From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The second cello concerto of Dmitri Shostakovich has never matched the first in public appeal or soloist appreciation. Premiered on the composer’s sixtieth birthday, at a concert where […]
Joseph Horowitz reports: At the precise moment that US President Donald Trump was accusing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of denying acts of racial persecution, the University of Michigan Orchestra began a five-concert tour of […]
From an interview with La Razon: ‘My opinion is useless and won’t change anything. What counts are the human beings, and above all the children who suffer and die even today, in 2025. We listen […]