An ecstatic reception of Petrenko’s Mahler Ninth with the Israel Philharmonic has been accompanied by thoughtful reviews. Petrenkko himself wrote in a programme note that he did not accept the collective conducting wisdom that the […]
The Prague composer Viktor Ullmann was incarcerated by the Nazis in the Theresiendstadt concentration camp before being sent to be killed in Auschwitz in October 1944. Ullmann is mostly remembered for his concentration camp opera, […]
The German-Russian pianist has organised a counter-antisemitism concert at the Elbphilharmonie: Hamburg, 10 July 2024: On the initiative of Igor Levit, the Elbphilharmonie is making an appeal to humanity with a solidarity concert. On 16 […]