Eight and a half years ago, Valery Gergiev conducted an all-male concert in the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra to celebrate its reconquest by Putin forces on behalf of the chemical mass-murderer Bashir al-Assad.
This was the high point of Putin’s hubris.
Nemesis arrived this morning when Russian forces hastily evacuated Palmyra as Assad’s regime fell apart.
This message is from a Russian military blogger.
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The recent Göttedämmung at the Royal Festival Hall was due to feature Brindley Sherratt as Hagen. It was not to be (although there was a luxury stand-in); in compensation, we have this remarkable disc for […]
Some treasurable Mozart from Ronald Brautigam and the Kölner Akademie. The post From the golden age of period instrument ensembles appeared first on Slippedisc.
The German pianist and conductor is leaking snippets from his forthcoming authorised biography. He is open about his relationship with both women and men, among them an affair with Bernstein: ‘I had an intellectual and […]
