The death has been announced of Albert Llanas Rich, a leading Catalan composer whose work was performed by international orchestras. Albert was 67.
Sequences for Orchestra , which won the City of Barcelona Prize, is a fascinating dialogue between Venice in Vivaldi’s time and Barcelona in his own.
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Pretty much every recording by Mariss Jansons is impactful: here on Classical Explorer, we have covered him in Shostakovich Fifth Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades, Bruckner’s Third Symphony and Sixth Symphony. This multi-composer […]
The following rallying cry has just gone online: Classical musicians, please sign and share! (Thanks to Jonathan Biss, Joyce DiDonato, Midori and Alisa Weilerstein for writing the letter below:) To our fellow citizens: We the […]
The family of Nigel Perrin has shared news of his death, aged 76. In addition to being a member of the King’s Singers, he was founder and director of the Bath Bach Choir and Bach […]
