Four months after his Carnegie Hall appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seong-Jin Cho returned, opening with one of Haydn’s few Sonatas in a minor key. After the impatiently insistent opening came a suitably sprightly […]
Until now, if one comes across Bruckner’s Second Symphony – a less likely scenario than encountering No. 3 – it would be in the 1877 version. Here is the 1872 score, almost unperformed but heard […]
Aula of Georg-August Universität, Göttingen (Photo: Stefan Flöper / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) Bach, Joachim, Mozart, Handel, Beethoven; Shunske Sato, Shuann Chai, Wolfgang Sandberger; Internationale Händel Festspiele Göttingen at Aula of Georg-August UniversitätReviewed 13 May 2024 […]
Bruckner Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / Klaus Mäkelä. Kulturpalast, Dresden, 10.05.2024 Symphony No 5 (1875/76; 1878 version, ed. Leopold Nowak, Third Revised Edition of 2005) Klaus Mäkelä’s career is in stratospheric mode. He takes over the […]
Wednesday’s concert at the Lighthouse concluded one of the most imaginative orchestral partnerships in the UK. As the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s second-longest-serving chief conductor, Kirill Karabits bid farewell to colleagues in Poole following his fifteen-year […]
Beethoven, Debussy Francesco Piemotesi (piano). Palais im Grossen Garten, Dresden, 11.05.2024 Beethoven Piano Sonatas: No. 21 in C, Op. 54, ‘Waldstein’; No. 30 in E, Op. 109 Debussy Préludes, Book II, L 131 The title […]
Jess Gillam, Tom Fetherstonhaugh & Fantasia Orchestra in rehearsal (Photo: Fantasia Orchestra) Tom Fetherstonhaugh and Fantasia Orchestra are having quite a Summer with debuts at the BBC Proms, Northern Aldborough Festival and Ryedale Festival, along […]
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 – Klaus Mäkelä, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Dresdner Musikfestspiele at the Kulturpalast (Photo: Stephan Floss) Bruckner: Symphony No. 5; Klaus Mäkelä, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Dresdner Musikfestspiele at the Kulturpalast, DresdenReviewed 10 […]
Elisabetta Brusa Elisabetta Brusa taught composition at the Milan Conservatoire for 39 years. Her latest choral album – Requiem and Stabat Mater – is now available on Naxos. She has established the Brusa Foundation Award […]
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 […]
