Dear Alma, I am a male conductor in my mid-30’s. My career seems to have stalled. I started with several high-level assistant posts, then moving to a regional orchestra as director and some prestigious guest […]
An angry op-ed in the San Francisco Standard urges transparency after the resignation of music director Esa-Pekka Salonen: …The leadership’s failure to release financial documents has only added to our unease. Open dialogue and […]
This is, in many ways, a fascinating disc. The interest here lies in the couplings: a carefully-judged mix of the super-familiar with the rare. The Concerto, No. 1, has been covered here on Classical Explorer […]
The last 24 in the 2024 Queen Elisabeth violin competition were decided last night in Brussels. They include Dmitry Smirnov of Russia, a dark horse, and Bohdan Luts of Ukraine (pic), recent winner of the […]
Stereophonic – Golden Theatre “The art of making art is putting it together”, That’s George in Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George, That 1984 show is the only one I know to tackle head-on how hard it […]
" title="Here’s another sensational French string quartet that I’ve recently discovered, which instantly joins two of my other favorite French string quartets at or near the top of the list – Quatuor Hanson and Quatuor Diotima. Although […]
This is a priceless performance of Leclair’s sonata for two violins by husband and wife Leonid Kogan and Elisaveta Gilels. He is officially the second-best violinist in the Soviet Union, after Oistrakh. She is the […]
The Berlin Philharmonic chief conductor made some sphinx-like comments in response to press questions yesterday: ‘To be fair, you have to look at the matter objectively from both sides. You have to try to maintain […]
Wagner: Die Walküre – Åsa Jäger, Simon Bailey – Dresdner Musikfestspiele (Photo: Oliver Killig) Wagner: Die Walküre; Maximilian Schmitt, Sarah Wegener, Tobias Kehr, Simon Bailey, Åsa Jäger, Claude Eichenberger, Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln, Kent […]
The Hollywood composer made en emotional return to Japan after a 30-year access. The post John Williams conducts Seiji Ozawa’s Japan orchestra appeared first on Slippedisc.
