Check out this SWR event with Ingo Metzmacher and Patricia Kopatchinskaja. It respects the audience’s intelligence, taste and humour.
György Ligeti: Lontano
Dmitri Shostakovitch: 1st violin concerto
György Ligeti: Mysteries of the Macabre
Karl Amadeus Hartmann: 3rd symphony
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Silhouette of the clarinettist Anton StadlerFor whom Mozart wrote the Clarinet Quintet David Gow, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mozart; Peter Cigleris, Amaia Quartet; Conway Hall Sunday ConcertsReviewed 8 June 2025 Clarinet quintets by Mozart and David Gow, […]
Dvořák wrote The Devil and Kate just before Rusalka at the height of his powers as an orchestral composer and at a period of keen interest in fairytale and mythological themes. There is much purely instrumental music partly justified […]
I passed on the Calidore String Quartet’s previous Beethoven set of the late quartets, issued in early 2023. Based solely on the sound samples I listened to online, I thought they sometimes sounded a bit […]
