Sir Georg Solti News

Decca's 1958 attempt was the first complete recording of Wagner's Ring Cycle and for it, Decca assembled a cast of considerable strength: George London as Wotan, Kirsten Flagstad as Fricka, with even the minor ...

Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal The Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal will open its 2008-2009 season with Music Director Kent Nagano conducting Mahler's Symphony No.

Saturday: Saturday Afternoon at the Opera presents Verdi's A Masked Ball , in a performance featuring Birgit Nilsson, Carlo Bergonzi, Cornell MacNeil, and Giulietta Simionato conducted by Sir Georg Solti, at ...

Shi-Yeon Sung never expected to take a conducting job in the United States, much less get a debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

It's the first installment of the entire "Ring" cycle, and both audio and video recordings tend to come as part of a complete set.

“What inspired me to do 'Alice' was partly Lewis Carroll, and partly Martin Gardner, who wrote 'The Annotated Alice,' ”

David Del Tredici's groundbreaking 1976 work "Final Alice" will be performed at the Kennedy Center tonight through Saturday. via The Washington Post

Robert Downey Jr stars as a warmonger-turned-saviour in the hotly anticipated Iron Man film. via Telegraph.co.uk

Gustav Klimt, Obstgarten mit Rosen Gustav Mahler , Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "The Resurrection" . Favorite recording: Sir Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra . via Harper's Magazine

“BIG BAND BOSSA NOVA") I got excited about bossa nova music when I went down to Brazil in 1956 and met Joao Gilberto and Astrud Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Then I did a whole bossa nova album in 1962, and I wrote "Soul Boss Nova”

Plenty of celebrities are known by a single name, but Quincy Jones may be the only one instantly recognizable by a single letter. via XtraMSN Real Estate

“All kidding aside, I feel really excited.”

None of the area's Grammy nominees bothered to go to the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles for the big show. via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-R...

Detroit icon Stevie Wonder is the all-time champ on the pop side, having accumulated a career total of 28 Grammys starting with his first round of wins in 1973 . via Detroit Free Press

“Boulez never shows up to accept”

When the first-ever Grammy Awards ceremony was held in 1958, a 'music critic' was someone who wrote about classical music. Today, 'music' generally means everything but classical music, and classical music awards are not even shown on the annual Grammy telecast (though the pianist Lang Lang, who has pop-size aspirations, is playing on tonight's show). So irrelevant are the Grammys to our field that as a classical music critic I plan to celebrate the telecast of the 50th annual edition of the Grammy Awards as I have those in preceding years: by doing something else. Read more

“Well, we do grow 30% of the nation's onions”

If Jimmy Sturr wins his 17th statuette for best polka album at Sunday's 50th annual Grammy Awards, he'll rise another notch in the elite club of trophy magnets. via USA Today

In a world where pianists are often admired for their powerful and dazzling techniques, Emanuel Ax , the first pianist to appear on Mad About Music, is known for his poetic temperament. via WNYC-AM New York