End of Mahler with Jaap van Zweden

Alan Gilbert: Very few people have had such an impact on my musical life as Christoph von Dohnányi, here in a picture from after conducting a memorable Deutsches Requiem. Esa-Pekka and I were just this […]

The high point of the Lucerne Strings performance in Istanbul was a hightailed intervention by a local stray. As soon as the cat saw there was no conductor, it quickened the tempo.   View this […]

The German conductor will celebrate his birthday tonight and tomorrow with the Bamberg Symphony with performances of Bruckner’s first symphony and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony. The much-travelled maestro is presently artistic director of the National […]