The serene and much-recorded Polish concert and opera singer Jadwiga Rappé died this weekend. She performed in most major venues and appeared on 56 recordings, including Wagner with Bernard Haitink and works of Lutoslawski and Penderecki with the composers.
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Laurie Niles, an LA freelancer, writes violinist.com, essential reading for strings players. One day she got a call from her local band: … In late February, I received an e-mail from a personnel director whom […]
PROM 67 Vaughan Williams, Schoenberg, Shostakovich Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Tarmo Peltokoski (conductor). Royal Albert Hall, London, 09.09.2024 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ (1934) Schoenberg Violin Concerto, Op. 36 (1935/6) Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 in […]
Cozy though the next in our sequence of Christmas discs might all seem, the disc begins in timeless, profound fashion with three and a half minutes of plainchant, beautifully executed and in an appropriate church […]
