One of opera’s greatest depictions of impossible love, Werther is based on Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther. Massenet thought long and hard about adapting Goethe’s story of a melancholy poet whose love for a married […]
Jonathan Sells (Photo: Paul Marc Mitchell) In April, the Monteverdi Choir released a disc of motets by Bruckner and Gesualdo conducted by Jonathan Sells on the Soli Deo Gloria label. Recorded live in concert in […]
The Delaware Symphony has named Michelle Di Russo as its next music director. She’s from Argentina, a former Dudamel Fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a Taki-Alsop graduate. The post Baton round: Argentine takes […]
Playing in the Orchestre symphonique de Québec for the past three years, Marlène Ngalissamy has been named principal bassoon of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Born in Moscow, Marlène moved to Canada at ten years and […]
This one he wrote for Piatigorsky. It makesits first appearnce in the 1946 film, Deception. The post Watch the other Korngold concerto appeared first on Slippedisc.
From pianist Frank Dupree: Thank you to everyone at IMG Artists for being part of my journey over the past 13 years! Special thanks to my managers Stefan P. Escher and Emma Farmer for their […]
The conductor of the Budapest Festival Orchestra has issued a video, mourning principal oboe Victor Aviat, who has died in Berlin, aged 42, of an aggressive brain tumour. Watch Ivan’s tribute here. The post […]
A statement by the great man’s three children in the NY Times today: Our father, the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, liked to tell us about the time Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis called to ask him […]
The violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov, head of Moscow’s International House of Music, has been awarded a state honour by his friend in the Kremlin. Spivakov, 80, joins a list of hard-handed sons of toil. […]
The Gustav Mahler youth orchestra has announced the death of its former member Victor Aviat, after a short illness. Victor was principal oboe of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, widely known and well liked. He also […]
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