Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten The two most significant composers of their generation – Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland – both died this week in, respectively, 1976 and 1990. (So did Cicero but he died […]
For the 2024/25 season, Sir Antonio Pappano ceded his position at the orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome to Daniel Harding; Pappano remains Conductor Emeritus. This is the finest modern Sheherazade: I remember being umbilically […]
The Vienna Philharmonic, on its first Beijing visit for 11 years, gave the audience just what they came for – Johann Strauss II’s Tritsch-Tratsch Polka and one of Josef’s waltzes. ‘Chinese classical music enthusiasts know […]