Rattle’s next concerts with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra will focus on Historically Informed Performance. The BRSO say: Large symphony orchestras have so far hardly dealt with baroque music played on historical instruments. Chief conductor […]
Back in 2022, I reported from a concert in Strasbourg’s Palais de la Musique et des Congrès that included the pieces here, plus on that occasion Shoskakovich’s First Violin Concerto with Simone Lamsma (stepping in […]
The Kremlin is bragging about the statew-of-the-art opera and ballet theatre it is erecting in Sebastopol. It is due to open next year, war or peace. The post Putin builds opera house in occupied Crimea […]