Deutsche Grammophon News

Rating: * * * * * Deutsche Grammophon may be marketing its new collection of Russian Piano Trios as "Lang Lang's first-ever chamber music recording" but, for many, violinist Vadim Repin and cellist Mischa Maisky are just as much of a drawcard.

The "cover" photograph for the DG Concerts release of the performance of Mahler's first symphony by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel Having been interested enough in Gustavo Dudamel's debut as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic to write about both its broadcast on Public Television and the Deutsche ...

A startling new CD and an extraordinary old film now on DVD are the objects of scrutiny this month.

Conductor Gustavo Dudamel Thanks to Public Television, Gustavo Dudamel's debut as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on October 8th was made available as a telecast, first broadcast on October 21st.

Yuja Wang is one of the rising group of Chinese pianists that includes Lang Lang and Yundi Li.

Munich's loss, Dresden's gain. The magnitude of that loss and gain can be judged fairly by a sterling recording of Wagner's impossible to get right music-drama, Parsifal , that Thielemann made for Deutsche Grammophon in 2006.

On November 24, Deutsche Grammophon will release a special, live concert performance on DVD entitled, "Sting: A Winter's Night...Live from Durham Cathedral." Filmed at the magnificent Durham Cathedral near Sting's hometown of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Northern England, the DVD features music off his forthcoming album, "If On A Winter's Night..." ...

The classical music industry has been declared dead several times in the last few years, but it simply refuses to die.

The Salt Marsh Opera Guild will present a lecture by James Kuslan entitled "Masks Behind the Mask" on Thursday, Oct.

This month brought the release of box sets of the original Beatles albums, remastered and available in both stereo and mono.

Vivaldi, however, was a prolific composer who in his lifetime produced a large number of other works.

Director Robert Dornhelm's movie version of Puccini's most beloved opera, 'La Boheme,' is a handsome piece of work, using lavish sets and costumes to bring bohemian Paris of the 1830s to teeming life.

Director Robert Dornhelm's movie version of Puccini's most beloved opera, "La Boheme," is a handsome piece of work, using lavish sets and costumes to bring bohemian Paris of the 1830s to teeming life.

Outside that gate is the world of light and freedom, where men live like the rest of mankind.

For a long time, David Garrett was simply having fun. Never mind that by age 5, the German-born violinist had already taken first place in a music competition, or that by 8, he was performing as a soloist with some of the world's most renowned orchestras.

Violinist Daniel Hope's solo contract with Deutsche Grammophon did come as something of a surprise for those of us convinced that his style of playing was more suited to chamber music than a solo career .

BACH, though an energetic transcriber of other composers' music, could never have imagined the stampede of arrangers his own scores would attract in a distant future.

A glance at the repertoire for the San Francisco Opera's new season is enough to paint an unnerving financial picture.

In this summer special, "Mad About Music" revisits five world leaders who appeared earlier on the show: Jimmy Carter , former U.S. President; Ehud Barak , former Israeli Prime Minister; Sir Edward Heath , former UK Prime Minister; Helmut Schmidt , former West German Chancellor, and Condoleezza Rice , former U.S. Secretary of State.

There are certain album covers as familiar to Baby Boomers as their own treasured family photos: The original skull-and-roses cover on the Grateful Dead's eponymous 1972 release; the psychedelic, fish-eye portrait of Jimi Hendrix on his 1967 album, Are You Experienced ; or how about the striking image of Bach standing in front of a Moog synthesizer ...