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Sonically monumental: Esa-Pekka Salonen's organ concerto plays Disney Hall, where it belongs

Esa-Pekka Salonen, shown in a file photo conducting in Disney Hall, where he once was music director. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times) Does last week's news that Los Angeles Philharmonic Chief ...
BroadwayWorld

Grammy Award-Winning Organist Paul Jacobs & Nashville Symphony to Release Organ Concertos On Naxos

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Two of the works, the 2016 "Resilience" by Wayne Oquin, and Christopher Rouse's ...
BroadwayWorld

Organist Paul Jacobs To Premiere Liebermann's ORGAN CONCERTO With Jacksonville Symphony in September

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Organ Concerto was co-commissioned by the Jacksonville Symphony and the ...
NPR

Haydn's Organ Concerto in C

An organ concerto is an odd duck. It doesn't fit into a church service, and most 18th-century theaters didn't have organs. But Haydn probably wrote his Organ Concerto in C to honor an old girlfriend ...
The Malta Independent

Concertos and masterpieces for organ close Malta International Organ Festival

On Sunday 7 December, the Malta International Organ Festival reaches its final, blazing chord in Valletta with Concertos and ...
The Financial Times

Poulenc and Saint-Saëns: Organ Concerto and Symphony No. 3 – review

This is the first recording of the newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall organ. Recorded live in March this year, the concert featured two of the great French organ showpieces – Poulenc’s “Concerto” ...
The New Criterion

Poulenc at the organ

On a performance by Paul Jacobs & the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, of the organ concerto by Francis Poulenc. In my forthcoming chronicle for the magazine, I have a ...
The Irish Times

Alan Rusbridger and Gerald Barry’s Organ Concerto: the best classical concerts of the week

RTÉ NSO/Stefan Asbury NCH, Dublin; 7.30pm; €15-€35/€13-€31; 01-4170000, nch.ie The organ was Gerald Barry's instrument before the piano was – well, not ...
Classic FM

Handel - Organ Concertos Op. 7

If one organ concerto isn't enough to put a smile on your face, why not try these six of Handel's contributions to the genre, helpfully packaged up in the form of Opus 7. A complete version of ...
Los Angeles Times

Sonically monumental: Esa-Pekka Salonen’s organ concerto plays Disney Hall, where it belongs

Does last week’s news that Los Angeles Philharmonic Chief Executive Chad Smith will leave the orchestra to head the Boston Symphony, coming on top of Gustavo Dudamel’s announcement that he will become ...
The Irish Times

Poulenc: Organ Concerto; Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony

These recordings come from this year's Pull Out All the Stops festival, which celebrated the restoration of the Royal Festival Hall's Harrison & Harrison organ with its 7,866 pipes. James O'Donnell ...