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Young artists bring passion in new performance series

The Royal Bangkok Symphony Music School (RBSS) is steadily expanding its contribution to Bangkok's cultural life. Beyond nurturing the next generation of musicians, it has created Sounds On Wireless, a music performance series that brings together performance, education and audience engagement in equal measure.

Bangkok Post

Brahms’ Last Concert review – OAE and Emelyanychev take audience back to 1897

This recreation of the final concert that the composer attended – only weeks before his death aged 63 – featured his fourth symphony, Dvorak’s Cello Concerto and Haydn’s symphony no 73.

The Guardian - UK

Sounds On Wireless readies an afternoon 'Love Triangle'

Royal Bangkok Symphony Music School presents "Love Triangle", an afternoon of chamber music by Brahms and the Schumanns, at 140 Wireless, Witthayu Road, on Saturday at 4pm.

Bangkok Post

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Three-hundred-year-old Stradivarius violin sells for $11m in New York

Proceeds from sale of 1714 instrument will be used to fund scholarships for violinists at New England Conservatory

The Guardian - US

Stradivarius played by Joseph Joachim fetches £9m at auction

The sale is being used by the New England Conservatory to establish a scholarship in support of future generations of musicians.

The Independent UK

Samson Tsoy: Inmost Heart: Bach, Brahms, Busoni, Reger review – the pianist’s subtle, searching debut

Playing Brahms’s transcriptions of Bach and Handel, then Reger and Busoni takes on Brahms, Tsoy contemplates creativity across centuries in this fine recital

The Guardian - UK

Meet the composer who claimed her music channelled the spirits of classical music icons

One of the most controversial figures in music of the 20th century is Rosemary Brown, who died in 2001 at age 85. She was a British composer who claimed she had contact with the spirits of a number of high-profile composers of western classical music.

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Michael Tilson Thomas triumphs at Symphony Center in exuberant program of Brahms, Mozart

Facing brain cancer, the renowned conductor delivered a performance that will stand up to any in this hall this season.

Chicago Sun-Times

This Bizarre Phenomenon Occurs When People Are Listening To The Same Music

A study published Thursday finds that classical symphonies may lead to synchronized physical responses.

Inverse

Seems like fabulous old times as CSO, Riccardo Muti combine for familiar works

The audience knew what to expect Thursday evening, and he delivered the same kind of incisive, involving interpretations that marked so much of his music directorship.

Chicago Sun-Times

Best supporting players: Brahms and the Schumanns

Brahms’s friendship with Robert Schumann was brief – but life-changing, while he and Clara supported and inspired each other to the end of their days. Pianist Benjamin Grosvenor on the trio’s musical and personal connections

The Guardian - UK

Winter Chamber Music Festival welcoming the new year on a high note

Marking its return to a full schedule after canceled and abridged offerings in 2021 and 2022, respectively, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bienen School of Music festival returns for six concerts.

Chicago Sun-Times

Riccardo Muti, CSO, Bronfman combine for marvelous program of late 19th-century works

Thursday night’s concert also signaled the beginning of Riccardo Muti’s 13th and final season as music director.

Chicago Sun-Times

Johannes Brahms: Complete Symphonies review – constantly fascinating performances

Emulating Brahms himself with an orchestra of fewer than 50 players, these fresh, engaging recordings show that less can mean a lot more

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Bangkok Post

Saxophone premiere for His Majesty's birthday

To celebrate the auspicious occasion of King Vajiralongkorn's 70th birthday on July 28, a fantastic, brand new Concerto For Alto Saxophone And Orchestra was commissioned and performed by the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra (RBSO) at the Thailand Cultural Centre on July 22. Composed by Thailand's foremost classical composer Prof Narongrit…

The Hindu

From Roja to Brahms: how the South Asian Symphony Orchestra regaled Chennai

The South Asian Symphony Orchestra mesmerised the audience into a silence through their Peace Notes performance

Bangkok Post

Top orchestra expands on its recent Romantic repertoire

Recent concerts by the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra have been distinguished by a noticeably high level of enthusiastic engagement by the musicians, a pleasing sign of collective relief that we are now hopefully finally emerging from the Covid-19 era once and for all.

Bangkok Post

Tchaikovsky's brilliance to be heard at Neilson Hays Library

Neilson Hays Library will present two rounds of the "Brahms Tchaikovsky Concert" on Friday and Saturday at 7pm.

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The week in classical: Jonas Kaufmann/Diana Damrau/Helmut Deutsch; Royal Academy Opera

The peerless tenor and his companion turn Schumann and Brahms’s romantic duets into tiny operas, while the Royal Academy’s rising stars enchant… and mystify

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