the Lifetime {…}
(Credit: Jennifer Taylor) On Thursday, August 20, 2020, The Cleveland Orchestra launched its third collection of full-length concerts on TCO Classics, showcasing some of the orchestra’s most memorable performances across its first half-century at the Blossom Music Center. The collection spotlights performances by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, clarinetist Benny Goodman, pianist Van Cliburn, violinist Itzhak Perlman, soprano Roberta Peters, and {…}
On June 28, 2020, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s virtual gala experienced what is described as a suspected cyberattack, which took down the channels streaming the concert for the entirety of its one-hour duration. The gala had over 13,000 registrants as of Sunday and was the first virtual concert hosted by the orchestra. The program included performances from Chen Reiss, Itzhak {…}