The 2025 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra summer tour with Daniel Barenboim and Lang Lang kicked off yesterday with a sold-out performance at the Musikfest Bremen.
The tour continues today with the annual performance at the Waldbühne in Berlin, featuring Wagner, Mendelssohn & Beethoven.
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 […]
The St Pauk Chamber Orchestra functions with artistic partners, not directors. Its players say they prefer to go conductorless. However…. they have just chosen a new artsitic partner and he is a conductor. Gábor Takács-Nagy, […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: When a major artist performs third-rate music, it’s either going to be a trifling act of self-indulgence or a stunning revelation. It took me three listenings to work […]