The highly accomplished Polish conductor Tadeusz Strugała turns 90 this week.
Never a limelight seeker, he was music director of the Prague Symphony Orchestra and of the Turkish presidential orchestra. But his closest involvements were with the Polish radio orchestras in Katowice and Warsaw,where he served selflessly and made multiple recordings.
The post Maestro turns 90 appeared first on Slippedisc.
This is a priceless performance of Leclair’s sonata for two violins by husband and wife Leonid Kogan and Elisaveta Gilels. He is officially the second-best violinist in the Soviet Union, after Oistrakh. She is the […]
Dutch National Opera’s production will be unlike any Fidelio you may have seen before. In Ukrainian stage director Andriy Zholdak’s version, Beethoven’s opera is depicted through symbols, video projections and spoken texts. A master of imagery, […]
Newly uploaded by the LSO. The soloist is its principal cello. The post The Elgar concerto, by his own orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.
