Daniele Rustioni and Dalia Stasevska meet up on a London park bench for the family-friendly Proms.
Amazing how the maestro world has changed in our time.
I had a little reflection on it with Simon Rattle in this weekend’s Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3.
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After Alfvén, Borgstrøm. Hjalmar Borgstrøm (1861-1925) might not be the best-known of Scandic composers, although some of his most important works were performed in his native Norway until the Second World War. Now, with he […]
The Frenchman composed Jeux for the Ballets Russes in 1911-12, after getting excited by Stravinsky’s Petrushka. He decided to go one better bur went too far for public tolerance. Jeux never really caught on, partly […]
A world record is being claimed by pianist Ruslan Ishdavletov from St. Petersburg, who improvised continuously for 60 hours without eating, drinking or sleeping. Ruslan sat down at the piano at midnight on May 27 […]
