Recording of the Year 2015: Bruckner's Symphony No 9, Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon
Artist of the Year: Paavo Järvi
Young Artist of the Year: Joseph Moog
Lifetime Achievement: Bernard Haitink
Italian conductor, Claudio Abbado died in Bologna on 2014-01-20 at the age of 80 after a long illness.
Abbado, from Milan, made his debut at La Scalla in 1960. Among the orchestras which he conducted are:
He also recorded for Deutche Gramaphon, Decca and Sony, and received numerous awards, including two Grammys.… Read the full post
Google’s Big Picture Group has produced a Music Timeline. This is an interactive visualisation of how the popularity of various music genres has varied over time.
The Music Timeline is based on statistics collected from Google Play Music. While the timeline is based only on this source, and while it doesn’t include a major genre like classical music it porvides an interesting view of what kinds of music people list to.… Read the full post
