From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The fashion these days is to remix the 16 Beethoven quartets, selecting one from each period — early, middle and late — in concert and record cycles. It doesn’t always work, but the latest release...
Read on here.
And here.
In The Critic here.
En francais ici.
The post A Beethoven recording to make you rethink appeared first on Slippedisc.
It’s reported that the board of Toulon Opera voted yeserday to dismiss its permanent chorus. Twenty-five singers will lose their jobs. Economic circumstances are given as the reason. The opera house is presently under renovation. […]
A revealing comment from the chief conductor’s annual meeting with the Berlin press: ‘In rehearsals, I tell the orchestra: Please do this and that – and then in the concert they will play it the […]
The Hamburg Elbphilharmonie has just released artist details: Against Silence. Against Anti-Semitism Mon, 16 September 2024, 20:00, Elbphilharmonie Grand Hall Solidarity concert featuring Igor Levit (piano), Malakoff Kowalski (piano), Johanna Summer (piano), Alan Gilbert (violin), […]
