President Vladimir Putin honoured bass singer Ildar Abdrazakov at the Russian Federation National Awards on Wednesday. Abdra, a pal of Gergiev and the Netrebkos, told Putin: ‘”Vladimir Vladimirovich, thanks to you, I started playing hockey.’ […]
Delighted to see a piece of original research by conductor-scholar (and exNYT critic) Will Crutchfield published in this weekend’s NY Times. Historians try to be precise, so it is awkward to admit that I can’t […]
The budget label made its critical breakthrough in the late 1990s with a cycle of Bruckner symphonies conducted by the little-known Canada-based conductor Georg Tintner. A Hitler exile from Vienna, Tintner brought idiomatic assurance to […]