The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam is interesting firstly in that they boast beautiful vintage instruments and they perform Tchaikovsky with unwound gut brings nd period bows. It is the continuation of a journey begun in 2020 […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Rachmaninoff had large hands and enormous fingers. He wrote concertos for himself to play. The third, in D minor, had its US premieres in Carnegie Hall with Walter […]
In 1991, a few months after my book The Maestro Myth was published, I had a call from Dohnanyi, who was in his fourth season as principal conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra. ‘We’ve never met,’ […]