The Cleveland Orchestra has upgraded Daniel Reith to Associate Conductor with immediate effect. He is presently Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, with around 100 middle and high-school musicians.
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The Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena mourns the passing of Cesare Orselli, illustrious musicologist and university professor. He was the author of works on Boito, Brahms, Mascagni and Richard Strauss. The post Italian music scholar, […]
Best known for his music for the German TV series “Schwarzwaldklinik”, the Austrian composer Hans Hammerschmid has died quietly at home. Originally a jazz pianist, he wrote and performed many songs with Hildegard Knef. He […]
It must surely be the most daunting piano concerto in the repertoire. Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto in C-Major, BV 247 spreads over 72 minutes in this performance (there are longer: Postnikova takes an eternity); it […]
